Sale at 305 West 86th Street #7-D

I wonder what the minimum amount over asking price is that the broker would even consider presenting to his client?

Just as some people start off high cause they know they'll be chewed down a bit, I think the reverse is also a broker technique. Start low, and then raise it, so it looks like there are multiple bids and it's a great apartment.

they felt they had to get it up to $1000 per sq ft just to be trendy

$1K/sf is the new Brazilian cherrywood.

Wow, spectacularly unimpressive.

Can someone just explain to me what TRIPLE MINT means? I've had this question for a long time. No one has answered.
Why not double mint? (okay, cause it sounds like the gum).
But what about quadruple mint?

Are there three different qualities of the apartment that are in mint condition?

Love to see some creative answers...

The holy trinity of mintiness, if you were Catholic you would understand it's an act of faith.

I'm not Catholic (at least not on this thread) ... does that have something to do with Minty of 'Posh Nosh'?

from the Posh Nosh range: extraordinary flats for ordinary people.

tmaxjd,

I'm sure that "triple mint" has something to do with categories in an appraiser's report, where he she has a box for overall condition of the apartment, etc. that can be "poor," "average," "good," "excellent", or "mint."

Whether it's "Overall condition/kitchen/bath" or "location/interior/exterior" I don't know (anybody want to chime in?) but in practice we use "triple mint" to mean that an apartment would not come up short on any category.

ali r.
DG Neary Realty

what you haven't visited halstead's glossary of terms

http://www.halstead.com/resources_glossary.aspx

triple mint...mmm tasty

Triple Mint

Refers to the condition of the residence. Triple mint condition means that the residence is in immaculate condition.

Funny, no listing for "mint" in the glossary - maybe that is too philatelic....double mint- too gummy. For the price of this unit I would think that quatramint should be expected. I believe that in this case, the realtor initially forgot that triple mint carries a surcharge, thus the $20,000 bump

Was wondering if anyone went to the OH - was there a little dish of Junior Mints next to the sign in sheet??

Triple mint specifically refers to kitchens, baths and overall interior condition. It's synonymous with "turnkey" which seems to have more of a suburban connotation.

You wouldn't say "triple mint" if a bath needed work.

"Tripple Mint" = broker babble that means absolutely nothing at all. Also makes the apartment sound like the former studio of an adult film production company.

"You wouldn't say "triple mint" if a bath needed work."

Of course you would.

Just like realtors say "1100 square feet" when it's really 850 square feet, "Brooklyn Heights" when it's really in Downtown Brooklyn, "steps away from Central Park" when it's on York Avenue, and "duplex" when it's really just an apartment with a sunken living room.

"You wouldn't say "triple mint" if a bath needed work."

I distinctly remember a realtor in Brooklyn uttering this very phrase -- without a trace of irony -- as she showed me an apartment with a bathroom that had a 1960s-era metal medicine cabinet with a cracked mirror, a bathtub trimmed with years of mold and mildew, tiles falling off of the walls (and easily 1/4 of the tiles missing from the floor), and the toilet so filthy it was black.

It looked like a bathroom where one would overdose on crack.

But hey -- the apartment was "triple mint"!!!!

I always stand in front of the freezer at the supermarket....hmmm..Cherry Garcia or Triple Mint?

spearmint, peppermint, embezzlemint

ahanhartmint