Weekend Warriors [NOT 30/7/21]

30/7/21 KeitelBlacksmith 14

Got anything special going on? Ellie and I are going to a baby shower tomorrow. The couple are expecting twins. Other than that it will be a nice and calm weekend.

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  1. have fun at the baby shower!
    ive got f1….got my live commentary thing to run…..work work work
    sooo..yeah..nah
    nothing here
    just arsing around on the interwebs and drinking beer
    finding shit that works at the speed of my brain
    like this


    its fucking damn near soothing to me

  2. Overtime weekend warrior!
    All three days of the long weekend.
    EXCITING!  WEE!
    Not really.  Also a relative’s b-day next week and then the sweet release of a weekend of no work.
     

  3. …I’d like to say catching up on some sleep but I don’t want to jinx it…&…it’s possible bits of my family have other plans…so…only time will tell, I guess?

  4. It’s been such a busy few weeks, I don’t want to do anything. But I have a friend who is feeling a little down so I’m thinking I should bake him something and visit. 

  5. I am enjoying a Better Half-less weekend. A friend of mine offered to come pick me and the dog up and drives us to her new home (another Manhattan refugee) but despite the allure of a yard I turned her down. I’d have to make myself presentable for too much of it. 

  6. Since it is very late (or very early the following morning) I hope anyone who stumbles upon this will forgive my Manhattan real estate obsessive posting:

    https://nypost.com/2021/07/30/green-goblins-lair-from-spider-man-lists-for-1-99m/

    There’s something very wrong with this. Why is the price so low? (Low being relative.)

    This is the real listing:

    https://www.compass.com/listing/5-tudor-city-place-unit-ph5-manhattan-ny-10017/834785164960312569/

    This still doesn’t explain it. Tudor City Place is a little out-of-the-way but presumably you’d drive or be driven. TCP is a very good address, even if it is hard by the FDR. I actually know this building, at least from the outside, because it’s near the UN and it’s where there’s this little tunnel for cars.

    It is a co-op, and those are cheaper than condos or single-family houses per-sq.foot. It requires a minimum of 25% down, but that’s not bad for good co-ops, I know of many that require 100% full payment AND proof that you have enough liquid assets to cover the monthlies for a year or more.

    Speaking of, the maintenance, at $3,441 a month, is not bad either for a prewar co-op. There are a whopping 788 “residences” in this building which might be a turnoff but when chaos strikes (as it will in a building built in 1930) and you have to replace a roof or the elevators or something the pain will be shared among 788 “shareholders.” When you buy into a co-op you don’t actually own your apartment; you own enough shares in the building that make up the “residence” you will be inhabiting. 

    When we were apartment hunting we only considered condominiums because in a co-op there’s the dreaded Board Review and they can turn you down for any reason and do not have to tell anyone, including you, why. Horror stories abound. Some won’t allow shares to be bought by gay people, or Black people, and Better Half is both. Some used to exclude Jews but I think that is a thing of the past. And if the Board allowed this apartment to be filmed for three “Spider-Man” movies they must have pretty loose rules. I don’t think my condominium building would allow it. 

    There’s an Open House today and I may just go. That interior staircase is daunting but it will be motivation enough to leave the Rollator at home. 

  7. Men go to baby showers now? Wow, I’m old. I am glad to see men stepping up and sharing the pain though. I actually don’t know anything about small humans, my go-to gift was Series EE bonds.

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