How I Bought An NYC Skyline View Home with 60k Salary

Stella Guan
8 min readDec 22, 2020
A view of the living room in my New Jersey condo

When I was in my mid-twenties, my living situation became frustrating. I had been living in an apartment in Queens, New York with a roommate and renting out our living room to lower our expenses.

After several horrific roommate incidents, including one that involved our living room subtenant almost burning down the apartment, I began to question my co-living situation.

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