Co-op of the Day: 66 Orange Street, #3C
You don’t see a lot of real three-bedrooms in Brooklyn Heights for under a million bucks, so this place at 66 Orange Street asking $879,000 might appeal to a certain segment of the market. The 1,124-square-foot co-op is attractive if a little plain (there’s not a lot of prewar detail despite its being in a…
You don’t see a lot of real three-bedrooms in Brooklyn Heights for under a million bucks, so this place at 66 Orange Street asking $879,000 might appeal to a certain segment of the market. The 1,124-square-foot co-op is attractive if a little plain (there’s not a lot of prewar detail despite its being in a prewar building); the maintenance of $1,347 is a tad high but not too out of whack. Think this will strike a sweet spot in the market?
66 Orange Street, #3C [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
“I’d rather be known as the building masturbator than do that.”
Best line of many funny lines in funny thread.
In most co-ops the maintenance of the machines is the responsibility of the laundry room operator. There are maybe half a dozen companies in that business in NYC. They buy the machines, install them, service them, and keep the operating fees. They pay the co-op rent for the room. The rent is in the thousands of dollars a month for a big building with say forty apartments or more. The contracts are usually five to seven years.
That’s the way of it.
I believe that. The machines break down constantly. It’s easy to see why, at least in commercial laundromats: the machines run ALL FRICKIN’ DAY LONG.
If you can believe it, our building has decided to go with machines which are free, because the maintenance on those coin-operated ones was turning out to be even more expensive than it is to just buy new machines every couple of years…WITHOUT the income from the coins!
lol lowhearts! (hmmm i guess im both!)
and minard, ive never seen a washing machine or laundry room with debit cards. obviously im not doubting them, but not everyone has that luxury.
*rob*
I’d rather be known as the building masturbator than do that.
rob, most machines in building laundry rooms today work with special debit cards rather than quarters.
and if you have a laundry room and dont feel like, or just dont have, the quarters, you can use a stocking. a very sheer one, you squeeze the quarters in and put them in place, push the thingie and when you pull it back out your quarters are still in the stocking but the machine gets tricked into turning on. the trick seems to work with about 50-75 percent of laundry mat machines out there. try it, maybe you might live in a lucky building 🙂
*rob*
Ditto, I also once heard that one needn’t trek to the nearest newstand in one’s pajamas to get a copy of the Wall Street Journal or New York Times each day, but I suspect that’s just an Old Wive’s Tale.