w67 hates re brokers because....

YOU should start by telling your daughter not to be a fucking asshole like her egotistical and angry father.

Is this the same troll that SE ran off the boards a few months ago?

Apt23 - likely.

Hey Jim: I also hate realt-whores. Hate, hate, hate. Has nothing to do with the money they make; I've been really lucky in life and so I hope everyone else is, too. An affluent country is a strong country, generally speaking. No, I hate broke-whores and realt-whores for a different reason, one you are unlikely to want to admit: Most of you are lazy and unethical. I'd guess I've dealt with approximately 30 brokers in various rental, purchase, and sale transactions in my life. Do you know how many of the 30 i found to be competent, professional, and intelligent? Or at least 2 of the 3? Exactly ONE. Do you know how many of the 30 have lied to me? About 27 or so. I understand that something like 70% of brokers never graduated college. LOL. The dumbest of the dumb, the laziest of the lazy, involved in a transaction that represents a good chunk of my net worth! My net worth is ***REAL*** important to me. Second only to my health. Would you let a dumb, unethical, lazy person operate on you?? Fcuk no! So why would you let one near a $1M transaction involving your net worth?? These are a few of the reasons I'd just as soon light a broker on fire as talk to one. Just thought you should know. have a nice night, now.

And den dey eat da poo poo!

Dwayne_Pipe
about 8 hours ago
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report abuse Apt23 - likely.

Hey Jim: I also hate realt-whores. Hate, hate, hate. Has nothing to do with the money they make; I've been really lucky in life and so I hope everyone else is, too. An affluent country is a strong country, generally speaking. No, I hate broke-whores and realt-whores for a different reason, one you are unlikely to want to admit: Most of you are lazy and unethical. I'd guess I've dealt with approximately 30 brokers in various rental, purchase, and sale transactions in my life. Do you know how many of the 30 i found to be competent, professional, and intelligent? Or at least 2 of the 3? Exactly ONE. Do you know how many of the 30 have lied to me? About 27 or so. I understand that something like 70% of brokers never graduated college. LOL. The dumbest of the dumb, the laziest of the lazy, involved in a transaction that represents a good chunk of my net worth! My net worth is ***REAL*** important to me. Second only to my health. Would you let a dumb, unethical, lazy person operate on you?? Fcuk no! So why would you let one near a $1M transaction involving your net worth?? These are a few of the reasons I'd just as soon light a broker on fire as talk to one. Just thought you should know. have a nice night, now.

dwayne, you're right. most brokers are stupid, lazy and unethical. that makes it really really esy for smart, hardworking and straight brokers to do extremely well. so hate away.

"dwayne, you're right. most brokers are stupid, lazy and unethical. that makes it really really esy for smart, hardworking and straight brokers to do extremely well."

- Extremely esy, Jim? That's great. It's clear which camp you fit into...

esy pesy

fuck you dwayne. blackberry, bus....i think you can figure the rest out.

you know whom else i know who makes spelling errors? my md.

or i could have spelled it ezzzzy

What time does your bus get into the Port Authority?

wrong line, cc. 2nd ave bus for me. i sometimes wonder if it's worth waiting for the limited, as the amount of time one saves with less stops is counterbalanzed by the number of people getting on at each stop.
sometimes i walk, its only about 30 blocks, but mondays are buzy. cabs after a few drinks, or just because i want to get home at night.

oh shit, is nada there? am i really w67 zzzzzzz rolexzzzzzz....boatzzzzzzzz. nutzzzz

i really can't tell anymore

gresy slesy

bus??? where's wonderboy when you need him

yes, the bus. i have a rule about spending as little time underground in filthy subway tunnels as is possible. i'm fortunate enough to live close enough to where i work so that a bus works out well.

you've seen people on the bus before right?

not people of your stature

jimmy, if you're so ethical and busy, why you spend so much time on SE and use profanities?????

moron sales rep who doesn't have enough brains to pass the broker's test, i'm guessing.

