Strange thing, this new condominium development at what I think is 326 Melrose Street: nobody seems to know anything about it, but it continues to be listed on Trulia, with several units from 299-399K. The link to the Prudential site still doesn’t work after several weeks. The agent we contacted claims the property has been sold, which seems wrong considering it can’t possibly have a certificate of occupancy yet.
What’s the deal with this place?
jessica July 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
just rode by yesterday and the scaffolding is down…it looks really nice. So frustrating how dumb the prudential agent was.
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I AM THE AGENT FOR THOSE CONDOS AND I DON’T KNOW WHO YOU SPOKE TO AND WHAT WEB SITE YOU ARE GETTING YOUR INFORMATION FROM BUT YOU ARE MISTAKEN. NOW LET ME MAKE YOU AWARE THAT YOU ARE USING PICTURES THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO GET PERMISSION TO USE.I DON’T KNOW WHAT IDIOT YOU CONTACT BUT YOU GUYS HAVE JUST STARTED AN UGLY INVESTIGATION.
THIS LISTING NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM YOUR WEB-SITE YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO ADVERTISE.
JESSICA, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THAT NEEDS TO ANSWERED CONCERNING THIS NEW DEVELOPEMENT THEN FEEL FREE TO CALL ME AT 917-957-9961. THAT GOES FOR ANY ONE ELSE. NOW THE OWNERS OF THIS SITE NEED TO REMOVE THIS LISTING A.S.A.P
Jimmy Legs July 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am
oh Janet, it’s not really this blog that you’re mad at, is it?
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Guys… get your act together what you are doing is illegal. ckeck with your attorney you have just violated several real estate advertising laws.
jimmy if you can not comprehend the situation then do not comment. thank you
jessica July 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Janet: ads are on your right, blog is on your left.
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
let me see if i can make this clear to you… using an exclusive listing picture without proper consent from the owner is illegal whether as a blog or advertising. does that help. real estate agent are not idiots as you would have people think they are…jessica.
petebfd July 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I’M YELLING AT YOU ON THE INTERNET. YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE I PUT CAPS LOCK ON. I’M IMPORTANT.
and Janet, you’re a bit off base on your interpretation of the copyright laws. and grammar rules.
petebfd July 17th, 2008 at 11:39 am
as an aside, that place looks ugly as all shyte to me
jessica July 17th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Sure, I get it. But what is the big deal? If anything this “listing” as you keep calling it will generate awareness and interest in your condo that I assume you want to sell. It should please you the hits on Trulia for your condo more than tripled in the last day according to their stats because of the link this website provided.
I was frustrated with my experience with your agency. I used the contact link on the Prudential Elliman site, and was referred to a gentleman who informed me via email that “After much time of researching I learned that the property that you inquired about is sold and we had to update our website. Since you’re searching, what can I do to help you?” When I responded that I doubted it was sold because there was still scaffolding up and the condos were not even completed, I never got a response. The Trulia links to your website don’t work, and there is no other site that I know of where I could find out about this place. This website is a place where people who are interested in real estate and rentals can come to find out more about new developments and opportunities in their neighborhood. To stifle that rather than embrace it and collaborate with it seems like a bad business idea.
Jimmy Legs July 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Jessica, Janet doesn’t have time to help prospective clients like you because she is so busy keeping her listings all to herself and god forbid somebody find out about them. that’s why she told the agent to tell you they were sold out.
jessica July 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
that’s funny.
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
anyone interested on new developements in brooklyn queens new york or long island can go to http://www.realtor.com or http://www.mlsli.com or they can visit http://www.prudentialelliman.com and find all the information they need.
bad business idea is having a web site speak ill of you and your co workers. please update your knowledge on the rules for advertising in real estate and copyright laws that concern real estate.
petebfd July 17th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
maybe you and your coworkers are bad at your business? in which case this blog has every right to call you out on it, and could easily claim fair use of the photo in the context it is used. update your knowledge.
jessica July 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Thank you Janet!
to quote you, this:
“anyone interested on new developements in brooklyn queens new york or long island can go to http://www.realtor.com or http://www.mlsli.com or they can visit http://www.prudentialelliman.com and find all the information they need.”
is all you needed to say in the first place in response to the original post.
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
jessica i don’t know who you spoke to but my main goal is to make sure that all of my clients recieve top service. when you rely on third rate web sites to find information that is incorrect that is what you’ll recieve; third rate service.
now i have already given out my number for any one interested in the new developments on 326 melrose.
so if you are so called interested on one of the units. then you have my number.
again the owners of this site need to remove this exclusive listing. someone from our management office will be contacting you concerning this matter.
thank you
petebfd July 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
its not a listing, its a blog post. break out of your real estate bubble. (haha, an unintended pun!)
