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According To Interior Designers, Here’s How To Stage Your Home

If you’re looking to sell your home, it’ll pay to think about what caught your eye when you first stepped in. Besides fitting in with your budget, what sold you? How did you feel when you first stepped in? And how could you better the impact? With that said, it’ll also pay to take in these handy home staging cues from the interior designers at firm Décor Aid. Entryway: Just like with the way you dress and present yourself, it…

Apartment Buildings or Privately Owned Apartments?

The Pros and Cons of large versus small apartment buildings. When choosing your apartment, it’s essential to consider more than just the interior. What kind of apartment buildings you lease from matters too, and there are many different kinds of landlord tenant arrangements. The two primary kinds of apartment buildings in New York are either large apartment buildings, or those in private homes. Amazing apartments can come in either type of building. The lovely garden apartments of Cobble Hill and…

How to Land Your Dream Apartment in New York City

Apartment searching anywhere can start out being very fun and quickly turn into a very time-consuming and daunting process. Looking for apartments in New York City, specifically, can leave seekers feeling very helpless due to higher rents, smaller living spaces and the need to be near the ‘perfect train.’ I would know, by 30 I had lived in midtown East, the Upper East Side, Midtown West, Queens and two stints in Brooklyn. Why is NYC so desirable? • Proximity to mass transportation:…

Why you should review your home on GoHomeNY – Homeowners Edition

Although over 60% of NYC residents are renters, we originally started GoHomeNY for home buyers and sellers in NYC. We bought and sold three condos in NYC and had remarkably different experiences each time, with the second go around ending in such (dis)stress that we decided to start a website to help other owners in the city. Almost every buyer uses a lawyer and a broker, but beyond reading the minutes and speaking with the management company, there is little…

Why You Should Review Your Building at GoHomeNY.com 

Reviews are an integral part of 21st Century daily life. When you order from a new restaurant, you are asked to leave a review. When you order shoes, or get a haircut, or make a call to customer service, or even do some banking, you’re asked to leave a review. We share our opinions on so many little things in life, isn’t it time to dish about the big ones? Perhaps the biggest one of all is our home, and so often, that’s precisely the thing we keep quiet about. Our…

The Top Ten Things to Consider Before Renting In NYC

Often times we fall in love with a space and an apartment without diving further down the road to unforeseen problems that can arise within a building. Here are the top ten things to consider so that you and your loved ones can have more peace of mind before making a decision that can be one of the greatest of your life.   What kind of protection does this lease offer me as a tenant? The most common lease in…