Up until a few years ago I kept it simple and used "Agreeable Grey" (a warm "greige") for just about everything, but now grey is considered over-used and dated.

The exterior looks very dated.

The reality is the land has value.This study released by NAR is slightly dated (from Nov 2021) but has a table of property values with an ADU and value of properties without an ADU for many of the larger cities (look at the table at the bottom) .

I don't want last minute bookings to try to fill open dates left by wafflers.

You can list it as "Coming Soon" which gets the property online visibility, but no foot traffic until your "open" date.

None of this shows up on a city checklist.Set it and forget it calendar rule: Once a year, I load ALL recurring compliance dates (local rental registration renewal, Fire safety notices, Lead / window guard, annual inspection deadlines).

We're very limited in what we can do if the bookkeeping is accurate and up-to-date.

Doing proper research — looking at the chain of title and checking the NY court system — gives you an edge most first-time buyers don’t have.I actually maintain a Brooklyn Pre-Foreclosure dataset (updated Oct 2025) that pulls verified filings straight from the New York State Unified Court System, showing dates of default, mortgage balances, and more.

@Antoine @Antoine V.Absolutely,  let me know when you're in town and we can try and match up a meetup date.  

If you go a few months then its not as easy to get reimbursed for the cost and to just pick an arbitrary date to shut off their utilities.