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Fulop also announced a new microgrid initiative that will run on 100% greenhouse gas free power. I doubt those unicorns farting rainbows are going to come cheap.
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Is this a "temporary" measure, like the original rent control ordinances that never go away?
Posted on: 2021/3/12 15:04
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My contract expires this month. Best locked rate I can find is Frontier Energy at $0.1179 per kWh for 12 months. Anyone see a better rate offered out there?
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There is logic to this:
JC has an issue with building over-stuffed with people. Two buildings within blocks of me were examples. One had 60 people living in a Bayonne Box style 2 family. The landlord was charging each about $600 a month for enough space for a mattress (tenants were all from India). The place got busted by the fire department after they went in the building due to a small fire. Number of people in a building directly affects the water consumption and the amount of trash produced. So basing it on water consumption would help hit places like I described above. NJ is shipping trash to all the way PA and VA. Garbage disposal costs are really out of control here in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. Quote:
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"Recycling" regime collapsed after China created a near total ban on scrap imports in 2018 (with India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and other countries following suit). Pre-ban municipalities got paid to have their recycling taken away. Now, recycling costs more than regular trash, with most of it sitting in warehouses, dumped in landfills, or burned in WtE plants.
Municipal budgets in particular in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are being blown out as a result.
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The ones who vote for it are the ones who think they aren't paying for it, since the tax only hits property owners directly. Issues like this have always been a major flaw with democracy... Two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. I have heard rumors that some members of the city council have been wanting to expand rent control down to single family homes. Currently, a building with 4 or fewer units is exempt from rent control in JC. NJ has a law (or at least had one.. have to check) that new construction is exempt from local rent control for a minimum of 5 years. I see me doing sales and / or condo conversions in my future if rent control is expanded.
Posted on: 2020/12/28 13:21
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Looking at my ballot... I haven't paid much attention to the school board elections..
Any opinions on the two groups running?
Posted on: 2020/10/30 16:02
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Hudson County was the only county in NJ that didn't have bears..
Well that changed A bear was spotted running around a busy part of Hudson County this weekend, leaving police and people living nearby quite surprised. News 12 spoke to neighbors who say they saw police officers on their block in the middle of the night and were wondering what happened. They ran outside and they saw a bear on the roof of a garage on Passaic Street in Harrison. Neighbors say it's very unusual, and that it is a busy area and they have never seen a bear there before. Police first received reports of the bear near Wawa in Kearny at around 4 p.m. And Gov. Murphy has announced there will be no more bear hunts...
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My rate lock just expired. Anyone know of a supplier who is offering a fixed rate under $0.11 per kWh for 6 months or longer?
Posted on: 2020/9/16 13:18
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I see a few signs around for someone on Fulop's slate. Anyone else running.
Going to miss Yun. He was the smartest, most level headed of the councilpersons.
Posted on: 2020/9/12 21:25
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If you click the link within that message to the original bulletin, it says you have to boil if 'hand washing dishes'. The post above, given the comma placement, says your don't.
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Got a robocall from Suez. We are under a boil advisory due to E-coli bacteria being found in the water. This includes any water used to make ice cubes.
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Anyone here recommend a place that has classes for very young kids on this side of the Hudson river? Looking for something for my son.
Practicing Judo as a kid was beneficial for me... want to expose my kid at some point. Doesn't have to be Judo though.
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To me it looked like he was having arguments with multiple imaginary people. He is looking past her in multiple directions and yelling and pointing.
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Anyone get flooded out? I was mightily impressed with the downpour. Tenant texted me a pic of some minor damage done. The water pressure was so great is blew out the elbow on a roof downspout.
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If someone here has lots of free time, you could breakout payrolls by zip code:
https://www.census.gov/data/developers ... p-nonemp-zbp/zbp-api.html Doing so, you could estimate total state income and payroll taxes vs. total state aid / spending. I am sure there is a record for sales taxes as well.
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The "electrified economy" is what the "hydrogen economy" was about 10 years ago... Unicorns & rainbows.
NY is riding this unicorn to a future of rolling blackouts and crushing power bills. NJ seems to want to get on board as well. I wish the people making these decisions would hire an engineering consultant group, that has no financial interest in battery storage, wind, and solar to introduce said people to the concept of "theoretical limits". tl:dr version: There is no battery technology in existence or in development that can make a fully electric economy (especially without nuclear or fossil fuels) possible without creating a energy poverty and an environmental nightmare.
