“need” may be dramatic but if i would have done all of this work of built-ins and paint and wallpaper and decorating and then decided i wanted to change the floors, it would have become such a hassle to redo them down the line. i spent months going back and forth about whether or not to take the leap and do the floors until i finally came to the conclusion that it needed to be done. my dream had always been herringbone floors but even though the existing floors weren’t exactly to my liking, it seemed silly to rip out the perfectly good floors that the previous owners had installed. i was fully on board but something was holding me back from pulling the trigger right away…the floors. When shannon was putting the floor plans together, she had suggested i add some built-ins in the foyer and office to really make the space feel more custom. the sky was the limit!! …okay my bank account was the limit but same thing. Now that i had become a homeowner (it’s still so surreal saying that), i was able design the way i had always dreamed of without restrictions from a landlord. ![]() krstyal even got the whole thing on video! when i hung up the phone i had been approved by the board and a few weeks later i closed on the apartment - officially making me a homeowner. It was a perfectly sunny day while i was in boston when i got the call and my reaction was some combination of screaming and crying. buying an apartment in nyc is not for the impatient □. then began the three-month process of the tedious approval from the co-op board whose application included an 800 page deck documenting every single thing about myself dating back to the lemonade stand i had when i was 6 (kidding, but not really). i submitted an offer almost instantly and after some negotiating with the owners, they accepted. but i didn’t care because it was going to be mine. the only things that were missing were a true second bedroom, herringbone floors, and a washer/dryer in-unit. it met almost all of my requirements including the sunken living room that made me fall in love with that first dream apartment. When i was finally able to view it, there wasn’t a hesitation in sight. i showed it to my friends, my designer, and family and they all confirmed that this was the apartment for me. it hadn’t been listed for more than an hour before i sent it to my realtor saying “this was it.” i couldn’t get in to view it for a couple days but i knew it was the one. ![]() and then…almost as if the universe said “oh hey allie, here is your perfect apartment,” i found it. i toured countless apartments over the course of a month all while checking streeteasy religiously everyday for new listings. I enlisted the help of the realtor that helped me with my studio apartment and we began the hunt for my forever home. i knew i wanted to stay in my next apartment for at least 6 years and if i was willing to spend so much on a rental (knowing the rent was going to go up every year), it might be worth pivoting my search to buy an apartment. i took a step back and thought about the long term. and i did come very close to signing a lease for a similar apartment that was actually just a bit bigger and located steps from the met!! the only problem? it was nearly twice what that original apartment was going for. am i still bitter? a little, haha! but after spending a few days sulking, i refocused and continued my search.Īfter experiencing the dream apartment, i tried my best to find a place that had the elements that made me fall in love. because they had all their paperwork, their application was approved and thus, my dream apartment went onto someone else. i informed the realtor of this but he, of course, didn’t care and used my offer to leverage a higher one from someone else. because i submitted the offer on a friday afternoon, i wasn’t able to get some paperwork from my CPA until that monday. there was just one problem…i made the rookie mistake and didn’t have everything i needed for the formal application. ![]() i quickly submitted an offer that was accepted for a fraction of what it would have been pre-pandemic and i started envisioning how i was going to design the space. ![]() after only a few weeks of searching, i found the dream apartment that hadn’t even hit the market yet: pre-war building, endless amounts of natural light, two bedrooms, washer & dryer in-unit, and a sunken living room, all while being located steps from my favorite sandwich shop. i set my sights on 2 bedroom apartments mostly in pre-war buildings. During the pandemic, rent prices in nyc reached an all time low and i knew that if i didn’t take advantage of those prices at that time, i was going to regret it.
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