Friday Links
Rowhouses, Cobble Hill. Photo by fake is the new real. Home Prices Fall in More Than Half of Biggest Markets [NY Times] EV Couple Can Boot Rent-Control Tenants [NY Post] Case of Nerves on Rent Rules Hits Owners [NY Sun] How Good Are Zillow’s Estimates [RE Journal] Oro Condos: Now For Sale [Myrtle Minutes] Thinking…
Rowhouses, Cobble Hill. Photo by fake is the new real.
Home Prices Fall in More Than Half of Biggest Markets [NY Times]
EV Couple Can Boot Rent-Control Tenants [NY Post]
Case of Nerves on Rent Rules Hits Owners [NY Sun]
How Good Are Zillow’s Estimates [RE Journal]
Oro Condos: Now For Sale [Myrtle Minutes]
Thinking of Spring: Fence Replacement [Forum]
Brownstoner Bloggers Going Full Time [Colin O’Malley]
Feedback on 649 Washington Open House [Brooklynian]
anyone see this article?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070216/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleusproperty_070216081250
nice…
Tirade? Sounds like a hit a nerve.
I applaud your efforts to educate people on their rights and hopefully their responsibilities as well. I am not however, going to get in a tit for tat about who is doing more for the community, whatever that means.
I will though, continue at every opportunity, to advocate fiercely for the principles of capitalism and individual property rights that I believe too often receive short shrift on this site and in this city. Hopefully my meager contributions to this exchange will challenge someone to rethink and refine their ideas about real estate, as I believe others on this page have done for me.
Well, enough of my self-congratulatory platitudes. I come in peace and wish you a good holiday weekend.
2:57 and what have you done for the landlords who rather earn a buck than really on crumbs off “The Mans’s plate”.
Okay, C-Roy, besides posting tirades on Brownstoner, what exactly is it that you’re doing to change things for the better?
And, lest your next retort be a demand to know what I’ve done…well, I worked as a counselor at a free housing clinic to tell tenants their rights (both the favorable and unfavorable rights), and I helped the tenants in my building buy it from the landlord and turn it into a coop.
So…come on, tell me what you’re doing.
“[Y]ou got a problem with how NYC operates? Then maybe you should move.”
You sound like one of those radio talk show hosts that say if don’t like the President then maybe you should move to France. No thanks, I think I will stay and try to change things for the better.
posted by eryximachus two days ago….
This survey doesn’t surprise me at all. It confirms the obvious. Most Brownstoner readers are rich and already own their own home. No wonder they love to shout down any new development that occurs in the city. The only possible result of allowing development in this city is their property values will go down.
Meanwhile, 20 somethings like me who barely make 6 figures have poor parents will never be able to afford a place that is convenient to Manhattan.
Thank You Mr. Brownstoner. I shall link to this survey every time the crazy Anti-Atlantic Yard crowd of rich homeowners spews forth their selfish nonsense.
posted by eryximachus today…
It really is shocking, many of these rent regulated tenants. You can’t even find a 1-bedroom in CHICAGO in the ghetto for $625. Why would anyone have symathy for this guy?
Hello, you can’t afford to live ANYWHERE in the US without free money from somebody. The only place for you is a trailer park! There is a reason they exist!
multiple personalities anyone??????
Sylvia – it’s a good thing the goverment’s job isn’t based on your prioritization of what’s moral (or on xyz social conservative person living in the bible belt).
what so bad about a landlord making a profit?
yeah, c-roy, i realize my post didn’t directly address the issue of rent stabilization or control. my point was, you and erixxmakkus seem to think that landlords have some kind of god-given right to charge market rates, and if they’re thwarted in this pursuit, that’s immoral.
my point was, property rights don’t rank too high on the morality scale. they get trumped by a host of other factors. so you can say that rent stabilization/control is bad for the city’s economy or bad for the landlord’s profits, but you haven’t made the case that it’s so bad that it’s immoral.