Prime BK Townhouses

https://streeteasy.com/sale/1631241

This one needs full reno including structural. And in contract very fast. No, I do not mean to send anyone into a mad rage.

https://streeteasy.com/sale/1644308

And second one is Clinton Hill which is just near-prime.

Not even an elevator for $16mm.
https://streeteasy.com/sale/1603330

Don’t they teach the difference between balconies and terraces anymore in broker school?

That is a good one. But $16mm no elevator and 5 floors!!

I get the garden plus 3 floor not really needing an elevator. But this one has the width, size, and price tag.

I guess the 2012 buyer couldn’t figure out where to put one during the renovation. Where do you think it should be placed here?

Typically there are two ways. Assuming you don’t want to change the stair location, one possibility is at the end of the stairs on the left and the second is where the bathroom is on the second floor. I like the first one as the first one doesn’t cut the parlor floor in the middle.

Wow, I wonder what would happen if some properly renovated Brooklyn townhouse was about to come on the market? It would be worth a fortune! I wonder who might possibly have one of those?

Ha. Only for the purpose of this thread, I may have many renovated ones for sale all over the city including prime BK.

Just go thought other broker's listings, have fun and find some peace.

Re:440 Clinton,
Almost $5 million and you get a 7 foot wide parking spot? I'm not even sure that's legal.

This from one NYC DOB memo:
"Self Parking
End stalls parallel to walls or fences shall be a minimum 10'-0” wide. Parallel parking shall have a minimum aisle width of 10'-0” and parking space dimensions of 8-6” x 24'-0”."

As someone who's been driving and parking in NYC for close to half a century, 7' wide isn't enough for a standard size sedan like a Camry, much less the SUV a buyer of a house like this is likely to own.

Why don't you post how much you actually spent on the renovation here;
https://streeteasy.com/building/the-apthorp/3m

While you were constantly posting on this forum that such renovations cost over $500 per square foot?

And for those watching you can get some idea of truthfulness because 300 absolutely does not have "many renovated ones for sale all over the city including prime BK."

He's just lying.

30, That comment of "Only for the purpose of this thread, I may have many renovated ones for sale all over the city including prime BK." was to get you mad and you did. Find some peace man. Good bye.

Oh, you're going to leave and stop shilling here? Great!

You're a typical internet bully who has chased too many good posters from this forum. And now you act like calling you out on your lies and self dealing is the problem rather than your own behavior. Sorry, I'm not going to go away and will only escalate pointing out your lies.

30, Weren't you a manger at JL Sopher, a boiler room operation, who was famous for screwing clients and sales people. Did you get religion after they screwed you and denied to pay you? Who knows what the mangers there siletly watched as long as you were gettin paid?

Notice how you continued with an ad hominem attack rather than answering about your previous lies about renovation costs. Lol you're busted.

Of course, only some stuff got investigated.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/29/nyregion/fbi-seizes-records-of-company-cited-for-race-bias-in-real-estate.html

I love it when people act "holier than thou" after managing is boiler room operation.

Boiler Room manager trying to redeem himself!!

Someone getting very desperate continuing with personal attacks (and totally random, unsubstantiated accusations). Does anyone even have a clue what 300_mercer is talking about? Or is this just more that he's pulling out of his ass because he has no defense for his own actions and thinks claiming that I pushed penny stocks (if that's what he is accusing me of because that's my familiarity with the phrase) is somehow the worst thing he can come up with.

In my experience when people do that it's because of something in their own background. Perhaps he is sensitive because of the recent uncovering of malfeasance at the Goldman Sachs
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/02/goldman-sachs-is-being-sued-for-27-separate-stock-offerings-it-underwrote/
Which is where he worked in compliance and thinks attempting to tar me with that brush will be effective.

For the record I have never worked in anything resembling a boiler room operation. On the other hand the things I am accusing 300 _mercer of are well documented right on this forum

You can keep lying about me and I'll keep telling the truth about you.

30, Weren't you are manager at JL Sopher which was knows as boiler room of real estate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_room_(business)

Of no one who was a manager at a boiler room operation acknowleges that it was a boiler room operation.

