From the Courier News:
After strong April, is NJ real estate heating up?
Last month saw the highest number of home-sale contract signings — 9,700 — for New Jersey homes since April 2006, according to a real estate expert who tracks home sales and prices. The number of contracts in April 2006 was also close to 9,700.
Jeffrey Otteau, a Central Jersey-based appraiser, said the April 2015 sale number represented a rise of 19 percent over April 2014.
The sale numbers are a result of pent-up demand and increased confidence among home buyers, he said. The people who live, breathe and eat real estate on a daily basis — real estate brokers and managers throughout the Central Jersey market — agree that these factors are playing a role in the increasing house sales, along with rising rental rates.
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According to William O. Keleher Jr., president and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New Jersey Properties, the market’s momentum started in March, after the last snow falls of the winter.“It was a tough winter. We had snow from December through the end of February,” Keleher said. “Not only did people not want to go look at houses, but also sellers don’t like to show their homes in or after a storm, with people tracking snow and salt through their house.”
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Weichert Regional Vice President Dominic Prevete said the 23 offices in his region saw the best April in eight years. He thinks that the pent-up demand had two components: The people who were waiting during the winter, and the people who were waiting after the recession. He also thinks sellers who were waiting for home prices to rise are now putting their homes on the market. The movement among sellers began once the April market heated up.
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As a result, although the supply of homes is still tight, it’s not tight enough to inhibit demand. Multiple offers and bidding wars have tapered off in May, Prevete, Keleher and Tom Boniakowski agreed.Boniakowski’s Green Brook-based offices are seeing a lot of first-time buyers, and he says many of those buyers are in the market because rents have become so high. Mortgage money is easier to get now, and it’s not unusual for these buyers to be able to buy a home with 10 percent down payments or less.
Stuart Davis, broker of record for Davis Realty in East Brunswick and Ocean Township, agrees that first-time buyers are key players in this market. He also said it’s because rentals have become so expensive that with today’s low interest rates, it’s less expensive to buy than to rent.
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Boniakowski sees the market continuing to do well, although not necessarily as hot as April. With fewer multiple bids in May, he still calls the market “healthy.” He expects that eventually, interest rates will go up, but not just yet.“I’ve been doing comps (comparable sales analysis)” he said. “Homes are selling 3 to 5 percent higher, depending on the location.”
Prevete also is optimistic. He says homes in popular price ranges are selling well, and people are buying homes further out than they used to . In his market, that means Sparta, Chester and the Long Valley section of Washington Township are doing better than they have in years.
Good Morning New Jersey
Asbury Park was packed this weekend. Nowhere to park for the first four blocks from the beach. All the bars and restaurants were packed to the gills. Sidewalks looked like NYC.
Beach replenishment is finished in Allenhurst and progressing north in Deal. The beachfront houses there are getting huge beaches where there was once rocky coves. The quality of the sand is terrible and we can’t have bonfires this summer because of the (possibly live) ammunition that was dredged from off of Sandy Hook and deposited on our beach. The surfers and fishermen are mourning the loss of jetties and the change of wave action due to the coastline change.
Bernie gets my vote!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102694355
[2] coast
“we can’t have bonfires this summer because of the (possibly live) ammunition that was dredged from off of Sandy Hook and deposited on our beach.”
Don’t complain. You have proximity to NYC. It’s different there. Ask punkin.
Historical piece about an event that many of my friends on the left say never happened.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-26/will-hillary-clinton-run-against-her-husband-s-welfare-legacy-
The most reliable economic indicator in the area….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3097135/The-Wall-Street-escorts-earning-1-000-HOUR-Prostitution-booming-Manhattan-traders-enjoy-bumper-bonus-season.html
Need some anecdotal info from jj on the article above.
“I notice lately that some members of your generation are being called, derisively, Snowflakes. Are you really a frail, special and delicate little thing that might melt when the heat is on?
Do you wish to be known as the first generation that comes with its own fainting couch? Did first- and second-wave feminists march to the barricades so their daughters and granddaughters could act like Victorians with the vapors?
Everyone in America gets triggered every day. Many of us experience the news as a daily microaggression. Who can we sue, silence or censor to feel better?”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trigger-happy-generation-1432245600?mod=e2fb
Luge: read that over the weekend and meant to post…..
My favorite line “Yet theirs is a significant and growing form of idiocy that deserves greater response.”
Border Patrol Agents Tase an Unarmed Woman Inside the U.S.
