NJ foreclosures up 138% in April

From the Record:

New Jersey foreclosures starts climb

Foreclosure filings in New Jersey, which had been held up by legal issues, spiked to the highest levels in more than two years in April as a long-running logjam in the courts continues to loosen up.

Scheduled foreclosure auctions in New Jersey soared 91 percent last month to 793 from April 2012, a 27-month high, according to RealtyTrac, a company that markets foreclosed properties and sells real estate data.

The New Jersey foreclosure activity was in contrast with the national picture, where foreclosure filings in April fell 23 percent from a year earlier to the lowest level in six years and two months, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac.

“Foreclosure starts have been increasing for several months in many of the judicial states, and now that increased volume is showing up in the second stage of the process: the public foreclosure auction,” Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, said in a statement. “Lenders are serious about moving forward with completing the foreclosure process.”

Only Florida and Nevada had greater year-over-year increases in scheduled auctions.

A 138 percent rise in foreclosure starts between March and April in New Jersey was the largest month-to-month increase in the country for those handouts of initial notices of default. Foreclosure starts in New Jersey totaled 2,917 in April, up from 1,227 in March.

“It’s about time,” economist Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pa., said of the state’s higher foreclosure numbers.

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125 Responses to NJ foreclosures up 138% in April

  1. Fast Eddie says:

    A 138 percent rise in foreclosure starts between March and April in New Jersey was the largest month-to-month increase in the country for those handouts of initial notices of default.

    Tick… tick… tick… tick…

  2. Grim says:

    Hey journalists – what is going on with the new legislation around accelerated foreclosures for abandoned properties.

    I haven’t heard a peep and it went live over a month ago.

    Is this pop a direct result of the new law? Feels too quick to me.

    I know you guys are reading!

  3. Fabius Maximus says:

    But I thought the high cost of health care is all O’s fault.

    Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html?1367985666

  4. Juice Box says:

    markets up no time like now to forclose.

  5. Essex says:

    Schmuck….schmuck…schmuck

  6. Fast Eddie says:

    Foreclosure starts in New Jersey totaled 2,917 in April, up from 1,227 in March.

    The multiple sites are littered with the term “Lis Pendens.”

    No inventory = Unqualified sellers

  7. Fast Eddie says:

    I’d rather be dead on the corner of East 4th Street and Avenue D in Lower Manhattan than alive in Indiana.

  8. Essex says:

    7. Hmmm.

  9. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [8] moose,

    Damn, and I thought Cramer was a trend-following idiot who’d make me poorer. Who knew?

  10. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [7] Eddie,

    And, believe it or not, folks in Indiana fervently support you in this belief.

  11. grim says:

    Jobless claims down 4k to 323k, 4 week average down to 336,750, down 6250.

    Best weekly performance since summer of 2008.

  12. DL says:

    So who’s buying at auction?

  13. DL says:

    RE 3: Price transparency would lower health care costs more than gov’t ever could. We compare price on everything else we buy, why not health care?

  14. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    I know Eddie has his basis for tick …tick…tick. And I have mine.

    http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/tag/isabel-getty/

  15. DL says:

    When it comes to graft, the Karzai family makes Congress look like choir boys. Didn’t know they were paying taxes on skimming.

  16. Fast Eddie says:

    “Foreclosure starts have been increasing for several months in many of the judicial states, and now that increased volume is showing up in the second stage of the process: the public foreclosure auction,” Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, said in a statement. “Lenders are serious about moving forward with completing the foreclosure process.”

    Step to your left, a freight train is coming.

  17. Juice Box says:

    Interesting read on the junk MBS.

    Question is now when does Bernake spike the ball?

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-usa-qe3-mabs-specialreport-idUSBRE9460CU20130507

  18. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [16] DL

    Yes, money from skimming is taxable. Really.

  19. DL says:

    19: That’s how they got Al Capone.

  20. raging bull jj says:

    Juice Box says:
    May 9, 2013 at 9:40 am
    Interesting read on the junk MBS.
    Unemployed ex drug addict with medical problems should not be giving mortgages at high interest rates as they will default.

    Question is now when does Bernake spike the ball?

