Comments on: The Big Takeover

By: oldtenant2

oldtenant2 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:09:57 +0000

yes, Old Tenant, I lived there then, too. The lawyer actually ended up keeping the escrow money, thus forcing residents who wanted to stay to lose the back-rent AND pay an equal ammount to the landlord. The landlord makes far too much $ on that place to ever sell it. Especially if he’s still promising to pay the tenants for renovations, then raising their rent instead.

By: OLD TENANT

OLD TENANT — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:40:08 +0000

I lived in the building back in 2000-2002. the tenants tried getting together and putting rent money into escrow instead of paying the owners. thinking that due to code violations or whatever, the would be able to force the owner into improving the building, or they would buy it eventually with the accumulated rent money in escrow. that didn’t work, obviously.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:31:51 +0000

Well, we can agree they are separate cities and delightful for their differences…

This artist attempt to buy a 78k SF building is sort of, well, I’m sorry, difficult to see actually happening.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:02:59 +0000

“Cause NYC is about business – while SF is about handing out money to crack heads.”

haha!

Yes, I have been to SF several times. It has plenty of business going on, just like NYC — it’s residents have just deluded themselves that this is not the case and they actually live in a socialist utopia.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:57:23 +0000

Cause NYC is about business – while SF is about handing out money to crack heads.

I’m sorry – but these two cities have VERY STRONG DIFFERENCES IN OPINION – which is why I live in a place where homeless people aren’t asking me for money every five steps.

I mean, have you ever really been to SF?

By: Dresden

Dresden — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:55:52 +0000

Jeremy – an interesting SF intrusion -

SF where condo’ed buildings are banned… wonder if that will ever happen here?

Or if financing will ever reflect their reality?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:34:30 +0000

I, ahem, work in real estate.

I, with all due respect, and I know that premise allows a man to say just about anything to another man, but I must…

… with all due respect …

You have a pipe dream. It is the very definition. This is a 78,000 SF building.

Do you have $31 million tucked away somewhere? Anyone got David Byrne’s motherfucking phone number besides me?

By: BushwickBK.com » Blog Archive » 342 Eldert Rentals Rising in SoBu

BushwickBK.com » Blog Archive » 342 Eldert Rentals Rising in SoBu — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:01:14 +0000

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By: Martha

Martha — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:03:07 +0000

from SoBu

The other day, by fluke, I passed 345 Eldert; they’ve vacacies and ask $1000.00 rent per loft. I am curious how these lofts look like. I called for an appointment but these f%$#s are so rude on the phone, they hung up on me. Now I have second thoughts.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:35:03 +0000

Acually it’s roughly two miles long and one wide.