Women Taking Ownership of NYC:
Lindsey Day
Lindsey Day @LindseyDayy Current Location: Crown Heights, Brooklyn Hometown: Sacramento, California Professional Position: Founder, CRWN Magazine What do you do or create? CRWN Magazine — A print magazine about natural hair. We’re starting the conversation on hair, but it’s a Lifestyle brand. What inspired you t ...
5 Ways To Make Your Life Easier This Week
Regardless of how old you are, adulting is difficult. Every now and again, the stresses of daily life can feel like they’re grinding you down to your core. Whether it’s your mundane drive to the office, or the waiter getting your order wrong at lunch, or the list of chores that seems to have been piling up for months, everyone experie ...
Women Taking Ownership of NYC:
Zoe Zeigler
Zoe Zeigler @ZoeZeigler Current Location: Harlem, Manhattan Hometown: Los Angeles, California Professional Position: Creative Marketer What kind of person is a New Yorker? It takes a certain degree of scrappiness to thrive in NYC. You really have to be able to roll with the punches, because every day here you’ll come across u ...
Women Taking Ownership of NYC:
Lilliana Vazquez
Lilliana Vazquez @theLVguide Current Location: Chelsea, Manhattan Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas Professional Position: Fashion Contributor, Today Show & Digital Content Curator, The LV Guide What do you do or create? I do a lot of things. First, I’m a digital content curator. I curate fashion, beauty, and lifestyle finds fo ...
It's Official: The Rent is Too Damn High in NYC
A few days ago, I came across an email from the brokerage Citi Habitats. They do this cool thing where they’ll email out monthly reports on the Manhattan residential rental market, based on their internal data and expansive research. Within moments of dissecting it, my eyes grew large. In a market that’s so densely populated, it’s ...
Millennials are Shaping Real Estate Development in Philly, and Your City Could be Next
Most of us are aware of Philadelphia’s outpour of mental capital into the US society and economy at large. Philly sits right next to Boston when you account for how many undergrad and grad students walk the streets vs normal civilians (think: Penn, Drexel, Temple, Villanova, Thomas Jefferson, St. Joe’s, LaSalle, U Arts - and that’s ...
The Cure To Your Regional Rail Blues
If you’re a commuter in Philadelphia, the struggle has been real for you this summer. SEPTA’s Regional Rail was once capable of transporting 132,000 commuters on a daily basis. When a structural defect was discovered amongst the cars of their newest fleet, the Silverliner V, SEPTA was forced to remove 120 of the railcars from servi ...
When Your Landlord Steals from you and Posts it on Facebook
As you can imagine, from the title, this is about to be a rollercoaster of a story. You’d be right in making that assumption. To protect the subject of our story, we’ve changed the names of all the characters. Please read and share this so that we can bring awareness to these issues. This is Sofia’s story. An immigrant from V ...
What I Learned Visiting The Projects
“I’m just happy and grateful to have a place to call home,” said Christina Whitehurst, a single mother, and resident of the Johnson Homes projects located in North Philadelphia. Seeing her children run around their new home, braid each other’s hair, and share laughs immediately makes you understand why this woman, who once lived ...
WYL Launches Listings in Beta!
Whose Your Landlord is excited to announce we are officially launching our listings in Beta! This means that during this time, we are working with onboarding landlords so that renters can find their homes here. Landlords- for you, this means post your listings FOR FREE! We have also made a lot of headway in signing up home providers, s ...
2015's 10 WORST Landlords in Philadelphia
WhoseYourLandlord’s mission is to make quality living the standard for all. To do this, we create a transparent conversation between tenants and landlords. Tenants, both current and previous, have the opportunity to rate and review their landlord. This gives prospective tenants the opportunity to see what other tenants thought of that p ...
2015′s 10 Best-Rated Landlords in Philadelphia
WhoseYourLandlord’s mission is to make quality living the standard for all. To do this, we create a transparent conversation between tenants and landlords. Tenants, both current and previous, have the opportunity to rate and review their landlord. This gives prospective tenants the opportunity to see what other tenants thought of that p ...