<p>Live like the President! The apartment where Barack Obama lived during his early days at Columbia University and dreamt of becoming the first black-American president of the US is up for </p>.<p>rent.<br /><br />The apartment is available on rent for $2,400 a month, up by $500 from the last time it was on the market in the spring of 2010.<br /><br />The landlord isn’t looking for a premium, the broker said, but he still hopes the apartment’s past could appeal to young, ambitious types, the Wall Street Journal reported.<br /><br />“Live Like the President!!!” says the listing on the Citi Habitats website. “Who knows, you just might end up in the White House one day.”<br /><br />When the young Obama lived at 142 West 109th Street in the early 1980s, he and a roommate and chipped in just $180 apiece every month for the railroad flat, according to Barack Obama: The Story, a new biography by David Maraniss.<br /><br />Obama arrived in August 1981 and dragged his luggage up the stairs to the third-floor walk-up. He had no key, and his repeated knocking produced only the click of a dead bolt down the hall.<br /><br />“New York. Just like I pictured it,” he recalled wryly in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father.<br /><br />“Obviously, this is not a Mount Vernon or a Monticello,” Zak Kneider, one of the Citi Habitats brokers listing the apartment, said.<br /><br />“It’s a typical New York City walk-up. A million other people in New York live in these type of apartments,” he added.<br /><br />By Wednesday evening, Kneider had received nine emails. <br /></p>
<p>Live like the President! The apartment where Barack Obama lived during his early days at Columbia University and dreamt of becoming the first black-American president of the US is up for </p>.<p>rent.<br /><br />The apartment is available on rent for $2,400 a month, up by $500 from the last time it was on the market in the spring of 2010.<br /><br />The landlord isn’t looking for a premium, the broker said, but he still hopes the apartment’s past could appeal to young, ambitious types, the Wall Street Journal reported.<br /><br />“Live Like the President!!!” says the listing on the Citi Habitats website. “Who knows, you just might end up in the White House one day.”<br /><br />When the young Obama lived at 142 West 109th Street in the early 1980s, he and a roommate and chipped in just $180 apiece every month for the railroad flat, according to Barack Obama: The Story, a new biography by David Maraniss.<br /><br />Obama arrived in August 1981 and dragged his luggage up the stairs to the third-floor walk-up. He had no key, and his repeated knocking produced only the click of a dead bolt down the hall.<br /><br />“New York. Just like I pictured it,” he recalled wryly in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father.<br /><br />“Obviously, this is not a Mount Vernon or a Monticello,” Zak Kneider, one of the Citi Habitats brokers listing the apartment, said.<br /><br />“It’s a typical New York City walk-up. A million other people in New York live in these type of apartments,” he added.<br /><br />By Wednesday evening, Kneider had received nine emails. <br /></p>