I bought my first home in 2005 and hated it: so much work, maintenance and money.
doormen, windowed kitchen, high ceilings, h/w floors, needs work; maintenance $750 , 35 tax deductible; listed at $435,000.
co-op in a prewar walk-up building; high ceilings, h/w floors, 2 exposures, needs work; maintenance $499 , 25 tax-deductible; listed at $190,000.
co-op in a postwar building; dining foyer, windowed kitchen, h/w floors, 3 exposures, needs work; maintenance $645 , 50 tax-deductible; listed at $139,500.
co-op in a prewar building; elevator, eat-in-kitchen, parquet and h/w floors, laundry facilities, needs work; maintenance $395, 50% tax deductible; listed at $225,000.
co-op in a prewar Tudor-style building; elevator, dining room, h/w floors, 2 exposures, Hudson River view, needs work; maintenance $1,053, 22% tax-deductible; listed at $799,000.
"If that spending can't get the private sector going, then it is just a make-work maintenance operation," said Stanley Moses, an economist at Hunter College in New York.
They worked maintenance in adjacent buildings.
Schultz, who works maintenance at this arena, shakes his head.
He was two years clean, went to church, worked maintenance.
"I've worked maintenance at a mall – I've seen arms broken, people shoved and kids trampled," he said.
