Re: Murphy to Lift Indoor Mask Mandate for the Vaccinated Before Memorial Day
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EXACTLY!! I plan on staying masked and distant for a little while longer. Separately, why aren't more people in JC vaccinated? It's like stupid easy to get vaccinated now. [quote]
robotdisko wrote: awesome! all the assholes will be running around with their freedoms! coming to an indoor business near you:
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Re: Murphy to Lift Indoor Mask Mandate for the Vaccinated Before Memorial Day
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Friend of mine is a nurse who contracted COVID. They were testing him regularly. After three months of having COVID, the tests showed he no longer had antibodies.
Posted on: 2021/5/24 17:27
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Re: Murphy to Lift Indoor Mask Mandate for the Vaccinated Before Memorial Day
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Antibodies from having COVID lasts about 3 months. Get vaccinated.
Posted on: 2021/5/24 14:26
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Re: Controversial Pedestrian Mall Renovation Moves Forward
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By every single measure Jersey City Times is a total piece of crap. There are typically numerous typos, the misstate facts and often put things in a false light. I wouldn't be surprised if they get sued no a frequent basis. But I trust since no one give it any weight it falls under the radar.Quote:
Posted on: 2021/4/30 0:41
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Re: Low Commission real estate agents
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This is 100% correct. Who works for free? Sales people are motivated by money. Especially in real estate where their commission is their only form of compensation. Don't waste time haggling over a commission. The realtor or broker will not be as motivated to work for you as he or she may be to work for the client who is paying him or her more. How would you feel if your employer kept requesting that you take a cut in pay because he or she can find someone who can do your job for less?
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Posted on: 2021/4/8 14:07
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Re: Study: More People are Leaving Jersey City
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SPEAK!!
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Posted on: 2021/2/24 14:48
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Re: Question about Dixon Mills
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Thank you all for the responses. This was not for me, but my secretary's son who is looking at apartments in the area.
Posted on: 2020/10/28 14:31
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Question about Dixon Mills
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Are the units in there decent and what's the noise level like? What are the pros and cons of of living there.
Posted on: 2020/10/27 1:45
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Re: Top 10 Pumpkin Patches Near Jersey City
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Pumpkin patches are grossly over priced experiences.
Posted on: 2020/10/2 14:09
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Re: Jersey City Real Estate Market Is Hot, But For How Long?
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I agree with you that this article is total crap and an awful marketing tactic. The author who I presume is in sales is starting off with no credibility. The only properties that are staying steady are brownstones, because they're cheap compared to properties in Manhattan and Brooklynn, however our RE taxes quickly make up that difference. The two bedroom condo market started dropping even before the pandemic. This is a result of excess development. Quote:
Posted on: 2020/9/3 14:54
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Re: Impact of pandemic on JC real estate
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BTW, I started a thread on this same topic at the beginning of the quarantine period. I imagine the webmaster is going to merge this thread into mine.
Posted on: 2020/8/22 22:30
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Re: Impact of pandemic on JC real estate
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The condo market will get hit harder than the brownstone market. But overall the real estate market takes awhile to show the impact the economy has had on real estate. The increase in crime in NYC as well as there being no access to the arts, sports or restaurants in earnest, will ultimately impact Jersey City. Still lets be mindful, compared to Manhattan, our brownstone market is still relatively inexpensive. Also, at least 10% of the people who have moved to cities in the last 10 years are really suburbanites, who really don't like living in cities. So a change in wind course was going to push them out. Another issue, is that there has been an excess in development in the condo market. Also, we hit a recession in February, so the market was already going to take a hit. It's going to be slippery for awhile. I think in 2 years a lot of people will almost forget about all of this. But who knows.
Posted on: 2020/8/22 22:29
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Re: Beaches Open near Jersey City!
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I own a weekend house in Asbury Park. The boardwalk and beach are filled with people who aren't wearing masks nor social distancing.
