Falling In Love With--and Wooing--An Old House
The Post writes of a love story with a happy ending this morning. After living in Morningside Heights for three years while attending Columbia Law School, Lucy Lang fell in love with a Greek Revival house on West Harlem. Heartbroken when she found out that the owner already had another offer, Lang wrote a heartfelt…
The Post writes of a love story with a happy ending this morning. After living in Morningside Heights for three years while attending Columbia Law School, Lucy Lang fell in love with a Greek Revival house on West Harlem. Heartbroken when she found out that the owner already had another offer, Lang wrote a heartfelt letter to the owners about how she had fallen in love with the space; she was able to push the right buttons because her mother had researched the house’s past at the New York Historical Society. Surprisingly, it worked. The 25-year-old lawyer got the house and moved in last March. We hadn’t realized law school paid so well!
In another segment of the same column, Stephen McGill, who’s owned an 1899 neo-Renaissance house in PLG since 1987, points out that enjoying historic details doesn’t come easy: “We spent about 12 or 13 years renovating,” he says.
It’s All in the Details [NY Post]
Fact is a majority of attys are NOT making 175, and they have debt. She could have had funding from other sources.
Anonymous at 11:21, unless you can figure out a way to put more than 24 hours in a day, 365 days x 24 hours x $15 equals $131,400.
yes, top firm. was increased last year. I think several top firms are now at 175
When we made an offer on a single-family brownstone, we made sure the realtor let the seller know it was our intention to live in the house AND keep it as a one family. Money talks, but you get some people to listen to their heart, too.
With the hours you end up putting, though, you’d make more per hour as a Park Avenue Nanny.
Sure is a hella lot of cash. Good gig I guess, if you can get.
So this is how people can afford NY real estate. Maybe prices are not out of control if this is what 25 year olds fresh out of school are making.
Agreed anon at 10:38 – that’s probably one firm in NY, if it exists at all. 145 is the starting at the TOP few firms, plus bonus. Most are still at 125 or 135.
Anon at 9.37 — Care to identify the firm that pays 175K plus bonus to First-years? I thought the going rate was 145K plus bonus, so that would be a very interesting piece of news even if slightly off topic.
Ann … is that you?? Ann Coulter?? Awesome!