Urbanization of America.. Sam Zell

What a moron. His remark about the 1% working way harder than all the rest is madness. There are extremely serious, hard working people in all realms. Not everybody is cut to be competitive and aggressive, and not everybody is in the right moment at the right place. This XXI century royalty needs to justify itself and wand us to think that's because they work harder. It's a joke and a slap on the face of millions of people that work their asses of all their lives.

I agree with minni.

mimi...you are 100% right. Everything is luck. You are either unlucky or lucky in life or rather in the right place at the right time or in the wrong place at the wrong time.... btw, I've met Sam Zell and he's not all there.

I agree with the troll's agreement with mimi. But not with steveF. Fiyacracka fiyacracka ...

No, not everything is luck. But there are several factors in success. More than talking about lack, I was talking about the stupid, downputting, self-congratulatory hardest-working people explanation.

Well Blah de Blah intends to make New York "one" city.
You know, like Detroit.

Wow just realized, what a novel way to bring down crime, make everyone not worth mugging.

Success is the result of a combination of factors including hard work, talent, luck, choice of profession, and whether one's industry benefits from government intervention into the economy.

9876543210, does dishonesty help, e.g. Zuckerborg? What about who your parents are like Satchel Farrow?

A-freaking-men, Mimi!!!

Truth: A client is a client. They always get 100% of my best efforts.

Well, if a bad person paid me $20K, I would just look the other way.

I recently got some money from some not-so-nice former landlords. I have yet to cash the checks. That money clearly had nothing to do with my purchase a couple of years ago, but it was luck, of a sort.

Aboutready, you should give the checks to charity to support housing for those in need in NYC. I admire that you have not cashed them to date.

Well, the son I voluntarily took in who was a ward of the state needs special ed, to the tune of $54,000 a year, plus therapy and med costs of about $20,000. So, I am going to view the rebate from the evil landlord as a small drop in that bucket.

What good have you done lately?

"A client is a client. They always get 100% of my best efforts."

... same here. I just take a nice hot bath afterwards and I'm clean again.

>Well, the son I voluntarily took in who was a ward of the state needs special ed, to the tune of $54,000 a year, plus therapy and med costs of about $20,000. So, I am going to view the rebate from the evil landlord as a small drop in that bucket.

Not sure what your son's Tony education and Cadillac health plan has to do with people who need housing.

Also, this evil landlord, the money was paid by the landlord who wronged you, or by a successor who is now suffering as a result of these payments and needing to raise rents on others, i.e. your windfall is causing harm to others.

Well, he WAS homeless, as In living on the streets when I took him in.

No, the vast majority of the rents are now lower for tenants as a result of the suit. You are too stupid to get the repeated point that some rents were lowered too much during the interim process and went back up, but not above the prior higher rents. And now they are rent stabilized, so there is thT too. Could you please get your facts straight?

The successor? As in Fannie Mae? Who bought after the results of the suit were known and said they were 100% certain they would make money? Give me an f'ng break.

Nice try though. Albeit repetitive.

And it's not a Cadillac health plan, it's what any young adult who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, ADHD diagnosed finally at age 18, borderline personality disorder, and specific anxiety would need. And it's not covered by our health plan (some of the costs of the meds are, but none of the therapy). So I'm providing it to someone in need. Is that so hard to understand?

What good have you done recently?

Obsessed. Yawn.

Nasty. Typically nasty. And racist.

But, obsessed. And really, even more yawn.

"Nasty. Typically nasty": Still not a cogent comment from her.

"But, obsessed" : this discussion contained no mention of aboutready, nor her "not-so-nice former landlords".

Yet, she came to this discussion with her typical chip-on-her shoulder, looking for a fight.

If aboutready had not freely decided (several years ago) to inform streeteasy readers of "the black, homeless kid" and all of the continuing details -- people reading/posting comments on streeteasy would not know of the
"good" she "had done".

"...even more yawn": it's a hard-knock life for her.

Cogent. I do not think you understand the meaning of this word.

So obsessed.

It was not several years ago. Not even close. And given your level of self-revelation, I don't think you have any room for judgment. Bunny boiler.

Aboutready, from the looks of it, you are obsessed about responding to yourself. You should be grateful that Truth occasionally shows up after you post 4 times in a row.

Funny. SE deleted "truth"'s posts and you know it, thank you for making it obvious.

Everyone is out to get you Aboutready, right? Now the master plan is to delete interim responses to make you look like a self muttering fool? But they leave my posts, why?

Because you weren't ranting about the awful behaviors my daughter allegedly engaged in.

Seriously, you have no recall of what awful comments she spews? And she did so here.

Please, I can hold my own. I don't need to pretend that numerous truth comments have been erased. Have I ever done so before? Unlike truth and her incessant recounting of posts and "meltdowns" always ignoring her own, of course.

Personality disorders are a very ugly business.

You view personality disorders as business? How much do you make?

Actually, in terms of real content, Orszag had an interesting piece on bloomberg about marriage equality affecting mobility. Much more so than in the past people marry those who are educationally equal, and often they already have careers. Finding one quality job in a less expensive market is not easy, finding two at once can seem impossible, so people tend to stay.

AR, would you have to give up your personality disorder business if your husband wanted to leave the NY area?