Diary of a First-Time Buyer

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A home visit from a private investigator, board interview bombshells, and other signs I'm in trouble

… We agreed on two things One this seemed highly irregularalmost comical Two my current apartment needed triage In … Elle Bee is a lifelong renter currently in the process of buying a Brooklyn apartment recounted in her biweekly … Diary of a FirstTime Buyer Related posts How to buy a NYC apartment Beyond the board interview 5 good reasons to …

By Elle Bee |January 28, 2013 - 10:31AM
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How (not) to prepare a co-op board package
By Elle Bee |January 14, 2013 - 9:56AM
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What does it take to get a mortgage in this town?
By Elle Bee |December 31, 2012 - 1:22PM
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The art (and horror) of the deal
By Elle Bee |December 17, 2012 - 10:20AM
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I find my "dream" apartment...in Ft. Greene

… After eight months and 49 apartments I was increasingly worried that my … those I did not new construction postwars low floors   Within a couple of weeks we made a date to meet in Clinton … hipsters When we finally found each other and I squiggled into her car squeezing in next to her oversized …

By Elle Bee |December 3, 2012 - 2:43PM
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Updating my wish list
By Elle Bee |November 12, 2012 - 2:19PM
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Navigating the (rocky) relationship between broker and buyer
By Elle Bee |October 31, 2012 - 10:44AM
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My whirlwind affair with Hamilton Heights
By Elle Bee |October 15, 2012 - 10:38AM
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Open house time (a.k.a. the sound of my heart breaking)
By Elle Bee |September 24, 2012 - 10:29AM
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Diary of a First-time Buyer: "How did I get here and how do I get out??"

… night in Fort Greene Brooklyn Im sitting not at a hip bistro but in a fluorescentlit basement room at the head of a … glare of 11 members of the coop board where Im applying to buy a 750squarefoot onebedroom apartment in the building … buy a condo or coop in NYC sponsored A single guy reveals why he took the coop plunge and how he basically lives for …

By Elle Bee |September 10, 2012 - 11:32AM