Converting to legal 1BR condo

The DoB doesn't know or care whether your condo is called a studio or a one-bedroom.

Adding or taking down a wall within the unit may or not require a permit. Your managing agent and a contractor can help you there.

The DOB is an agency that oversees enforcement of building/construction codes. If you are a developer "Converting" a building they inspect the property at various points in the long process.

As NWT says, they don't care what you call your studio apt. It is a unit of a certain size within a residential building.

NWT, thanks for the reply. I guess I should clarify some more. I would like all the legal documents for the condo to state that it is a 1 bedroom as opposed to it being a studio so that when I resell it, it would be legally documented as a 1 bedroom. I guess that would be a chance I would have to strike up with the condo owners?

thanks

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But there is no legal document, or any document, that says it's a studio or a one-bedroom.

Take the all-studio condo http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/369544-condo-1420-york-avenue-upper-east-side-new-york, for instance. The sellers who put a wall up call them one-bedrooms, and those who didn't, don't.

Any potential buyer would see the actual space, and would know it for a studio, or a convertible one, or a one, no matter what you advertise it as.

Thank you, NWT.