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  • Sales
    Real Estate Law
    Updated over 14 years ago
    Is it common practice that a real estate lawyer serve as an agent for both, the purchaser (acquiring title insurance/representing purchaser in real estate transaction)...
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  • Sales
    Sale at 220 West 148th Street #1H
    Updated over 14 years ago
    The listing states that the unit has been "improved" at "no spared expense". I attended a recent open house (April 2012) to see this apartment for myself. I was...
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  • Rentals
    Australian looking for rentals in Manhattan
    Updated over 14 years ago
    Im looking to move to Manhattan in August with a little baby and will be working in Midtown. My budget is around $2.7k a month and so my question is: is this a...
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  • Sales
    Seller trying to back out of executed contract
    Updated over 14 years ago
    So a week after signing the contract and after the seller's lawyer received the deposit check (but did not cash), the seller is attempting to back out. Perhaps she...
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  • Services
    Lawyer to review GC contract?
    Updated over 14 years ago
    We are doing a renovation on our Manhattan apartment. The GC sent a contract over. Does anyone have a good lawyer recommendation to review? Thanks!
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  • Renovation
    Looking for an architect
    Updated over 14 years ago
    I'm in the process of looking for a loft to renovate and transform in a photography studio, which means utilizing the existing space a divide it into "shooting area"...
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  • Rentals
    Here's a new trick from management
    Updated over 14 years ago
    I think some of you might get a kick out of this story even though it didn't happen in NYC. My son is in college and lives off campus. It is the end of the semester...
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