The Waiting Game
The days of racing with the clock are over in NYC’s residential market (no duh), and the Times’ real estate cover story this week examines what the dynamics of a less frenzied market look like. While prices haven’t dropped much, buyers and sellers are taking their time nowadays, and a lot of people are considering…
The days of racing with the clock are over in NYC’s residential market (no duh), and the Times’ real estate cover story this week examines what the dynamics of a less frenzied market look like. While prices haven’t dropped much, buyers and sellers are taking their time nowadays, and a lot of people are considering how much rehab their properties need, or undertaking lengthy/expensive fix-ups, before listing them. Case in point:
Carolyn Walkin and her husband, Jim, wanted to move to the Long Island suburbs to find better schools for their daughters, Ava, 4, and Veronica, 2. But they were so worried about a potential recession that they did extensive research to ensure they could sell their three-family brownstone on Henry Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, for the price they wanted. Ms. Walkin spent about five months and had conversations with at least seven brokers before choosing Terry Naini of Prudential Douglas Elliman. Before that, she had also researched auction houses and considered selling the brownstone without a broker. Even though they finished an extensive renovation two years ago, they added details like art on the walls to attract sellers. Within one hour of their first open house, they received an offer for their asking price of $2.5 million. But Ms. Walkin didn’t relax until the paperwork was signed.
Not a bad outcome, but perhaps indicative of the high anxiety in the air these days.
Responding to a Less Heated Market [NY Times]
Photo by TrespassersWill.
I do not think the What is the exception, I think he is the very real voice of the working class in Brooklyn, which is being dispossessed by moneyed classes willing to spend truly ridiculous amounts on family homes in formerly Black communities. ooklyn. I think his voice is genuine. I wrote at 8:18 that I appreciated that honest glimpse into the world of Brooklyn, and I mean it. I for one am happy that this blog is not just full of real estate agents and boosters painting a rosy picture, I truly think that Black to White neighborhoods in Brooklyn are facing today a sort of dealyed backlash. I do not wish to expose my family to that. We have no horse in that race. I will stay in Manhattan and perhaps at some future time look at Queens or Hoboken but not Brooklyn. It is just too expensive and too racially fraught at the moment.
Yep, I use the Fuck word but, No race thang! Ghetto Ass??!! Just use other words get to the point.
“I am a woman and aren’t I being treated in a hostile manner having to read words like that? Do you even think about that or care?”
Don’t read it. Skip over my posts! Nobody told you to reply to my comments!
” I am a woman and aren’t I being treated in a hostile manner”
Why? We don’t have a dialogue going on.
If you don’t like The What then, don’t read /reply to his comments.
So simple!!!!!!!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…..
If you use the F-word and all your vulgar words every single day you’re one who helped make this place “hostile”. I am a woman and aren’t I being treated in a hostile manner having to read words like that? Do you even think about that or care?
” It’s really retarded for The What to show up and continually insult and curse at and ridicule and provoke people then oooh-poor-baby get offended when someone strikes back.”
Uh no 8:35. At lease this guy said what plenty of “people” have on their minds. Including the author of this blog. I was going toe to toe with that person and any other asshat.
What drives the “people” up the wall is I’m right. “People” Overpaid in a minority neighborhood and trying to drive “others” out. So this assfuck (brownstoner) sets up this wonderful place where “people can hide behind their keyboards. But if you see these “people” on the street they smile in your face. The What isn’t going for the okey doke.
“Ghetto Ass” has been called and The What views that as an act of aggression. So the rules of engagement has change for me. No one didn’t attack this guy for using this language, this speaks volumes for me. So in essence I view this web site a hostile territory.
Fuck all of you
The What ( Gloves come off)
Someday this war is gonna end….
It’s just one guy provoking the poster who calls himself The What, 8:18. This guy The What acts all wounded because somebody insulted him, in yes which was a needlessly race-based way that does not reflect the attitudes of most of the new residents of Brooklyn. But you know what? It’s really retarded for The What to show up and continually insult and curse at and ridicule and provoke people then oooh-poor-baby get offended when someone strikes back.
Live by the sword die by the sword.
Seattle and Chicago are the only other cities worth living in outside of NYC. I’m hating all of California lately, it’s gross and I’m not a San Fran fan. It’s too “niche” and too small. It’s not really a city city.
well, since this blog deals with a lot of houses in ghettos it is only natural that the discussion eventually degenerates to ghetto-talk and ghetto-threats.
I appreicate the honest glimpse into your world.
I think I will stay in Manhattan thank you very much
I know y’all are having a serious discussion here, most of which I have skimmed past in order to ask the most pressing question of all:
Is that Adrian Grenier in the laundry photo?
Again, What, you really have nothing to say so you revert to name calling. Does your mother know you are posting on this site?
Get out of town What, your time has passed.
This war is over. You lose.