Comments on: 259 West 139th Is An SRO, Not 2 Family… http://www.beatingupwind.com/2009-11/259-west-139th-is-an-sro Harlem Townhouse Real Estate & Renovation Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay Harper http://www.beatingupwind.com/2009-11/259-west-139th-is-an-sro/comment-page-1#comment-4617 Jay Harper Tue, 11 May 2010 20:13:30 +0000 http://www.beatingupwind.com/?p=357#comment-4617 @Yoni - Ours came with a certificate of no harassment. They take 6 to 9 months to get once you have all the paperwork in order. The paperwork requires you to have a signature from every person who's lived there in the past 3 years. If you don't know all their names you're looking at up to a 4 year process. And typically you have to pay $10-$20K per signature. My advice is not to buy a townhouse without a certificate of no harassment unless you can buy it all cash want to live in it as-is until you get the certificate of no harassment or leave it vacant during that period. Also be careful - if a townhouse has a violation for doing a conversion without a certificate of no harassment you will probably need to first bring it up to code as an SRO and then do the conversion - so that can be 2 renovations instead of one. Be very careful with buildings that don't have certificates of no harassment. @Yoni – Ours came with a certificate of no harassment. They take 6 to 9 months to get once you have all the paperwork in order. The paperwork requires you to have a signature from every person who’s lived there in the past 3 years. If you don’t know all their names you’re looking at up to a 4 year process. And typically you have to pay $10-$20K per signature.

My advice is not to buy a townhouse without a certificate of no harassment unless you can buy it all cash want to live in it as-is until you get the certificate of no harassment or leave it vacant during that period.

Also be careful – if a townhouse has a violation for doing a conversion without a certificate of no harassment you will probably need to first bring it up to code as an SRO and then do the conversion – so that can be 2 renovations instead of one.

Be very careful with buildings that don’t have certificates of no harassment.

]]> By: Yoni Pielet http://www.beatingupwind.com/2009-11/259-west-139th-is-an-sro/comment-page-1#comment-4609 Yoni Pielet Fri, 07 May 2010 04:09:57 +0000 http://www.beatingupwind.com/?p=357#comment-4609 Your blog has a lot of great information. 1. How did you get the certificate of no harrasment for your townhouse? 2. If i were to buy a vacant townhouse that does not have a certificate of no harassment, how could i get a certificate? Your blog has a lot of great information.

1. How did you get the certificate of no harrasment for your townhouse?

2. If i were to buy a vacant townhouse that does not have a certificate of no harassment, how could i get a certificate?

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