Rodriguez was beaten to a three-bedroom, 35th-floor apartment renting for $40,000 per month – so he slid into a two-bedroom $30,000 unit next door.

His reps had the temerity to ask for a discount, but landlord Leroy Schecter turned them down. "We just said, ‘No, there is no negotiating,’” Schecter’s agent, Emily Beare, told the New York Observer about the deal. “And they said, ‘Fine.’”