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Does anyone know the prices and where i can get more information about it? I want to try living in a lakewoood for a month and if i like it stay there?
How are you going to go to Touro Pharmacy School while living in Lakewood?
There’s a publication that comes out every week that has a listing of apartments for rent. I think it’s called Masa u’matan. It comes with the BP Weekly. If you know anyone in Lakewood, you can ask them to either give it to you or check for you. I think it comes out on Wednesdays.
There are short term rentals. They are more expensive though. I’m not sure of the prices because I never did short term. You may be able to find someone who will let you do a long term rental for a one-month trial. That way, you won’t have to pay short-term rental price.
The prices for long-term go up and down, so I can’t really tell you. There are better seasons and worse seasons. When I was there, it was hard to find for less than app. $650 – $700 (but I also had certain limitations regarding where I could live).
The prices were going down at the end of last year, so you might be able to find for less. You also may be able to find cheaper (app. $500-$550) if you are willing to live further out or in a room (as opposed to a whole apartment).
I did find that when I spoke to potential landlords, they were often open to giving me deals and lowering the price because I was single so they saw me as being more long-term (yeah, I also thought that was funny).
Health lives there now so he can probably tell you more about current prices.
You can look up Masa U’Matan on the internet, it comes out every Tuesday night. You can also get the Lakewood bus which stops at Coney Island and Ave J, if your going to the Touro Campus on E. 16th & Ave J.
I just heard that theres an overabundance of apartments in Lakewood right now so the prices have gone down.
Lakewood is growing at the seams, there is not enough housing there so people are moving to nearbhy communities like Jackson and Toms River
“Lakewood is growing at the seams, there is not enough housing there so people are moving to nearbhy communities like Jackson and Toms River”
Peoplemoving to neighboring towns when they purchase homes. Which is when they are moving out of rentals. There are a lot of rentals available in Lakewood.
ZD, there’s not a shortage of housing, and if that were an issue, they would just build more.
The problem is that the roads were not made for such a large population. At times, it can take 25 minutes to travel someplace it should take 5.
Residents are getting fed up, and there’s serious noise about halting any further development.
You just cant build more, Besides the roads there are sewer and power lines issues.
I dont find the roads there that bad (I dont drive much on route 9 as I usually come from the parkway). its the lack of Sidewalks and adequte street lights that scare em a bit (I was a bit scared walking in the street in an unlighted street)
You just cant build more, Besides the roads there are sewer and power lines issues.
There is enough land to build, but yes, the roads are a problem. I imagine the power grid and perhaps even sewer lines can be improved, but the roads are an issue which there doesn’t seem to be a way around.
DY -“but the roads are an issue which there doesn’t seem to be a way around”
They could expand the roads!
Btw, do you live here?
They are continuing to build here.
As far as expansion of the roads, each one blames the other, ie. State, County, Local governments’!
People who live in more Suburban areas, move there because they want less crowded housing, they want single family homes with grass , garages and backyards and they want their neighbors to also have the same.
Frum familes who live in the Suburbs want more townhouse type houses with more congested living (but less congested than Brooklyn) than the Suburbs usually have and this causes conflict because there are different visions of what the suburbs should look like.
“I dont find the roads there that bad (I dont drive much on route 9 as I usually come from the parkway). its the lack of Sidewalks and adequte street lights that scare em a bit (I was a bit scared walking in the street in an unlighted street)”
You have not driven through Lakewood if you can make this comment.
Traffic is crippling. In town. Whether or not you go by the Parkway to get to Lakewood. Try crossing the Lake.
They could expand the roads
Not easily for some key ones (e.g. Rt.9). They would need to knock down hundreds of buildings.
DY -“Not easily for some key ones (e.g. Rt.9). They would need to knock down hundreds of buildings.”
Wrong again! All they need is a few feet. I don’t know any house/bldg. that close to the street!
Lakewood goes through different tekufos in terms of rentals. There are times when there is a lot of building. When that happens, there is a surplus of apartments. There are other times when there is less building. When that happens, there are not enough apartments.
There was a period of time a few years ago when it was next to impossible to find an apartment for rent in Lakewood. It was during that period of time when people started to move to Tom’s River (although there may be other reasons as well).
For the past half a year (maybe a bit longer – I don’t know when it started), there have been a surplus of apartments so the prices have gone down.
But presumably, this can change again. It goes by how much building is being done (that’s what I was told by the Masa u’matan guy when I called him to ask him when the best time to look for an apt. for rent is).
