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You could also threaten to sell and drive the price down. That however might backfire as they disapprove one after another of your buyers.
WonTon, sounds like a bunch of real losers. WTF are they talking about with “work assignments.” Coop dues are there to pay for those.
get an attorney to write them a scary letter.
wonton, how many shareholders in your coop? I’ve been lucky despite being the treasurer and having to hunt down some maintenance. Seen some Kens & ditmas places lately with a friend and they’re nice and a good deal too.
I’ve had it up to here with my coop board. They are trying to run the building as if it were the Park Slope food coop, with mandatory work assignments, etc., and they all hate me because I’m away half the year. They have written a lot of new picky little house rules designed to affect only me, and started instituting fines for infractions–fifty bucks here, fifty bucks there.
I love my place and spent $$ and lots of sweat fixing it just to my taste. But I am beginning to hate my neighbors. Wondering if it would be worth the effort to sell my place and find a more relaxed building (probably for half the price of my current digs) outside of Park Slope–Kensington or Ditmas, maybe.
arkady:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/north-dakota/
*rob*
This is really ridiculous but does anyone know real estate in Dickinson, N.D.? I have a niece whose husband has to work there & they can’t find any place that will allow them to keep their two labs.
slopefarm,
funny how you accuse me of being oversimplistic in my evaluation of history.
I’m not the one who automatically assigns Republicans as the party of racists, violence and nazis, as bxgrl did.
I responded to her with historical fact. You choose to pick up at the 1940’s and 1950’s. I will again tell you the facts of the matter. In the 1950’s Truman desegragated the military but only because a General named Eisenhower forced the issue. Southern democrats were clearly opposed to any civil rights advancements by minorities, these were the so-called dixiecrats. Governor Maddox of Georgia, a democrat who banned minorities from his restaurants, Governor Wallace who stood at the school door to block integration when Eisenhower had to send in the national guard to enforce it. Bull Conner, another democrat who chose to fight civil rights with vicious dogs and firehoses in those images we all know about the civil rights struggle.
These people were not Republicans. That is the point.
I also pointed out how Nixon voted FOR the civil rights act of 1957 under Eisenhower, JFK voted AGAINST it. This is history not some made up froth.
Who is being oversimplistic here now?
My contention was and continues to be that generalizations about the Republicans should be tempered by an informed view of the historical fact of the matter. Clearly there is enough blame to go around on both sides.
What does it benefit our country or ourselves to start the debate with the notion that one side is morally bankrupt?
By the way Lyndon Larouche sought the presidential party nomination of the Democratic Party. not the Republican party.
P.S. montrose morris,
I am sad to hear of bxgrl’s familial situation.
My best wishes go out to her.
Our spirited debates are not meant to offend but to
exchange ideas.
“CGar, I can post video clips of hot women but it still doesn’t mean I like them!!!!”
ROFL, dave.
I’m back. What’d I miss?
Upstate? How about Hudson? Should be a great investment in about 10 years. The entire city is undergoing a gut renovation. I have a friend who has had a house there for about 4 years – it’s beautiful. And when I was up over July 4 weekend, what did we do? Looked at real estate, naturally. Beautiful housing stock dating back as far as the late 1700s.
hey dibs, I’m a couple of miles north of the village, going towards Bolton on Rt. 9. It’s a town home association.
I suspect less has changed than you might think. Development is well regulated, as is boating, the water is still drinkable right out of the lake, and the whole other side is still ‘forever wild’. The Village is just as tacky as ever, and most of the cheap motel complexes still exist. A few have been torn down and developed, but plenty are left. Plenty of bars, a few good restaurants, including the Sagamore of course, but local shopping sucks. Even tho I’ve always been a proponent of local shopping, I’ve started to bring up my own meat cuz not much doing in the immediate area.
Still kid-friendly and tons of tourists, many from Canada.