“If you want to know how Cooke ended up on her back, screaming in pain as the barbs from a stun gun delivered incapacitating electricity into her body, there are several possible answers,” Reason’s Jacob Sullum writes. “You could say this indignity was caused by her own stubbornness, her refusal to comply with the seemingly arbitrary dictates of a Border Patrol agent who was detaining her … Or you could blame the agent’s insistence on obeisance to his authority, which led him to assault an unarmed 21-year-old woman who posed no threat to anyone. But the ultimate responsibility lies with the Supreme Court, which has invited this sort of confrontation by carving out a disturbing and dangerous exception to the Fourth Amendment.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/border-patrol-agents-tase-an-unarmed-woman-inside-the-us/394073/
8-
Millennials aka Snowflakes
“greatest generation”
The underlying problem is that tax incentives should not be needed at all.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/njs_corporate_tax_incentives_by_the_numbers.html#incart_river
Last month saw the highest number of home-sale contract signings — 9,700 — for New Jersey homes since April 2006…
And yet, the inventory levels are still “tight” according to the “experts.” Can anyone explain this to me?
Do you wish to be known as the first generation that comes with its own fainting couch?
Snowflakes. How fitting! Indeed, they are intelligent but good Chr1st almighty, they are delicate!
Mortgage money is easier to get now, and it’s not unusual for these buyers to be able to buy a home with 10 percent down payments or less.
And you wonder why some of as become unhinged. This is what I was competing against – total, f.ucking m0rons.
The NY Post article seems like an exaggerated account of parenting in the UES but I am witness to a diluted version of this, though it rhymes, just over the river in Hoboken, which to the UES mom might as well be downtown Baltimore.
The first take away for me is that absolutely none of these over-bearing parenting exercises are intended to improve the life and livelihood of the child. It is only to reinforce and validate the mom and dad’s place in the social structure. I agree that the level of schooling and exposure to fine arts etc are far more advanced than what my 4 year old currently receives. But I wonder how much of that is lost on a kid that age? They are not all prodigies. The vast majority will end up being average at best in the game of life – Is it possible that these parent’s believe that every child in their prestigous pre-k is going to be an ivy league genius, or professional athlete or noble winner?
I fully respect every parent’s right to raise their kid in whatever way the see fit, so long as it isn’t harmful. But the notion of out-sourcing the role of actual parenting and being an admirable role-model to your son’s and daughters just seems perverted to me.
Ask the kid whether they prefer Mommy to have a $30,000 hand bag or to spend an hour a day conversing and playing with him/her? Seems like UES is doing a great job of raising a better neurotic teenager and future social misanthrope.
We lock the beaches in my town at night. No bonfires, no trespassing. But the houses are getting huge. I see huge houses in places that were little bungalows.
May 26, 2015 at 7:21 am
Asbury Park was packed this weekend. Nowhere to park for the first four blocks from the beach. All the bars and restaurants were packed to the gills. Sidewalks looked like NYC.
Beach replenishment is finished in Allenhurst and progressing north in Deal. The beachfront houses there are getting huge beaches where there was once rocky coves. The quality of the sand is terrible and we can’t have bonfires this summer because of the (possibly live) ammunition that was dredged from off of Sandy Hook and deposited on our beach. The surfers and fishermen are mourning the loss of jetties and the change of wave action due to the coastline change.
[15] eddie,
Hire snowflakes only as expendable consultants and limit their contact with those who produce in the rough-and-tumble world.
I would never hire a snowflake. Lawsuit waiting to happen.
[6] DFENS
At $1,000 an hour, JJ and I would be broke.
I’d go broke faster than him because (1) he makes more and (2) he gets comped.
@17, I agree totally. For the most part kids need a strong family support in order to survive in the world. Where else can they let their guard down and be kids. If they are stuck in this world of constantly competing since pre k, some will end up believing they are failures by 5th grade with no hope. By 36 they end up killing their parent over cost of living increases for their allowance. Another example -look at the heroin problem in Franklin Lakes.
Snowflakes….I know a different type than what you are describing. And they are very accomadating and generous when playing with hubbies money.
gary (16)-
The problem is, every indicator in the housing market for the last eight years says that the sellers should be competing for YOU, not vice-versa.
There is the problem of the rigged-up scam of the current housing market, explained in one sentence.
“And you wonder why some of as become unhinged. This is what I was competing against – total, f.ucking m0rons.”
boken (17)-
This is how you get Robert Chambers types and kids who are h00ked on smack at 15. Might as well raise your kid in Brownsville; you’ll get the same outcome.
