@Teddy2steppin As someone who makes these types of videos, i can promise you, this has nothing to do with actually selling the house!
Homeowners want to see that you���re marketing their house in different & unique ways! - This is a way for Realtors to gain more followers/views
@dmbkparker@rorynotsorry The reason it’s being brought up again is @sircalebhammer exposing them, those take advantage of the system!
In general, every American wants to take care of our veterans… but not everyone wants to perpetuate fraud for the “chef” that gets anxiety cause he put on the uniform…
@businessbarista Would be so awesome if there was a place, where you could go and browse a bunch of books you may want to read, and oh maybe they’ll have some extra stuff on the sides, & maybe a coffee shop!!
Oh wait… it’s called Barnes and Nobles 😂😂
@Dsilkotch@theactualrob@elektromorr Such a false statement! A simple google search will tell you you’re wrong!
The average small business goes under in 5 years!! - shoot 80% won’t survive 1 year, out of those 80% won’t survive 5! And of those that do 90% won’t make it past 10!
I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said.
I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her.
Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it.
"Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record.
I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at.
My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building.
Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment.
I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate.
I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic.
When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change.
I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that.
My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say.
They want me to apologize.
I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.
@KimKatieUSA Dude doesn’t know how to drive, but also is a pedophile… and yall focus on the part about he can’t drive?!?! (I understand the circumstances… but is pedophilia not a bigger deal than reckless driving?!?!?!?)
@remarks $1.5M to staff… i know it didn��t go to the actual workers, because if they have 2000 stores worldwide (google) & an average of 30k employees, that’s $50 each…
@Expedia so you guys offer free cancellations within 24 hours of booking… but nobody on the virtual team seems to know that. And then it’s impossible to do it on the phone (you say go to web) but then i can’t do it through the web!!
If someone would just pickup your phones!
When you "hit a wall" in something you are trying to learn, it's typically just a massive debt of unlearned prerequisites that are finally being called due.
Nobody takes this guy seriously right…
Does he not understand their whole slogan is “death to America”… America as a whole… America as in every single person, civilian or politician…
Just imagine if there was someone on Iranian or Arab television saying every US senator including Fetterman should be killed.
What US politicians are proposing isn’t just a violation of international law and a reversion to the law of the jungle, but also a v dangerous precedent.
@russellybarra Love gringos, but i never get guac from you guys cause it never taste fresh… always taste like 3 day old avos that HAD to be used
But Maddie & Julia at your New Caney location are amazing!! Maddie sold us on the rewards card 👍🏼