Teri Karush Rogers

As BrickUnderground prepares to relaunch our agent-client matching service tomorrow, we bring you another excerpt from our new online guide to buying a NYC apartment, which will also go live tomorrow....

14 ways to get turned down before your co-op board interview

It may not be as sexy to contemplate as nine-foot ceilings and million-dollar views, but the building that houses the apartment you want to buy can make or break your investment as surely as a market correction or a construction site across the street.

Before signing on the dotted line, look out for some common red flags:

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Q. I live in a brownstone next to a mid-sized rental. Two young men recently moved into a third floor apartment there. They both smoke on their terrace, usually nude, talking on a cell phone and yelling back into the apartment. My bedroom window is about three feet away from the edge of their terrace.   

I have written them, the management company of their building, and called #311, but they will not take the complaint as they have no category for this situation.

Is a formal dining room better than an open kitchen? That's a dilemma many NYC apartment dwellers would no doubt like the luxury of having, and one that's under debate on StreetEasy.com's forum, where the owner of an about-to-be-renovated Park Avenue apartment can't decide between the two.