What justifies a genuine New York living experience? Certainly, no Manhattan resident would claim that a tourist visiting the city for around a week could never actually grasp what it means to live in New York or to actually experience a Manhattan apartment. However, for many tourists, such an assertion is undoubtedly correct. The new trend in New York tourism is to shun the “non-genuine” feeling of staying in a hotel and visiting all of the common landmarks while visiting Manhattan. Visitors to New York want to truly immerse themselves into Manhattan culture, which of course does not come without having lived in a genuine Manahttan apartment. Such a wish has become reality as many tourists are now taking the chance to live in the rented-out apartments of actual New York residents.