Jimmy Legs July 17th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
janet, where in the original post did anybody speak ill of anything? it just reported the fact that the listing is on trulia, the links don’t work to PDE, and that when somebody called the listing agent office they were informed the property was sold out. the title even says the building is ‘attractive.’ if that’s how one speaks ill of things, you gotta check out the drubbing the ugly buildings take on this site!
if you don’t like how your office looks because of this, well, you shouldn’t. professionalism probably ought to extend to the way you comport yourself, don’t you think? and NOW we’re speaking ill. oh, how we shall speak ill!
jessica July 17th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
“when you rely on third rate web sites to find information that is incorrect that is what you’ll recieve; third rate service.”
I first relied on the Prudential website, but I wasn’t getting ANY service. The agent failed to reply to my inquiry.
NOW I have the information I need, thanks to this post alerting you to the fact that some people interested in your building were having trouble finding information on it.
I want to apologize for using the word “dumb.” I was frustrated with the poor customer service I received and that the agent I communicated with could not even find as much let alone more info on the condo as I already had. Still, dumb does not describe the person, I am sure, just the way in which they dealt with the inquiry.
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
jessica
i must apologize for that agent…i can understand.. when you don’t get the service you deserve then it can get fustrating. now if you still have the agents name you can call 1800-355-4626 and file a complaint against this agent. We at prudential douglas elliman care about all of our clients needs and you should not have been given false information. if you are still interested in. this new developement i can e-mail you all the information on it and send you as well; specs on what the finished product will look like.
All good real estate agent comply with their code of ethics and are members of the real estate association.
let me know by e-mailing me at jcorona100@aol.com
again for the owners of this web-site permission needs to be given in order for you to publish or even blog a listing. no pictures published as exculsive listings may be used by anyone without proper consent. you are not dealing with the media.
ricmac01 July 17th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Janet, it’s okay. I gave them permission.
janet July 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
the only person that can give them permission is me
this exclusive listing needs to be removed
Eric July 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Two words: fair use.
Eric July 17th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Come on! It’s not an exclusive listing, it’s a blog post about a building under construction. It’s not a solicitation in any sense. Get off your high horse and find something productive to do.
janet corona July 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
you guys need to do somethiing productive.
again you do not have permission to use the above pictures especially the artistic rendering.
since you guys do not undestand the meaning of exclusive listing in real estate. then we are filling proper complaints against your web site with the department of state and the broad of realtors.
no one is to use any real estate picture without proper concent even in blogging.
Yury July 17th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Janet,
You really need to brush up on your rules and regulations. Simply being a realtor doesn’t mean you know anything. In fact, it’s just a nominal yearly fee that you pay in order to put the logo on your business card. That said, no one who running this website is a member of the board of realtors, therefore your complaints won’t get anyone thrown off the board.
With regard to your filing a complaint with the state, again this was not an advert, nor was it slanderous. You are the one who should seek legal council, as I’m sure the owners of this property will be contacting theirs.
Janet Miller Light July 17th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Janet-
The least professional thing that you can possibly do is become involved in a protracted comments war on a blog that doesn’t receive enough traffic to do harm to your poorly managed realty firm. My best advice is to just leave the site and never come back. It won’t matter at all.
Janet Miller Light July 17th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
In response to post #24, I hear the ‘broad of realtors’ is pretty sexy.
BobW1973 July 18th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Wow, I am blown away that an agent would not want people talking about their listing on a blog where people are talking about and learning about new developments in Bushwick. In the 21st century, we learn and buy things through word of mouth.
Janet, I think you’d be better off saying thank you to these folks instead of continuing to antagonize them. And then it seems that you think they are a realtor, but they are fairly clearly not.
And I don’t understand why you are so upset? If you are the exclusive agent, then how can someone go around you? Don’t you have an agreement with the developer?
I am someone who is developing low cost condos in Bushwick right now, and I hope people talk about them on this web site when they are ready.
Thoroughly confused,
Robert
3ZKL July 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I HAVE THESE PICTURES POSTED ALL OVER MY OWN BLOG RIGHT NOW. IN FACT, I EVEN HAVE PICTURES OF THE PICTURES!
duffussmcdoof July 18th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
the ugly investigation has been concluded, its been concluded that janet is one ugly chic with no brains to match
Xander Crews July 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Feel Free to link to any of my listings. I Like making money.
Tony Soprano July 18th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Janet,
I have e-mailed your company a link to this blog, I think you look and sound quite foolish. I would starting going to Monster.com and looking for a new career.
