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  • Sales
    Help with an Estimate on Renovation...
    Updated over 15 years ago
    Can you please tell me what you think it might cost to renovate the following space - full gut renovation, with high-end kitchen appliances (wolf, sub-zero, etc) and...
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  • Sales
    Investment
    Updated over 15 years ago
    I was thinking of buying a stuio or 1br as an inventment rental propery in Manhattan. What part of the city commands the highest rents and would be easiest to find a...
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  • Sales
    How do you think about sq. ft? Can less be more?
    Updated over 15 years ago
    If we're thinking about how much bang an apt gets for each square foot buck, how do you guys evaluate that? Clearly, there is a certain "you know it when you see...
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  • Sales
    Sale at 61 West 9th Street #2B
    Updated over 15 years ago
    The nastiest broker I ever met. The apt. is so old that the walls are caving in.
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  • Renovation
    Licensed plumbers
    Updated over 15 years ago
    just got a quote to renovate kitchen and bathroom for about 30k. The quote didn't seem particularly unreasonable to me, however, because our co-op requires all...
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  • Brokers
    resources when mistreated by broker/seller
    Updated over 15 years ago
    We just had a very negative experience while trying to buy an apartment. Our offer was verbally accepted, then before we signed the contract we found out there would...
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  • Renovation
    Return on Renovations
    Updated over 15 years ago
    During the peak of the bubble I read several articles that tried to convince owners that the return on their renos was around 80% (if they spend $100k, the value of...
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