Even in cities like NYC and Paris where many of our friends rent out, it’s easy to bypass rules if you know what you’re doing. You can let guests know ahead of time and also the MOST important person is typically the doorman.
If there is a doorman. Plenty of nicer non-doorman buildings in NY.
This being said, if the building is a co-op which doesn’t allow subleasing and the board gets a bug up its collective butthole about you, you could conceivably lose the place. Highly unlikely – they’re more likely to fine you or send you a nasty letter signed by an atty – but theoretically possible. Co-op isn’t real property: you’re buying shares in a nonprofit that owns the building and leasing your apt back for the cost of common charges, basically.[/quote]
Oh yeah in the co-ops it’s VERY risky and we don’t rent co-op places even though I have friends that do it successfully but they are mostly renting to the same people. For example, I have a good friend and he has a co-op but he rents to an executive that is always in NYC on business. He introduced him to his neighbor as his “brother” so he never has any problems. In fact, he has quite a dilemma now as this guy has become very close friends with his neighbor and the lie has gone on now a few years and they are debating whether to tell him he isn’t his brother.. LOL.
In Paris very few of the apartments we’ve rented had doormen. Mostly it’s a system where there is an electronic code to enter the main door and then a key to enter the interior door. We just stayed a month in the 7th in Paris and it was fabulous!
It’s really the way to go when traveling. You totally feel like a local vs. staying in a hotel. We haven’t been to a city yet where renting an apartment/house wasn’t possible.
