@quasimatt

I feel awkward about being in New York. I don’t like it here, but when my grandfather died, only direct family members could take over his rent controlled lease in Tribeca, and I was the only one willing to live with him and take it. The rest of my family wants to live in the Midwest. Now, I feel like I have to hold onto this loft, which means I have to maintain permanent residence here. I don’t want to be here but it feels like such a waste and a disrespect to my grandfather to move out of a 3500 sqft loft in Tribeca. It’s an amazing deal—just over $300/mo. Me taking over the lease was this whole planned operation. I lived with him for a few years before he passed to be eligible to get the…