We have received a lot of feedback regarding abuse of our anonymous posting feature - users replying to themselves, posting profanity laden comments and creating streams of insulting off-topic posts. In order to help with these issues we've decided to remove the ability to post anonymously.
Going forward all posts will show your 'display name', which you can select the next time you post to our message boards (it appears just above the comment box.) Your display name can be the same as your login name, or it can be something different. We know that some of you may have personal information in your login name, using a display name keeps this private.
All your old posts will still remain anonymous, nothing posted before today will change. We hope that this feature helps to continue to build the great community around our forums!
thats a great move! I hate it when people post anonymously with anonymous names to an anonymous board! I especially hate it when a board kowtows complaints from brokers about anti-broker rhetoric for fear of losing future advertising. I applaud StreetEasy....for selling out.
totallyanonymous is totally right. I predict that StreetEasy is going down in flames for removing anonymous. totallyanonymous is not anonymous anymore. I mean, we don't know who they are, but they are definitely not anonymous, because there can only be one totallyanonymous.
Perhaps it's just summer but the board seems rather uninteresting of late, I wonder if the now defunct 'anonymous' has anything to do with it?
Anonymous
No offense man, it may be sad but people do come back to read a lot of those "controversial" comments, so in a strange way a lot of those posters may have actually been doing you a favor.
I personally only try to insult those that deserve it.
The renters vs homeowner threads are boring. You see the exact same discussions on Curbed and Brownstoner. You could practically create a template for them. Good move, Matt. I love the site, but I was a bit disappointed with the level of informed mudslinging here. People innocently asking for info got flamed for no good reason.
zorki, considering the time and effort some of the posters seem to be putting into their messages, sometime might qualify as 'informed mudslinging'. It doesn't make them informing, though.
This building has just renegotiated its land lease and unfortunately the maintenance went way up to cover the new rent. However, the building is in the process of purchasing the land which will at least make the maintenance tax deductible.
I am currently trying to sell my one bed coop apt at the moment. I don't really have any issues dealing with my coop board, but I am very worried that they won't accept what is deemed too low of a bid. The apt is a recent listing - priced very competitively and in move in condition. There is almost zero traffic, pretty demoralizing. I don't think this is just a 'coop' problem, but a general issue with the fact that prices are too high and people are just broke. Lovely combo. I have no idea what I'm going to do, because I really want to move. Anyone else stuck in a similar situation?
Thank you, thank you for making people stand behind what they say on these boards. I don't read Curbed.com boards anymore because they are constantly digressing into childish insults, it's frustrating when you are trying to gather information to have to sift through that kind of negativity. And I am not a broker or in anyway related to the RE industry, just trying to buy a home.
Curbed doesn't do anonymous posting anymore either, but its all a moot point considering you can make as many screen names as you want and can't trace any back to an actual person.
Miette and all----not a lot of inventory in Park Slope? Hello----You should try counting the properties for sale. There are around 25 houses in the prime Slope in the NY Times, plus the slowly rotting over 2.5 million apts at Richard Meyers (with almost 100 apts of which 75% appear to be unsold). Prices of Prime Slope houses are dropping. All this inventory is just sitting, sitting there, many for almost a year, with prices slipping down, down. Typically, even when the market was not super hot, there would be 4-6 such houses on the market in this zone. How far will prices have to go to clear all this inventory? And just wait, there will be more inventory coming on in the fall. Prices are heading down quite a bit more.
It seems this stream has a lot of broker happy talk jargon and "Brownstone Brooklyn different" delusional thinking----all of which is s-o-o-o- retro at this point.
Check out 505 1st street. beautiful house WITH PARKING in private lot across the street. down from 3.2m to 2.45 asking. They have lead the way down in this market with price reductions and the place is still sitting there. We are basically of 30%, nearly back to 2004 prices, and falling.
Also, check out the shadow inventory in the Slopes townhouse rental market. Typically there would be 1,2, maybe three townhouses for rent. Now the Times has about a dozen lovely houses for rent, for monthly costs far below owning such houses, even after tax considerations. And these poor owner are in the camp of the wishful thinkers---"I'll rent for a year or two and then sell when the market comes back." But what will happen is these places will become more sale inventory, at lower prices after prices fall the tenants scuff them up a bit.
For now it’s smarter the be the renter who says "I'll rent for a couple of years, save some money, and buy when the prices fall". And there will be no rush. Wait for the sound of the crash, then count to 10.
Nyc10023 in the words of bob Newhart stop it. Stop it. Stop trading. Stop shorting. Stop selling the bottom. Stop it. Invest less if you hate looking at bad marks.
drdrd...the reason for the slowness is that the market is back to "normal". There is no longer fear and worry. So the "normal" buyer questions about buildings, apts, views etc is what you are now seeing. The bears can no longer fear monger. So that will eliminate many threads as the bears realize their rhetoric is now just foolish.
We have received a lot of feedback regarding abuse of our anonymous posting feature - users replying to themselves, posting profanity laden comments and creating streams of insulting off-topic posts. In order to help with these issues we've decided to remove the ability to post anonymously.
