On Aug 22, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Doug and Joanna each live in rent-controlled apartments and love it.
> Great for them! I would encourage everyone to find ways to live in
> one
> of the few places in the US that have rent-control (hey, no one has
> piped up from Santa Monica; here's your chance, lucky renter!) and
> simply opt out of the market system and get a great deal for
> yourselves.
> Then when you've got your sweet setup, please tell everyone else who
> doesn't have access to a similar deal that we're all crazy and stupid.
> Be sure to make it sound like you've generalized your success to the
> non-rent-controlled unresponsive asshole landlord that is the norm.
Uh, Jordan, I didn't do anything like that. Like I said, I compared actual market rents and house prices for Fort Greene, Brooklyn. No false generalization involved.
Doug