“Ask the kid whether they prefer Mommy to have a $30,000 hand bag or to spend an hour a day conversing and playing with him/her? Seems like UES is doing a great job of raising a better neurotic teenager and future social misanthrope.”
re # 18 – “But the houses are getting huge.”
Yup and tall too, I drove buy a few newly jacked up on the Jersey Shore, and they lifted the attached garage too. I wondered what the heck they are going to do with a garage so high in the air, well they are adding on sq footage by converting it into living space.
Pics below, some of these homes are now huge.
http://www.woodbywy.com/2014/09/22/raised-home-renewed-hopes-wake-sandy/
8. Was it not the adults that were so in fear after 9-11? Now they enjoy a finger stuck in their private parts so they can safely fly on an airplane. Yeah, it’s ok. I just wanna be safe when flying. George Carlin was right….
From the article…”There is no such thing as safety. That is asking too much of life. You can’t expect those around you to constantly accommodate your need for safety. That is asking too much of people.”
Housescrapers
The irony is that there is unlimited empathy among the snowflakes for those people and groups who have publicly vowed to make us all incredibly unsafe.
”There is no such thing as safety. That is asking too much of life. You can’t expect those around you to constantly accommodate your need for safety. That is asking too much of people.”
25.
House jacked up on helical piers made of metal. How long are they going to last before corrosion gets them?
28 Luge,
The ones making us unsafe are the ones on the inside. The money that runs the machine.
I nail a hottie pay the $1,000 then nail and old hag and make $1,000 it all works out
Comrade Nom Deplume, who needs to stop screwing around and get back to work says:
May 26, 2015 at 10:13 am
[6] DFENS
At $1,000 an hour, JJ and I would be broke.
I’d go broke faster than him because (1) he makes more and (2) he gets comped.
Meat [23],
And yet, I still have yet to read how this is all justifed? How can salaries be the same for 15 years running while property taxes have doubled and house prices be at this level? That, on top of the costs of day-to-day expenses that have risen astronomically. Is ZIRP the only thing holding this up?
How long have boarding schools existed? What is the big surprise? I guess seeing it up close everyday and living your own situation gives you a greater appreciation for the decision such people make in their children’s lives……for me it is a searing memory of my childhood that informs me every day as I deal with my kids.
homeboken says:
May 26, 2015 at 9:57 am
I fully respect every parent’s right to raise their kid in whatever way the see fit, so long as it isn’t harmful. But the notion of out-sourcing the role of actual parenting and being an admirable role-model to your son’s and daughters just seems perverted to me.
Re: Snowflakes.
My kids are…the color of one. That’s it. Wife is the only ‘delicate’ family member – and she’s 1/2 Sicilian!
So glad I left Morris County. The place was becoming so PC that my son’s Halloween costume (Grim Reaper) was a problem (until I called and…).
Here in Warren Co. a teacher taught the kids about discounts using a Cabela’s gun sale.
The downside is it’s a bit Redneck. For example: The first week we didn’t have a washer or dryer so we went to the Laundromat (havn’t been to one since College!).
Above every machine was a sign that read: “NO Animal Clothes!!”. LOL! – I am NOT an Animal! :).
JJ: At the Inlet in Montauk at 4:45PM on Sunday and asked for a table for dinner……she said 2 hours…..I gave her a WTF look….she said…. “This is the new Montauk”…………. also Aida Tuturro honked at my kid in the parking lot because he wasn’t moving fast enough for her…….
left at 3PM yesterday and got nailed in traffic in the Pine Barrens…..I don’t get it….why should the traffic back up there? Still left on Friday at 5PM and made it in 3 1/2 hours from Colts Neck with a stop for food for about 30 minutes…….can’t complain……
JJ says:
May 26, 2015 at 10:57 am
I nail a hottie pay the $1,000 then nail and old hag and make $1,000 it all works out
Comrade Nom Deplume, who needs to stop screwing around and get back to work says:
May 26, 2015 at 10:13 am
[6] DFENS
At $1,000 an hour, JJ and I would be broke.
I’d go broke faster than him because (1) he makes more and (2) he gets comped.
If Janice Soprano beeped at your kid he must have done something.
