First Condo Sold at The Whitney

This is a great investment and a great neighborhood - in my backyard! Congrats Tim and Sal!

Thanks.

See more pics at http://gallery.mac.com/timatbuffalo#100108

Yet another great success by Tim and Sal! Buffalo needs a hundred more like them!

They did a real good job on this building. I wish they would buy the building to the left in the photo and turn that into apartements or condos. That building is currently a rooming house and needs to be converted badly as the tenants are bringing the entire neighborhood down. From what I heard it's nearly impossible to evict the tenants or it would have been sold a while ago I'm sure. It's a little hard to sell a condo at $130K when you have vagrants and drunks living directly next door.

Whitney (and other nearby streets) have such beautiful brick buildings. Reminds me of Chicago or maybe Queens in a lot of ways. There is a Richardsonian Romanesque building across the street from this one that is just beautiful.

What do people think about the fire escapes? Eyesore or charming? I think that while they certainly do obscure the architectural beauty of the building itself, they do have a certain old-fashioned appeal to me. I guess they're better kept in the back, though.

I am sure that is what everyone is after, looking like Queens. Too funny.

I wish them well. Their work on this gem of a building is stellar and I hope the market rewards them amply!

What’s with the retro kitchen cabinets? Those are pretty lame IMO, I think they could have spend a little more money there

Congratulations to me as the first buyer! I agree with everyone's positive comments. I know how passionate the neighborhood residents are about our small part of the city. I've been renting the unit for the past 16 months, and love the neighborhood and living in downtown Buffalo. The building and units are in great shape, but I still plan on making a few minor improvements (kitchen cabinets, bathroom) to modernize it a bit further.

congrats on the condo! i agree with the improvements needed in the kitchen and bath.....its great that there are finally some condos within reach of the average person only questions; is there a dining room or even room for a table and are the bedrooms really small with hardly any closet space?

congrats all around!

just one quibble. if it was built in 1898, it wasn't built for the pan-am. in 1898, the pan am had been postponed because of the spanish american war. no one knew when the war would end or when the pan am might be rescheduled. no one would build a hotel under those circumstances.