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-usa-qe3-mabs-specialreport-idUSBRE9460CU20130507

  21. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [20] DL

    I know.

  22. JJ says:

    Re 16 I sold my MBI bonds at 99 this morning I bought at 66. Sadly getting deadbeats who bought subprime homes out of their houses and reselling their homes at lower prices and at lower rates to higher credit buyers is how you resolve the default issues and help Mortgage insurers and Bond insurers and subprime mortgages heal

  23. Juice Box says:

    Last ditch strategy screw the unfunded pension liabilities

    Insight: New York authorities in wave of pension payment deferrals

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/09/us-newyork-pensions-insight-idUSBRE9480K720130509

  24. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [24] juice

    With apologies to fast eddie, thats a much louder ticking.

    And if you thought obamacare caused strife, wait until the dems propose bailing out muni pensions. There will be a new run on .223.

  25. joyce says:

    3

    Fabius,

    Only sheep blame one person, and only sheep feel the need to defend one person

  26. joyce says:

    Gary,

    Re: unqualified sellers

    If these underwater/hanging on by a thread people were NOT underwater, what makes you think they’d be selling in that situation either?

  27. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [26] Joyce,

    I was going to rebut [3] but it was so vague and weak, I thought the better of it. Not his best effort.

  28. Juice Box says:

    re # 25 – Nom what is another trillion dollars between family? Uncle Bernake will be more than happy to help out.

  29. Fast Eddie says:

    joyce [27],

    If these underwater/hanging on by a thread people were NOT underwater, what makes you think they’d be selling in that situation either?

    At least they’d have the option to sell, would they not? :) And then we wouldn’t have 1000 fish fighting for a piece of the evaporating pond. Nor, would interest rates be on a respirator. If I’m going to drop $600,000 on a piece of sh1t, can I at least have a few choices in front of me instead of being force-fed the one sitting on an off ramp of a major highway?

  30. JJ says:

    $600K = Starter Home

    Fast Eddie says:
    May 9, 2013 at 10:40 am

    joyce [27],

    If these underwater/hanging on by a thread people were NOT underwater, what makes you think they’d be selling in that situation either?

    At least they’d have the option to sell, would they not? :) And then we wouldn’t have 1000 fish fighting for a piece of the evaporating pond. Nor, would interest rates be on a respirator. If I’m going to drop $600,000 on a piece of sh1t, can I at least have a few choices in front of me instead of being force-fed the one sitting on an off ramp of a major highway?

  31. xolepa says:

    Spoke today with one of my sales guys who just gave his house back to the bank. Signed the papers. House was in Lehigh Valley, he was $80k underwater. Bank gave him and his wife each 1500 dollars walking money.

    Is something wrong with this picture?

  32. Carlito says:

    #33 – Yes, living in Lehigh valley

  33. Statler Waldorf says:

    People who live in other states have no desire to live here. That NY and NJ residents believe this area is the center of the world is comical.

    “I’d rather be dead on the corner of East 4th Street and Avenue D in Lower Manhattan than alive in Indiana.” (Just yesterday “Florida.”)

  34. Fast Eddie says:

    People who live in other states have no desire to live here.

    That’s because they don’t know any better. They think egg noodles and ketchup is Italian food. By the way, the Universe originated somewhere in the Hudson County vicinity… just in case anyone asks.

  35. Brian says:

    You guys are being ridiculous. Everybody who blogs here knows Bergen County is the center of the universe.

  36. JJ says:

    Cash for keys baby!!!! But 80K is peanuts, I guess wife is pretty ugly a few weekends working the pole and golden shower room she could have caught up.

    xolepa says:
    May 9, 2013 at 11:11 am

    Spoke today with one of my sales guys who just gave his house back to the bank. Signed the papers. House was in Lehigh Valley, he was $80k underwater. Bank gave him and his wife each 1500 dollars walking money.

    Is something wrong with this picture?

  37. Brian says:

    JJ it is the Lehigh Valley. The $80K number is like $400K in Long Island dollars.

