New York mom reveals she pays $6,000 a month to rent an EXTRA apartment - as a playroom for her kids

Life successful New York isn't cheap, and pinch rent prices rising a mom has near group gobsmacked aft revealing she rents an other flat a month, conscionable for immoderate other room.

Mom-of-five Kristi regularly shares her day-today pinch her 366,000 TikTok followers, giving them a glimpse of what it's for illustration to raise kids successful nan city.

Despite nan truth they presently unrecorded successful a three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment,  which they salary $12,000 for, nan family person now rented a spot crossed nan hall.

'We sewage a one-bedroom, one-bathroom flat for $6,000 a period to adhd other space,' she shared.

'We are a blended family truthful sometimes location are 7 of us, sometimes location are 5 of america [but] astir of nan clip location are six of us, truthful we conscionable needed immoderate other space.'

She pointed retired nan surviving space, which she said they'd beryllium utilizing arsenic a 'big playroom.' 

'We put a furniture successful nan chamber for visitors for illustration my mom to travel and stay, but afloat transparency we chiefly usage this room arsenic a closet because we cleared retired our closet successful our main flat to make room for our small babe woman and her crib,' she added.

'It's worked retired astonishing and we're truthful gladsome we person it.'

She quipped it besides would make washing easier arsenic some units had an in-built washer and dryer. 

The mom didn't specify wherever nan flat building was, conscionable that it was uptown. 

Followers were perplexed by nan family's determination to walk truthful overmuch money connected rent.

'Or possibly conscionable get a 4 chamber 2 bath flat to rent,' 1 personification suggested.

'What do y'all do for a surviving that you tin spend $18,000 a period conscionable for rent not including each different surviving expenses,' different shocked personification wrote.

'$6k a period for a playroom,' personification other chimed in.

In different video, nan mom said they besides had a location successful Utah that they regularly spent clip in.

In a TikTok earlier successful nan month, Kristi revealed her husband, David, retired astatine 40 and is now a stay-at-home dad.

'I grew up poor,' David explained successful a video, describing his family arsenic being truthful mediocre that a hamburger was considered a luxury.

'[This] taught maine to activity really difficult from a young age,'  he shared. 'I started moving erstwhile I was 12 years old.'

David, who worked successful master sales, said he besides started investing early and started practicing patient financial habits.

He started investing successful stocks astatine 14 and bought his first rental spot astatine 21, and conscionable 'never stopped investing.'

The family, who person lived successful New York for 4 years, opportunity they return their clip successful nan metropolis 'year by year' and person nary plans to time off anytime soon.

'Every twelvemonth we reevaluate, how's everyone doing physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, really are we doing financially, really are nan kids doing academically, socially - we conscionable benignant of reevaluate,' he said.