@shmederalist@DarrenViolette@jaymart222 You don’t have to tell me. My father’s friend, Jack, and his friends bought homes, renovated them. He told me stories about the horrors. He abandoned the buildings. He couldn’t sue for rent because he could not collect. That was when I was in college in 1966.
@mcafeenew That is why I tell my friends never to purchase an electric car. Water does not stop a chemical reaction and the poisonous gases can kill you.
@RedWavePress The power grid is not ready for the demands of AI- forget about the heat.
AI centers in Phoenix- where is the water? Why not Niagara Falls where you can get power from Canada and water from Canada and Niagara.
@StephenMoore By printing money. Everyday Billionaires were created in Zimbabwe. If AI collapses as it might because it is becoming a shell game involving the participants, it could be worse than the financial crisis of 2008.
@Hoodview@jaymart222 4.. I told him that some kid would play Proctologist with that bat.
Several years later, some asshole swung a bat at me on the subway.
I grabbed the bat. He began to cry.
That was in 1969.
@Hoodview@jaymart222 3. She replied: I’m afraid of being attacked.
I told her that I would take her garbage to the basement.
Another time I entered the building and one friend was holding a baseball bat- he was on Watch.
I said: WTF are you doing with a baseball bat.
He said: I’m on guard duty.
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@Hoodview@jaymart222 2.. I had friends, who had rent controlled apartments near Columbia U. The area was so bad that when I went to visit them, a woman grabbed me and asked me to accompany her to the basement. I said: I’m afraid of rats.
@Hoodview@jaymart222 1..No. Most apartments do not need major repairs. I had several friends, who kept the rent controlled apartments that they had. One friend had a bathtub next to the sink in a one bedroom flat. Needless to say he remained single for a long time.
@shmederalist@DarrenViolette@jaymart222 My friend the left-wing attorney was always telling me about scams landlords use to enhance capital expenditures even for simple repairs.
@DarrenViolette@jaymart222 1.If not stupid, you are lying. Rent control is for apartment buildings consisting of 6 or more units, which were built before January 1, 1974. My family owned and my cousins still own real estate and some are developers. My friends invested in rent control apartments…
@DarrenViolette@jaymart222 My friend owns a co-op. He let the apartment rot over a 40 year period. The estimate to rebuild the apartment was approximately $110,000. And that includes flooring.
@lolajl@jaymart222 No honey. You can make all the excuses and give all the examples you want. There are always exceptions-but these are not everyday occurrences. My family owned rent-controlled apartments and I can remember several times that there were exceptions. And this was prior to 1974.
@WallStreetApes $1,500 taxes a month on a property renting for $12,000 to $18,000 per month. Ghise apartments are not rent/controlled or rent-stabilized. Buildings for rent stabilized apartments apply to builfingd built before 1 January 1974. Let’s stop the ignorant bullshit