My Big Fat Board Interview: They didn't understand why a farmer was getting an apartment in NYC

… When my husband and I got married seven years ago I was renting a place on West 72nd Street We decided that we wanted to buy an apartment because we realized that the maintenance and mortgage would come to the same amount we were spending on rent anyway It was a …

By Carla |September 15, 2011 - 8:02AM
A real estate agent flunks her big fat board interview

… 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 … My Big Fat Board Interview … Buy … Co-ops … Sales Market … Rent … The Market … My Co-op Board Interview … boards … …

By Kristen |July 26, 2011 - 7:39AM
My Big Fat Board Interview: If I wanted to join a country club, I would

… My husband and I were living in a rental apartment in NYC when he got a job offer in Chicago … back and forth between those two cities but planned to transition fulltime to NYC eventually and we really wanted a place we could make …

By Ilene |March 11, 2011 - 7:29AM
My Big Fat Board Interview: "Break your own shredder"

… After a fouryear love affair with our Greenwich Village rental my husband and I decided it was time for a change time to stop paying the man time maybe to grow up a little bit Eight …

By Anonymous |February 10, 2011 - 7:39AM
My Big Fat Board Interview: My humiliating Fifth Avenue turndown, and what happened next

… The first time I tried to buy a coop I was turned down It was back in 1993 when I … the Upper East Side I was going through a divorce and had to move from my twobedroom rental I figured it was the perfect time to buy Being a …

By Debra |November 5, 2010 - 7:04AM
My Big Fat Board Interview starring comedian Robert Kelly: Don't pee on the carpet

… For five years I rented a luxury onebedroom in Hells Kitchen which became my … reached a certain degree of success in my career as an actor and comedian I decided it was time to buy After seeing what felt like 500 apartmentssome with …

By Robert Kelly |October 26, 2010 - 7:55AM
My Big Fat Board Interview: My natural reaction was, "Attack!" But I let it slide.

… My Big Fat Board Interview story is a tale of personal morality and concealing ones true self to get what money alone cant buy in New York  After 25 years in a minuscule rent stabilized onebed room it was time to buy a grownup …

By Liz Yank |September 17, 2010 - 7:20AM