here<\/a>.<\/p>\nArmed with a budget of $600,000, they hoped to find a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment that wouldn\u2019t need a complete overhaul. They also wanted the home to be close to subway lines and have reasonable maintenance costs. The couple had accrued a bit of a nest egg courtesy of some prior luck in Seattle real estate and their dance careers, which they each started at 18, but they were mindful about pricing because, as Mr. Pacitti said, they didn\u2019t \u201cwant to be house poor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re in New York City to enjoy New York City,\u201d he said, adding that while they could have afforded more, \u201cwe want to enjoy the city and we want to start saving more seriously again for retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n
At first the two looked at Forest Hills in Queens, and Flatbush and Midwood in Brooklyn, but \u201cour life, for the most part, is in Manhattan,\u201d said Mr. Pacitti. So they turned their eyes north to Washington Heights and Inwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew exactly what they wanted, and they knew what would work and what wouldn’t,\u201d said Laurence P. Mitchell, an associate broker at R New York who worked with the couple.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr. Pacitti and Mr. Griffiths \u201cmade it very clear to me that they were looking for their almost forever apartment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Among their options:<\/p>\n
No. 1Third-Floor Co-op Unit in Washington Heights<\/p>\n
This two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment was a sponsor unit on the third floor of a Washington Heights co-op. The unit had recently been renovated and had a relatively large kitchen. There was also plenty of closet space, something that appealed to both Mr. Pacitti and Mr. Griffiths. But it lacked a second bathroom and the building didn\u2019t have an elevator. The asking price was $529,000, with maintenance costs of $1,379. <\/p>\n
No. 2Fifth-Floor Walk-up in Washington Heights<\/p>\n
The couple toured a second apartment in the same Washington Heights co-op building. The layout of the two-bedroom, one-bathroom sponsor unit mirrored that of the first apartment. But it was located on the fifth floor of the walk-up building. Being higher up meant that it received more light than the first unit. It also came with a lower asking price of $489,000, with maintenance fees of $1,379.<\/p>\n
No. 3Elevator Building in Inwood<\/p>\n
This two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment was on the fifth floor of an elevator building in Inwood. The apartment was close to the No.1 and A subway lines, but the couple didn\u2019t like that several flights of stairs were required to reach the train entrance. The apartment, which was in good condition, had a renovated kitchen, but it lacked the second bathroom the couple had envisioned and the second bedroom was quite small. It also wasn\u2019t a sponsor unit, meaning the couple would need board approval. The asking price was $575,000, with maintenance costs of $1,635.<\/p>\n
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