Q: I do not live in New York, but I am interested in buying a cooperative of a room in Manhattan to be able to visit my son in Brooklyn or use the holidays. I would also like to let the family or very close friends stay there occasionally when I am not close. I know that some co-ups allow it, while others do not. But how do I discover without carrying the cooperative plaque to falsely believe that it would make it a short -term rent? When I ask the listing agent if visitors can remain in the unit when the owner is not there, they tell me that it is better not to ask. How can I find out without making my application transmit?
TO: There is a way to obtain an answer without alerting a cooperative plaque on its intentions, but it must be cautious and make its due diligence.
Make sure your desire to use the apartment as an occasional home is allowed in the patented lease of the cooperative and the rules of the camera. You can ask your corridor to get the government documents of the seller corridor. Once it establishes that it is allowed, look for what are the rules about the guests. Who is allowed to stay? And can they be there when you are not?
“If you see that Pieds-à-Terre are allowed, and there are restrictions, do not ask the Board if there are restrictions,” said Lisa Chajet, a Coldwell Banker Warburg runner, who specializes in Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co-Co -roan. “It’s nothing that a buyer brings to a meeting under any circumstance.”
But this could be difficult to find, said Andrew B. Freedland, who practices the condominium and cooperative law in Herrick. The law firm repeats many co -otas in Manhattan.
“I can tell him that most of them would not be fine with several relatives who enter and leave an apartment when the lessee is not there,” Freedland said. “It would be very cautious about this type of configuration.”
In many buildings, the rules against the guests during the night were implemented long before the city approved local law 18 to restrict the short -term rentals in 2023. This means that even if there is no written agreement in the short term with their guests, and even if no money is changing hands, they lend their apartment to them would still be against the rules of the building.
You can consider a condominium instead. The rules can be more flexible when it comes to guests during the night when they are not there, Freedland said. A KnowledgeBaox real estate agent or corridor could help you find the right building.
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