Two hours is pretty normal on a sunday of a three day weekend where weather is great without a reservation. It is a sign of a hot economy.
hamptons is heating up so much folks are buying in Hampton Bays, Speonk, Quoge and Westhampton which always recovers last and falls in price first
chicagofinance says:
May 26, 2015 at 11:19 am
JJ: At the Inlet in Montauk at 4:45PM on Sunday and asked for a table for dinner……she said 2 hours…..I gave her a WTF look….she said…. “This is the new Montauk”…………. also Aida Tuturro honked at my kid in the parking lot because he wasn’t moving fast enough for her…….
left at 3PM yesterday and got nailed in traffic in the Pine Barrens…..I don’t get it….why should the traffic back up there? Still left on Friday at 5PM and made it in 3 1/2 hours from Colts Neck with a stop for food for about 30 minutes…….can’t complain……
Move along, nothing to see here.
N.J. pays fired housing recovery firm $7M to settle Sandy dispute
TRENTON — The state is paying a fired Hurricane Sandy housing recovery contractor another $7 million to settle a dispute over $21 million the company insisted it was owed after fewer than eight months of services that were plagued by stagnation, delays, and inefficiencies.
The state Department of Community Affairs announced the settlement with Louisiana-based Hammerman & Gainer Inc. late Friday afternoon heading into a Memorial Day weekend when many Sandy victims are still out of their homes more than two years after the storm.
HGI, which drew complaints from residents after recovery efforts in Louisiana and Texas, was hired by New Jersey in May 2013 to administer the state’s major rebuilding grant, the Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation Program, as well as the Homeowner Resettlement Program, which gave financial incentives for residents not to abandon their damaged or destroyed homes.
But Gov. Chris Christie’s administration quietly fired the firm on Dec. 6, 2013, after Sandy victims bombarded the state with complaints about lost paperwork, redundancies and ineptness by employees hired by HGI. Under the terms of the termination agreement, HGI continued to provide services until Jan. 20, 2014.
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2015/05/nj_pays_fired_housing_recovery_firm_7m_to_settle_s.html
re: # 35 _ Walked into Klein’s at 6 PM last night, there was no line, they were however sold out of oysters, 1.5 lb lobsters and all of cheaper wines.
[20] Nom – Maybe they prorate? $1,000 an hour is less than $17 per minute;-)
At $1,000 an hour, JJ and I would be broke.
just need a “puffer” to warm me up and then just pay the $17 a minute for the money shot
The Original NJ ExPat says:
May 26, 2015 at 11:54 am
[20] Nom – Maybe they prorate? $1,000 an hour is less than $17 per minute;-)
At $1,000 an hour, JJ and I would be broke.
[21] JJ
“I nail a hottie pay the $1,000 then nail and old hag and make $1,000 it all works out”
Suddenly, I regret asking the question.
[39] expat,
I probably won’t qualify for the prorated amount.
And besides, I doubt they go by the minute. When I am screwing someone, it is in six-minute increments (the lawyers will get that one).
Now I understand why VD is a rampant problem in retirement communities
JJ says:
May 26, 2015 at 10:57 am
I nail a hottie pay the $1,000 then nail and old hag and make $1,000 it all works out
I still see older people selling because they have to. They lost their jobs in the recession and maybe they got new jobs, but they don’t pay as well. So they’ve been struggling for years, and now that the market is improving, they’re selling their homes because they really can’t hold onto them any longer.”
[insert much sarcasm] Astounding. They can’t hold them any longer yet prices are rising amid THE MOST SALES IN APRIL SINCE 2006 but the inventory is tight. THE INVENTORY IS TIGHT! The level of stench is remarkable.
[35] chi – This confused the hell out of me until I sorted it out logically. There either has to be A.) a “Montauk” in NJ or B.)a Pine Barrens in LI. The correct answer is B.
JJ: At the Inlet in Montauk at 4:45PM on Sunday and asked for a table for dinner……she said 2 hours…..I gave her a WTF look….she said…. “This is the new Montauk”…………. also Aida Tuturro honked at my kid in the parking lot because he wasn’t moving fast enough for her…….
left at 3PM yesterday and got nailed in traffic in the Pine Barrens…..I don’t get it….why should the traffic back up there? Still left on Friday at 5PM and made it in 3 1/2 hours from Colts Neck with a stop for food for about 30 minutes…….can’t complain……
chicagofinance says:
May 26, 2015 at 11:12 am
How long have boarding schools existed? What is the big surprise? I guess seeing it up close everyday and living your own situation gives you a greater appreciation for the decision such people make in their children’s lives…
This is exactly correct – For me, growing up in a 3 income home (dad always had 2 jobs) going to boarding school was about a foreign a concept as going to Mars. Hell – paying for school when a free option was offered would be considered absurd by my parents.
