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Post closing financial requirements for coop

Started by 911turbo
over 4 years ago
Posts: 289
Member since: Oct 2011
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Hi my partner and I are looking to purchase a one bedroom coop for use as a 2nd home. We are paying cash but both of us are retired. I have $70k gross rental income per year and substantial real estate assets. We both have healthy IRA retirement accounts. Between us, around $1.2 million in cash plus stocks/bonds/investments. So if we purchased a $500k coop, that would leave us $700k left over. Is this enough for most coop boards or are we better of purchasing a condo (which we prefer not to since much more expensive). TIA for any advice as we are newbies to coops
Response by pinecone
over 4 years ago
Posts: 143
Member since: Feb 2013

A co-op board generally likes to see post-closing liquidity at around 2 years of your monthly carry. Keep in mind also that the board will take into account your DTI and some co-ops are stricter than others with where they like this number to fall.

One thing to note--not all co-ops allow pied-a-terre purchasers. So you'd want to look into this before getting your heart set on a particular building.

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Response by UWS_er
over 4 years ago
Posts: 58
Member since: Apr 2017

That should be plenty, as the above poster mentioned just confirm with the sellers agent that the particular co-op allows pied a terre’s. Good luck!

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