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Best of Brick: The perfect apartment for your cat

by Margot Slade | 8/24/11 - 2:26 PM

When it comes to expressing boredom, cats are known to make full use of claws (on your furniture) and other forms of self-expression like peeing in the middle of your bed...
Ask an Expert: Buying a co-op when you're self-employed

by Teri Karush Rogers | 8/24/11 - 8:49 AM

Q. I've been an independent marketing consultant for five years and I want to buy an apartment. Income-wise, I had one bad year three years ago but other...
Best of Brick: My humiliating Fifth Avenue turndown, and what happened next

by Debra as told to Kelly Kreth | 8/23/11 - 1:45 PM

The first time I tried to buy a co-op, I was turned down. It was back in 1993, when I was a single mother of a two-year old living on the Upper East Side. I was going...

11 reasons why that apartment is too good to be true

by Alana Mayman and Teri Rogers | 8/23/11 - 8:01 AM

Rather than cause for celebration, a below-market price for an apartment in NYC is actually a red flag. Exactly why the price is low can depend on whether you...
Best of Brick: How to interview a closing lawyer

by Margot Slade | 8/22/11 - 2:10 PM

There are good closing attorneys, mediocre ones, and ones you will wish you never met. How to tell the difference before hiring one? Here's a great list of interview...
Best of Brick: 10 signs of a user-friendly co-op board

by Teri Rogers and A. Ready | 8/18/11 - 10:46 AM

If you're on the prowl for a co-op board that embraces a dictionary versus despotic interpretation of the word "cooperative," you can find a multitude of clues from the...

Best of Brick: 16 things I have learned since moving to Manhattan

by Alana Mayman and Teri Rogers | 8/17/11 - 2:05 PM

In reality, Manhattan isn't Sex and the City, Law and Order, Selling New York, the combined works of Woody Allen or...
How to afford a NYC apartment

by Teri Karush Rogers | 8/15/11 - 7:56 AM

Sure, you could get a better paying job or take in a roommate in order to afford your pricey NYC digs. Or you could adopt some of the clever and not-so-painful-really austerity...
Best of Brick: My suburban nightmare

by Anonymous Ex-Manhattanite | 8/11/11 - 10:10 AM

It starts with the shiva. The shiva being the actual move to the 'burbs and your first few weeks at the in-laws' while your new Colonial palace is...

Best of Brick: 16 things I wish I knew before buying this place

by Margot Slade | 8/09/11 - 1:45 PM

Responses to StreetEasy.com's 20-20 hindsight question of...
Best of Brick: Confessions of a preconstruction buyer

by anonymous Manhattan condo buyer as told to Teri Rogers | 8/05/11 - 11:07 AM

I started looking for a place to buy back in 2006. For me, it was a little later in life than most people usually buy their first home. If I was going to take...
Best of Brick: A broker's mind after 100 days without a closing

by Anonymous Manhattan Broker as told to Teri Rogers | 8/03/11 - 10:50 AM

The ABC’s of selling real estate go like this: Always Be Closing. Whether prices are up or down or sideways, as long as you’re always closing, you’ll do fine....
Best of Brick: How to analyze a rendering

by Teri Karush Rogers | 8/01/11 - 10:36 AM

Stick a condo rendering in front of us and our pulse immediately slows down.
A spa-ish soundtrack unspools through our head as we stroll through our fantasy kitchen...
Broker alters financial package, puts deposit at risk

by Teri Karush Rogers | 8/01/11 - 7:07 AM

Over on StreetEasy.com, a co-op buyer is shocked to...
When to run from a gut renovation

by Teri Karush Rogers | 7/27/11 - 10:16 AM

If you're tempted to buy an apartment needing a gut renovation, you may want to tune into ...
A real estate agent flunks her big fat board interview

by Kristen as told to Kelly Kreth | 7/26/11 - 7:39 AM

I was living on Long Island and working in Manhattan as a real estate agent. I wanted to be closer to work so I started looking for an apartment to buy close to my office. I...
Money doesn't buy everything, not even a decent maid's room

by Jennifer Ciotta | 7/18/11 - 1:15 PM

Recently my fiance and I went to an open house a little out of our price range. Actually, at $1.3 million (just reduced from $1.6 million), it was a lot out of our...
Million dollar condos and a homeless shelter? No prob.

by Teri Karush Rogers | 7/18/11 - 8:43 AM

Later this month, a New York City judge is scheduled to decide whether...
Why a walk-in shower beats a washer/dryer

by Teri Karush Rogers | 7/15/11 - 8:06 AM

A recent StreetEasy.com...
How many listings can one building handle?

by Teri Karush Rogers | 7/13/11 - 12:49 PM

Today broker-blogger Malcolm Carter tackles a perplexing...

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