If the furnace is working, maintain is as best you can.  In

That said, we do leave open as much as we can in the home: laundry, garage, and all closets (except cleaning closet).

Notes are like play doh ma boi you can make it long and skinny or short and fat. 30k down is more realistic (10% down), but 10k down is not impossible.

Focus on trimming the fat in your personal finances, if you can.

Mitigate as much as you can!In

Of course, the impact taking another 40% bite out of one's assets (including inflation fat as well as capital gain muscle) is not readily susceptible to measurement except, perhaps, through a longitudinal study. 

The tech sector obsessed with skimming more and more off the top of those fat STR margins: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/property-management-platform-guesty-raises-50m-in-series-d-funding-signaling-a-year-of-recovery-for-the-short-term-rental-ecosystem-301277520.html

So first negotiate your purchase with as long a runway was you can.  In

I would think in a market that has taken a bloodbath over the past year, that you would want to utilize every resource you can in NYC to get the highest possible price.   

I have been at this for a while........I have never asked a tenant to look for a replacement for themselves; I can do it much better and faster than a tenant ever can. In