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A side note: There were a lot of short term rentals for Jersey City on the website. I doubt many of them were owner-occupied.
Seeing the day rates I can see people were / are pulling in some serious $$$. The guy who owned the dump of a building next to me told me he cleared $178k in a single year doing AirB&B.
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I am sending the city a certified letter with the proof I have that this is a fraudulent post. Not sure if it will work. Years back I had a more of a incompetence than faud issue involving the city of Newark. Letters didn't help until I ended up in front of a judge to explain that I didn't own a particular property. What annoys me is the fraudulent account was closed back in 2018, but the ad still appears on searches. I have been on the phone with someone in some Indian call center twice before I found someone who at least asked higher ups what to do. I was supposed to get an email that I would reply to with proof of ownership so I could get the ad pulled... but that email never came through. I guess I will be back on the phone with Mumbai today or tomorrow..
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Learned something today...
Check with the short term rental companies to see if your property is listed. I got a "love note" from Jersey City threatening me with $2k per day fines for an illegal short term rental. I don't do short terms now, nor have I ever done short term rentals... Turns out a previous tenant listed herself as the owner and was subletting a room for $79 a night. The tenant has been gone for almost 2 years, but the ad still shows up in searches. I have been on the phone with FlipKey for the past hour trying to get this ad removed.
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Seems it varied greatly by location. Weather stations showed from 1.2 to 4 inches. Some the heaviest was recorded in JSQ. Despite all that rain, I didn't have a sewer backup. The sewers by me were relined and had entire (collapsed) sections replaced. So far this heavy rain nor extreme downpours have cause a backup. Before I would end up with a lake on my street corner with jets of water coming out the manhole covers....
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Weatherbell track estimate has it coming ashore south of us, driving the heaviest rains into central Jersey. For us.. 1.3 to 2 inch of rain and a lot of wind. The Euro model update has it going even more inland, dumping a lot of rain into South Jersey and PA.. up to 6 inches in PA in spots. This one is no Irene or Sandy thankfully...
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My kid's B-day is coming up. Dinosaur themed birthday. Can anyone recommend a local baker that does themed cakes? In particular, a dinosaur shaped cake?
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That would be, at least first glance, possible engineering wise. Getting it paid for or getting two government run agencies to agree to it... That would be the hard part.
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Norfolk Southern?s petition noted that there has been no rail traffic on the old Boonton Line in more than a decade and claimed that ?there is simply no traffic, or the potential for new traffic, on the line.
That may change. The line is adjacent the now defunct Hudson generating station and ties into right of ways that could bring rail to the Kopper's Coke redevelopment zone in Kearny). I read the old Hudson Generating property has been sold as is going to be redeveloped into an industrial park. There is also been years of (unsuccessful) attempts to spur industrial and heavy commercial development on the Kopper's Coke site. Norfolk Southern previously talked of re-activating the line for freight if there were new clients that needed rail service. Whatever future entity that takes over the right of way may find it more advantageous to tie rail service in with the redevelopment of these two sizable plots of land. One big issue with the trail is the swing bridge (mentioned in the article) over the river. That bridge is deteriorating and is abandoned in the open position. The trail would require at a minimum that the bridge be put back into operation, with all the maintenance and crew costs that come with it.
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Is the contractor required to water these new trees until their root systems get established?
I was at Persian Field yesterday afternoon and a number of the trees looked seriously starved for water.
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They are re-opening this Friday per their answering machine.
Posted on: 2020/6/16 20:40
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Maybe it's just a sign that people are just getting tired and fed up with the "lockdown" and are no longer complying.
Posted on: 2020/6/14 23:07
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Looking to refi my mortgages which I currently have with Bayonne Community Bank. Anyone here can recommend other portfolio lenders?
I can't qualify for mortgages that are packaged and sold through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mack, so I have to go through a bank that lends money from its own portfolio (i.e. a Community Bank).
Posted on: 2020/6/12 14:10
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Anyone have an idea when / if Moloney's Meat is re-opening? Before they had a message on their answering machine updating when they were re-opening.. which the last I heard it was mid May. They are still not open (when I walked by a couple days ago) and the answering machine wasn't working the last time I called.
Really want a good ribeye....
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