Could you post a better image of that floorplan ?

That is indeed, a HUGE house. Are you working with an architect? I would be curious to see your new plans too.

yah would love to see the new plans...what C of O will you be applying for?

Converting it to a 2-family. We'll try to scan in the architect's plans. These are just lifted from the original listing.

Two family is nice - that's what I have. I hate being a LL, but at least dealing with only one tenant is manageable.

do a 3 family, even if you only end up letting out 1 unit, you have the option for another if you need more income. you are however required to put in place sprinklers or a fire escape

taxes are higher on a 3-fam than a 2-fam. 2-fam is considered to be a home in which you just happen to rent out an apartment. 3-family is looked at as more of a commercial investment and taxed accordingly.

I heard that to increase the COC, to say from an existing 2 family to 3 family you would need to make it wheelchair accessible, which I would imagine to be difficult if not impossible to do to a landmarked building. Is it a difficult process to change the COC in a brownstone?

what the hell is a coc? do you mean c of 0?

what the hell is a coc? do you mean c of 0?

what the hell is a coc? do you mean c of 0?

what's is a coc? do you mean c of 0?

my fiancee and i are drawing up our own designs for our 20x43 (3 floors plus garden) so we would love to see what brownstone sr. has drawn up. if anyone else has plans for their 2-3-4 family b'stones they'd like to share, please post em or email me. always looking for good layout ideas.

thanks.

After we have our plans approved by DOB we will try to get them up on the site...Regarding earlier questions about 3-family, the sprinklers and wheelchair access did factor into our decision to do 2 fam instead of 3 fam. We have since heard some strong arguments for doing the 3 family despite the additional requirements, namely higher markte price and greater flexibility down the road.

we're close with an almost accepted offer on a SRO b-stone in c.hill so about ready to go thru the whole process of cert of nonharassment. we found a bank who will let us start building w/o the certificate fully apprd. realize this is risky, did u just eat the mortgage and sit for 7 months or start construction while u were waiting for approval?

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I am in the process of bidding on a brownstone in Brooklyn. Looks like the renovation would be similar to yours, however only 3 floors, roughly 3000 sqft. Could you give me a ballpark $ number of your renovation so that I know what I need to factor into my bid?