Apartment City

Thinking of taking in paying guests? Three veteran Vancouver hosts share tricks of the trade Emily Plommer knew from her own experience staying at Airbnbs that it was frustrating to rent an apartment with a full kitchen and discover that there wasn’t so much as a salt shaker or bottle of cooking oil in the cupboards. So when Plommer, an avid traveller and then 26-year-old women’s studies grad, decided to make a living through hosting two years ago, she made sure the rental suite in her house in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood was well provisioned. Pots and pans and utensils. Basic cooking supplies , like oil and some spices. Milk and cereal. Coffee beans. Fresh fruit. Eggs. Then she found that she was making a lot of banana bread with the leftover, disintegrating fruit or eating the cereal herself. “It was funny how people would book a place like this and then eat nothing at home,” Plommer says. “In the end, I just asked, ‘Will you be eating breakfast here?’ before leaving things...

Unfortunately it's not 1983 and this is not Indiana. The folks at realty site ForRent .com figured out how much the homes featured on five of the most popular Netflix shows cost in actuality because, if we're being real, a lot of the apartments from our favorite TV shows would never be affordable IRL (looking at you, entire cast of "Friends"). The depressing hole that Kimmy Schmidt rents , the super lux digs of Frank and Clair Underwood, and everywhere in between are analyzed. ‘ Stranger Things ’ The sci-fi drama " Stranger Things ," set in suburban Indiana in 1983, is a three-bedroom, one-story home that would've run a family $247 per month. "As an added amenity, the place is supernaturally charged," ForRent said. Today, that modest price jumps to a still super-affordable $747. The current average price for the kind of home that Kimmy and Tituss share in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is $1,300. (Eric Liebowitz / Netlix) ...

Last month, we reported on how much the apartments in some of your favorite movies —  When Harry Met Sally , Pretty Woman, Sleepless In Seattle — would rent for in today's market. (Yes, Carrie and Mr. Big's pre-war penthouse on Fifth Avenue is as exorbitantly expensive as it looked in the Sex and the City films.) Recently, ForRent.com, the same real estate website that ran the stats on movie homes, compiled the same type of analysis for the most popular Netflix Original series . From Kimmy Schmidt and Titus Andromedon's familiarly seedy New York basement to the D.C. townhouse in House of Cards , to the dilapidated mansion on Arrested Development , see how much Netflix' most-watched homes actually cost, ahead. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt : $1,300 While the apartment costs $475 a month on the show, in the current market the median rental price is about $1,300 a month, or $650 for each roommate. Kimmy's garden-level (a nice way of saying "basement, likely roach...