An employee with the building, who asked not to be identified, said that he had received "more than a handful" of complaints about apartment conditions.
And most buyers negotiate a purchase based on an apartment's condition, he noted, so a fresh new bathroom can potentially put a seller in a stronger position and boost the selling price.
Other real estate basics will also influence sales price, he added, citing an apartment's condition and whether "it has something special about it — view, light or something unusual".
At 405 East 63rd Street, Vickey Barron, an agent with Douglas Elliman, has persuaded the owners of a 1,475-foot 1,475-foot-opostwarthe apartment's condition is the main reason it hasn't sold.
He estimated that the renovations cost him $3,000, which he considered reasonable because the legal rent was $850 a month, but the landlord reduced it because of the apartment's condition.
In a house or apartment, similar conditions may be had in an unobstructed east or west window.
A young womancame up to me& said that al-though on vacationshe had spentall day atthe officewhich unlike her apartment wasair-conditioned &as cold as themorgue.
With eight people in the apartment, living conditions are tight: Each room is crammed with beds, suitcases and items hidden under blankets.
The houses were rather small to be cut up into many apartments, a condition that has inadvertently preserved much of their Victorian interiors.
In the end, the couple bought the apartment, on the condition that the tub be removed.
The same size apartment in better condition on the floor below sold in May for $645,000.
