Case study: Aboutready

You are so simple. You have no clue. And you're a pedantic asshole to boot.

You do understand the concept of compensatory damages, no? You don't have to feel wronged to be wronged. Illegal increases in rent are just that, "irregardless" of whether or not the person has the means to pay. You're sounding like quite the socialist, hb, that's my role. I do it better and with a hell of a lot more sincerity. You're just pissed that I got such a sweet deal.

Were you wronged? You knowingly entered into a market rate lease on an arms-length basis. How were you wronged?

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Because they broke the fucking law you idiot. I wasn't offered the rent I was entitled to. You can spin this every way you want, but you're wrong. They had no right to overcharge, even if people were willing to pay it. Collusion, monopolies, all sorts of behaviors occur where a party doesnt know that there are not fair dealings. That doesn't make it legal. LIBOR price fixing?

Just give this one up. You've never had any basis for your trash talk, other than you wished it so.

I'm fairly certain that Fannie picked up the debt after the complex failed.

Some people are always victims.

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Well, I didn't file the lawsuit. The court informed me that my landlord had overcharged me. They asked me to submit a one-page document, with our dates of tenancy. I did so. I'm playing the victim? No, the landlords got caught playing illegal.

I guess if somebody cheats you, hb, you should just suck it up if you can afford to lose the money. Stupid-ass toll.

Troll, sorry.

How were you cheated? You knowingly, on an arms-length basis, entered into a market rate lease. You could have easily chosen another market rate apartment in another development or building. How, by choosing this one, were you harmed?

Also, you say the debt is held by Fannie - the government - how is the government responsible for the fact that you had no problem whatsoever but just feel you deserve money?

>Stupid-ass toll.
>Troll, sorry.

It's all good. No need to be sorry.

You are so stupid. You can willingly enter into a contract that is illegal. That doesn't make it legal. The damages are for many purposes, including as an incentive for future prevention of illegal activities.

I'm sorry you're too stupid to understand basic contracts and torts law. But that's not my concern. Fuck off with your obtuse obfuscation.

>The damages are for many purposes, including as an incentive for future prevention of illegal activities.

So you weren't harmed personally, but you want damages personally?
The defendants can still be punished (if that's really necessary since it's an entirely different group making the damage payments than the former equity holders set the rent), and, as I suggested, the money damages go to people who these tax benefits and preferential rental laws were intended to benefit - which we both know was not you.

All I asked for was for you to do the right thing with the windfall you receive. Why do you feel that the windfall should go into your pocket when you personally were not harmed and the tax dollars were not intended to benefit you as you don't need it? Especially when you can see quite clearly that people who should benefit from the rent regulations are seeing rent hikes?

Bottom line:
1 - People who didn't do it are being punished
2 - People who were supposed to benefit are hurting
3 - You, who was not harmed, are getting a big windfall. And you feel good about it.

Fuck off tool. Stupid-ass tool who refuses to acknowledge the law.

greensdale, you have an awful lot of free time. Congrats.

Thank you

greensdale:

I was just informed to check this thread "discussion" and read aboutready's drunken, cursing comments.
Obviously, the alkie housewife is frustrated and angry (as usual) and bringing up (yet again) the settlement I received after being hit by a car and almost died, in the early 1990's.
I was rushed by ambulance to the trauma center of the hospital, in critical condition where I stayed for months after a spinal fusion, implantation of metal rods in my spine and multiple compound fractures of my leg, which I almost lost.

The alkie housewife, after learning my real name, researched my litigation using her husband's law firm Lex Nex computer system.
After I refused to become another one of her slaves and to give her daily "updates" on my personal life and business (as she demanded and received from "Liz Yank" who was trapped in aboutready's web), be bossed-around and directed by her as to what comments I should post on which streeteasy discussion threads against whomever disagreed with her and allow her to subject me to her relentless drunken e-mails (in which she actually revealed the full name of the husband of an se comment poster): she went ballistic.

She tried on the se boards, to order me off an se discussion, posting: "Truth, yo you got mail".
That was the start of her infamous streeteasy meltdown.
It's now June 18, 2013, 10:10pm EST, literally several years after that aboutready meltdown.

