Sale at 308 East 79th Street #13B

I have to chime in here. I know this board also REQUIRES buyers to do a full and complete renovation of the bathroom. This also should be reflective of ask price. All elements are important when buying a new property.

What does a "full and complete renovation" of the bathroom mean?

If it means removing all the fixtures as well as retiling, it surely seems unreasonable to dictate exactly what kind of renovation a buyer should do within their own space. A 1920s original bathtub is deeper and longer than most tubs available nowadays, and some people like the original style of a pedestal sink.

Does it really make sense to force people to rip all this out just because the board decides it's necessary?

In much older buildings, they most likely need the plumbing in back of walls replaced, checked out/add shutoff valves. Best time to do that is when walls are down. Granted if the building is that old, its main pipes will have issues as well, but I guess they do what they can.

The building is very proactive in replacing building plumbing. Over 60% of the risers have been replaced. The building requires purchasers of apartments in original condition to gut renovate the bathroom and kitchen so the building can replace the original building plumbing.

So when you gut the bathroom, the building comes in and replaces the risers on floor by floor basis?

The corporation has the shareholder,open the pipe chase, abate any asbestos and them the corporations plumber replaces the risers one floor up and one floor down so they renovating apt is left with all new plumbing.

There are tubs sold that are as deep and long as the original 1929 tub. Several manufacturers make them out of cast iron. 308's original tubs were made by Standard before they became American Standard.

1929 tubs have lost their glaze. There is no such thing as re-glazing. It's toxic epoxy that wears terribly.