  38. Comrade Nom Deplume, Channeling Scrapple Cannon says:

    [37] brian,

    when Scrapple’s dystopian vision comes to pass, I hope PA has the good sense to dynamite the Delaware crossings. Not that anyone would want to leave NJ, even if it resembled “The Road” but why gamble?

  39. Statler Waldorf says:

    Fast Eddie, there’s a big world out there, take a look sometime.

  40. jcer says:

    Florida, not so much, Indiana, yes wouldn’t want to be there. It is a pretty dreary place, while the economy is better than Detroit, I’d rather be in Detroit any day. Indianapolis has a nice airport, cheap houses, a car race way, and not too much else.

  41. jcer says:

    Everyone knows the universe was born at Margret Hague hospital.

  42. Carlito says:

    Problem is, Lehigh Valley people think THEY are at the center….for example, Agere Microelectronics road sign proudly declaring “Lehigh Valley is hours ahead of Silicon Valley”…they were chopped up and sold to LSI and Infineon….bozos

  43. Samivel says:

    Expedited foreclosure process of vacant & abandoned properties
    is still being finalized. Lenders, attorneys, Trenton & local vicinages
    are attempting to reach consensus on use of uniform forms in this
    process. Trying to avoid any do overs down the road so don’t start just
    yet. The condo associations are chomping at the bit.

  44. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:
  45. Painhrtz - Doc Daneeka says:

    Remember they charge you to leave NJ not to come in. I was born and raised most of my life here, and there are a lot of things I love about the area but honestly If I received a job offer at current salary tomorrow with full relo costs assumed in one of my families pre-chosen states we would be gone. No questions asked. the costs of living and the consistent assault on my liberty have made me the battered spouse in my relationship with this state.

    Eddie and you know what they don’t care, but I do have to agree with you on Indiana. Minnesota, Dakotas and some of the other states I wouldn’t. then again I really don’t like the South some of it has to do with the people most of it the weather

  46. JJ says:

    Getting transferred out to NJ at a NJ salary is a faith worse than death.

    My old company moved a lot of people to Tampa and let them all keep the NYC salary.

    Trouble was it only worked out for folks over 55, since you were earning double the new hires in Florida and every hire afterwards you got a zero percent raise and no bonus until slowly the annual 3 percent raises the Florida folks got caught up with you.

    If everyone else for instance is earning 50K and you are earning 100K do the math, how long would it take a 50K person at 3% raises to get to 100K. Most folks were very happy first few years, then very depressed as years went on with a raise or a bonus. The kicker was ten years in they laid them all off. I saw one guy back in NY working at less than he was making when he left. Even worse they laid them off around 2008 and most sold houses underwater.

  47. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [47] pain

    Gotta agree. I couldnt live in flyover country. I think it’s a Northeast thing. I don’t even care for the west coast.

  48. POS cape says:

    36:

    “They think egg noodles and ketchup is Italian food.”

    Yes, and a salad bar is iceberg lettuce and pink tomatoes. Whole wheat bread is brown dyed Wonderbread. And forget about bagels.

  49. Fast Eddie says:

    Everyone knows the universe was born at Margret Hague hospital.

    Amen! ;)

  50. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [51] Eddie

    Why do I get the impression that if you see any of the animals or insects I see daily, you’d lock yourself in your car?

  51. Fast Eddie says:

    Painhrtz [47],

    We have no control over taxes, tolls, insurance and a number of other things in this State… this is true. But, we do have control over the house prices. However, the masses are easily swayed which ultimately f.ucks it up for those of us willing to use market inertia to our advantage. Therein lies my resistance.

  52. Fast Eddie says:

    Nom [52],

    I probably would, trying to figure out if it’s an insect or animal. :)

  53. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [54] Eddie,

    LOL. Well, we heavily armed hinterland types will protect you.

    But I must admit, and I risk ridicule by Pain, it is a bi disconcerting at first when you shine your flashlight into the trees and see five sets of eyes staring back at you. And it freaked my urban raised daughter out when I charged into the trees to see what they were.

  54. Essex says:

    Anywhere can be great if you are employed.