Yet, aboutready can't get past it. She's obsessed with my real life and trying to insult me and intimidate me on se discussions with her repeated lies and threats.

My lawsuit against the co-op she refers to here (yet again) was filed 16 years ago (spending my own money) and for which I did not receive any money nor return of my legal fees:
It was filed in order to bring the co-op board into compliance and succeeded in making the lives of all other residents in that Building better, for it.

Yet the drunken alkie, frustrated housewife remains obsessed about me and my life.
Hey, Brenda: Get over it.
Try to get sober, get off your ass and get a real life.
If not: that's your problem -- not mine.

"Brenda" hahahahah "Brenda & Ralph"!!!! Imbecile.

So you perhaps hurled yourself in front of a vehicle and then went on to complain about it? Is that what you're saying, basically? Enquiring minds want to know.

How's it hanging?

Brenda Starr, real estate reporter!!!!

LOLOLOLOL!

You're really a laff riot, you know that?

^^and here's trollalanhart trolling me within minutes of my comment being posted^^.

He's the "imbecile" who drunkenly posted the name: "Ralph", describing "Ralph" as aboutready's husband, while thanking them for their holiday card on a discussion topic started by aboutready several years ago.
The topic was her holiday card.

So, the "laff riot" is aboutready who has been posting on several different se discussion threads for hours tonight with her usual drunken cursing, comments.
The other "imbecile" is alanhart who is posting lies and misinformation about me, with malice.
The truth is provable in public records.

Merely inquiring, thank you.

A holiday card! In the 21st century!! You hava a delicious sense of humor!!! Or perhaps you're just dumb as dirt.

Best wishes,
Ralph and Brenda
Ichabod and Berniece
Ebenezer and Brunhilde

^^more trolling from alanhart^^.
Many streeteasy readers know it to be a fact:
Topic:
"Merry Christmas"(by aboutready):

"Totally off topic but Merry Christmas..."
Followed by the drunken alanhart, thanking aboutready and "Ralph" for their holiday card...
Followed by aboutready's comment describing the joys of its content as:
"...maybe it's because my husband is the managing partner in an international law firm..."

Or an intergalactic law firm.

How's it hanging, trUth?

How do you know aboutready isn't actually just some receptionist for a law firm? Can you imagine anyone being such a thing?!!!

Aboutready case study continues here:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/35157-big-bloomberg-is-watching-you

Hell, I wasn't drunk. I was just fed up with his smugness, you ape-shit crazy wannabe.

Hb, you don't understand where the money is coming from, it's coming from MetLife and the senior debt holder. Now that the case has settled the complex can be sold and likely that amount will be mostly, if not entirely, recouped. It's not coming from the taxpayers. Some investors/lenders took careless risks, but I believe this senior debt was acquired after the place imploded. They knew of the litigation, and went ahead anyway.

But don't let facts interfere with your sanctimony.

>Some investors/lenders took careless risks, but I believe this senior debt was acquired after the place imploded. They knew of the litigation, and went ahead anyway.

Why did you rent at PCV in the first place? What did you know at the time you rented?

Why won't you donate the money to the people it is intended for? Why are you happy when others are seeing higher rents as a result of the settlement that gives you a windfall?

"Oh! Money, money, money! The Frankenstein monster that destroys souls!"

Way to ignore the content. Yes, I'll stand in the oval and ask if people think they were damaged more than me and hand out hundred dollar bills.

You don't understand the demographic there at all. ALL the awards were given to people who signed market-rate leases, and those were declared illegal. I understand you don't like it, but in this case the RS benefit, for new leases, had long since benefitted not only the middle class but anyone who submitted an application. It may frustrate you, rb, but it doesn't make you right, even morally.

Fill in the blanks in this simple sentence:

I [Aboutready] deserve this money because I _______________________________________________________________.

am pretty than you

Aboutready? This should be a simple sentence for you - fill in the blank.

I deserve this money because I __[fill in answer here]__.

am the joint

Aboutready? Fill in the blank.

A landlord overcharged me, exceeding the amount of rent allowed by law, as the higher court opined. The awards are justified as a deterrent to corporate interests ruthlessly and illegally destabilizing units. Other means of deterrence may seem more fitting (community service for the landlord, restitution for those driven relentlessly out of RS apartments), but for any number of reasons that will not happen.