"Is this the same troll that SE ran off the boards a few months ago?"

Yes. As jimhones09. Affectionately known as j ho'

"dwayne, you're right. most brokers are stupid, lazy and unethical. that makes it really really esy for smart, hardworking and straight brokers to do extremely well. so hate away."

"It's clear which camp you fit into..."

Tying these posts together, I recall that j ho's last thread before he got banned (and I think the thread that in fact got him banned) was one with a lovely title along the lines of "Die bear bitches". In it, the ho laid out the most articulate presentation that I have ever seen of the broker ethos of "I don't care if someone overpays. I don't care if someone loses money. The only bad deal is the one that doesn't happen, and as long as it does happen I get paid, so screw everyone else." So yes, Dwayne, it is clear which camp he fits into. Unfortunately the thread died when the author got troll controlled, which is a loss.

My wife can spell. Maybe your MD is ordering you the wrong mental meds.

Oooooopss. Therez goes my ego again. Dropping tidbits of myself on an anonymous re forum.

Re as an industry sucks azz. Your admission that it's the 'easiest' way to make money while pretending to 'provide' a service for the mkt is hysterical. You are nothing but a mouthpiece for the re bubble, as morally corrupt as the politicians stuffing Fannie with sub primes and banking execs stuffing themselves silly with upfront fee based bonuses wo regard for tail credit risk.

You epitomize an economy based on shuffling 'widgets' with no 'societal' benefits. On par with BP spending $10mm a qtr for alternative 'energy' for decades while spending $billions/qtr to drill, pay dividends, and provide oil to our armed services while swallowing dick chaney's load every time his heart allows an erection.

May your daughter become enlightened enough to understand what a small piece of the cog of an outmoded and outdated 'industry' you are. You are nothing more than a walking talking craigslist filter. Enjoy your career choice. Know that I think you are a moron in real life. At my wife office visit, at the check out, at the dry cleaners, at your kid's school, at your church, at any social interaction, if I know you are a re borker..... My 'do I need to know you' radar is flashing bright red. Pssss pssss pssss. It's really not a secret, but most ppl outside the re industry think like I do.

Have a great day with all your multiple personalities, shrimpie, colonel, hfs, jimnutz.

Well, if this is the hfs troll then he/she/it is playing with fire. The police/lawyers were called in for the hfs troll. The offensive diatribe and stalking of a few posters only fills the case file. I would advise OP to save the bus fare. You never know when your legal bills will come due.

And there you have it.
Sales is about product knowledge, market knowledge and, costumer service.
Sales is about relationship management.
Sales is about HAVING A THICK SKIN.
The main issue is that every loser and bored housewife thinks that...what the heck, I'll get a brokers lic. and pick up a few bucks on the weekend...how hard could it be?
So, mixed in with some seasoned professionals are a plethora of wanna-be hustlers and dolts making brokers in this city look like clowns. Taking cracks at brokers is like shooting fish in a barrel. This is a website for RE enthusiasts filled with obsessive RE knowledge, piss and vinegar.
Perhaps it's not the best place for a thin skinned broker.

sidelinesitter
about 1 hour ago
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report abuse "Is this the same troll that SE ran off the boards a few months ago?"

Yes. As jimhones09. Affectionately known as j ho'

"dwayne, you're right. most brokers are stupid, lazy and unethical. that makes it really really esy for smart, hardworking and straight brokers to do extremely well. so hate away."

"It's clear which camp you fit into..."