  55. JJ says:

    88% of dads pass on paid paternity leave
    Or why Yahoo’s generous new policy won’t cost the company

    Funny, my friend years ago worked at Cap Gemni Consulting. So HR came out with a paternity leave thing, two weeks for Dads. So in the middle of important project some manager announces his wife is about to give birth and wants to use his two week paternity leave. Principal/Partner on account goes WTF you are taking “man-ternity” leave in the middle of the project? Guy goes new HR policy, Partner goes so nine months ago you f*ck you wife and now I have to give you two weeks off and cover all for you. Guy is starting to back off but still wants it. So Partner says go take your paternity thing if you have too, but next time instead of you f&cking you wife and getting two weeks, tell you what I f$ck your wife and i give you four weeks.

    I had two idiots pull that junk with me. I just pulled two weeks pay out their bonus. It was a wash. The guys who did their work deserve some money.

    The worse are Indian Men, they send their wives to their Moms house after birth for a few weeks and then they ask for Paternity leave so they can eat curry and play xbox all day

  56. Theo says:

    Having lived a short period of time in Indiana, I can give you my impressions.
    Horrible summers, worse than NJ. Brutal winters, worse than NJ.
    Nothing happens. Ever. Ever. Ever.
    Fairly nice, polite people of the bible-thumping variety for the most part.
    Largely devoid of the colorful redneck cast of characters you might expect from what is still a largely rural setting. This may be seen as a positive or a negative depending on your viewpoint.

  57. Juice Box says:

    Drove through Indiana from Chicago to Indy on the way to Superbowl last year. It was about 200 miles of flat farmland with hundreds of large wind farms. Indy itself was a “destination city” downtown was ok typical midwest clean/nice and had some office buildings with a large medical college. Not a great city like Chicago, NY or Boston just ok since all life was contained in bubble, step outside the bubble and who know what would happen. I stayed at a Doctor’s home a 5k sqft house about 10 miles outside the city in a development. Other than the Cracker Barrel Restaurant and Old Country Store slash gas station plus a small strip mall their version of the burbs was even more devoid of life than many parts of upstate NY. In-fact it was just like upstate NY except for the mountains.

  58. Statler Waldorf says:

    Don’t pack your bags yet! NJ salaries are up, bidding wars on houses are back, and good times are here again.

    http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/05/new_jerseys_private-sector_wor.html

    Workers in the private sector in New Jersey are earning more money. A report released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found those employees brought in an average of $899 in weekly earnings in March, up 2.2 percent over the same month in 2012.

    Earnings rose in all major employment sectors. Financial sector employees had the highest weekly take-home pay — $1,292.38 — while construction workers followed closely behind at $1,253.43. The report finds the increase was due to rising pay.

  59. AG says:

    Intelligent life ends at the muddy waters of the Delaware river. After that it’s deliverance time.

  60. xolepa says:

    NE people are arrogant, snooty idiots, for the most part. What is there in NJ an NY that’s better than the rest of the country? Money and some other materialistic measures. But, wherever I visit, the people are happier. In Ohio for a November wedding, all the kids acted as if they were one big family. Ok, they drink Bud light and it is absolutely awful. They have open space and time to watch life pass by on their terms. Less of an urge to hop on the rate race express. Washington state, once past the Cascades, you are in dry,desert like country, but as long as you live near the reaches of the big rivers, you get all the water you want, and cheap. The air is dry and soothing in the summer. Compare that to the Jersey summer swelter. And their growing seasons are longer than Jersey, too. The supermarkets have fresher and more abundant selections than any stores here.
    Virginia has great weather and you can buy any semi-auto with a drivers license. People here just don’t realize how much freedoms they have lost compared to other parts of this country.
    South Carolina around Charleston has as much money as the shores of Jersey. No hotheads there. The fish is more abundant and the people are oh so much more pleasant.
    In summary, Eddie, NJ/NY does suck in many. many waves. The NE propaganda machines, mostly big media/newspaper, etc. keep our heads in the sand.

  61. JJ says:

    Funny dont know many black people who think there is a lot of freedom down south

    Virginia has great weather and you can buy any semi-auto with a drivers license. People here just don’t realize how much freedoms they have lost compared to other parts of this country.
    South Carolina around Charleston has as much money as the shores of Jersey. No hotheads there. The fish is more abundant and the people are oh so much more pleasant.

