Tuesday Links
Client to Broker: Clean My Windows! [NY Times] MTA Eyeing $130 Monthly MetroCard [NY Post] Aptsandlofts Founder Was Born To Sell [NY Daily News] Diamond Still Pushing for Red Hook Trolley [Brooklyn Paper] Mortgage Fraudster Gets 10 Years in Big House [Brooklyn Eagle] Paterson Crony Named Atlantic Yards Project Manager [AYR] $879,000 Cobble Hill Duplex…
Client to Broker: Clean My Windows! [NY Times]
MTA Eyeing $130 Monthly MetroCard [NY Post]
Aptsandlofts Founder Was Born To Sell [NY Daily News]
Diamond Still Pushing for Red Hook Trolley [Brooklyn Paper]
Mortgage Fraudster Gets 10 Years in Big House [Brooklyn Eagle]
Paterson Crony Named Atlantic Yards Project Manager [AYR]
$879,000 Cobble Hill Duplex Likes Its BQE BBQ [Curbed]
No Fashion’s Night Out for Barneys Co-op Brooklyn [Racked]
As usual, Norman “OCD” Oder makes no attempt to be fair and balanced. He asks why a search was not conducted for the leader of the ESDC, but when Dan Goldstein hired his then-girlfriend and now-wife to be an organizer for DDDB (and later gave the position to himself), Oder never wrote a word about it. Classic double standard.
That broker article doesn’t surprise me. Sounds like broker backlash going on. Almost every person I know in NYC who has dealt with a broker has at one point or another gotten screwed over. And somehow the NY Times thinks it’s some kind of displacement of frustration onto brokers?? How about most people have been screwed by one and are rightfully angry, instead of misguiding their anger? I think it’s now a time where the consumer/client has power and the broker doesn’t. People are starting to demand more. I don’t know that it’s reasonable to have a broker clean your apartment, but I do think brokers could actually DO something to earn 6%. I sold my apartment recently and met with some brokers to represent me. I knew more about the comps then they did. It was a joke. I sold it by myself without any issues and saved myself the fee. I’m sure there are some good brokers out there, but the majority I have encountered have been seriously unhelpful.
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Good morning, Pete. Are you still out in the country? Looks like Fall is coming early.
I don’t think curbed has that right about the BQE BBQ.
Seems to me that the duplex is the back of building so backyard doesn’t face highway at all.
When are our elected officials going to jump on the MTA’s incredible level of waste & inefficiency????
Brokers should be doing a lot more for their 6%. But, this being New York City, I’m sure that most of the buyers and the sellers are neurotic. The brokers, even more so. I’ve never met someone in my line of business as arrogant and nasty as a few brokers that I’ve run into.