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["400px"]At the aforementioned time, brokers attention that some boards in address barrio assume to be anchor bottomward on owners who appetite to do assignment on their apartments.
"Boards are putting added and added -- not restrictions, but caveats -- on aback and how assignment can be done," said Elizabeth Stribling of Stribling Associates in Manhattan. "Now there may be a assertive amount to use the elevator, costs for added security. Co-ops are acceptable added acquainted and acute all-embracing aegis for the building, which I anticipate is a acceptable thing."
Often, the absolute acreage agents accuse that if the client had fabricated alone a few bargain improvements the acreage would aback appropriately added money.
"If the client had been actuality aback I aboriginal saw this accommodation I would accept told him to get rid of this abominable carpet," said Rosemarie Markgraf, an abettor with Cranford Absolute Acreage in Brooklyn Heights.
She opened the advanced aperture to the $120,000 Grace Court one-bedroom apartment; the charcoal gray all-weather carpeting was identical to the carpeting in the alfresco corridors. "They charge accept gotten a cheapie or a freebie," she said. "It looks like you're activity into a assiduity of a anteroom rather than a nice clandestine co-op."
In Greenwich Village, Jack McDonough gives -to-be buyers what appears to be a well-practiced discourse on the abeyant of his $69,000 attic collapsed on the top attic of a adapted press bulb at 99 Bank Street.
"This could be $90,000," said Mr. McDonough, a Brooks Brothers-attired middle-aged salesman from Sopher Absolute Estate. "You've gotta acrylic -- how abundant is paint? A lot of bodies do it themselves; if you do it yourself, it's $150. If you appoint somebody, it's $1,000.
"The attic has to be sanded," he said, pacing the oak strips that accept absent their gloss. "I wouldn't do it myself, it's back- breaking; you've gotta accept experience. So that's addition $1,000. What would I do with the kitchen? You could booty the bank bottomward and accessible it up to the active allowance but I wouldn't do that. You accept the basal Formica. No faculty in replacing Formica with Formica. Unless you're activity to do nice copse cabinets with bottle fronts, I'd aloof beach them and buy that appropriate album for Formica and acrylic 'em white. That can't amount added than $75.
"Then I'd get rid of the copper-tone stove and refrigerator and booty up the linoleum squares . . . ."
W HILE Mr. McDonough and Ms. Markgraf are allotment of the brand of abettor who knows actually what is amiss with the accommodation they are selling, there are added realtors who say they accept no abstraction why the accommodation they accede the best accord in New York City is not selling.
"I've apparent this accommodation 130 times," said Michael M. Beltrami of Stribling Wells & Gay Absolute Estate. "I can't advertise it because bodies say it needs too abundant work."
Mr. Beltrami is acutely puzzled. "When I aboriginal got it," he said. "I anticipation it'd go in a week."
The $325,000 two-bedroom, one-bathroom prewar accommodation at 136 Waverly Abode in Greenwich Village has a alive fireplace, assorted exposures, a acceptable blueprint and alike a blink at Washington Aboveboard Park.
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"It's a appearance alleged 1963-1964," replied the agent, as his eyes roved about the ablaze amethyst walls, the busy gold-painted metal sconces, the blind accessories and the sculptured amethyst abandoned carpet. In the bathroom, striped blue, argent and white antithesis wallpaper contrasts intriguingly with the azure and atramentous 30's tiles.
"People accept no imagination," Mr. Beltrami complained. "I'm about tempted -- I couldn't do it because the lath wouldn't like it -- but I'm tempted to run an ad saying: 'Flip This Apartment.' Boards don't apprehend that if addition aloof came in and redecorated, this accommodation would accompany a lot added money and again all the shareholders would benefit, because the buyers for their own apartments would pay added aback the time came."
Mr. Beltrami is appropriate to be cautious. Boards -- abnormally those in prewar barrio in the best locations -- are accepted to be acutely adhesive about renovations and accept rules for accepting the affairs of the proposed advance accustomed and for actually accomplishing the work. Bonds charge be posted, architects and engineers charge be active -- about the shareholders pay not alone for their own architecture authorities, but charge pay for those the architecture hires as well.
"Renovation is not for the faint-hearted," said Alan Rogers, managing administrator of Douglas Elliman Absolute Estate. "But they are rewarding," he said, abacus he had alone adapted two such apartments.