Look, everyone hates the RS situation here generally, but you're the only one here promoting the interest of the complex's investors. I am pretty sure that most people find your notion of donating the funds risible, but you're such an obnoxious tool, in a similar but different way than truth, that nobody wants to comment, for fear of you're inane, senseless baiting.

Find a real issue to be concerned about.

Your. Damn mini.

You were overcharged? You were duped in to renting at this place and there were no other alternatives to you?

You were one of the people the State of New York intended to benefit because you and your husband, an equity partner at a top NYC law firm, need taxpayer subsidies and special protection under the law?

>in a similar but different way

Huh?

Take the dough .. Doe ... Moola !!!!!!

> I am pretty sure that most people find your notion of donating the funds risible, but you're such an obnoxious tool, in a similar but different way than truth, that nobody wants to comment, for fear of you're inane, senseless baiting.

So nobody has defended your taking of this windfall which is sourced from taxpayer money intended for the working and middle class, and is TODAY causing real people to pay higher rents as a result of the windfall payments to you and others ... but that's not because they don't support you, the well-to-do wife of an equity partner at a top NYC law firm who makes 7 figure incomes, rather, they are simply afraid of my "inane, senseless baiting" and you are the only intrepid one on SE who can deal with me?

You don't understand RS programs. End of story. In 2002 they were looking at only higher-income tenants to rent the RS apartments. You're so dense. The RS program largely helps developers and landlords.

So you were tricked?

>The RS program largely helps developers and landlords.

If it doesn't help tenants, why again are you deserving of this big windfall?

Yes.

I readily would have accepted the legal lease over the one I was given.

If the rent were lower, do you think it would have been on the market, unrented and available to you? Do you think that you would have been deserving then of this taxpayer subsidized lower cost housing - and if yes, why, because your husband didn't make enough money or because you were working too hard?

Send a letter to the court. Ask them. You still won't get it, but I'm tired of your stupidity and intentional obtuseness. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's inconsistent with the law.

>I readily would have accepted the legal lease over the one I was given.

Of course, if you can take advantage, you will. You are the victim, here, now, before, always.

She deserving because they decided to live in there with non-functioning washers n dryers !

Who knows? Not many people wanted to live there. I'm tired of you, so farewell.

>Send a letter to the court. Ask them. You still won't get it, but I'm tired of your stupidity and intentional obtuseness. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's inconsistent with the law.

YOU can still do the right thing. When you receive this monetary windfall, make sure it is donated to housing causes or other low income and working class causes. I still hold out hope you'll do the right thing.

>Who knows? Not many people wanted to live there. I'm tired of you, so farewell.

You were taking one for the team? You were actually creating a benefit to society? That doesn't seem very victim-like of you. Maybe I've been wrong: you aren't a victim, you are everyone's savior.

Or send it to SE in care of riversider!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krb2OdQksMc

You've been wrong, greenberg. You've been wrong.

I have been wrong, but I haven't taken money that I don't deserve at the expense and harm of others.

You? You're greenberg. If you've ever taken money, it's money that you don't deserve, and at the expense of others. If you've ever taken time or space, it's time or space that don't deserve, and at the expense of others. You're greenberg.

You.

At the expense of whom? What worthy people, exactly?

You're wrong. And a liar.

Tell me this, RS/hb/gb, who would have received/utilized (and how) these funds but for the fact that they were diverted to me?

greensdale:
aboutready posts above (about 4 hours ago,6:30pm EST Wed.6/19/13):
"...so farewell".
Yet another "farewell" from aboutready who posted her "Farewell" discussion on streeteasy several years ago.

So she hopes greenberg fares well ... what's wrong with that? Or does your psycho lezbo stalky thing mean that you wanted her to hope yoU fare well also? Unicorns, that's all I can say.

AR/Ar/ar/victim/entitled lady, donate the money. Get it I to the right hands. You were never harmed at all. Do the right thing.

Get it into the right hands.

Aboutready?

greensdale: She posted: "farewell", 4 days ago. Then she posted again to you after that, of course.