Cheers,
Tony
Karin July 19th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Just FYI Janet:
Your psychotic rantings are making their way across the entire blogosphere, including some really well read and influential sites.
I found this through Gothamist.
By Monday AM, I am sure you will be all over Gawker and maybe even the Daily Intel~and it won’t be in a good way.
No, actually you will now be forever known as the idiot realtor who ruined her own career in a weekend via caplocks and some serious confusion regarding freedom of the press.
Sucks to be you, dumbshit.
Michael Anderson July 19th, 2008 at 10:26 am
LOL!!
http://www.brooklyn11211.com/archive/2008/07/326-melrose.html
Karin July 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/real_word_brooklyn_will_not_be.html
Wow, Daily Intel posted it yesterday.
God, how awful for her!
The most press she will ever get in her life, and its for being a complete moron.
Who’s in the HEP OF POOP now?
dj alex July 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
i can not believe how far you have taken this!
there are so many topics that need attention and you guys have to pull a stunt like this? and then to bash her like this…naw man….i expected better from you guys.
eagle July 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
you are really suppose to ask permission to use any one’s piture.
eagle July 19th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
oops sorry picture
linda July 19th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
come on.
as if no one ever man a spelling mistake when they e-mailed or blogged.
i think the problem here is that you guys are now mad at her because she may be wright?
i salute you girl!
hang in there this will blow over.
FormerRidgewoodite July 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
A google search for “Janet Corona” and “Bushwick” (the neighborhood she is selling, instead of before her idiotic email last week bringing her up as a realtor representing a development condo in Bushwick….now instead brings her up as a complete fool:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bushwick+janet+corona&btnG=Google+Search
It’s all over the internet now – and not in a good way…and it’s all her own fault. She did this to herself. The Gothamist picked it up, it’s in the Daily News Search results, nymag.com, everywhere.
Why in the world would ANYONE, who wants to make money, and to make money works on a comission when something they list sells, would want a BLOG site in the neighborhood she is selling not to have people “talking about HER listing”? I don’t get it. This page originally would only have brought her MONEY as people interested in the area read this site…..but instead, she made a complete fool out herself?
What she says is true….another BROKER can not advertise her listing without her permission….but this site isn’t another BROKER! This is a NEIGHBORHOOD BLOG, discussing the neighborhood…..
Instead of a favorable page, and free publicity, and getting people talking about her listing, which in turn may have had people contact her to see it….instead, through her own foolishness, yes, is talking about her, but that’s certainly not the way I would want to be looked at! What a fool.
The developer on this page said it best….If I had a property to sell in Bushwick, I certainly would want people talking about it….. Too bad, she did her clients a diservive by instead of free publicity, instead, the realtor and the condo are the laughing stocks of Bushwick.
gossipwitch July 19th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
you have to go to this extent to show of your pride.
you should have just taken it off. any person who request to have something taken off someones web-site is entitled to. also she never insulted anyone; you guys are the ones insulting her. there has to be a reason why she does not want the listing on your site.
to go to this extent is pure ignorance on your part.
bushwick is full of morons. a person trying to do her job.you guys deserve to get shut down. this site is only doing harm to people when you are suppose to be doing good to our community.
thats why this world will never be a decent place to live.
the only thing your doing is harming someone who may have a family. how would you like it if it was your family member they were bashing!
actually you guys are the laughing stocks of bushwick.she did not do this to herself every single one of you did this to her and all of you deserve to pay.
this is suppose to be a site for people who are looking to buy a place a bushwick can go a get information and see whats listed. instead it’s full of shit talk and inhumane bashing.
THIS BLOG SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN. there you have in caps why don’t you talk about that.
and i know this is going to get big. it’s already getting out of hand. girl i feel for you and i hope justice will be done.
Jeremy Sapienza July 20th, 2008 at 1:54 am
dj alex, linda, eagle, gossipwitch and gossipbitch are all Janet Corona, posting with the same IP — as if we didn’t realize each of these posters all make the same dumb ho misspellings and come to defend her several times in 5 minutes.
Nobody is sticking up for you, Janet. Deal with and learn from your mistakes instead of trying to paper over them with further mistakes.
FormerRidgewoodite July 20th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Most people know that when you make posts on a website, the IP address is trackable….meaning the webmaster can tell if the same person is making posts, even if using different names.
But even forgetting that….for the future, if you ever find yourself in a situation like this again – even forgetting that the IP numbers would be the same….wouldn’t it make more sense to wait more than a minute between your “multiple name” posts?
Dresden July 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Janet -
From one real estate broker to another – Ridiculous.
