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    How to Bust Unions: Wisconsin Edition
    Updated over 15 years ago
    How to Bust Unions: 1. Cut corporate taxes to substantially reduce revenue 2. Invent an imaginary budget crisis 3. Eliminate collective bargaining for unions...
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    Typical union attitude
    Updated over 15 years ago
    Let's give these guys more lavish pensions . . . These garbage men really stink. Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs...
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  • Sales
    YES, Condo Prices are Going Up.
    Updated over 15 years ago
    If you don't believe SteveF and I, just check the math here on the Streeteasy reports: Q4 2008--Condo resale median sale prices dropped by 9.5% to $950K Q4...
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  • Sales
    Brokers wont deliver bid to seller. help!
    Updated over 15 years ago
    I'm bidding on a co op in Manhattan with an all cash offer. However, the sellers broker blatantly tells me that even though my offer would provide for an expedited...
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    State Workers and N.Y.’s Fiscal Crisis
    Updated over 15 years ago
    If the state is unable to achieve the necessary savings in wages and pensions, it may need to seek higher insurance contributions for all state workers. That benefit...
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  • Anything
    raw sewerage in basement
    Updated over 15 years ago
    My building had a sewer pipe burst in the basement that became flooded with raw sewage. The managment requires tenants use the service entrance's basement to exit the...
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  • Sales
    What is the net commission payable to brokers?
    Updated over 15 years ago
    How much do the brokerage firms actually pay the brokers? Just wondering how much that last $100/$200K which could make or break a deal means personally to the...
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