Tying these posts together, I recall that j ho's last thread before he got banned (and I think the thread that in fact got him banned) was one with a lovely title along the lines of "Die bear bitches". In it, the ho laid out the most articulate presentation that I have ever seen of the broker ethos of "I don't care if someone overpays. I don't care if someone loses money. The only bad deal is the one that doesn't happen, and as long as it does happen I get paid, so screw everyone else." So yes, Dwayne, it is clear which camp he fits into. Unfortunately the thread died when the author got troll controlled, which is a loss

kind of dubious that you can't produce that thread huh?

falco, what about me makes you think i'm thin-skinned in any way?

apt23
28 minutes ago
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report abuse Well, if this is the hfs troll then he/she/it is playing with fire. The police/lawyers were called in for the hfs troll. The offensive diatribe and stalking of a few posters only fills the case file. I would advise OP to save the bus fare. You never know when your legal bills will come due.

k, i'll wait for the cops and thieves (oh, i mean attorneys) to come for me.

w67thstreet
about 1 hour ago
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report abuse My wife can spell. Maybe your MD is ordering you the wrong mental meds.

Oooooopss. Therez goes my ego again. Dropping tidbits of myself on an anonymous re forum.

Re as an industry sucks azz. Your admission that it's the 'easiest' way to make money while pretending to 'provide' a service for the mkt is hysterical. You are nothing but a mouthpiece for the re bubble, as morally corrupt as the politicians stuffing Fannie with sub primes and banking execs stuffing themselves silly with upfront fee based bonuses wo regard for tail credit risk.

You epitomize an economy based on shuffling 'widgets' with no 'societal' benefits. On par with BP spending $10mm a qtr for alternative 'energy' for decades while spending $billions/qtr to drill, pay dividends, and provide oil to our armed services while swallowing dick chaney's load every time his heart allows an erection.

May your daughter become enlightened enough to understand what a small piece of the cog of an outmoded and outdated 'industry' you are. You are nothing more than a walking talking craigslist filter. Enjoy your career choice. Know that I think you are a moron in real life. At my wife office visit, at the check out, at the dry cleaners, at your kid's school, at your church, at any social interaction, if I know you are a re borker..... My 'do I need to know you' radar is flashing bright red. Pssss pssss pssss. It's really not a secret, but most ppl outside the re industry think like I do.

Have a great day with all your multiple personalities, shrimpie, colonel, hfs, jimnutz.

your wife can spell. good. i'm sure that she, like everyone else makes typing error from time to time.
you actually have to go and pick up your own dry-cleaning? house husband.

"kind of dubious that you can't produce that thread huh?"

Not dubious at all. When your other self got killed by SE support, all the threads that you started as jho09 got killed too. It's really too bad, because no one has ever laid out in such an articulate way what self-serving, amoral lowlifes most brokers are. Interesting that you were able to describe it with a clarity that even the most vehement anti-broker has never been able to match. I guess that just shows that it takes one to know one.

sls: Ha. well said

http://www.mikey-san.net/static/bucket/ari-gtfo.gif

jim,
Residential Re, at least here in Manhattan has changed. Years ago lots of the information was locked away from the consumer. Today it's a click away. When you combine that with the last 20 years of residential Re gains you get a very interesting recipe. I don't know if you have a thin skin or not but, I did notice that it was you who started this thread.
You did write this line...'YOU should start by telling your daughter not to be a fucking asshole like her egotistical and angry father.' or this one...'fuck you dwayne. blackberry, bus....i think you can figure the rest out.you know whom else i know who makes spelling errors? my md.
or i could have spelled it ezzzzy'
Come on Jim...you did not just arrive...you know the personalities...
What makes me think you have a thin skin? Your swinging at ghosts.
One more thing...I woke today with some bad mojo. Third day in a row I've woken with a bad feeling about nothing...that's never good.

hey j ho, looks like another one of your threads got taken down. Or it that observation also "dubious"? Troll.

""dwayne, you're right. most brokers are stupid, lazy and unethical. that makes it really really esy for smart, hardworking and straight brokers to do extremely well.""

I've heard a TON of brokers say otherwise, including on this board.

If everyone else is inflating square footage by 20%, and you don't, guess who doesn't make the sale?
Any broker who said "this is a bubble, you shouldn't buy" in 2007... how did they do?

Ethical people just aren't brokers.

"hey j ho, looks like another one of your threads got taken down."

The one where I admitted all my failings as a human being? Damn, I missed what happened afterwards. Can someone fill me in?