In our industry, yes it’s true people will go around you and do a deal direct, but if you’re the exclusive broker, and you have a paper trail, you can let them do their deal and then sue the appropriate party for your commission, or just threaten to sue before it closes – and get paid.
What you’ve written is simply not true. The FIRST AMMENDMENT allows people to talk about whatever they want, take pictures from the street, post them on the internet – all of it.
And as far as copyright – it’s not like we’re talking about a Beatles’ song used to sell hotdogs. We’re talking about a building.
Get a grip, shut up and move on. Hopefully whoever you deal with will forgive you if they get wind of your idiotic antics this summer.
Dresden July 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
And if you REALLY want to see how much trouble this site would get into – ask yourself this –
Has CURBED.COM ever gotten sued for using renderings it poaches off realtor websites and from inside sources???
Never, baby. Never gonna happen, never did. That’s a pretty good barometer. And they write about this stuff all the time, on BIG projects with SERIOUS money. Enough money to sue…
but most of them consider the blog a BENEFIT to their operations.
Karin July 20th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Janet, dear, you probably get away with stomping your feet and making a little pouty face in real life when someone is being mean to you, but this is the intrawebs.
It eats people like you alive as if you were an after dinner mint.
You are only making it worse.
FormerRidgewoodite July 20th, 2008 at 11:54 am
The sad thing is that the original post on this only brought attention to the building, and the project, and even called the building “attractive”. The only thing that would have been said here would only have been positive for the broker…as it would have gotten people talking about the listing…which is what any realtor would want, the most exposure possible, and this would have been all free.
If the listing broker would have come here and said, Hi my name is Janet, and I am representing this great condo project, please call me if you have any questions, or need information, she would have been warmly welcomed.
But instead, she came here like a Doberman in attack mode, and spouting off crap. First off, this is not a real estate site. It’s a blog of a neighborhood, and is not affiliated with any real estate except for some that may PAY for a ad. This is not an ad, the original post, from what I can determine, only asked if anyone know “what’s the deal” with this property. And then the listing broker comes here in attack dog mode, spouts off rules that ONLY effect OTHER brokers…. She is correct, ONLY the listing broker can advertise a listing….not other BROKER can “advertise” a listing….. but this site is NOT a real estate broker site, it’s a neighborhood site talking about neighborhood topics. Things for sale are neighborhood topics.
Sorry Janet, I feel for you, as your high horse attack dog behavior got you into this mess. Only you are to blame. You took something that could have ONLY benefited you, and instead destroyed it into something that makes you unfortunately look TOTALLY unprofessional and like a fool.
And that was even before using different names to attack everyone!
icarus July 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Janet, The more I read back the worse I feel for you. Where did you learn to spell? For god’s sake get a spellcheck program. Your property descriptions look hilarious! You capitalize the first letter of every word.”recieve top service”? Ever hear the rule ” i before e, except after c”? Also, there is no “real estate association” There is REBNY, which is a board. I think Dottie Herman will probably be contacted about this before the week-end is over. No matter how it plays out, this turned out to be a really ugly little adventure for you. I would stop writing on the web until you can do so without making yourself look so ridiculous. As I wrote before, yu will someday see your exclusives (if you ever get another) listed on some loser broker’s web page. Even THEN, there’s not much you can do about it. It’s a common abuse employed by fly-by-night brokerages. Anyway, I hope you land on your feet after PDE lets you go.
icarus August 15th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Where are the “hep of poop” tee shirts you guys promised to make? Is Senorita Corona at Nest Seekers yet?
Jonathan August 24th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Hahahaha I use 2 live across the street from them condos on 331 melrose n I can tell u that block is full of rats n rugrats(kids) lol I kno I grew up there 4 15yrs n I kno evry1 on that block n aint nuthin really go0d bout them cuz they built right nex 2 old factorys a fabric n taco factory I still go 2 that block n itz still the same nuthin change but da pplz movin in thatz bout it there’s more white pplz then b4
MoyJoy August 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
this is my favorite page in the entire world wide web. LOL! Talk about foot in mouth!
Madison October 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
After reading all this does anyone know if Janet is still with the company?
Savage December 29th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I never read blogs but somehow got on this string. I really did laugh out loud, for many minutes, LOL.
You guys are fantastic, Give the Man (janet) a hard time please. we need it . thanks
simple January 16th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
i didn’t read this whole thing- maybe the first half, but its hilarious to say that a picture of a building that anyone could have taken walking down the street is illegal to post.
gotta say, that if i had money to buy a place, based on this i wouldn’t be calling about any property you have listed.