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To prop it up for what exactly??? I am not selling it. It is a 415 sq ft studio in the Bronx, bought for practically nothing, worth practically nothing :-). It has appreciated about $30k in 11 years, which is about what I would have to pay in taxes when selling it (since I had rented it out for 10 years), so it has not appreciated at all (as I didn't expect it to). Renting it out for 10 years did return about 2/3 of its purchase price, but even all of that is irrelevant considering how low that price was. I'd be deeply in trouble if I depended on the sale of that thing to bring me any money, if I didn't have retirement funds on a completely different scale. Right now, it's useful as a crashpad when visiting NYC, while gradually finding out that I no longer in fact like NYC. It has saved me from making a real investment there and then finding out the place is not what I thought it was. It has served its purpose for me.
But I really think that the right people should know about Parkchester, that is the reason for "advertising" it. This person seems like the right person. The place does have some unique merits. The condo complex is cheap yet safe (something that I think is unique to Parkchester, in the context of NYC), and obviously if you are not white, you have an added advantage that neither is anyone else who lives there, to speak of. It is THE place in NYC if you are a solid person but are also poor and/or not white. I am neither of those (ie, neither poor, nor non-white), but I wanted a cheap/safe place for other reasons, not as the primary residence. This person is not entirely poor either if she earns 90k, but she is complaining that she is discriminated against - I am just pointing out that there is a simple way in which she can easily and even cheaply solve that problem of "discrimination" (whether that discrimination is only in her head or real). In fact there is an organization that promotes higher education of black people, and the interests of black professionals, right in the Parkchester condo complex - what better a Harvard grad obsessed with black identity could ever want?
Damn..... you stay advertising Parkchester every chance you get. Do you get some kind of commission for every person you convince to move to Parkchester or something?
I roll my eyes every time I see her screen name. All she talks about is parkchester.
I’m sorry, but if I were a land Lord in NYC with current laws, there is no way in hell I’d rent her an apartment. She’s Just looking for trouble.
She’d probably want to use her own apartment as an example.
To prop it up for what exactly??? I am not selling it. It is a 415 sq ft studio in the Bronx, bought for practically nothing, worth practically nothing :-). It has appreciated about $30k in 11 years, which is about what I would have to pay in taxes when selling it (since I had rented it out for 10 years), so it has not appreciated at all (as I didn't expect it to). Renting it out for 10 years did return about 2/3 of its purchase price, but even all of that is irrelevant considering how low that price was. I'd be deeply in trouble if I depended on the sale of that thing to bring me any money, if I didn't have retirement funds on a completely different scale. Right now, it's useful as a crashpad when visiting NYC, while gradually finding out that I no longer in fact like NYC. It has saved me from making a real investment there and then finding out the place is not what I thought it was. It has served its purpose for me.
But I really think that the right people should know about Parkchester, that is the reason for "advertising" it. This person seems like the right person. The place does have some unique merits. The condo complex is cheap yet safe (something that I think is unique to Parkchester, in the context of NYC), and obviously if you are not white, you have an added advantage that neither is anyone else who lives there, to speak of. It is THE place in NYC if you are a solid person but are also poor and/or not white. I am neither of those (ie, neither poor, nor non-white), but I wanted a cheap/safe place for other reasons, not as the primary residence. This person is not entirely poor either if she earns 90k, but she is complaining that she is discriminated against - I am just pointing out that there is a simple way in which she can easily and even cheaply solve that problem of "discrimination" (whether that discrimination is only in her head or real). In fact there is an organization that promotes higher education of black people, and the interests of black professionals, right in the Parkchester condo complex - what better a Harvard grad obsessed with black identity could ever want?
Well, there is nothing else I find interesting on this NYC c-d forum (I am not looking for an apartment lottery, which is the subject of 95% of NYC forum topics). Occasionaly I talk about Tudor City (which I was considering for later in retirement, but it seems I will never want to be NYC based after all, after seeing the true city trends), however, things related to TC do not come up here very often.
Perhaps the lesson here is don't post pics of yourself on social media.
Also, don't let on before lease signing that your name is Sheneequa Jackson.
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