Personal Planners for Buyers
The Buyer’s Personal Planner gives you a detailed approach to your options, to prioritize your value considerations and a comfortable budget range. This crystalizes your search parameters step by step. Along with consulting the Mastering Manhattan, in particular Educating Yourself, the Personal Planner guides you through each necessary step from searches, negotiations, and to Contract to Purchase.
Buyer Priorities
High priorities
Sell first
Why
Why not
Buy first
Pros
Cons
Primary considerations
- Outdoor space
- Pet-friendly
- Washer/dryer
Other:
Important considerations
Condition
Overall
- Mint
- Excellent
- Good
- Fair
Specifics
Kitchen
- Decorate only
- Cosmetic changes
- Update
- Renovate
Bathrooms
- Decorate only
- Cosmetic changes
- Update
- Renovate
Financial considerations
Housing budget
Monthly expense
- Building charges (with taxes)
- Mortgage service
Estimated purchase price range
Cash down portion
Pre-approved mortgage amount
Liquid assets
Personal considerations
- Conveniences
- Commute time
- Schools
- Parks
- Transportation
Other considerations
Move-in timeframe
Co-ownership type
- Cooperative
- Condominium
- Condop
- Town House only
- Loft only
Neighborhood preference for
- Lower Manhattan
- Downtown East
- Downtown West
- Midtown East
- Midtown West
- Upper East Side
- Upper West Side
- Uptown
- Upper Manhattan
Dwelling-type choice
- Tenement-style
- Loft
- Flats (early apartment house)
- Apartment Hotel (deluxe service)
- Small Apartment House
- Pre-war
- Post-war
- Apartment House Tower (service-oriented)
- Row House
- Town House
- Brownstone conversion
- Office building conversion
Appurtenances
Elevator
Lobby service
- Full-time
- Concierge
- Attended elevator
- Part-time
- No doorman
- Live-in super
Amenities
Additional services
Indoor
- Garage
- Gym
- Pool
- Common areas
Outdoor
- Roof
- Garden
Room count
Private space
- Studio
Bedrooms
Number:
- Convertible space
Bathrooms
Number:
- Powder room
- Comments:
Public space
Living room
Dining space type
Kitchen
- Window
- Eat-in
- Galley
Additional spaces
- Library
- Live-in help’s quarters
Comments:
Priority musts
Exposure
- N E S W
Light
- Bright
- Direct sunlight
- Other
View
- Park
- River
- Skyline
- Cityscape
- Street
- Garden
- Other
Private outdoor space
- Balcony
- Juliette balcony
- Terrace
- Garden
Special considerations
- Wood-burning fireplace
- Moldings
- Hardwood Floors
- Built-ins
- Window type
- Closet space