Not a comment on those that pay for school or which is correct – but just agreeing with ChiFi that it’s not until I have my own kids and witness the type of parenting in the NYPost article that this occurred.
JJ: If you use the Southern State at all, the Starbucks in Bohemia at Exit 48 off the Sunrise Highway is a godsend if you have kids…..it is empty, huge, newish, clean…..there is DD, Baskin Robbins and a supermarket there……drive through if you need it…..
Ever hang with people who were sent to boarding schools by their parents……more strikingly subsequent to being raised by nannies? The formality of the relationship between parent and child is so bizarre……conversation feels as if business is being conducted……
…Father….
I dont go to the Hamptons anymore as Yogi says it is so crowed nobody goes there anymore.
I went to the “unhamptons” this weekend. Atlantic Beach, NY. It is crazy close to the City like 21 miles from Manhattan. The beaches are spotless and not crowded at all. Lots of Wall Street folks own houses there, check out this home for sale.
1554 Bay Blvd, Atlantic Beach NY, 11509
chicagofinance says:
May 26, 2015 at 12:20 pm
JJ: If you use the Southern State at all, the Starbucks in Bohemia at Exit 48 off the Sunrise Highway is a godsend if you have kids…..it is empty, huge, newish, clean…..there is DD, Baskin Robbins and a supermarket there……drive through if you need it….
Amen! This post and post 17 hit the nail on the head. Why would you set you kid up for impossible expectations? Mine as well shoot them in the head. So much harm being done.
Walking Bye says:
May 26, 2015 at 10:24 am
@17, I agree totally. For the most part kids need a strong family support in order to survive in the world. Where else can they let their guard down and be kids. If they are stuck in this world of constantly competing since pre k, some will end up believing they are failures by 5th grade with no hope. By 36 they end up killing their parent over cost of living increases for their allowance. Another example -look at the heroin problem in Franklin Lakes.
[46] ‘boken
” Hell – paying for school when a free option was offered would be considered absurd by my parents.”
For reasons I cannot fathom, my wife finds that to be a alien concept. My $0.02 is that, in our situation, having private school from K-8 is ridiculous: Go public and spend a portion of what you saved on tutors/Kumon/Huntington/Mathnasium/etc.
Chi/Home:
As a former sleepaway camp counselor at both a cheap Y camp that had a decent share of Fresh Air Fund kids and a rich bitch camp in the Catskills that was whiter and more spoiled than the easter half of Hoboken, I can unequivocally pronounce the latter set of kids significantly less socially equipped. Plus, the value system of the upper middle class kids was f’ed up beyond reproach. Sadly, I only found camaraderie among the imported international staff and the help in the kitchen. Though, I was elected counselor of the year the first and only year I worked there. Like young dogs, these kids craved discipline. It also helped when I taught them the time-honored Summer camp tradition of establishing nicknames for every single person based on physical or social shortcomings. Though I did get reprimanded once for tying up a five-year-old once who would constantly run away at meal time. Funny though, his parents gave me a huge tip and said I worked wonders with him. Even more bizarre, that kids family was from Upper Montclair.
He seems to have done well for himself!
http://tinyurl.com/little-MH
There was this one kid who was afraid of his own shadow. We nicknamed him ‘Thunder’. I’m sure that name stuck better than glue.
[8] luge,
Hotair isn’t buying Noonan’s take
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/22/the-trigger-happy-generation-phony-passive-aggression-for-thought-police/
I have to agree with Morrissey here. The snowflakes might be getting the vapors now but they will get over them. What they won’t get over is their self-righteous attitude and that translates into something far more sinister than victimhood.
I think it might stop once a sizeable number of these future “community organizers” are found in their flats or the basements of the churches they use with a single entry wound to the back of the head. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
This should be on a rubber stamp that goes on the rejection letter of every snowflake:
“You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.”
Tyler Durden, Fight Club
The problem with helicopter parenting is that eventually your kid will have to figure out how to live independent of you. If you are lucky, you’ll get the kid who smoothly makes the transition. If you are unlucky, you’ll get the kid who enjoys this newly found freedom so much that everything you taught him or her goes straight out the window. As a resident assistant in college, I saw plenty of both and the rebellious ones were pretty scary. Some would get addicted to booze. Others to sex. Even worse, were the kids who all of a sudden would behave recklessly putting their own lives in danger.
