GOVERNMENT CRISIS: SIMPLE MATH?

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on October 14th 2013 Last week my building’s board met to discuss the need to balance our budget: we realized that Manhattan inflation had caused our operating costs to rise, hence the necessary solution: we had to raise revenues so the common charges were raised by 10% to balance the books…. [Read More]

BE CERTAIN OF MANHATTAN INFLATION…..VERY CERTAIN. (AND NO, ITS NOT 2%!)

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 3rd, 2013 The one thing that almost guarantees that real estate will continue its upward pricing trend is the fact that big city inflation is quite different from the rest of the country’s (I believe artificially deflated) inflation figures. Did cab fares go down during the recession? Food prices?… [Read More]