  62. Libtard at home says:

    I spent some Summers in Jackson Mississippi as a kid. I’ll take fried catfish and hush puppies to Arthur Treatures (or Arthur Features which was the old knock-off in Bloomfield) any day of the week. And when you have an extra 15K per year from not paying insane property taxes, there are a lot of ways to entertain yourself. For example, shooting squirrels with gold tipped bullets.

  63. Comrade Nom Deplume, Channeling Scrapple Cannon says:

    [61] xolepa,

    What I like about New England is that you get a lot of what you describe (except that its colder) but you are still close to everything. In fact, what most people like about NE is that you ARE close to everything.

    If I lived in SC or VA, and I have lived in VA and loved it, I would still have to drive hours to a beach, or fly hours to ski, or take a train for hours to a major metropolis. But in NE, if you drive six hours, you are in Philadelphia or Montreal. Okay, why drive six hours when there is cooler stuff closer. Point taken.

  64. Comrade Nom Deplume, Channeling Scrapple Cannon says:

    [61] xolepa

    “What is there in NJ an NY that’s better than the rest of the country? ”

    Pizza, bagels, hoagies, sports, abundance of roads, major metropolises, drivers, . . .

  65. xolepa says:

    (62) Typical response of a NE. Who are you to speak on behalf of others? Maybe time has slipped you by, but the discrepancies between black and non-black, demographically are no higher in this country than NJ. NJ has the least diversity in the school systems. Compare Millburn to Newark. 15 minute difference. Ask a black person in Newark if they were poor 40 years ago. Then ask them which party they have been voting for. Then ask them if they are still poor.
    The NorthEast just suckers up to the ‘poor me’ propaganda. And most people here don’t even see through the propaganda. It’s been there all their lives. The old Soviet Union was the same way. The early 90s and the internet changed all that.

  66. raging bull jj says:

    Newark is not part of the United States. LL Cool J, Run DMC, Flavor Flav, Sean Diddy, Jay Zall my old school east coast homies from the day would have been lynched down South.

    We kept it real, by my age you are either long dead or counting stacks if cash, down south I be serving Mint Julip to you Plantation Owners
    xolepa says:
    May 9, 2013 at 3:16 pm
    (62) Typical response of a NE. Who are you to speak on behalf of others? Maybe time has slipped you by, but the discrepancies between black and non-black, demographically are no higher in this country than NJ. NJ has the least diversity in the school systems. Compare Millburn to Newark. 15 minute difference. Ask a black person in Newark if they were poor 40 years ago. Then ask them which party they have been voting for. Then ask them if they are still poor.
    The NorthEast just suckers up to the ‘poor me’ propaganda. And most people here don’t even see through the propaganda. It’s been there all their lives. The old Soviet Union was the same way. The early 90s and the internet changed all that.

  67. raging bull jj says:

    What about Non Black Blacks?

    xolepa says:
    May 9, 2013 at 3:16 pm
    (62) Typical response of a NE. Who are you to speak on behalf of others? Maybe time has slipped you by, but the discrepancies between black and non-black, demographically are no higher in this country than NJ. NJ has the least diversity in the school systems. Compare Millburn to Newark. 15 minute difference. Ask a black person in Newark if they were poor 40 years ago. Then ask them which party they have been voting for. Then ask them if they are still poor.
    The NorthEast just suckers up to the ‘poor me’ propaganda. And most people here don’t even see through the propaganda. It’s been there all their lives. The old Soviet Union was the same way. The early 90s and the internet changed all that.

  68. Dan in debt says:

    My in-laws live in a town about an hour and a half north of Dayton, population around 2,000. The place is so in the middle of nowhere that no matter how lost you could ever get in a car, you’d never find this town. Yes, housing is cheap, golf is cheap, taxes are cheap, but nowhere is nowhere. Driving a half hour to a Wal-Mart? One tiny hospital forty minutes away? Pass.