Going forward all posts will show your 'display name', which you can select the next time you post to our message boards (it appears just above the comment box.) Your display name can be the same as your login name, or it can be something different. We know that some of you may have personal information in your login name, using a display name keeps this private.
All your old posts will still remain anonymous, nothing posted before today will change. We hope that this feature helps to continue to build the great community around our forums!
Thanks!
Matt Walker
StreetEasy Support
thank you
Good call.
thats a great move! I hate it when people post anonymously with anonymous names to an anonymous board! I especially hate it when a board kowtows complaints from brokers about anti-broker rhetoric for fear of losing future advertising. I applaud StreetEasy....for selling out.
Sounds like a good idea.
totallyanonymous is totally right. I predict that StreetEasy is going down in flames for removing anonymous. totallyanonymous is not anonymous anymore. I mean, we don't know who they are, but they are definitely not anonymous, because there can only be one totallyanonymous.
Perhaps it's just summer but the board seems rather uninteresting of late, I wonder if the now defunct 'anonymous' has anything to do with it?
Anonymous
#7--You seem to be the only one who got my irony. bravo.
I don't see where to change my display name - I didn't get the option - please help - thanks!
No offense man, it may be sad but people do come back to read a lot of those "controversial" comments, so in a strange way a lot of those posters may have actually been doing you a favor.
I personally only try to insult those that deserve it.
Great development, though I fear the "renters vs. homeowner" threads will become less interesting.
The renters vs homeowner threads are boring. You see the exact same discussions on Curbed and Brownstoner. You could practically create a template for them. Good move, Matt. I love the site, but I was a bit disappointed with the level of informed mudslinging here. People innocently asking for info got flamed for no good reason.
sorry 'uninformed mudslinging'.
zorki, considering the time and effort some of the posters seem to be putting into their messages, sometime might qualify as 'informed mudslinging'. It doesn't make them informing, though.
This building has just renegotiated its land lease and unfortunately the maintenance went way up to cover the new rent. However, the building is in the process of purchasing the land which will at least make the maintenance tax deductible.
I am currently trying to sell my one bed coop apt at the moment. I don't really have any issues dealing with my coop board, but I am very worried that they won't accept what is deemed too low of a bid. The apt is a recent listing - priced very competitively and in move in condition. There is almost zero traffic, pretty demoralizing. I don't think this is just a 'coop' problem, but a general issue with the fact that prices are too high and people are just broke. Lovely combo. I have no idea what I'm going to do, because I really want to move. Anyone else stuck in a similar situation?
that is so funny......i will copy and paste this to some brokers to be a shame of this profession.....BS do we need brokers ?????
Thank you, thank you for making people stand behind what they say on these boards. I don't read Curbed.com boards anymore because they are constantly digressing into childish insults, it's frustrating when you are trying to gather information to have to sift through that kind of negativity. And I am not a broker or in anyway related to the RE industry, just trying to buy a home.
Curbed doesn't do anonymous posting anymore either, but its all a moot point considering you can make as many screen names as you want and can't trace any back to an actual person.
Miette and all----not a lot of inventory in Park Slope? Hello----You should try counting the properties for sale. There are around 25 houses in the prime Slope in the NY Times, plus the slowly rotting over 2.5 million apts at Richard Meyers (with almost 100 apts of which 75% appear to be unsold). Prices of Prime Slope houses are dropping. All this inventory is just sitting, sitting there, many for almost a year, with prices slipping down, down. Typically, even when the market was not super hot, there would be 4-6 such houses on the market in this zone. How far will prices have to go to clear all this inventory? And just wait, there will be more inventory coming on in the fall. Prices are heading down quite a bit more.
It seems this stream has a lot of broker happy talk jargon and "Brownstone Brooklyn different" delusional thinking----all of which is s-o-o-o- retro at this point.
Check out 505 1st street. beautiful house WITH PARKING in private lot across the street. down from 3.2m to 2.45 asking. They have lead the way down in this market with price reductions and the place is still sitting there. We are basically of 30%, nearly back to 2004 prices, and falling.
Also, check out the shadow inventory in the Slopes townhouse rental market. Typically there would be 1,2, maybe three townhouses for rent. Now the Times has about a dozen lovely houses for rent, for monthly costs far below owning such houses, even after tax considerations. And these poor owner are in the camp of the wishful thinkers---"I'll rent for a year or two and then sell when the market comes back." But what will happen is these places will become more sale inventory, at lower prices after prices fall the tenants scuff them up a bit.
For now it’s smarter the be the renter who says "I'll rent for a couple of years, save some money, and buy when the prices fall". And there will be no rush. Wait for the sound of the crash, then count to 10.
Nyc10023 in the words of bob Newhart stop it. Stop it. Stop trading. Stop shorting. Stop selling the bottom. Stop it. Invest less if you hate looking at bad marks.
drdrd...the reason for the slowness is that the market is back to "normal". There is no longer fear and worry. So the "normal" buyer questions about buildings, apts, views etc is what you are now seeing. The bears can no longer fear monger. So that will eliminate many threads as the bears realize their rhetoric is now just foolish.
Why are the previous 2 posts on this thread??
Why are the previous 3 threads on this post?
funny...w67 - you always make me laugh. as my dear grandfather would have said, "god bless ya honey!"