So you’re looking for a new apartment and everyone you’ve spoken to says living in Brooklyn has been the best decision they’ve made. Their only regret is that they hadn’t moved here sooner.
After all the great reviews you’re ready to move to the borough and get your brownstone stoop sittin’ on.
So you pepper your friends with questions about how they found their new place, only to discover how indiscriminate their search efforts were. Especially after hearing…
“I found it while reading through reviews on Yelp” or “I spotted it on Craigslist after skimming 300 links“. And my personal favorite,”I saw 3 brokers on HotPads advertise the same apartment at different rents…so I called the one asking the lowest and got it“.
Whose got time for all that manual Internet searching. Certainly not you. But if not you then who? Somebody’s got to scour the web for all those townhouse apartments available in the neighborhood you want to live in.
Why not let Google do the search for you?
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One of my favorite blogs on the Internet is Brownstoner.
Started back on October 2004, it’s become a vital resource for all who venture to become homeowners in Brooklyn.
One of its most popular series is The House of the Day. The point of the series is to solicit readers’ responses to the listing and offer an opinion on what it’s worth in relation to the broker’s list price.
On July 20, 2010, they selected 176 Adelphi Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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Almost a month later and still no NEW My Brooklyn Report…what’s going on?
It’s been hard for us not to publish new content about Brownstone Brooklyn Real Estate for over a month. We’ve got more than a month’s worth of content on the shelf that will leap off the screen at you.
And my new editor (Ayesha Long) has already began flexing her muscle around our offices at Dumbo.
She’s insisting that we resume publishing so that our readers won’t think they’ve been abandoned by it’s chief agitator (and I think she may have been referring to me).
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Since our humble beginnings back in July 2009, I and a small team have been hard at work bringing you coverage of New York City’s other real estate world: Brooklyn.
We made our bones by delving into stories about 1576 Fulton Street and places like it, while raising attention to the dark side of foreclosure in Bedford Stuyvesant and other neighborhoods.
While we’ve dialed back our political commentary on some of our favorite elected officials, we did so with the intent of bringing you an on the ground view of the borough’s neighborhoods, its people and the houses they call home.
Now we’re ready to push the envelope and take this to a whole other level.
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Wealthy homeowners can be a cut throat crowd. They didn’t accumulate their fortunes by conforming to the rules. For them, real estate is just one more asset on their balance sheet.
Every area of their financial life is calculated in net worth, the difference between assets and liabilities. And it’s that very same outlook that finds 1 in 7 homeowners in default and facing foreclosure with a mortgage balance above $1 million.
While they receive some of the treatment from lenders that other homeowners do when their behind in their mortgage payments, their ethics are rarely ever bought into question.
So why are middle class homeowners made to feel immoral when they can’t pay their mortgage?
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