Today on the Forum
Here are some of the items posted recently on the Brownstoner Forum: Restoring and Reusing Porcelain Door Knobs Have Any $3 Million Listings in Slope Actually Sold? Recommendation for a New Gas Supplier? Converting 2-Family + Store to a 3-Family
Here are some of the items posted recently on the Brownstoner Forum:
Restoring and Reusing Porcelain Door Knobs
Have Any $3 Million Listings in Slope Actually Sold?
Recommendation for a New Gas Supplier?
Converting 2-Family + Store to a 3-Family
What To Do? Landlord Not Paying Utilities
This is extremely intriguing. I posted earnest responses on the FSBO–I think I even defended the OP because I’m a regular Pollyanna. I hope there is an update to Forumgate soon…
Maybe Brownstoner doesn’t want to tell us what’s been going on … as he doesn’t want to give other nasty folks ideas…
And, as to calling it a scam post first, when I first read the suggestion that these could be fake posts, I didn’t get it – as I saw the Craigslist ad, and I had already seen the Times ad online. You needed to spell out for us naive folk just what you meant by “fake.”
…..wiser now..
so what do i win for calling this guy/gal out on the scam first?
oh interesting, 7:23. i didn’t know posters couldn’t remove their own posts.
and the plot thickens…..
Definitely sounds like a broker-orchestrated drama. Agree with 5:39 that no one else would have an incentive to do such a thing. It’s also very indicative of the market…
Man, this is complicated. And I thought I had a twisted mind… I guess I’m Laura Ingalls compared to some of these conspiracy theorists. But something must be up if they were removed, since posters can’t remove their own posts.
And who but a broker would have any incentive to do such a thing? To a landlord renting on his own, or to a broker selling FSBO?
Or, I suppose one nasty person could have created BOTH fake posts – in which case, I sure hope Brownstoner blocked them from posting….
Ok, so unless Mr. Brownstoner tells us why these two posts were removed (can original posters take their own postings off the forum?- I haven’t a clue), here’s my scenario – suggested by 3:44’s post above – I, for one, really was naive (I’m not 3:41) that anyone would do such a thing, and it frankly is rather scary – makes me want to think twice before I post *anything* on the internet again:
Broker living on PPW made a not nice comment to PLG landlord about the price of the rental. Someone took PLG landlord’s Craigslist lising, and created fake post about it on Brownstoner. PLG landlord then assumed it was PPW-living broker, and then created fake post about PPW’s apt. sale listing in the Times (it was a real FSBO listing there, identified as a FSBO by owner/broker, until it disappeared earlier today – I thought it was a nice place when I first saw it in the Times, and not horribly overpriced.) Or the two had a feud for some other reason and acted it out here.
This is my FICTIONAL story – maybe because I can’t quite believe 2 people are out there doing such things at the same time, so, to set my mind at ease, it had to be a feud between the two of them of some sort.
The PLG apartment is still for rent on Craigslist, price reduced ever so slightly…