"you know whom else i know who makes spelling errors? my md. "

You know who else makes spelling errors? The guy who changes my tires. You're a lot closer to him than to your MD.

p.s. it's "who else", not "whom else"...use whom when the person you are referring to is the object of a clause, not the subject of that clause. I.e. "Who else did this", and "You gave the letter to whom".

I have no skin in this game, but I am finding it increasingly unclear what value brokers add. I can come on this site and see every piece of RE on the market in NYC, including those for sale by owner. So, what are sellers getting with that 6% commission, exactly?

Hey Jim is that a short school bus you're on? I'm starting to get the picture...

Jimnutz is gonna havE a bad bus ride home.

Thatz what I said. Why not 7%, why not 5% why not 15%? therez is no relationship to 'marginal cost' of production. It's like a nationwide lottery system. Damn who wouldn't want to swing a bat and make $50mm/yr. But at least ya gotta swing the bat, better than the next guy. Turning keys and showing up on time, any monkey can do. Why not hire maimed GIs from iraq as borkers? It's a job they can do, by all accts Jim can still make deliveries and flip a burger.

Look at this!

The Daily Online Examiner

By Wendy Davis, Monday, June 14, 2010

'I Know Where You Work': Blogger Fired For Contacting 'Anonymous' Commenters

Blogger Zachery Kouwe, ousted from The New York Times for plagiarizing from other publications, has now been booted from financial site Dealbreaker for allegedly emailing "anonymous" commenters.
At least two Dealbreaker commenters posted about receiving emails from Kouwe, Reuters reports. One of the supposedly anonymous commenters said that Kouwe specifically mentioned that he knew where the commenter worked.
Dealbreaker encourages its readers to sign up under pseudonyms but, as Reuters' Felix Salmon points out, people with access to the system could figure out users' identities. "If you sign up for a pseudonym using your personal email address, and then post a comment from your work IP address, Dealbreaker's editors, if they're feeling aggressive, can use that information to find out where you work," he writes.
What's really noteworthy here isn't that someone connected to a Web site went too far in responding to a critic, but that this incident isn't the only time. In fact, it marks at least the third time in the last several months that someone affiliated with a publication has obtained a commenter's information and used it against that person.
In March, the Cleveland Plain Dealer decided to announce in a news story that the prolific commenter "lawmiss" was actually Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold. (Saffold, who denies writing all of the messages, is now suing the paper.)
Last November, Kurt Greenbaum, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor notified a school that someone had sent in a vulgar comment from the school's IP address. The commenter, a teacher at the school, ended up resigning.
Many news sites have done a good job at protecting commenters' anonymity when outsiders seek to unmask the posters. Some have even waged battles in court to preserve commenters' privacy.
But those efforts won't amount to much if a site's employees or affiliates end up learning commenters' identities and then using that information against them.

We welcome and appreciate forwarding of our newsletters in their entirety or in part with proper attribution.

(c) 2010 MediaPost Communications, 1140 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001

A short article from 2005 by Austan Goolsbee (on Obama's Council of Economic Advisers):

"Bubble-lusions: Why most real-estate agents aren't getting rich."
http://www.slate.com/id/2124506

Basically, the higher prices go, the more brokers get licensed to sell, so average income doesn't go up. The higher-priced the market, the less homes sold per broker. Best summed up by final paragraph:

"So, you probably can't become the Levi Strauss of real estate by hanging out your broker shingle, no matter how high the housing prices climb where you live. If you want to make money off the housing bubble, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way: Buy a place with a no-money-down mortgage and then flip it."

Thanks dwayne for clearing that up. I thought my md was internet speak for my maid -- j ho is such an elitist it held up in context.

ino: i think the thread was trashed because no one wants to consider that you might have faults. but your effort to track some errors was very noble indeed. the lesson here is clearly not to tempt the gods.

w67,
a little too harsh...
are you telling me there is no such thing as a valuable Re broker? I disagree!
Let's say you the buyer with more money than time. You have a reasonable idea of what you want to spend and an idea of the neighborhoods your interested. Don't you think a good broker could narrow your choices and supply you with the best matches most efficently? Let's say you're a Goldman guy and you need to keep your identity under wraps...a good broker could go a long way and be worth the money.