  69. njescapee says:

    No offense to anyone on the board but girls / women are far prettier in south Florida, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Keys than NY / NJ. Go see for yourselves

  70. JJ says:

    Plus no catering halls. Went to a wedding out there, everyone gets married at the same country club as only place in town and yes a CASH BAR. Loserville

    Expecting a Long Island Wedding, got a piece of junk wedding, no wonder folks give cheap gifts out there like a goddamm toaster

    Dan in debt says:
    May 9, 2013 at 3:50 pm

    My in-laws live in a town about an hour and a half north of Dayton, population around 2,000. The place is so in the middle of nowhere that no matter how lost you could ever get in a car, you’d never find this town. Yes, housing is cheap, golf is cheap, taxes are cheap, but nowhere is nowhere. Driving a half hour to a Wal-Mart? One tiny hospital forty minutes away? Pass.

  71. JJ says:

    That is just cause they have to keep that body hot 52 weeks a year so they dont get muffin tops

    njescapee says:
    May 9, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    No offense to anyone on the board but girls / women are far prettier in south Florida, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Keys than NY / NJ. Go see for yourselves

  72. DL says:

    Y’all are arguing about the difference between Coke and Pepsi. Same crap, different can.

  73. Ragnar says:

    The view I hear here about the south is just pathetically ignorant. 50 years out of date. Roughly like JJ’s attitude towards women.

  74. relo says:

    70: Escapee,

    On a per capita basis, no doubt, much higher %.

  75. JJ says:

    I am very familiar with the south, I watch Jersey Shore, you folks in the South are really low class

    Ragnar says:
    May 9, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    The view I hear here about the south is just pathetically ignorant. 50 years out of date. Roughly like JJ’s attitude towards women.

  76. JJ says:

    According to a new partnered survey cosponsored by ForbesWoman and TheBump.com, a growing number of women see staying home to raise children (while a partner provides financial support) to be the ideal circumstances of motherhood. Forget the corporate climb; these young mothers have another definition of success: setting work aside to stay home with the kids.

    Over the past three to five years we’ve seen highly educated women—who we’d imagine would be the most ambitious—who are going through med school, getting PhDs with the end-goal in mind of being at home with their kids by age 30.”

    Working women who can fry up the bacon and bring it home too is a Cosmo mag created thing of the 1980s and 1990s. Today women want to be home with their kids and have a husband successful to earn two incomes worth of salary so they can do it in style. Your definition of women is soooooo 1990s

  77. njescapee says:

    The 10 Best Public High Schools In America

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-best-public-high-schools-in-america-2013-5?op=1#ixzz2SpULUsID

    not one in NY / NJ / CT

  78. JJ says:

    Those are mainly charter schools or magnet schools. They should not count. A lot of studies will even say these type of schools are bad. They pull all the bright kids out of the school system and allow rest of kids to rot. They are unrealistic, the real world is not like that. What is list of top ten public schools that are truly public schools. Anyone can get in even the dumbest of wood.
    njescapee says:
    May 9, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    The 10 Best Public High Schools In America

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-best-public-high-schools-in-america-2013-5?op=1#ixzz2SpULUsID

    not one in NY / NJ / CT

  79. JJ says:

    The Brooklyn Latin School is ranked 1st within New York. Students have the opportunity to take International Baccalaureate course work and exams. The IB participation rate at The Brooklyn Latin School is 97 percent. The student body makeup is 55 percent male and 45 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 87 percent. The Brooklyn Latin School is 1 of 404 high schools in the New York City Public Schools.

    For instance I would not count this as a public HS.

  80. raging bull jj says:

    Educational attainment in the United States, Age 25 and Over (2009)[20] Education Percentage
    High school graduate 86.68%
    Some college 55.60%
    Associates and/or Bachelor’s degree 38.54%
    Bachelor’s degree 29.0%
    Master’s degree 7.62%

    Amazing HS is mandatory yet only 29% of people graduate a 4 year college. With my Masters degree I look smart baby. I be smarta tan 92% of you underbeeducated folk
    Doctorate or professional degree 2.94%

  81. xolepa says:

    (82) If anything, he sure is entertaining.

  82. xolepa says:

    Whoops – 81 . I’m not entertaining. Ask my kids.