Recently, I found out that most of the kids on my son’s hockey team go to private lessons. Keep in mind, these are nine and ten-year-old boys. They get up at 4:45am every Friday morning before school so they can be on the ice at 5:30. Though I was extremely proud of my son for making it on the top team at his club (AA to those who follow it), I was even more impressed that he did it without me spending $400 a month on privates. But at the same time, when I found out that Gator Jr. was in the minority, I informally asked around the locker room at my game what the other parents did with their kids at that age. Keep in mind, I’m one of the younger players on my team, so many of the other dads are between five and ten years older. What they revealed was striking. Nearly every one of the kids who went to privates before age 12 quit playing by the time they were in high school. Conversely, nearly every one of the kids who never took privates or whose parents waited until they were Bantams (13 typically) all played in high school and many still play in college. I share this, because I think it closely relates to the impact of over parenting and is probably what causes teen rebellion. I know a lot about this up close. I rebelled myself but straightened it out my sophomore year in college. Though the damage of my 1.8 GPA as a Frosh was really hard to move.
That dudes “who is looking at your…” page on linkedin is going to blow up this week, he’s going to be scratching his head for weeks.
Precisely why I didn’t include his name in the link from here.
It’s kind of fun looking up the Bebo’s of one’s past. I have no clue how I even remembered his name, but the picture of him now looks a lot like he did at 5 or 6 years old.
[8] Clot – You might enjoy thins nice follow-on salvo:
An older generation would have chanted Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never microaggress me, or something to that effect.
If these activists were on the level, Noonan’s column would be a lovely antidote for their childish hyperanxiety. However, these are not honest brokers. The fainting couch is just a feint. Their intent isn’t to be allowed to continue as fragile snowflakes, but rather to use guilt and oversensitivity to argue for speech control, and even thought control.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/22/the-trigger-happy-generation-phony-passive-aggression-for-thought-police/
56- Lib, so on point with the kids who had helicopter parents and couldn’t do anything. As soon as they go to college, boom, parents money goes down the drain. My friend went to rutgers and spent the first year partying in clubs in the city and became addicted to drugs. Kid was a straight A student in high school. He had never done anything wrong in his life. Went to college, had his first taste of freedom and didn’t know how to handle it. Parents made him an expert liar being so strict. One of the best pathological liars I have ever met. Last time I checked he moved to San Antonio, knocked up a half- mexican americanized girl. He then got arrested in a sting for prostitutes while he was on the clock as an emt. So the girl left him(not sure if they were married). Long story short, his parents created this monster.
Huh, I guess JJ really does know how to make money.
Women are buying more sex than ever before, new research claims
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-are-buying-more-sex-than-ever-before-new-research-claims-10272103.html
Lib – Forget about hockey privates for Lil Gator. You need to save up for the $400/hr play date tutor for Gator III – How would they interpret the fact that he would beat senseless another two year old who ate a goldfish cracker he dropped on the floor even if he still had 20 others left on his plate? I’ll also be expecting one of those “annual wife bonuses” this year.
“plus women who are given bonuses by their husbands — the so-called “annual wife bonus” based on how well she manages their kids and the home. ”
http://pagesix.com/2015/05/25/rich-upper-east-side-moms-panicking-over-tell-all-book/?_ga=1.153357624.1083633321.1431702963
60 – I know him very well.
Was actually at his house in SA for a birthday party a few months ago.
Do I know you outside of the blog?
60, I agree. I know a lot of parents who are enables and in total denial!
Guy I know at the gym putting house on market, he is leaving for Park City , Utah to ski all day and night. Well took a look at the place, Hudson Street, Waldwick NJ , lists for 489K. He acts like a big shot, I assumed he was loaded due to coming and going to Utah 6 months here and the other in Utah. Talks a great game. Told me actually it was in Allendale first until I could not find the listing. I asked him again and he told me the street. Well he told me the realtor thought he listed it too low!! HAHA, the place is a wreck and he lives with his 90 year old mother who owns the house. Pathetic!
JJ, one of your proteges is in trouble. . . .
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealth-manager-had-affair-client-165040514.html
[59] expat
You’re four positions behind.
[67] marilyn
And ask him if he is really moving to Park City or someplace like Kimball Junction. Big difference. Kinda like living in Plainsboro but telling everyone you live in Princeton
I was involved with a crazy girl who worked at Goldman once, power hungry back stabbing and revenge seeking to say the least. Bottom line we both can’t be on top and I am the only one throwing his bat into the upper deck.
