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  • Sales
    Square footage inflation - worst offenders
    Updated over 16 years ago
    O.K. There is the mildly outrageous and then there is the one that really makes your blood boil. I propose a thread to list apt. whose estimated sq. footage has been...
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  • Rentals
    Advice for a kid movin' to the city
    Updated over 16 years ago
    ...I'm looking for some advice, as I'm moving to the city from the Midwest. Looking for a rental for a year, working in the flatiron area. Going to share with either 1...
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  • Sales
    FIGHTING WORDS about LIC and other fringe areas
    Updated over 16 years ago
    True story, though "Keith Burkhardt, the president of the Burkhardt Group, a boutique brokerage, says location is returning to the equation. “The market is kind of...
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  • Anything
    Bed Bugs!
    Updated over 16 years ago
    I'm so irritated i don't know what to do... I recently made the mistake to move in one of those fanciful doormen buildings with a staff of 25 and 4 doormen at all...
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  • Sales
    Apartment or cash gifting
    Updated over 16 years ago
    Can someone please explain to me how apartment gifting works. If my grandfather who lives abroad, and is not a US Citizen, wants to buy an apartment for me what are...
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  • Sales
    How much does an appraisal cost?
    Updated over 16 years ago
    Hi there, We are working with a mortgage broker to buy an apartment. He just told us that the appraisal fee is $1200. I was pretty surprised - is this normal? I...
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  • Sales
    Times have Changed - Back to $1500 Studios in Manhattan
    Updated over 16 years ago
    Wow, have times changed. I just got an e-mail from a colleague offering an UES studio for $1500. I've heard inklings about those from time to time, but this one is...
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