Jim in 18 months:

"Maam, will that be paper or plastic?".

OR:

"Sir, would you like fries with that?".

Plastic to keep the oil industry pumping.

Falco, I believe there is a game to be gamed by having a 'legit' broker on your side, but only within the confines of the current regime and very specific situations. Let's say My cold lowball at 80% might actually be beat by a lowball at 75% with like a Noah or west81. On the buyer side you get tremendous leverage.

Look at SE for example, they are in fact replacing the Nytimes re section. And any brokerage house cannot not list on se. It is beginning... But we r far far far from being even a modern mktplace.

Oh btw my wife is getting her re broker license (I hope she is joking)..... She's tired of listening to her patients say 'i'm a re broker' and saying how hard it is. So this way she can say 'ME TOO!' I'm a doctor and an realtor(r). She can wear that silly pin on top of her white coat.

I hope she doesn't do it, even as a joke.

I don't know ... everyone wants to eliminate brokers. Buy direct...

Anyone ever seen DirectBuy? The home improvement "wholesaler" that advertises on TV. What a SCAM. Buying "direct" is better than going to Wal-Mart or Home Depot or Sears during sales after spending a little bit of actual effort to get the best deal? Oh really? And does that factor in the fee to join off of which they pay huge commissions to their salespeople (brokers)?

Eliminate brokers, AND
You still deal with
Developers
Landlords
Delusional sellers

Ask Mrs. w67th how much she'll overstate her patients' vital statistics by when she's a doctor/borker.

wow....i'm going to have to handle these one at a time.....stupidest and most obvious first, but be patient! i'll get to all of you!

UWSFamily
about 5 hours ago
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report abuse I have no skin in this game, but I am finding it increasingly unclear what value brokers add. I can come on this site and see every piece of RE on the market in NYC, including those for sale by owner. So, what are sellers getting with that 6% commission, exactly?

anyone who thinks that "every piece of re on the market in nyc" knows nothing about re in nyc. don't even start on the fsbo's. want to guarantee you will get nothing but lowball offers? try and sell it/rent if yourself

We look forward to it Jim, but please explain, if you represent landlords, and you are trying to entice and induce renters, why do you look down on renters?

sidelinesitter
about 10 hours ago
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report abuse "kind of dubious that you can't produce that thread huh?"

Not dubious at all. When your other self got killed by SE support, all the threads that you started as jho09 got killed too. It's really too bad, because no one has ever laid out in such an articulate way what self-serving, amoral lowlifes most brokers are. Interesting that you were able to describe it with a clarity that even the most vehement anti-broker has never been able to match. I guess that just shows that it takes one to know one.

sideline, referencing a thread that no one can find is just poor form. try harder. maybe you'll be able to make your point.

falcogold1
about 9 hours ago
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report abuse jim,
Residential Re, at least here in Manhattan has changed. Years ago lots of the information was locked away from the consumer. Today it's a click away. When you combine that with the last 20 years of residential Re gains you get a very interesting recipe. I don't know if you have a thin skin or not but, I did notice that it was you who started this thread.
You did write this line...'YOU should start by telling your daughter not to be a fucking asshole like her egotistical and angry father.' or this one...'fuck you dwayne. blackberry, bus....i think you can figure the rest out.you know whom else i know who makes spelling errors? my md.
or i could have spelled it ezzzzy'
Come on Jim...you did not just arrive...you know the personalities...
What makes me think you have a thin skin? Your swinging at ghosts.
One more thing...I woke today with some bad mojo. Third day in a row I've woken with a bad feeling about nothing...that's never good.

falco, since when did insulting= thin skinned?

somewhereelse
about 7 hours ago
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report abuse ""dwayne, you're right. most brokers are stupid, lazy and unethical. that makes it really really esy for smart, hardworking and straight brokers to do extremely well.""