  83. Statler Waldorf says:

    Length of time it takes an ambulance to reach a patient, then reach a hospital, in NY City traffic? After finally arriving at the hospital ER, the stab wound patient to the left has HIV, the patient to the right is a crazy homeless guy found passed out on a subway. And a dozen like them were treated in your ER bed earlier in the day. Sounds fantastic.

    “One tiny hospital forty minutes away? Pass.”

  84. Painhrtz - Doc Daneeka says:

    Nom heading to seatle right now for a meeting. WA state one of the few places I could live east coast snobbery aside. And only one word about ghee eyes looking back at you and it.rhymes with wussy.

  85. Painhrtz - Doc Daneeka says:

    Wohoo l’m the 7.6%

  86. chicagofinance says:

    My wife attended specialized training in Orton-Gillingham several weeks ago. The instructor teaches the seminars around the country. She said the difference in the educators from the NJ/NYC-area and the Boston-area is so far above the rest of the country she is astonished. She actively looks forward to these two weeks in the year, because it is such a vibrant experience to teach in these sessions.

    One thing she says that stands out is that in the Northeast, actual parents attend, not just teachers.

  87. njescapee says:

    You’re all so superior in the NE compared to the rest of the world. An old bl_ck guy I used to work with had a saying: “just give a jacka_ss a little authority and they’ll think they’re a thorough-bred.”

  88. Juice Box says:

    re # 88 njescapee – Don’t they use Y’all down there?

  89. njescapee says:

    you watch too much Paula Deen. lol

    re # 88 njescapee – Don’t they use Y’all down there?

  90. njescapee says:

    Most of my neighbors are Navy F18 fighter pilots and other officers, many young attractive women from Russia, Czech Republic Germany, Poland, a few retirees. Haven’t heard one utter “Y’all” yet.

  91. grim says:

    Midtown direct OUT OF F&CKING CONTROL WHAT IS GOING ON.

    5 OFFER BIDDING WAR ON A FRIDAY, didn’t even make it to the weekend.

  92. Juice Box says:

    njescapee – if I come down for Fantasy Fest can I crash in your back yard?

  93. joyce says:

    83

    Xolpea

    Why are you even responding

  94. njescapee says:

    sure my backyard backs right up to the 8th hole tee box. With any luck you just might bump into Jimmy Buffet, Kenney Chesney or Alan Jackson.

  95. Juice Box says:

    92 – Grim – “5 OFFER BIDDING WAR ON A FRIDAY”
    Grim surprised that a bunch of cork soakers who trade for a living were in a bidding war in that neighborhood? There real prize in that neighborhood is South Mountain Reservation where all the cork soakers go walk their dogs.

  96. Juice Box says:

    njescapee – nice street. Tell me do ducks really whistle down there?

  97. Grim says:

    Scratch that … THURsDAY?!?!????

  98. njescapee says:

    they sure do whistle at all the pretty girls

    njescapee – nice street. Tell me do ducks really whistle down there?

  99. Fabius Maximus says:

    #92 grim

    I have friends in the brig moving to a rental. Their house sold in days but their new construction is not ready until the end of summer.

  100. Fabius Maximus says:

    “Only sheep blame one person”

    No I think this guy sums up why you can blame one person.

    “By now our conservative friends watching this are upset, saying, “Yeah, there you go, still blaming Bush.” And you know what, yeah, I still blame Bush for stuff Bush did. I still blame George Lucas for Jar Jar Binks too.”

    http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/john-fugelsang-lists-george-w-bushs-good-deeds-eventually/

  101. Juice Box says:

    njescapee – I will join ya in about 20 years. Been in your neck of the woods many times and other parts of Florida. If anything you are correct lots of eye candy.

  102. Juice Box says:

    Why would two people jump off a cruise ship nearly 70 miles off shore? Very Strange.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-09/search-on-for-two-missing-from-cruise-ship/4680056

  103. njescapee says:

    Juice, we’re loving it. We’re just about finished fixing up a condo (short sale) in Ft Lauderdale area close to my son and his family as our once a month weekend getaway. Next up is to purchase one for him and his family. Market is still favorable as long as you’re patient.

    njescapee – I will join ya in about 20 years. Been in your neck of the woods many times and other parts of Florida. If anything you are correct lots of eye candy.

