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fromSFGATE
5 days ago

Key Questions To Ask When Renting a Home Before You're Surprised by Secret Fees

Renting a single-family home often carries hidden recurring costs—trash pickup, pest control, pool and yard maintenance, HOA fees—that renters must budget for.
fromCurbed
2 weeks ago

It's Stunningly Easy to Impersonate a Broker Online

At first, Sicari, the top rental broker at Douglas Elliman, who leads a team of six other agents, assumed the callers were clients. 'Oh, which apartment?' she'd ask. But the addresses they gave her didn't exist, nor did the prices: $950 for a Soho studio, $2,500 for a loftlike two-bed, two-bath in Greenwich Village, a Gramercy one-bedroom in a luxury doorman building for $1,800 a month.
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