New York Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries has a very promising career ahead of  him. He was instrumental in having Cathie Black fired and may have his sights on the US Congress.  But Mr. Jeffries latest bill proposal, about regulating up-and-coming neighborhood names, sounds to me like a stunt.  Someone needs to advise the Assemblyman that there is actual real estate crime occurring in Brooklyn.

BTW, I’m thinking of telling people that I live in NoCroHisDis.

I like to think the comment below is more representative of my work:

“You’ve been incredibly helpful, and if we do in fact choose to move forward with our home search, we would very much like to stay working with you. In our house-hunting experience over the past month, you, by a long shot, come across as a genuine advisor who wants to be our advocate.”

- Paymon

Thanks Paymon, you made my week!

Jim,

I think you’ll get a kick out of this. We are refinancing our home through a mortgage broker that shall remain anonymous. Among the mountain of paperwork they asked for, we were asked to provide our most recent bank statement. It had to be an official bank statement with the full account number (like the ones the bank sends monthly) not a download from online banking. So we sent them our February 2010 bank statement. It was rejected…want to guess why? February only has 28 days and the mortgage broker insisted on 30!
Anyway, just wanted to send this your way. We still love our apartment!

Take Care,

Julie

Walk-through: David Gahr House

I’ve spoken many an angry word about this topic, but after reading this article (link below) all I could think was, we all need to be careful.

The Brooklyn Paper: A jarring reminder of a dead biker