She can't leave streeteasy, nor stop posting on se discussion boards because she has nothing else to do.
See: "Farewell",the discussion she started, several years ago.
She never "left", she had no place else to go to vent her frustration and anger.

Sunday, 6/23/13 9:45pm,EST.
It's only a matter of time until she's back on se, cursing and raging with anger.

Truth, not sure your point. People go, things go, and then they come back. Like the tides, or like the bananas from Fresh Direct which some people return to get their 99c back or 20c for an individual banana.

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ah, yes, petr showing those noble liberal tendencies again. taking 50% of his tenants' take-home income in rent for self-described "crappy studios." what landlord school taught you that renting to tenants who are paying you 50% of their income is a good, ethical business practice?

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/17606

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/35732-seriously-why-would-columbia-county-post-here

You are such a useless tool that i almost pity you.

Before I sulk, could you help me understand - would it be to my benefit to be pitied by you?

a half hour to a response? While our husband is billing $550 for that period of time, we still don't know why taxpayer dollars are going to aboutready and everyone else is footing the bill.

So, greenberg, it is your belief that you share a husband with aboutready? Would this husband be "Ralph", or someone else?

>So, greenberg, it is your belief that you share a husband with aboutready? Would this husband be "Ralph", or someone else?

Alan - that looks like a typo, a missing 'y'.

greenbergy

alan, what's your case study?

It's been 19 months since i posted this. Almost 9 years since AR sold her place. With prices now beyond 2007 levels, the obvious answer would had been a 'NO'. She made a big mistake for selling in 2004. After hundreds of thousands of dollar down the drain from 9 years of renting, i read she finally bought a place last year....

I'm happy she finally woke up and admitted to her failures as an investor and speculator of the housing market.

If only AR would had listen to some of us Bulls in the spring of 2009 to buy a place. She would had pulled off a nice bank heist.

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If only AR would had listen to some of us Bulls in the spring of 2009 to buy a place. She would had pulled off a nice bank heist.

Possibly that could have jeopardized her ability to get the big taxpayer subsidized lawsuit windfall, but I don't really know. In sure if she was weighing the options that she consulted an attorney.

Or ya could had a V8.

How about if you bought sprint at $2.4 you'd be up 200%. How about if you bought apple at $390, you be up huge.

Talking about housesitting are we?, team RE! Go team RE. Btw the one great thing about 'development' is 200x leverage and the ability to sell to JVs to get 100% of your initial investment back.

So I say unto you go and take a bigger mortgage. Buy w67 condos!

Can Aboutready get a discount on one of w67s condos?

Fieldchesty34D. How much of the SE buyout r u getting?

W67 got hiz. Flmozzzz. For th amount of work you put on SE, you should get 50% of the pie.

This thread is about aboutready.

I don't mind. Even though I joined the lemmings and bought.

>I don't mind. Even though I joined the lemmings and bought.

FLMAOZ

Derivative.

AR, how did your derivative trade work out for you?

hfscomm1.

http://gothamist.com/2013/10/30/interactive_map_where_is_the_afford.php

more bullshit from riversider.

I have to say it's pretty disgusting that we have a housing system where someone who is married to a high-powered lawyer and can afford to buy a NYC condo receives a windfall legal settlement for being "overcharged" on rent. Or that someone of that income level would have been eligible for reduced rent in the first place, while other people are busting a$$ to pay their market-rate rent.

>high-powered lawyer

Maybe this has been over-stated?

HB - Not overstated. High powered and highly respected. Boundaries!

I really have no idea. Because of boundaries.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579210001500861862
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Hottest Housing Markets Hit Headwinds
Rising Prices and Mortgage Rates Dent Demand, Pushing Up Supply a Bit

Is aboutready ok? Haven't hear from her in a few weeks - maybe this is one of the few extended multi-week vacations she takes during the year between the more normal one week vacations she more frequently takes.

Did Aboutready go farewell?

hamsterhoney? So that's the way it is in your family.
Sick

Just read this story and reminded me of aboutready's lawsuit and windfall for a situation where she wasn't even harmed. At least this guy overpaid by $4.00: http://www.boston.com/food-dining/restaurants/2014/12/09/harvard-business-school-professor-goes-war-over-worth-chinese-food/KfMaEhab6uUY1COCnTbrXP/story.html