Category Archives: Real Estate
New York City Simplifies Requirements for Moving Into Affordable Housing
Good news is hard to find in 2025. Almost everything we can think of is measurably worse now than it was ten years ago or, if we are young adults, whenever our adult memories begin. A decade ago, before the Internet had shown the true extent of its ugliness, you could approach a food… Read More »
Geothermal Heating Is the Next Big Thing in New York City Real Estate
Around 2016, when the Internet was still innocent, a frequently shared image on social media encapsulated what makes New York City feel like home. A portly gray rat held a half-eaten slice of pizza in its jaws as it carefully maneuvered its haul down the stairs of a subway station. That rat knew that… Read More »
Low Turnover for Rentals Is Good News for Landlords
Tenants. Can’t live with ‘em and can’t live without ‘em. Landlords complain constantly about tenants who make frequent maintenance requests where the dysfunction of the appliance is at least partially due to the tenant’s careless use of it. Then there are the tenants who can’t get along with each other and frequently air their… Read More »
Starter Homes Are So Cringe
For every hundred times that journalists trash Generation Z for their unrealistic expectations and their sense of entitlement, there is one time when someone says in print what everyone knows, which is that what Gen Z is missing is not altruism or a desire for connection with other people, but rather economic opportunities. Few… Read More »
Supportive Housing in the Bronx
Complaining about one’s housing situation is as good a remedy as any for the loneliness epidemic; there are so many things to complain about, and the more creatively you do it, the more popular you will be. If you own a house, which no one does in New York, you can complain about making… Read More »
Deed Theft and Other Real Estate Crimes
All business transactions involve a fair amount of bluster, but some careers that involve persuasion have more of a reputation for charlatanism than others. People will easily assume that lawyers and used car salesmen are dishonest, but they tend to take the charm of real estate agents at face value. It helps that real… Read More »
What Are Appraisal Management Companies, and Are They Friend or Foe?
Compared to the anticipation that precedes them, real estate closings are anticlimactic affairs. In the most upscale parts of the Five Boroughs, the law office conference rooms where the closings take place are lovely to behold, but if you can afford to buy a real estate property that would entail such an opulent setting… Read More »
Should You Invest in REITs Instead of Buying a Real Estate Property as an Investment?
Of all the lies and false hope associated with the pursuit of passive income and the quest to be your own boss, one of the most insidious and persistent rumors is that owning real estate properties as an investment is easy money. Anyone who has ever rented out a real estate property to tenants… Read More »
House Hacking
In better economic times, people used to daydream about building up enough equity in their homes that they could move to a bigger house and use the old one as a rental property. There were times when becoming a mom-and-pop landlord seemed to be within the reach of almost all homeowners. These days, good… Read More »
Think Twice Before Writing a Real Estate Love Letter
Love is insincere when there is money involved. How many successful businesspeople find themselves the center of attention at networking events, but when they get home, their spouses revile them, their children want nothing to do with them, and their extended family members only contact them when they need money? Almost anyone who has… Read More »