<p>Northeastmom…well, there is no extra floor space in her bedroom, LOL. BUT she has a really nice leather sleep sofa in the living room! She signed an “informal” lease agreement that the other girl’s family drew up but we could specify the exact dates we wanted to rent it, and so there is no year lease. However, I personally cannot afford to pay for summer rent. My D may wish to live there next summer, if she spends the summer in NYC. My D has earned some good money lately doing some professional work and has put that aside. We’ll see. I’m sure she’d like to live there next year. She knows that once she graduates, she won’t be living in a place like this. I just can’t pay more because she wants an apartment compared to the dorm apartments at school which are already very costly and so I don’t care where she lives but I can’t spend more for it. As it is, I have to borrow money to pay for college and so actually this is costing me even more as there will be interest on the loans to pay for all this. As you know, NYC is expensive. Now she needs to use the subway more too, particuarly to get to her studio three days per week, along with other things, and so I’m paying most of the subway pass she had to get that she didn’t have when in the dorms, and she is kicking in a little though I have to laugh at that idea as she also gets an allowance. However, she also has her own earnings that go toward the high cost of being in NYC compared to going to school somewhere else. She also earned money growing up and it was all saved to have spending money in college beyond what we give her. So, all in all, she knows life is pretty good right now and she loves her apartment!!</p>