If you widened the roads you would need to confiscate a good part of the front yards of the houses on these roads. The owners would have to be compensated which will make it very expensive. Likewise barrier must be installed to protect the house from the speeding car should the driver lose control of his vehicle.
As far as the people moving to Tom Rivers, they are looking for bigger houses more land. The fear of a moratorium on building permits is also encouraging people to move out of Lakewood. MasaU’matan is just a publication of available apartment in Lakewood, they are not real estate agents who know what going on.
“MasaU’matan is just a publication of available apartment in Lakewood, they are not real estate agents who know what going on.”
They know when there are more apartments for rent (and t/f cheaper) and when there are fewer (and t/f more expensive). That’s why I had called them. I thought it might have to do with the time of year, but they said that it doesn’t – it has to with the amount of building.
Since they publish the information all year every year, it makes sense that they would have a handle on when there is more information to publish and when there is less. It makes a big difference in the size of the Masa U’matan.
Abba_S -“If you widened the roads you would need to confiscate a good part of the front yards of the houses on these roads. The owners would have to be compensated which will make it very expensive. Likewise barrier must be installed to protect the house from the speeding car should the driver lose control of his vehicle”
Not at all! All you would need is a few feet. And the government doesn’t have to put up any barriers!
Not at all! All you would need is a few feet. And the government doesn’t have to put up any barriers!
The average highway lane is 12 feet in width although you may be able to get away with 10 feet. You are going to need to increase it from one lane each way to 3 lanes each way to accommodate growth.. The state will have to compensate the home owners which will be very expensive. Your way is to use the shoulder together with a few feet from the home owner wouldn’t work because the shoulder is needed in case a car breaks down.
As far as the barriers are concerned, the first accident in which one of these house are damaged the state will be sued for poorly designing the highway.
Sidewalks are still important too. Hopefully they have them.
Dunno about in Lakewood, but where I lived, law required us to shovel the sidewalk in front of our residence.
For homeowners, it helped to keep the house occupied, at least in the winter.
Renters were responsible for keeping the sidewalks clear.
Any fines theoretically in the lease could be deferred to them.*
*Unless of course CTLAWYER has evidence that proves otherwis e in all 50 states. If so we shall defer to him, aka CRL.
I think you should visit Lakewood prior to deciding to move there, if sidewalks are important to you. If there is no sidewalk there can’t be a requirement to shovel the snow from a nonexistent sidewalk. Every jurisdiction has different rules but most give the homeowner 24 hours from the time the snowing stopped to clear an existing sidewalk before they start fining the homeowner.
A better reasons to keep the house occupied is so the pipes don’t freeze in the winter, and squatters don’t decide to live in the unoccupied house.
Do month-to-month leases in Lakewood require a first and last month’s deposit?
What about renting a basement apt for a month?
“Do month-to-month leases in Lakewood require a first and last month’s deposit?”
Usually not. It depends on the landlord. My experience is that usually not.
You can rent an apartment for a month. There are a lot of short-term rentals.
Lightbrite……………
A municipality has no direct relationship with the renters of real estate. The lease establishes privity of contract between landlord and tenant.
As such, the municipality can only fine the owner of the property for snow removal that was not performed in accordance with the local statute.
The landlord could have language in his/her lease that obligates the tenant to remove the snow and specify that should there be fines issued by the municipality for non-compliance with the statute, the landlord , having provided proof he/she paid those fines, shall be promptly reimbursed by the tenant.
From a practical experience, if the tenant does not reimburse the landlord and the landlord brings action in court (small claims for the money, or housing for eviction<violating terms of the lease>). The landlord will lose.
Why? A good defense attorney will simply show that the landlord paid the fine without affording the tenant who was accused of noncompliance with the statute a chance to defend action/nonaction in court. A landlord recieving a $100 fine wouldn’t go to court to defend, too expensive, thus tenant loses chance to dispute fine. The tenant, not in privity of contract with the municipality acn’t protest fine…no standing.
CRL +1
Abba-S -“Your way is to use the shoulder together with a few feet from the home owner wouldn’t work because the shoulder is needed in case a car breaks down.”
I got news for you, Mr. Out of towner, they don’t have shoulders on most of these streets!
“As far as the barriers are concerned, the first accident in which one of these house are damaged the state will be sued for poorly designing the highway.”
That’s not why they’re not expanding.
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