I've heard a TON of brokers say otherwise, including on this board.

If everyone else is inflating square footage by 20%, and you don't, guess who doesn't make the sale?
Any broker who said "this is a bubble, you shouldn't buy" in 2007... how did they do?

Ethical people just aren't brokers.

somewherelse, curious what you do for the living.. do you work with blind kids? salvation army? i'll bet money you are either in finance or an attorney. in which case i could say those who live in glass houses....

It's the desperation. It shows.

Dwayne_Pipe
about 5 hours ago
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report abuse Hey Jim is that a short school bus you're on? I'm starting to get the picture...

dwayne, you are proving yourself to be a fat, stupid and clueless tool from the suburbs. if you really think the bus is that silly, how do you get across town above 60th st exluding a taxi or walking?

hoodia
about 4 hours ago
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report abuse Look at this!

The Daily Online Examiner

By Wendy Davis, Monday, June 14, 2010

'I Know Where You Work': Blogger Fired For Contacting 'Anonymous' Commenters

Blogger Zachery Kouwe, ousted from The New York Times for plagiarizing from other publications, has now been booted from financial site Dealbreaker for allegedly emailing "anonymous" commenters.
At least two Dealbreaker commenters posted about receiving emails from Kouwe, Reuters reports. One of the supposedly anonymous commenters said that Kouwe specifically mentioned that he knew where the commenter worked.
Dealbreaker encourages its readers to sign up under pseudonyms but, as Reuters' Felix Salmon points out, people with access to the system could figure out users' identities. "If you sign up for a pseudonym using your personal email address, and then post a comment from your work IP address, Dealbreaker's editors, if they're feeling aggressive, can use that information to find out where you work," he writes.
What's really noteworthy here isn't that someone connected to a Web site went too far in responding to a critic, but that this incident isn't the only time. In fact, it marks at least the third time in the last several months that someone affiliated with a publication has obtained a commenter's information and used it against that person.
In March, the Cleveland Plain Dealer decided to announce in a news story that the prolific commenter "lawmiss" was actually Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold. (Saffold, who denies writing all of the messages, is now suing the paper.)
Last November, Kurt Greenbaum, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor notified a school that someone had sent in a vulgar comment from the school's IP address. The commenter, a teacher at the school, ended up resigning.
Many news sites have done a good job at protecting commenters' anonymity when outsiders seek to unmask the posters. Some have even waged battles in court to preserve commenters' privacy.
But those efforts won't amount to much if a site's employees or affiliates end up learning commenters' identities and then using that information against them.

We welcome and appreciate forwarding of our newsletters in their entirety or in part with proper attribution.

(c) 2010 MediaPost Communications, 1140 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001

oohhh scary. but not applicable to me.

"If everyone else is inflating square footage by 20%, and you don't, guess who doesn't make the sale?
Any broker who said "this is a bubble, you shouldn't buy" in 2007... how did they do?"

You are completely correct and even Warren Buffett expressed his point of view on parallel matters recently.

But is it worth being proud of? Maybe a little contrition, no matter how contrived, is a good thing.

about 9 hours ago
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report abuse jim,
Residential Re, at least here in Manhattan has changed. Years ago lots of the information was locked away from the consumer. Today it's a click away. When you combine that with the last 20 years of residential Re gains you get a very interesting recipe. I don't know if you have a thin skin or not but, I did notice that it was you who started this thread.
You did write this line...'YOU should start by telling your daughter not to be a fucking asshole like her egotistical and angry father.' or this one...'fuck you dwayne. blackberry, bus....i think you can figure the rest out.you know whom else i know who makes spelling errors? my md.
or i could have spelled it ezzzzy'
Come on Jim...you did not just arrive...you know the personalities...
What makes me think you have a thin skin? Your swinging at ghosts.
One more thing...I woke today with some bad mojo. Third day in a row I've woken with a bad feeling about nothing...that's never good.

falco, i hear that "bad" feeling will sometimes happen to people who have developed cancer or are about to have a heart attack. malaise is a word for it. get a check up.

w67thstreet
about 5 hours ago
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report abuse Jimnutz is gonna havE a bad bus ride home.