"If you do it appropriately and don't overspend -- don't do gold faucets and a marble antechamber in a white brick architecture on Aboriginal Avenue or you'll be authoritative a aberration -- yes, you can alike accomplish a profit," he said. "If you're planning to resell," Mr. Rogers said, "don't over- adapt and accomplish the accommodation unmarketable; don't get agitated abroad with custom cabinetry, because the actuality advancing in will aloof accept to rip it all out."
Whatever the accommodation hunter's advance philosophy, he or she has allowance to put it into convenance in the 4,000-square-foot press shop/loft at 147 West 22d Artery amid Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue. The adjacency already ability accept been labeled Chelsea in absolute acreage ads but is now alleged "Flatiron" because of the arising acceptance of the area, continued busy by photographers but "discovered" aback it got its own Barnes & Noble about a year and a bisected ago.
The architecture is a superb attic building; active forth the top of the aboriginal attic is a bandage of Wedgwood-blue-colored medallions as able-bodied as a bandage with a massive Greek key arrangement with three shells overhead. The second-floor loft, breadth Herbert Krieger has run his account press aggregation for the 10 years, is for auction for $580,000, with a account aliment of $1,750.
Because the attic is now disconnected into about seven sheetrocked appointment cubicles -- additional the big accommodation that authority the accouterment to accomplish account plates -- it would crave a complete renovation. But there are two accouterments risers, which acquiesce an abnormal cardinal of permutations for kitchen and bath placement. (Many lofts alone accept one riser, necessitating back-to-back kitchens and baths.) And because of the 45-foot width, there is a lot added ablaze accessible than in abounding of the narrower attic buildings. There is axial air-conditioning, and aslant laid oak floors, which arise in acceptable condition. And aural the aftermost bristles years, this accurate block has gone from austere to chic.
While the blow of the architecture has acknowledged address living, this amplitude is still benumbed for commercial, according to Lenny Ferraro, the Douglas Elliman abettor affairs the loft. (A Barrio Department abettor said a brief analysis showed no acute affidavit why, with the able applications, a change would not be allowed.)
"My anticipation is to retire," said Mr. Krieger, a hearty-looking man who hardly looks his 66 years, and who still employs seven people. "Or I ability absorb with someone; I've had some basic contacts."
Mr. Krieger, who lives on Staten Island, alike anticipation about demography about bisected the amplitude and affective in. "It was a thought," he said, with a laugh.
Four-thousand-square-foot lofts are attenuate anywhere, and in this area, Mr. Ferraro estimated one that was anchored up "with boilerplate finish" ability be priced at abutting to a actor dollars. He said accomplished lofts of 2,000 aboveboard anxiety that were adapted in the 70's fetched an boilerplate of $500,000.
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A NOTHER ample project, admitting on a abate scale, is the tiny first-floor "handyman special" at 215 West 91st Street, a prewar architecture with a attendant amid Amsterdam and Broadway.
While it would be adamantine to adjudge which was the bigger basic visited -- the abode that was advertised on Cumberland Artery amid Lafayette Artery and Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn ("$265,000 -- if you accept the abdomen for renovation," according to the agent) or this tiny accommodation ($65,000) -- the adept restorer ability aces the tiny accommodation as basic of the week.
In the Brooklyn house, at atomic some attack had been fabricated to beach the floors and put in some new kitchen cabinetry -- apparently in an attack to hire out several of the still-separate apartments, although, in the rear, one of the new Thermopane windows had been burst and pried open. Yet the block seemed a solid one: in a celebrated district, abounding of the houses showed apparent affirmation of restoration: artery were afresh repointed and the balustrade on the abode beyond the artery was glossy with new taupe paint.
But in the aphotic first-floor accommodation on West 91st Artery -- which had no bulge on the inside, as aback confined visitors anon abstruse -- there were no attempts to modernize. The attic had at atomic one betraying aperture in it, and the white toilet catchbasin and bore looked as admitting addition had taken a sledgehammer to them.
At first, it appeared as if the dejected beam had white clouds corrective on it; but no, those white blobs were patches of plaster. The abode looked like a blast pad for a assemblage of delinquent woodworkers: best of the walls were knotty-pine vertical copse strips and there were several attic beds and bookcases fabricated of two-by-fours.
By coincidence, there was an accessible abode admiral at the aforementioned West 91st Artery building. And alike admitting that admiral accommodation -- declared as "Cinderella" -- bare work, it was in abundant bigger shape. Although the one-bedroom accommodation with the academic dining allowance had no absolute views, it was light. And although the walls were caked with again coats of blubbery collapsed white paint, it was, at least, accessible to see how this accommodation ($165,000) could be angry around.
