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Hi,

I am in contract on a high floor of one of the new high-rise Brooklyn towers. I went to look at it recently, and noticed that the floor was slanted. That is, the height of the floor seems to change by about half an inch over the span of a 12-foot-long room, and seems generally uneven throughout the apartment, within about that same half-an-inch tolerance.

The building is poured-concrete construction.

How worried should I be? How can I tell if it’s a structural problem or just cosmetic? Do I have any wiggle room in my contract? (I have a lawyer, but wanted to ask here too.) Does anyone have advice? Thanks!