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  • Brokers
    Value of buyer broker?
    Updated about 9 years ago
    New to this Board - but started looking for an apartment on the Upper West Side for the last few weeks and wondering what the value of a buyer broker could be? Don't...
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  • Anything
    80% Carpet Rules
    Updated about 9 years ago
    I have been a shareholder in a co-op in Sutton Place for almost 5 years. A year ago a new shareholder with a small child move in above me, and since then the noise...
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  • Sales
    open kitchen vs traditional in prewar 6
    Updated over 9 years ago
    I am trying to see what is more desirable. Any input would be great. My opinion is to keep the kitchen with all it's mess behind the wall but it seems to me that...
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  • Rentals
    Secty. Depsit: charge tenant for re-caulking tub b/c mold
    Updated over 9 years ago
    Should I deduct expense for re-caulking tub from security deposit? Tenant neglected caulk so it became covered in mold. If she had done weekly cleanings it wouldn't...
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  • Neighborhoods
    Mosque near ground zero
    Updated over 9 years ago
    Just interested in how the board feels about this.
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  • Sales
    f%$# coops
    Updated over 9 years ago
    A Manhattan co-op board allegedly turned down a wealthy African man even though he paid for his apartment outright in cash, handed over more than a year’s...
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  • Sales
    Pensions killing NY
    Updated over 9 years ago
    Roughly one of every 250 retired public workers in New York is collecting a six-figure pension, and that group is expected to grow rapidly in coming years, based on...
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