Prices are significantly reduced for coops to reflect this, i.e., the price premium a condo possesses vs. coop is the price of freedom essentially. 80% of apartments in Manhattan are coop.

During the boom a few years back there were a lot of discount brokers offering reduced fees and sometimes sliding scale...

In the end I will end up reducing my principal and interest.

When you buy no matter how much you planned or learned there will be mistakes.The difference (hopefully) is that the mistakes are very small because you have planned as much as possible to reduce risk.

Assuming that the W/D was in the unit when tenant signed the lease, I would:1) Apologize for the inconvenience and show them the HOA guidelines.2) Voluntarily reduce rent by an amount that you determine seems reasonable based upon what the coin-op machines are charging (some are several dollars per load, so could be in the range of $25-$100/month rent depending on the condo size and what the coin op charges.

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This has stopped many people from selling and many sellers are truely to stubborn to reduce the price the believe there equity will over come the cost of the liens.What do you all think?

I am calculating it as:20% of (purchase price + repairs +other costs)= 0.2 x ($75,000 + $20,000 + $10,000)= 0.2 x $105,000= $20,000 (rounded to the nearest $5000)I've lost two other deals using this formula, and after that and looking every day for the past 6 months, I'm wondering if I need to reduce my profit goals in order to actually close a deal.

Plus, this past summer MSU decided to blow up a couple dorms, which had the overall impact of reducing student housing by (as I recall) about 1000 units.

The Market~ It's so unpredictable and fortunes could be reduced to nothing overnight.