Posted on: 2020/6/25 20:12
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Re: The Pandemic
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There is no guarantee that there is going to be a vaccine and that can't be overlooked. And even if there is some vaccine the effectiveness of the first round is not yet determined. There is already reporting in various business journals about wealthy people leaving Cities for the suburbs. While things may not turn out to be as bad as the mid 70s, history does have away of repeating itself. Look, I'm not putting my house on the market. Still I see a significant hit. Not just a modest quick dip. The other factor is that unemployment is high and a recession started in February. Unless you're counting on some V shape recovery, which is unlikely i can't see a short term modest downturn. There are several factors at play, including COVID19 for which we may not have a vaccine, crime in NYC has gone up, we started this all out in a recession and now the pandemic exacerbated that and real estate in the NYC area was already over valued. Of course I know I could be wrong. But to me all factors point to a longer and more severe downturn.
Posted on: 2020/6/12 16:42
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What you do not seem to realize is that some of us have lived through this sort of thing before. Social unrest made cities undesirable and drove them into financial ruins. New York City was actually bankrupt, crime ridden, filthy with garbage piled upon the streets for days. There was rioting in many cities through out the country. Many of the brownstones downtown, Jersey City were boarded up and there was high crime downtown. Hamilton Park was often referred to as needle park. The restaurant on the corner of 9th and Erie once was boarded up and had a sliding plexiglass window from which drugs were sold.
So it's not the media influencing me, but my own life experience. It's good for a sales person to be optimistic and hopeful. But it's also important for homeowners and investors to be realistic and not disregard history. If you think the aforementioned is not at all a possibility, well then good for you. I am not saying this is necessarily all going to happen, but the market is doing to take a hit greater than what you're anticipating for sure.
Posted on: 2020/6/11 14:58
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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I'm not sure how long you've been in real estate. But "my educated guess" is probably not longer than 10 years. Since my original post there have been numerous business and financial publications reporting on people fleeing Cities for the suburbs for larger homes where at least one person if not two can work from home.
There's no question the Jersey City and Manhattan commercial real estate market will be taking a huge hit as more people will be working from home and employers will reduce their footprint.
Even before the pandemic two bedroom condos in JC had been moving slow because of excess inventory. It's been anecdotally observed from other realtors that the units in multi unit dwellings are definitely taking a hit.
Perhaps brownstones will do well, because it will accommodate the desire to not live in a multi unit dwelling.
If you do not think the looting and crime in Manhattan is going to impact Jersey City, you're deep in denial. People pretty much live in Hudson Co. to be closer to Manhattan. If people aren't going to be going to sporting events, museums, theaters, restaurants and feel safe in Manhattan, they are not interested in paying a lot for their real estate to just sit home. They are more inclined to have a bigger property where they can work from home, have space for their children to play and maybe even have a pool.
Your comment about the <$400k market in JC is rather curious. I didn't think that made up a big component of the JC real estate market. Your comment about the>$500k market only furthers my original proposition. If you've been in the local real estate market for awhile you would have readily observed that the >$500k segment makes up the vast majority of the market.
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RealEstateSingh wrote: I feel like the original post is extremely morbid and not very likely. As a realtor, the real estate market in Jersey City has been booming. I am busier now than I have ever been in my whole career. T My Market Update: I am seeing properties in the $400k and below range flying off the shelves (Seller's Market) but also seeing the the $500k+ properties being negotiated down (Buyer's Market). Lastly, what crime and looting are we talking about. As far as I can tell, there hasn't been much looting in our area if at all. Perhaps Manhattan, which I have mentioned, probably will have a slow recovery, but it will still be a hub. The way I see it, it presents a buying opportunity. (risk/reward) Buying now is a risk, but prices are down with historically low interest rates. just my educated opinions.
Posted on: 2020/6/9 14:14
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Re: The Pandemic
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I can't see how any can expect a short term hit to the real estate market at this juncture. The crime and looting in the City is likely to be devastating to the local economy for sometime to come.
Posted on: 2020/6/4 23:48
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Re: The Pandemic
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Of the man reasons why COVID19 spread so much in Italy is because Italians are very tactile and regularly hug and kiss one another. Also, it's typical for three generations of families to live in the same modest home. While I believe China is awful and underhanded, some of your conspiracy theories are definitely a little over the top. But I have nothing against a good conspiracy theory. