OK, the weekend's over and I'm back from my class. If anyone has questions about landlord/tenant law or how often a water tank needs to be cleaned, I'm your gal.
First: Read this wonderful piece in the Times Real Estate section about my former colleague Jason. (He takes those photos that I always post on this blog.) I totally remember when our office got that little studio and no client wanted it. When we got it the walls were orange and dusty. Jason did an amazing job with the place.
Second: Last week I lost a deal because of some bad reviews about a building Yelp. A building, I might add, that is owned by arguably one of the best landlords in town. We all know that people only write bad reviews on Yelp when they're disgruntled, crazy or all of the above. They should be taken with a grain of salt.
I wrote this piece for the Huffington Post two years ago when a similar incident occurred. Admittedly I'm bitter because I'm out of a commission, but the larger issue that's been raised is how when one contacts Yelp to discuss these bad reviews, they refuse to take them down, citing that they fall under the umbrella of Fair Comment. (I'm not sure how fair it is to malign someone's business because a super didn't respond to a call fast enough, but whatever.) Clearly, I'm not the biggest fan of Yelp, or any of these review sites.
Last but not least, a little cartoon for you Carl Sagan fans:
