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  • Sales
    Stupid renter eventually buys. No retirement.
    Updated almost 14 years ago
    Stupid renter eventually buys. Owners would be living rent-free at that age. Instead, she subjects herself to $60,000 a year in rent. LOL, nice "retirement"...
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  • Rentals
    Rental at 351 East 51st Street
    Updated about 14 years ago
    Glad to see that market is treating this rental appropriately - meaning it is still not rented. I looked at it when it was priced at $15750 and valued it at $8500. I...
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  • Anything
    Here we go again--Where's Barney Frank?
    Updated about 14 years ago
    Minorities and the working class may find it harder to buy homes under a U.S. plan that would require larger down payments to qualify for lower-cost mortgages,...
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  • Sales
    Sale at 233 East 86th Street #9C
    Updated about 14 years ago
    Why did this 2/2 go for under $800,000? Granted, I wouldn't want to be on 86th street, but the price still seems low.
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  • Sales
    The 'liquid asset' discussion
    Updated about 14 years ago
    My wife and I, both early 30's, DINKS, and with great jobs, have piled a good lump some of cash to purchase something decent in the city. I've lived in NY my entire...
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  • Sales
    Board Dying?
    Updated about 14 years ago
    Is it just me, or is this board dying? Ever since they moved the link off the front page... it 'aint easy to find this place. Or is this what capitulation...
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  • Anything
    CDS a sham! Ban them!!
    Updated over 14 years ago
    The European Union’s ability to write down 50 percent of banks’ Greek bond holdings without triggering $3.7 billion in debt insurance contracts threatens to undermine...
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