That you would pay that much for these units is really beyond me. The building location is less than average to begin with. IMO, the value/price ratio sucks given the location and how long it will take before surroundings improve. We're talking 4th Av. This is on the edge of Gowanus for Chris' sake! There are much better places to invest money in, especially these days.

Posted by: Clouzot at June 8, 2009 1:23 PM in response to First Closings Recorded at the Argyle

IronMaiden you rock. I've been cussing at this for quite some time.

Posted by: Clouzot at June 2, 2009 1:50 AM in response to Annoying Brownstoner.com script

I'm considering doing something similar, but have no experience with all this. Sorry for my naive question, but what is an "expeditor"?

It seems to me that this person files paper on behalf of others. If so, what value does this intermediary bring to the process? I mean, at ~$10K a pop if I can bypass him/her I'd be happy.

If anyone can cast some light on this I'd most grateful.

Posted by: Clouzot at June 2, 2009 1:44 AM in response to Change from 1 Family to 2 Family

Wow! Many thanks to all of you for the helpful posts. We will not be formally renting the garden apartment and it sounds like that can potentially make the process much easier as we really don't care what the C of O says, but just want to have an extra kitchen downstairs (why didn't I think of that?!). It's nice to have ballpark figures and suggestions going in to this process - the whole thing is a bit overwhelming.

Posted by: 1stitchwonder at June 2, 2009 8:29 AM in response to Change from 1 Family to 2 Family