Comrade Nom Deplume, the anon-tidote says:
May 26, 2015 at 3:00 pm
JJ, one of your proteges is in trouble. . . .
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealth-manager-had-affair-client-165040514.html
What are you willing to do for your children?
I guess we are dating ourselves here but we grew up at a time where you could still get a pretty decent education going to public schools. And most people have this notion that “if it was good enough for me, it’s good enough for my kids” type attitude towards public school. I would venture to say that a good portion of people would NOT want their kids to go to that same school today! Times have changed, and there are too many distractions today. And as many of us have commented on the quality of kids interviewing for jobs today, you want them to have as much advantage as possible. Even if it’s a perceived advantage so you spend on private school or pay high taxes in a good public school district.
Actually let me rephrase my question…what are you willing to do for your children above what you currently pay in property taxes?
Its already a sick feeling when you realize you have become a bagholder. It’s probably equally sick feeling when you realize that the school district that the realtor / neighbors described that help influence your decision to buy there in the first place…they were describing it prior to 2000 and doesn’t apply today. You are stuck paying high taxes in school district that you may not want to send your kids to.
Marilyn gym really? Sounds more like the losers on Match or other dating sites.
re 60, 64, 65
Is this like in Fight Club when Ed Norton’s character finally starts to realize he and Brad Pitt’s character are the same person?
re # 68 – lol – Florida Elder Exploitation Law
That old Gheezer knew what he was doing that is why he hired a “full-service” broker.
Just remembered a story a friend told me who’s child goes to a prominent ($30k/year) private school in NJ. He described the a very bright straight A kid with a dark side. While on a field trip going through the park, he sneaked up behind two kids with a blade and whispered “I could have k…. you two for fun just then”.
I’m handling a matter that may involve looking at a lot of Section 8 regs and dealing with HUD, something I have managed to avoid all of these years.
I went through the OGC list to see if any HUD attorneys might have gone to my alma maters. Of the ones I searched, half of them are Howard University grads. And the rest could have been. Lot of them are lifers so you can’t say that this is totally a reflection of the current administration.
But it does remind me of a pharma company that brought in a new GC, a real poser, who came in and fired all of the white faces. Later, a sales manager said “he was trying to remake the department in his image.”
Karma’s a bitch in that I heard he and his protege (young, attractive, stacked, female who couldn’t figure out how to do much of anything) lost that gig and kept getting dinged at other pharma companies because the folks he fired blackballed him and his skank. Moral of the story is you can’t be doing that in the private sector–you will get burned. But gov? Different matter apparently.
74 – I am a little bit surprised here, I am very good friends with the person/family mentioned. Was in his brothers wedding, and his brother was in mine. So I’m a bit intrigued now.
Lmao….that is crazy!! Initials are C B? If this is the same guy, this is proof that what I say on here is the truth. I’m not a troll or a catfish story. I can’t get over this right now. He is my age, so like 34/35 and has an older brother with the initials e b. Small world!!! We have probably ran into each other in life at some point. I def don’t know who you are, but just funny how our lives have crossed paths!! Awesome.
Grim says:
May 26, 2015 at 2:42 pm
60 – I know him very well.
Lmao!!!
Marilyn says:
May 26, 2015 at 2:51 pm
Guy I know at the gym putting house on market, he is leaving for Park City , Utah to ski all day and night. Well took a look at the place, Hudson Street, Waldwick NJ , lists for 489K. He acts like a big shot, I assumed he was loaded due to coming and going to Utah 6 months here and the other in Utah. Talks a great game. Told me actually it was in Allendale first until I could not find the listing. I asked him again and he told me the street. Well he told me the realtor thought he listed it too low!! HAHA, the place is a wreck and he lives with his 90 year old mother who owns the house. Pathetic!
#79…it will turn out that Grim and Michael are really best buds…
Learnings from S.I. BBQ with NYPD/FDNY:
Pensions: those greedy 1%’ers are stealing your pensions…see
NY Rangers: NHL has fixed all the series to go 7 games to make more money
Too funny. I’m a die hard rangers fan and my wife is convinced it’s fixed. Her thinking, do you know how much money a game 7 brings in at msg. Rangers have made so much money in the past few years with so many game 7’s. As an owner, your worst nightmare is a sweep. Lose almost 50% of your revenue as compared to a 7 game series.
1987 Condo says:
May 26, 2015 at 4:52 pm
Learnings from S.I. BBQ with NYPD/FDNY:
Pensions: those greedy 1%’ers are stealing your pensions…see
NY Rangers: NHL has fixed all the series to go 7 games to make more money
His brother is doing extremely well for himself, which pretty much debunks your position by the way.