Thatz what I said. Why not 7%, why not 5% why not 15%? therez is no relationship to 'marginal cost' of production. It's like a nationwide lottery system. Damn who wouldn't want to swing a bat and make $50mm/yr. But at least ya gotta swing the bat, better than the next guy. Turning keys and showing up on time, any monkey can do. Why not hire maimed GIs from iraq as borkers? It's a job they can do, by all accts Jim can still make deliveries and flip a burger.

w67, see your post from 18 months ago. same old song. you just don't think it's fair that people can make money at something you percieve to be easy. zzzz

I need new underwear.

for those fat fucking thighs?

http://www.rochesterclothing.com/store/en_US/index.jsp?gclid=CL_emsD6oKICFRRM5QodRE-oyw&fp_keyword=Rochester+Big+And+Tall&fp_source=Google&cm_mmc=FPM*GOOGLE*GOOGLE%20ROCHESTER*ROCHESTER%20BIG%20AND%20TALL

Issues. Lots and lots of issues.

see bears, or those with bearish points of view, are basically depressed people. read their posts. children without enough food. war with china. blah blah blah blah
anyone who disputes those points of views to them is uneducated, ill-informed, etc.

"ino: i think the thread was trashed because no one wants to consider that you might have faults."

Hilarious, apt23.

has anyone noticed that jimhones and SteveF rarely comment at the same time. Just sayin...

Jimhones - do you have children? At what age did they lose all respect for you?

Top 10 reasons doggie hates brokers:
1 he is a commercial landlord
2 he used to be a residential landlord
3 he was involved in litigation with his tenants in the past
4 when he was a tenant once before, he didn't pay the last months' rent
5 he once saw a broker wearing a Rolex
6 he once saw a broker driving a Porsche
7 he was a TA in business school and his wife is a doctor
8 brokers are lazy but still have to at least bake cookies and turn a key. Can sit home all day
9 brokers have to get dressed
10 there is no z in broker. Or in broker for that matter

Can't sit home all day. Damn iPhone.

Or in borker for that matter. Damn iPhone.

And reason number zero ...

brokers are brokers

Just like a horse is a horse.

Or something that sounds very close to that.

"you are proving yourself to be a fat, stupid and clueless tool from the suburbs."

It's amazing, Jim, you've figured the WHOLE thing out!

LOL. Let's look at your four assertions: No (i'm a runner), no (I have a lot of educational and professional accomplishments that prove otherwise), no, and no (I live in a luxury bldg in Manhattan).

Zero-for-four. Your batting average is amazingly consistent.

p.s. I've never taken a bus in NYC. Ever. Because I can afford 1) to live one block from the subway and 2) to take taxis. YOU continue riding that bus, though...

how about brokerz?

This thread is getting too silly....time to stop!

There's room for everyone at the table. Let's not forget that most people shopping for residential Re are dopes (recent mortgage crisis should serf ice as evidence enough) and that they need to be led to their new domicile and since their needs and intelligence are non-demanding we have a perfect system.

nopigsorshrimp=riversider right?

Is there any difference between a landlord and a broker? It would seem to me that both benefit from real estate in similar ways. OK a landlord might have a little more leveraged skin in the game but don't try and convince me me they are not forever linked at the hip.

It's funny but when someone overtly criticizes a certain element of society you don't have to look too far to see they are actually railing against their own perceived failings and inadequacies.

W67 is J-ho, pure and simple. Their toupees may be of different quality cut, but the fact is they both wear dead animal fur on their heads.

I'm actually pulling for you w67 because you say you a have a boat docked at a marina somewhere. If j-ho could convince me he actually sailed I'm afraid I may have to jump ship.