We'll work on all the common areas immediately, clean up all the common area spaces, amenitize the building, fix up the streetscape, and then as apartments vacate, we'll renovate them on an apartment-by-apartment basis.
IN the mid-1980s, when I was in college, what concerned and frustrated my peers and me was how few states had basic statutes forbidding discrimination against gay men and lesbians: laws that merely prevented someone from being denied a job or apartment on the basis of whom he or she loved.
"Investors buy occupied apartments on the basis of cash flow," which is basically the difference between the rent being paid by the tenant and the maintenance charges being paid to the co-op, Mr. Weinstein said.
"The law theoretically allows both private landlords and institutions to recover rent-stabilized apartments on some basis, but they have to prove the elements of the case," he said.
Galliard's Baltimore Tower ("An iconic landmark for luxury living") sells its penthouses and apartments on the basis of access to "Royal parkland, its thousand years of heritage and pageantry".
"That basically means that the tenant can stay in the apartment on a monthly basis as long as he continues to pay the rent," Mr. Abramson said.
In Yonkers during the 1980's, Scenic Hudson won a legal battle opposing the construction of six apartment towers on the basis that they would have blocked river views.
Approximately a million years ago, in Jackpot Records in Portland, Oregon, I bought a very fine album by Brad Barr called The Fall Apartment – largely on the basis of its acoustic cover of Heart Shaped Box and Barr's work with The Slip.
The reason it's a mistake is that you should choose your apartment strictly on the basis of what you want and what you can afford, paying zero attention to irrelevant information about rents in the place you used to live.
Inspecting utilities in an apartment on a regular basis will help you identify renters risking property damage and keep them on high alert.
