Area Cat Downsizes to 1-Bedroom Apartment

Area Cat Downsizes to 1-Bedroom Apartment

Tired of mowing lawns and fixing leaky pipes, a cat named Kitty has sold her house in the suburbs in favor of a quaint one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Lower-East Side.

“Does she pay more in rent than she did for her entire mortgage and tax assessment for a space about 1/16th the size? Sure,” says Marcia Coolidge, Kitty’s real estate agent. “But it’s a lifestyle thing. When you get to a certain age, you don’t want to deal with all the upkeep of home ownership. For cats, that age is three.”

So far, Kitty gets along well with her neighbors and has been spotted dining at a number of trendy local restaurants. But not everyone agrees with her recent shift in priorities.

“She sold the house at a loss in a tough market, she’s paying way too much rent just to live in a hot zip code, and her dining receipts are piling up,” says Gary Bueller, Kitty’s personal financial adviser  “It’s simply too expensive to live in Manhattan on a single cat’s salary. Especially when that cat is an assistant manager at Target.”

Via Todd Olmstead, originally published on HelloGiggles.