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Condo can’t-dos

Published 11:29 pm Saturday, July 18, 2009

In the market for a condominium? You’ve got a lot of homework ahead of you, so check out real estate columnist Steve Tytler’s quick guide to condo-buying.

For our part, The Buzz recommends you avoid condos where:

  • The swimming pool has been drained and renamed a “skateboard park.”

  • The only source of heat is one of those “Amish fireplaces” — unless it includes the optional “handcrafted wood mantel.”

  • There are door peepholes curiously installed in the wall between your unit and the neighbor’s place.

    Three-martini lunches included: Season Two of “Mad Men,” the TV series set in a Madison Avenue advertising agency in the early 1960s, has been released on DVD.

    The boxed set includes a fifth of gin, a carton of Pall Malls and the key to the apartment of the new girl in the typing pool.

    Everything must go: With a little planning, you can sell off your unwanted stuff — and make enough cash to pay the vet bill — at your next garage sale (Page D1).

    But don’t forget the most important planning element of all: Making sure your relatives, who, for your birthday, gave you most of the stuff you’re unloading, aren’t aware of your sale.

    — Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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