Regarding JI Sopher it's well known that I worked there managing the SALES side of the Greenwich Village Office starting in July of 1987. So this damning article supposedly about me was :
A) Regarding rentals (where Keith worked)
B) Was regarding a 1982 consent decree (half a decade before I began to work there)
C) No records of mine were seized And as far as I know had nothing to do with the Greenwich Village office at all
D) Exactly what am I being accused of? Of course there is no actual accusation because it is typical of the author's motus apparandi of half truths and outright lying

30, Weren't you are manager at JL Sopher which was known as boiler room of real estate with FBI raids etc?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_room_(business)

And 30, I wonder if you come here to fight to damage this board despite having commercial interest in a competing platform "Urbandigs"?

J I Sopher.

And JI Sopher did to the manager what they have been rumoured to be doing to other sales people who couldn't afford to sue while someone watched silently till the time it was their turn.

The shill is really having trouble stretching and grasping. But never answering a single comment regarding how own actions. Because they are indefensible.

I guess you're depending on folks not reading the links because there is absolutely no connection between the links you posted (a Real Estate brokerage and a stock trading room). However your working for Goldman Sachs during the period where they underwrote tons of questionable securities - which you seem to have been involved with personally - is quite another story.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/02/goldman-sachs-is-being-sued-for-27-separate-stock-offerings-it-underwrote/

You're really not doing very well here. Perhaps it's time to revert to your typical classiest and racist comments you've made in the past which were more successful at chasing posters out of here.

I'll also note that Keith Burkhardt worked at JI Sopher during the same time period I did, yet somehow it's only me who worked at this fictional "boiler room." So did Carrie Chang, Elizabeth Mercedes & Noel Berk, Louis Rosado (Who now works at the same firmware 300_mercer is licensed) and hundreds of others.

Wow. Well since my name has been referenced here, yes I did work at Sopher, and I can tell you it was an absolutely miserable place to work! Basically every negative stereotype you could think about regarding real estate was either invented or practiced there. Of course, not by everyone that worked there. In the village where I worked, I knew a few nice people.

These were the days when the New York Times real estate classifieds ruled. Basically management would post a majority of false ads to get the phones ringing (typically most rental apartments go quickly, so by the time an ad hit the paper most likely the place was already rented). So they advertised a generic basket of listings for the most part. Then the manager would assign a call to an agent. If you were a good little minion you got plenty of clients, if you weren't you probably didn't last very long. I was lucky, I had quite a few friends in the city and others were moving in after college to start careers, that was 99% of my business. I also had quite a few friends and acquaintances through my family that I would help find apartments for. We're talking rentals. I was the little punk rock monk, many friends, family thought it was funny that I found myself in real estate. Another interesting fact, I'm an initiated disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda (think autobiography of a Yogi, the book Steve Jobs gave out at his funeral : ).I've been following this practice since I was about 17.

Management also insisted you use a form called a fee agreement. By signing it, a client was basically agreeing to pay you a 15% fee for any apartment they rented. This was a very dubious document, and when you completed a deal you had to hand in the signed fee agreement, along with the paperwork from the government regarding the discrimination case. If you didn't they wouldn't pay you, or at least that's how I remember it, or at least threaten not to pay. I would simply have clients fill this out after they rented an apartment with me. I also remember many agents wouldn't write the apartment number, just the address of the building. This way if the client went back and tried to rent an apartment in the building other than the one that was shown, the agent would threaten to sue based on the signed fee agreement and the company was happy to back that up.

It also wasn't a pleasant place for the majority of agents. If you were a top producer I'm sure you had an easier time getting paid. Otherwise it could basically be 3+ months to get paid from the time you handed a deal in. This could be very stressful for agents that were living paycheck to paycheck as they say.

I basically learned what not to do in real estate from my experience there.

Keith Burkhardt
TBG

>> I basically learned what not to do in real estate from my experience there.

Funny, thanks for sharing. A great place to learn, then!

"In the village where I worked"
Typo?

Please describe how the sales side worked as well.

I started at 248 Mercer Street in 1990. I had no involvement in sales. Although I do recall being hired when the village office was on Broadway, I waited for the Mercer Street office to be completed before starting.

When you were there were you aware that sales and rentals were mostly entirely different operations, with different management and different policies and procedures?

When the office moved was Hank still forcing rental agents to install their own private phone lines to make outgoing calls?

Were you aware that I was the one who instituted the policy on the sale side that agents got their own ads which they picked the units and wrote themselves?

After I left did the new sales manager hold weekly sales meetings for all agents covering among other things compliance with current regulations (and started with a new quiz every week; After a while I even had rental agents coming to the meetings just to learn stuff)?