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I actually saw a coop once like that. I'm not sure it was THAT bad but it was a good second place holder.
Not sure what you guys are talking about---$918 is unfortunately very reasonable for a three bedroom coop. That's the maintenance per month for a lot of two bedroom coops by me.
So would they be considered n organized hoarder?
They really should stage that place if they want it to sell.
I think that is staged, as best as it could be. I mean the stuff, as much as it is, is artfully placed.
Perhaps the person was an antique dealer that ran the business from their home.
The wow factor is the photos. How many dramatic filters did they have to use to make a place so filled with junk look attractive?
I have seen antique shops that were less cluttered.
Cagey how this is a coop but they claim an HOA (typically applied to condos) in order to hide the $125 monthly property tax and insurance share of $75, making actual MAINTENANCE of $1118.
Add one more item to that living room and you have become a HOARDER.
The monthly fees and one bathroom would make it a deal killer for me.
Why? You do understand what is included in your maintenance right? I pay roughly $11,000 per year.
My friend told me her water bill for her home was $200 a month. The rest of the numbers are from when I was renting.
Annual expenses
Water bill = $2400
Electric bill = $2100
Gas = $360
Taxes = My building, through my maintenance paid close to $4,000 for my apartment which is smaller.
So in total, around $8,500 of my expenses that I would otherwise have to pay, was paid via my maintenance. So above and beyond those things above I pay around an extra $200 a month or roughly $2,500 a year. That $2,500 per year pays for capital improvement, every day repairs, day to day operations, salary of the staff that maintains the building, the garages, the mortgage on the building itself. (We are a rare coop that owns the land it sits on.)
This year there was a major leak above me. The pipe in the bathroom corroded. It ruined the ceiling and my wall. It had to be repaired. That meant removing a piece of the wall and ceiling to find the leak. The building hired master plumber to come to fix it. The building hired a plasterer fix the wall and ceiling. How much do you think that would have set me back if I had to pay for all of that on my own? I paid nothing for it, other than the used vacation time to sit and wait for the repairs.
I forgot to mention that 40% of what I pay toward maintenance is tax deductible. None of this includes the taxes I get back for my standard mortgage deduction.
The problem is that people don't understand what they are getting in return.
Also how skinny do you have to be to walk in that kitchen?
Skinny would come easy because you could never actually COOK anything in that kitchen.
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