[tstegart]

All of the brokers I ever talked to in NYC were "in" with management, I was always the "first" to see an apartment that "wasn't listed" and it inevitably wasn't the one the broker put up on Craigslist with the awesome pictures because it just got taken "yesterday."

[philipdlang]

I'm currently living in an apartment that never went on the market, because my roommate (a broker) knew the management company and he gave us a great deal. Brokers who frequent buildings get to know which apartments are coming on the market before they are listed because the supers tell them.