I’m sick of the Rangers, Callahan should stop them from getting to the Finals just as a matter of Karma. What kind of team trades their captain and karma should dictate that Martin St. Louis never win a cup for behaving so childishly. My money is on Anaheim to win it all, I am against the same teams perennially being in the finals.
Lol I knew that was coming. He should have been there right there with his brother. Highly intelligent, but too smart for his own good. Good tennis player too. That family is good people. Glad to hear his brother is doing great. I hope everything ends up well with cb.
Grim says:
May 26, 2015 at 5:04 pm
His brother is doing extremely well for himself, which pretty much debunks your position by the way.
Screw cally. He wanted more than he was worth. Loved him, but he would have killed the rangers with that contract. Bought my brother a Callahan jersey and the following year he is gone. Wtf!
The legend of lundqvist grows after they comeback and win it in game 7. He is a special player and these situations were meant for special players to become legends. This is how it happens. The king of do or die!! Lgr!!
jcer says:
May 26, 2015 at 5:05 pm
I’m sick of the Rangers, Callahan should stop them from getting to the Finals just as a matter of Karma. What kind of team trades their captain and karma should dictate that Martin St. Louis never win a cup for behaving so childishly. My money is on Anaheim to win it all, I am against the same teams perennially being in the finals.
Y’all know that the rest of the world “knows” that ISIS is a CIA creation to give the United States a pre-text for going back into the Middle east…see..no ISIS attacks in the US, how do you explain that?! Handling the Ranger games is a no brainer!
1987 (81)-
If this is true, this blog has entered the endtimes.
“#79…it will turn out that Grim and Michael are really best buds…”
I’m so not the sharpest tool in the shed that I just caught it now. Apologies for raising my hand second and pretending to be first.
Comrade Nom Deplume, the anon-tidote says:
May 26, 2015 at 3:03 pm
[59] expat
You’re four positions behind.
[74] Holy crap. I keep forgetting that grim and pumpscum are about the same age. I always think of grim as someone two or three years younger than my old self and HR pumpinstuff as a 21 year old doofus who was just given Nana’s house.
re 60, 64, 65
Is this like in Fight Club when Ed Norton’s character finally starts to realize he and Brad Pitt’s character are the same person?
Saw the story on the hate letter left in a Lindenhurst mailbox.
Is it my imagination or are the 2nd and 3rd lines grammatically stunted? It just reads funny, as if the person who wrote it is an ESL resident.
My hunch is that it is a) a kid or b) an asian. But given the past history of things like this, I can’t rule out the homeowner.
[56] Lib – You’re thinking binary (That’s helicopter parenting. Full control, all the time). The right way, IMO, is analog. You keep showing up to do two or three things. 1.) Protect them, less and less as time goes on. 2.)Encourage them, keep it at a moderate and realistic level, appropriate with their skills. 3.) Trust them, at a continually higher, and higher level. If you do it right, your values (or some combination and permutation) become their values and they can just fly where ever they want to after that.
This Memorial day weekend we allowed our 13-year-old to go into Boston by herself (no cell phone, btw), meet a handful of friends for a movie matinee, both ways on the subway/trolley by herself. She wasn’t afraid. We knew she could do it, and we knew it would build her independence and her self esteem and her confidence that we trust her to handle herself out in the world, at least that little bit.
The problem with helicopter parenting is that eventually your kid will have to figure out how to live independent of you. If you are lucky, you’ll get the kid who smoothly makes the transition. If you are unlucky, you’ll get the kid who enjoys this newly found freedom so much that everything you taught him or her goes straight out the window.
“The fainting couch is just a feint. Their intent isn’t to be allowed to continue as fragile snowflakes, but rather to use guilt and oversensitivity to argue for speech control, and even thought control.”
Beginning already. I have adults in meetings ‘excusing’ their bad behavior because they have ‘issues’. Person probably does, know his child and he is deeply ocd. Still, many of us tired of the dad basically behaving in whatever churlish way he wanted and then offloading it on his disorder.
Confronted him. Basically we told him get his sh!t together meds if necessary or GTFO. Funny how the symptoms receded quickly.
Personally, I have just about enough friends/associates with this OCD shit. Even with the crazy powerful meds they put you on to control it, it seems to still be there in the background, plus the meds turn you into a drooling zombie.
Whoops moderated.
Expat. Exactly.