Category Archives: Humor

Loveshack case gets more interesting

Posted on January 15, 2014 by grim

From the Record: Real estate agent, accused of having sex in Wayne client’s home, claims extortion in countersuit Pay me $990,000 or have your love nest exposed and your reputation destroyed. That’s the choice a Wayne real estate agent claims … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, New Jersey Real Estate | 95 Comments

Loveshack baby loveshack!

Posted on December 23, 2013 by grim

From the Record: Suit: Real estate agents used Wayne home for sex A former president of the Passaic County Board of Realtors is accused in a lawsuit of steering potential buyers away from a couple’s vacant Wayne home so he … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, New Jersey Real Estate | 69 Comments

As if anyone needed a reason to be (or stay) here

Posted on November 6, 2013 by grim

From Movoto: 28 Reasons You Need To Move To New Jersey 1. Diners Are the Only Restaurants You Ever Need 2. Taylor Ham, Egg, and Cheese, Salt, Pepper, Ketchup on a Roll 3. You Know in Your Heart North Jersey … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor | 117 Comments

So much for that Code of Ethics

Posted on July 8, 2013 by grim

From the NY Daily News: Real estate agent fired from job after dumping dead animals on neighbor’s property: cops If good fences make good neighbors, these folk should have opted for barbed wire. Two Pennsylvania realtors have been cited for … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Trash | 82 Comments

Cost to raise a kid in Manhattan just went up by $6.2 million

Posted on April 1, 2013 by grim

From the Atlantic: A $6.2 Million Apartment for a 2-Year-Old? Such is NYC’s Luxury Housing Market Talk about investing in the future. A Chinese woman recently purchased a $6.5 million condo in the One57 building in Midtown Manhattan, which is … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor | 62 Comments

Buyer must feed squirrels

Posted on January 12, 2013 by grim

From the WSJ: Can I Buy Your House, Pretty Please? Rob and Julia Israch won a fierce bidding war for a three-bedroom townhouse in Mountain View, Calif., late last year even though their $750,000 offer—while $92,000 above the asking price—was … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor | 67 Comments

Something to do while you sit around in the AC Open Discussion

Posted on July 7, 2012 by grim

From the Movoto Blog: Real World Monopoly: Marvin Gardens is the New Boardwalk We were both renters and landlords, we fought over who could be the ‘car’ and we hid stashes of $100s under the board. Monopoly took hold on … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor | 48 Comments

Jamie says all clear on the housing front

Posted on March 29, 2012 by grim

From CNBC: Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon The U.S. housing market is very close to a bottom and there are already signs its improvement is giving a boost to the overall economy, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, Humor | 116 Comments

Mob extorts subprime lender, not sure who the crook is

Posted on November 2, 2011 by grim

From the Post: Mortgage firm is Mafia Inc: feds It was a hostile corporate takeover — Mafia-style. The son of jailed former Lucchese boss Nicodemo “Little Nicky’’ Scarfo used the trusted mob technique of extortion to gain control of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, National Real Estate, Risky Lending | 92 Comments

Cheap Nompounds go Mainstream (huh?)

Posted on April 16, 2010 by grim

From the NY Times: Happily Settling for a More Modest Country Getaway BUYERS looking for a country house in the Hudson Valley or the Catskills in New York State have settled on a more modest ideal: between $200,000 and $250,000 … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, National Real Estate | 428 Comments

Frat House Bordello

Posted on April 8, 2010 by grim

From the LA Times: Foreclosure auction of Nicolas Cage’s mansion is a flop Nicolas Cage is leaving Bel-Air. And not by choice. The fate of the sprawling Tudor mansion owned by the actor, who won an Oscar for his role … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreclosures, Humor | 891 Comments

Shore rentals in demand for the Summer of ’10

Posted on February 23, 2010 by grim

From the NY Daily News: Want to roll in Snooki’s sheets? ‘Jersey Shore’s’ Seaside Heights, N.J., house is $1,800 a night How about a roll in Snooki’s sheets? For $1,800 a night, you can grace the ground zero of Guido … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor | 507 Comments

Own a priceless piece of history (at its 1987 price)

Posted on November 2, 2009 by grim

From the Star Ledger: Whitney Houston unloading Mendham estate Whitney Houston has put the 5-acre Mendham estate where she married singer Bobby Brown on the market for $2.5 million, far less than its assessed value of $5.6 million. The 12,561-square-foot … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, New Jersey Real Estate | 24 Comments

Look at the bright side, at least they got multiple offers

Posted on July 21, 2009 by grim

NYC Comp Killer 151 East 58th St Unit 34C, One Beacon Court (aka the Dreier Residence, aka Bloomberg Tower) Purchased: 2007 Purchase Price: $10.4 Million Sold: 7/21/2009 Sale Price: $8.2 Million 21% below 2007 purchase price! (Not to mention numerous … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing Bubble, Humor, National Real Estate | 26 Comments

“Here’s the reality: the Gotti’s gotta go.”

Posted on May 12, 2009 by grim

From Newsday: Moving out Gotti? LI mansion again in foreclosure Victoria Gotti is boiling mad. The daughter of the late mob boss John Gotti may lose her sprawling Old Westbury mansion after all, according to a state Appellate Division ruling. … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, Humor | 279 Comments