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  • Sales
    No Broker Transaction
    Updated over 14 years ago
    I'm considering buying my current apartment direct from the landlord, thereby saving broker's costs. What is the best/safest way to handle such a transaction .....
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  • Neighborhoods
    Spring=SCAFFOLDING EVERYWHERE=Why?
    Updated over 14 years ago
    Is it true that Local 11 is holding the city hostage? It's the weirdest look, the permanent scaffolds on almost every block. The buildings built in 1919 suddenly...
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  • Rentals
    Brooklyn rent/value question
    Updated over 14 years ago
    I've been renting in Carroll Gardens for five years now and the landlord has propped raising the rent. On one hand, it's gone without increase for all that time, but...
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  • Developments
    What's up with Georgica East 85th
    Updated over 14 years ago
    Looks like construction was halted. Is this Wall Street? Financing?? I was told by a construction worker today that construction is being halted "for awhile".
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  • Sales
    Inonada vs. Rich Lemmings or: UWS Rent-Buy Math
    Updated over 14 years ago
    Over on the "Favorite Price Choppers" thread, Inonada pointed out that an Upper West Side coop that would cost close to $5MM to buy can be rented for well under $15K...
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  • Sales
    Buyer Broker?
    Updated over 14 years ago
    I am looking to buy my first place in the next couple of months. I was going to use a broker my friend used a couple of years ago who I liked as well. I've contacted...
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  • Rentals
    Raising rent (landlord question)
    Updated over 14 years ago
    I own shares in a small co-op and have been renting out the apartment (legally -- the co-op allows subletting, and the board has interviewed the tenant and approved)....
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