  104. Juice Box says:

    njescapee – sounds like a nice setup, enjoy..

  105. grim says:

    104 – If you can, let me know if something interesting pops up down your way.

  106. njescapee says:

    where? Key West or Ft. Lauderdale.

  107. njescapee says:

    There’s a 780 sf bungalow foreclosure on Merganser Lane. I’m betting the field is getting crowded. Last I saw the ask was around 170k. Needs some work but rents are 1800+/- mo. Our golf course development is really nice and prices bounced back pretty quick. I think market price is close to 300k and headed higher.

  108. Juice Box says:

    Sigh :) – Grim and me in a bidding war on a Key West property. Grim leave the dentures at home no biting!

  109. njescapee says:

    One cool fact: KW Intl Airport is 5 minutes away and serviced by Southwest, Delta, AMR with daily direct flights to New Orleans, Atlanta, Orlando and occasionally to LGA. There is no such thing as a long line for TSA.

  110. Juice Box says:

    njescappe – last trip for me was right after 9/11. Nothing like Grandma telling you to take your shoes off with two large National Guard with Rifles standing behind Grandma. Needless to say we complied.

  111. Juice Box says:

    I never did save the pics of the flying roaches in my first place in Hells Kitchen.

    These places for t look like paradise compared.

    http://theworstroom.tumblr.com/

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/worst-room-blog-dishes-horrid-new-york-rentals-article-1.1339812

  112. Ben says:

    The 10 Best Public High Schools In America

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-best-public-high-schools-in-america-2013-5?op=1#ixzz2SpULUsID

    not one in NY / NJ / CT

    I stopped once I read #10…average AP score was a 2.5. 3 is considered “passing”.

  113. xolepa (33)-

    Only if he didn’t use the $1,500 walkaway money to buy some 8 balls to pack his nose.

    “Spoke today with one of my sales guys who just gave his house back to the bank. Signed the papers. House was in Lehigh Valley, he was $80k underwater. Bank gave him and his wife each 1500 dollars walking money.

    Is something wrong with this picture?”

  114. plume (55)-

    Shit, man. Those could’ve been gubmint snipers. Harden your perimeter and keep your ass indoors at night.

    “But I must admit, and I risk ridicule by Pain, it is a bi disconcerting at first when you shine your flashlight into the trees and see five sets of eyes staring back at you. And it freaked my urban raised daughter out when I charged into the trees to see what they were.”

  115. sx (56)-

    You have a built-in advantage. Where you came from, a plate of medium-rare raccoon meat is considered a delicacy.

    “Anywhere can be great if you are employed.”

  116. jj (62)-

    Word to you, in your Don Draper cocoon: poor is the new nigger.

  117. Ragnar (74)-

    Yep. I was 10 blocks away from where Dr. King was shot that day, and it was the scariest, shittiest day of my life. Even worse than 9/11. Way worse.

    When 9/11 happened, I didn’t think for a second the US would come apart. When Dr. King was shot, I figured me and mine would all be dead within days.

  118. jj prolly doesn’t know there are parts of Jersey that are below the Mason-Dixon line.

  119. escape (95)-

    If you really cared about us, you’d cap any of those hacks if you saw them.

    Jimmy Buffett is music for accountants.

    “sure my backyard backs right up to the 8th hole tee box. With any luck you just might bump into Jimmy Buffet, Kenney Chesney or Alan Jackson.”

  120. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [117] scrapple

    Lighten up Francis, they were deer.

  121. Comrade Nom Deplume, Bostonian says:

    [101] Fabius,

    Logical, except that you and much of the left also blame bush for what Clinton did, for what Obama did, even for what Carter did. I remember some lefties blamed Bush for Katrina. Not the response–they blamed him for the actual hurricane occurring.

    Kind of hard to take a side seriously when they are blaming Bush for everything, including global warming, sex trafficking in Africa and the Andrea Doria. I never realized how perfect and idyllic things were prior to 1/20/01.

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