If you're on the prowl for a co-op board that embraces a dictionary versus despotic interpretation of the word "cooperative," you can find a multitude of clues from the listing itself and from the answers to a few strategic questions lobbed at the seller's broker.
The building allows apartments to be purchased as pied-a-terres.
Pets are permitted.
Owners are allowed to renovate, with approval, at any time during the year, not just the three months when most of the residents are spending their quality time in theHamptons.
Parties are allowed on the roof.
Understanding that situations change and an owner may not be able to sell immediately, the building has a relatively flexible subletting policy.
Parents are allowed to purchase with or for children, or act as guarantors for their children.
Children are allowed to purchase with or for their parents.
The building doesn't require that the purchaser have a not-so-small fortune in liquid assets available post-closing.
The building requires 20 or 25% down, and really means it.
Founder and publisher Teri Karush Rogers launched Brick Underground in 2009. As a freelance journalist, she had previously covered New York City real estate for The New York Times. Teri has been featured as an expert on New York City residential real estate by The New York Times, New York Daily News, amNew York, NBC Nightly News, The Real Deal, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, and NY1 News, among others. Teri earned a BA in journalism and a law degree from New York University.
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