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Whenever we run across an apartment with high monthly maintenance fees--like $3,898 per month for a 2 bed/2 bath Sutton Place co-op (whose design CurbedNY calls seriously weird)--words like "landlease," "crazy high underlying mortgage" and "run!" pop into our head. Not necessarily so, real-estate broker/writer Ali Rogers opines on StreetEasy.

Earlier this week BrickUnderground's experts explained that a buyer is entitled to bring a buyer's broker into the scene at any time during the transaction. Real estate broker-blogger Malcolm Carter asked the Real Estate Board of New York's in-house counsel Neil Garfinkel for the legal basis of the convention, who explained the common-law right: "The theory is that anyone should be able to be represented at any time.

One apartment dweller on UrbanBaby.com is none too fond of her "lousy and unresponsive" super, and wants to know if disliking the super is a near-universal phenomenon. Some responders are completely satisfied with their super (one even claims to be sleeping with him, perhaps biasing her opinion), others not so much.   "Mine comes up two weeks after an order is called in," goes one complaint.

This is certainly not the home for the family who likes to cook together. More than one person in this tiny kitchen (kitchenette, technically) could conceivably lead to mishaps involving butcher knives and scalding water. But for the couple looking for a reasonably priced pre-war two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment that comes with good schools (P.S.

A top-floor corner apartment can really cool off during the winter due to exposure to the elements, and on ApartmentTherapy, a Brooklyn co-op dweller is looking for some simple warming suggestions