Finding Tenant For Medical Space


I’m on the board of a smallish (16 unit) coop across from the Brooklyn Museum. We have a basement medical office that’s been vacant for some time despite being listed with a local real estate agent.

Does anyone know of any brokers or services who specialize in medical spaces? Or have any suggestions for good ways to find a tenant for a medical space?

Categories: Brokers
By oneasternparkway | 05/17/2011 9:10 AM | Comment

Guy using Metal Saw at Night on My Street


Here’s my problem—

For the last four or five nights on my block there’s been a guy using a metal saw on the sidewalk until 9pm (though last night he went until 10:30 or so). it’s starting to drive me crazy…..

It seems he’s putting some sort of metal trimming on a new entrance that has built onto the front of the building.

I called 311 the last few nights, but doesn’t seem anything has been done. Is it worth calling the DOB and filing a complaint (the addition he’s working on doesn’t seem to have an permits posted). Or is 311 my best/only course…

Categories: Quality of Life
By oneasternparkway | 07/22/2010 1:36 PM | Comment

Bed Bugs and Rats


Long story short: I’m in the middle of moving into a new apartment after fleeing my bed bug ridden old one. But the new apartment seems to have a small rat/large mouse. Since it’s on the first floor of a large building near an unkept courtyard, i’m thinking this will be an ongoing proccess. does anyone know someone who specializes in sealing up apartments (baseboards, behind kitchen cabinet etc).

Also, it looks like there’s a chance i might have brought the bedbugs with me. my building uses an exterminator who I don’t have much faith in. Also, since my wife is pregnant and we already have a young daughter, I don’t want to soley relay on poisons.

Does anyone know a good bedbug exterminator in the prospect heights/park slope area? And if they did rats too, wouldn’t hurt…

thanks

Categories: Exterminator, Quality of Life
By oneasternparkway | 07/24/2009 1:44 PM | Comment

Bed Bug Question


Here’s my deal: I’m supposed (along with my five month pregnant wife and two year old daughter) move to a new apartment in my building this weekend. Last week, management told me that the apartments below me and above me had bedbugs. They sent an exterminator to my place on saturday and she found two “husks”, but not any live bedbugs (guess what my wife thought were misqoutos were actually bed bugs).

The exterminator sprayed the baseboards and put down powder by the foot of the bed, but didn’t do a full spraying b/c of my wife and daughter. We then bought protective mattresses for our bed and our daughters and sealed both up after the spraying. the exterminator is saying that it will be safe to bring our mattresses to our new apartment because our infestation didn’t seem too serious.

I’m wondering if we’re making a mistake by bringing the mattresses to the new place. Does any one who has any experience with bed bugs have any advice? are there levels of bed bug infestation? Or if you only have a few “husks”, is that still serious?

thanks…..

Categories: Exterminator
By oneasternparkway | 06/29/2009 2:13 PM | Comment

rent stabalized rent raise


live in a rent stabilized building, looking to move into new apartment, vacated by a long time tenant (maybe 30 years). The landlord wants to raise the rent to 2500 per month, which I suspect is a raise of over 300 percent.

my question is, is there a limit to the amount the rent can be raised on a stabilized apartment from the previous lease?

The landlord says he’s going to do a lot of work to the apartment (which I know is part of the process of justifying an increase) but I’m wondering if there’s a limit….

By oneasternparkway | 05/26/2009 12:00 PM | Comment

One Time Cleaning Person


I own a small one bedroom in Prospect Heights that I will be renting out starting Jan 1. I’m going out of the country in a week and want to hire someone to come in and clean it before the new tenant moves in. No painting or anything, just a good cleaning. Anyone know of anyone who be good for a job like this?

By oneasternparkway | 12/12/2008 1:17 PM | Comment