My Prospective Unit Has a Signature Scent
I toured a 498-square-foot studio in a new East Seventh tower that replaced a laundromat. The rent has fees, the fees have names, and the lobby smells like a candle with a LinkedIn.
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Is Anybody Using This Room?
The light-rail agency dropped a $47 million downtown office plan and took the cheaper space next door. I drafted a formal resolution of commendation, with conditions, because praise this rare needs paperwork.
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Unit 3B, Rio Grande Street, $385 Including Water
On football Saturday I went back to the West Campus block where my $385 apartment once stood and measured the new student towers floor by floor, from the sidewalk up to the rooftop hot tub.
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Someday Has Its Last Service Tonight
Olamaie serves its last dinner tonight, and I never once ate there. Turns out the envelope in my kitchen drawer marked SOMEDAY was a lease nobody was going to renew either.
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The Duplex on Monroe Street Never Asked for a Credit Report
The beige duplex at 1505 Monroe split four ways for $1,750 in 2009, hosted bands in the backyard until the cops just turned down their radio instead of writing tickets, and ran on a handshake with a landlord who lived in Wimberley; last Tuesday the same address showed up as Monroe Haven with $2,950 studios, a "curated resident directory," and a leasing agent who needed my LinkedIn before she'd show me where the old keg fridge used to live.
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