Last Sunday, there were a alternation of accessible houses in this Upper West Side neighborhood. At 334 West 85th Street, Lissa Spiller explained that she was not a absolute acreage broker, but was allowance the sponsor of the architecture advertise off apartments afterwards adept tenants confused out or died. "These tenants, who had called not to buy, were about aged bodies and their places had collapsed into rather bad disrepair," she said.
Clad in hot blush bicycling shorts and atramentous leotard, Ms. Spiller accustomed anniversary abeyant client to the alone four-room accommodation -- which was priced at $125,000 -- and stood aback while bodies peered out the windows and absolved through double-paneled doors to the dining allowance or additional bedroom, attractive up at the acrylic case from the ceiling. Some agog lookers brandished band measures and jotted bottomward measurements.
As -to-be home buyers and amusement teen-age shoppers chock-full the streets, the wreck-seekers seemed to end up at the aforementioned places.
Many of the aforementioned accumulation that were dabbling about the abode on West 91st Artery showed up to see the Lilliputian abode on the artery in advanced of the Pomander Walk co-op, the 1920's Tudor mews accustomed by actors.
There, the accomplished 20- by 24-foot three-story, three-bedroom house, at 263 West 94th Street, is actuality offered for $325,000 and, initially, it was difficult to see why Jeffrey Sholeen, the agent, said it "needed some TLC." But aback Mr. Sholeen opened the bath door, it became clearer: There had been a washer/dryer that the address banned. It was ripped out carelessly. There had additionally been a baptize leak.
"Yes, and what don't they appearance us?" asked Beth Feely, one of those touring the accessible houses. "We can see the plaster, but what about the plumbing? The electrical?" Ms. Feely, a banker, bound conceded she had appear to see added TLC apartments alone out of concern -- she is absorbed in what they are charging for places like the one she bought a ages and a bisected ago.
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I love pink dress by rebenke on DeviantArt | Cinderella Pink Dress RippedHer new accommodation is a two-bedroom, adverse the advanced of the architecture on the attic aloft the open-house accommodation on West 91st Street. She is rueful.
"My admonition is to get an engineer's address afore you buy," she said. "I got one -- but it was too late." Ms. Feely said she went into the deal, buoyed with aplomb afterwards accepting adjourned the amount bottomward to $200,000 from $269,000, cerebration she and her admirer could act as their own accepted contractors, agency the assignment and save lots of money.
"And don't accept to the absolute acreage agent," she said. "They acquaint you it alone costs $5,000 to fix it up -- what do they know? Talk to somebody who's actually done it."
When Ms. Feely bought her 1,300-square-foot apartment, it had "plaster advancing off the walls, a bath from the 1940's, the asphalt was caving in and leaking; the kitchen had old board cabinets with maybe 30 coats of acrylic -- you couldn't alike see the glass. There was an old-style bore in a affectionate of board box and a cold-storage bin congenital into the walls so the artery would air-conditioned the milk. There was an old stove and a brace of refrigerators. The windows had addle out so you could see the alfresco amid the bottle and the casing."
I F you go into a above advance like Ms. Feely's after alive actually what it will amount you, "you're actually stupid," she said bluntly, abacus that she was currently in the action of aggravating to clue bottomward her plasterer, who, for the moment at least, couldn't be found.
"What are the acceptable genitalia of affairs wrecks?" she said, repeating the question. "I don't apperceive -- I'm not done."
So wrecks are catchy all the way around: to buy, and to sell.
"Once," said JoAnne Kennedy, a accomplice in Coldwell Broker Hunt Kennedy Absolute Estate, "we wrote an ad that said: Bottle windows, board floors, hot and algid active baptize -- that was all it had activity for it. , But I don't apperceive any abettor who's activity to about-face bottomward a acceptable basic with acceptable bones. They will about-face bottomward wrecks with aerial aliment or no light. Those will break on the bazaar forever."
Dealing with the sellers can be tricky, too.
"Like aback they acquaint you they aloof had their abandoned carpeting bankrupt and how they're so appreciative of it," said Ms. Kennedy. "Well, you aloof accept to be tactful."
Jeff Levitas, of the Corcoran Group, summed it up best.
"The advertisements are absolutely difficult," he said. "If no one lives there, you alarm it 'Heck of a Wreck.' " He paused. "If someone's in residence, it becomes 'Create Your Own Dream House.' "
The ad for Mr. Prince's accommodation -- for a agent actual abundant in abode -- was of the closing variety.
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