Attorney Recommendation

I used Paul Wolsk (http://www.wolsklaw.com/), very nice guy who does only real estate deals.
A few friends have used him since and have been very happy with his advice and guidance when buying coop/condos.

I was a StreetEasy addict (and still am) when I was coop hunting. I used a great attorney, Kevin Farrelly ((212) 684-8700). He did an excellent job ‘holding my hand’ and walking me through the entire process, and also help me weed through all of the ‘broker babble’ and misinformation. I would recommend him without hesitation.

When you buy your place, I also found an excellent painter that was also very reasonable.

Good luck--

Three quick points if you're a foreign national:

1) many co-ops will be off the table, so be sure to ask the brokers which ones;

2) get preapproved for your financing and make sure you understand the rates, because it's no fun as a seller to have a foreign buyer think they're going to pay 5% and then have them find out they're going to pay 10% in terms of interest rate;

3) have your attorney go over FIRPTA with you.

Other than the process is the same.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

rogermintz, right, Kevin's great. Does estate stuff, too.

Frontporch, if you live/work in this country, coops are not automatically out. I am now in my fourth coop and we never had any problems (both my husband and I are foreign).

Front Porch.....excuse the ignorance, does 'off the table' mean not advertised?
What is FIRPTA?
rBirdt

I used Michael Strauss and he was great. (212) 319-1500