Famous Quotes & Sayings

For our industrial customers, our insurance rates are pretty low. We just don't see quite the same effect as an office building or retail or apartments or something from that standpoint. We've got much bigger issues like land prices going up, construction costs going up and things of that nature.

For our area, the fair market rent for a one bedroom apartment is $300; for two bedrooms it is $350; for three bedrooms, $450; and for four bedrooms, $525.

I am wicked excited and apprehensive about going somewhere that I don't know the language. After flying to Milan, Italy, through Paris, we have to take a train, then a cab to get to the apartment that we are staying in.

I could not wait to get back. I know I'm one of the lucky ones. My apartment was fine ... A lot of guys can't come back.

I believe he was living in an apartment with the bare essentials.

Wayne Pacelle

People are frantically calling and telling us their cat is on the third floor of an apartment in New Orleans, or their horses were left in a pasture.

Kevin Smith

Our guesses are that the students we lost were those who cannot find housing. The rental property and apartments were hit very hard by the storm, and a lot of students left and were unable to return to finish the fall semester, and in some cases did not return to this date.

Bonnie Bedelia

When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

Tom Riley

I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

Zoe Kravitz

I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

We are looking at about 300 residences. They will be a congregate of housing, townhouses, garden apartments and an assisted-living facility. On the Greenland piece, we are looking at a mixed-use commercial village with retail on the first floors and office space above.

Anna Paquin

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

Kat Graham

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

Mike Rogers

The proposed Englewood apartments is certainly going to help our senior housing market.

We believe the fire burned for a while, even before we were called. But, nonetheless when we arrived on the scene, we were made aware that people were still in the building. Firefighters were able to rescue one person from a third-floor apartment and assisted several others.

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

Matthew Quick

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

We had one lady, ... who relied on an electric scooter when she was outside of her apartment and by the end of the 50 week program she was able to walk to the neighborhood grocery store and back.

Today's facilities more closely resemble private apartments in their configuration and amenity packages. Suites and efficiency apartments are more prevalent, as are amenities such as vending, ATMs and technology infrastructure.

Daymond John

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

Steve-O

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.

Graydon Carter

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.

We have a lot of off-campus apartments where there's five video streams going in. The extra bandwidth will really help there.

We have caseworkers down there, and most people have already received rental assistance. I just gave approval to purchase 10,000 more travel trailers. We're working also with some of the apartment owners to rehab some of the apartments down there. We are going to make sure that people are taken care of. But the judge recognized that, and recognized that the right thing to do is to get them out of hotels and into some decent housing.

We have more of these groups of apartments concentrated in our area than any other area of Houston, and their problems are not new. Someone should have seen this coming.

Vacancy rates have gone down a bit, but owners are still behind the power curve. To attract residents and bring vacancy rates down, apartment owners had to offer incentives or discounts, despite their costs increasing.

Paul Shaffer

I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the '70s and '80s with a mix of older, rent-controlled apartment dwellers, Europeans and new wave and punk bands. The room service was great, the hamburger was terrific, and they had a doctor who made house calls.

David Rosenberg

We are excited for the opportunity to help create value for our investment partners with this new portfolio, which is located in our core market area, while continuing to carry out our mission--to provide responsibly managed apartment communities for people who appreciate superior service and exceptional value.

Unfortunately, buildings are going up and getting higher. You can't expect to have a clear view forever from an apartment in New York City.

When someone calls you up and says, 'I got a great apartment in such and such a place,' you can go right to a particular block on our map and see the property relative to a subway station, relative to where you work.

Frankie Valli

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.

Frankie Valli

Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.

Hilarie Burton

Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.