Jarzi

Sports and Real Estate Junkie - Left my soul in New Orleans

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

"To alleviate the 'deepening housing crisis,' stop digging a hole with more government control of the kind that caused it in the first place."

The latest from @IlyaSomin: https://t.co/ifZ0oQyiWH

[Tulane Talk @tulanetalk]

Tulane has a NY6 bowl win, 4 straight conf champ game appearances , 2 conf championships (in a better conference than the MWC) and an equal amount of CFP appearances as Boise.

Tulane should be the top G6 team and it’s not a debate.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Wow: The 2nd overall pick is UNKNOWN by everyone outside the Jets organization.

Ohio State’s Arvell Reese is now the favorite to land in New Jersey 2nd overall.

David Bailey is projected to go to Arizona at #3.

[Sara Eisen @SaraEisen]

Ken Griffin employs thousands of people in NYC and is planning to build the tallest office tower on Park Ave., investing billions more and creating thousands more jobs. (For that reason, he’s also here in NYC a lot, @NYCMayor)

Meantime Miami is welcoming him and his firm, with the massive jobs, investment and tax revenue he’s bringing.

Making him feel unwelcome and demonizing him seems risky. Ken left Chicago and moved Citadel hq to Miami a few years ago because of bad policy. (He also sold his penthouse there)

[DraftKings @DraftKings]

This photo of Jack Hughes could be one of the greatest hockey photos ever taken 🇺🇸

📸: Elsa/Getty Images

[Eric Nathan @BarstoolNate]

We all owe Sam Darnold an apology. It wasn't him. It was the Jets. I am sorry Sam.

[Top Tier Tulane @TopTierTulane]

Tyjae Spears at Tulane was unstoppable

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Postseason wins over Caleb Williams
Tulane: 1
The entire NFL: 0

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Who Will Build NYC if Builders Are the Enemy?

As a New Yorker Jew, I'm surrounded by people who have been in real estate their entire lives. I am not trying to feed a stereotype, but that's my reality. They aren't activists or online commentators. They are people who bought their first buildings with all their savings, carried debt through rate hikes, fixed things themselves when there was no money to hire, and stayed in New York through high crime, recessions, 2008, COVID, rising taxes, insurance increases, and an ever-expanding book of laws and codes. None of them were promised fairness before they started, and none of them were protected from risk. They succeeded very slowly, and painfully, but with responsibly.

That experience is exactly what is missing from the worldview of Zohran Mamdani, and it shows in every part of his housing agenda. Mamdani has never built anything. He never signed a personal guarantee, never met payroll, never carried a mortgage through a rough month, never had to choose between fixing a boiler now or hoping it survives another winter because there is no cash. He has only operated in a political world where consequences are abstract and other people absorb the risk. When you have never operated in the real economy, it becomes easy to believe that shortcuts are solutions.

It is also why his message resonates with a certain type of voter. The people demanding “housing reforms” are not bad people. They are frustrated renters who feel like the system is rigged against them. I understand the frustration. But frustration doesn't change math. Housing is hard. Ownership is a very slow process. Building anything meaningful in this city takes years of stress, and debt. The people calling for "landlord policies" often want the outcome without the grind, the stability without the risk, and the reward without the years of sweating that every responsible adult who succeeded here had to endure. But it does not work like that.

NYC is in housing crisis. Citywide vacancy sits around 1.4 percent, a level economists consider an emergency. Median rents keep rising anyway, with Manhattan near $4,800 and Brooklyn around $3,800, even under an already thick layer of regulation. The reason is obvious. Supply has not kept up. In a good year, New York adds roughly 30,000 units. The city needs hundreds of thousands more over the next decade just to stabilize prices. At the same time, construction costs here are among the highest in the country, financing is extremely difficult, and insurance is wildly expensive

Mamdani’s proposals take that fragile situation and make it worse. When you cap upside while leaving downside unlimited, rational people stop participating. Developers do not argue on X. Lenders do not protest. They simply reallocate. Projects stop coming up. Renovations are postponed. New construction dies before a shovel hits the ground. The people I know in real estate are not angry. They are disengaging. Some are buying elsewhere. Some are sitting on cash. Some are done entirely. And when that happens, tenants do not win. Buildings deteriorate, supply tightens further, and rents rise anyway.

What Mamdani offers is emotional satisfaction, not solutions. He tells voters that prices are high because someone else is greedy, not because the city has spent decades making housing harder and almost impossible to build. He frames landlords as villains instead of participants in an ecosystem that only works when incentives align. That framing feels good, but it does not produce housing. It produces resentment, fear, and withdrawal.

Everyone I know who made it in this city did it the same way. Slowly, without shortcuts. Policies written by people who never did that do not create fairness or affordability. They create shortages. NYC doesn't have a landlord problem. It has a confidence problem. And a city that teaches people to hate the builders while demanding more building is a city sabotaging its own future.

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle.

You have to be completely out of your f****ing mind to call that “white supremacy.”

That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.

[Jay Martin 🏠 🏢🏚️🌇 @jaymart222]

Unbelievable

Yesterday the Mamdani Administration submitted its objection to the bankruptcy sale of a property arguing that the sale shouldn’t go through because the laws in which the mayor has advocated for have made the building an unsustainable business.

To interpret what this means. It’s the city of New York validating in court that the rent stabilization system as it exists is a taking.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

US cities that let people build more "luxury" apartments saw rents broadly fall - so much so that older, market-rate units in many high-supply areas are now cheaper than "affordable" housing.

Shocking, I know.

[Jarzi @NotTheFakeJarzi]

@ben_platt_wave Makes cents, make sense 🤌

[Hullabaloo @ben_platt_wave]

It’s time to bring Beau Parent back for a full, program-wide audit of Tulane Football. We must go all in on leveraging the transfer portal.

[Tulane Football @GreenWaveFB]

RELEASE: @CoachJonSumrall And Family Make $100,000 Gift To Support @Coach_Hall7, Green Wave Talent Fund

🔗 https://t.co/sJt7THPA6M

#RollWave

[Herd Bros @TheHerdBros]

From 1999 to 2021, Tulane had ZERO 10-win seasons and SEVENTEEN losing seasons.

2022 to now:
- Three 10-win seasons
- 42-12 overall record
- Cotton bowl win against the Heisman winner
- Four straight seasons with CFP Top 25 appearance

Impressive turnaround.

[Rolling Wave 24/7/365 @rolldamnwave]

Let’s do this again tomorrow night

[Tulane Football @GreenWaveFB]

Yeah, this isn’t the same old Tulane.

🎙️: @StanfordSteve82

#UptownFootball

[Tampering University @sohowistexas]

I need to enjoy this. Can’t take it for granted

This has been normal for Tulane the last several seasons but it really isn’t normal

Don’t let us go back to the gutter 🙏

I love you. #RollWave

[Jarzi @NotTheFakeJarzi]

@ATT, your contractors broke my water line while digging for cable. Please contact me to get this fixed. I spent 4 hours on hold being transferred repeatedly with no resolution. Contact me, or I will escalate this dramatically!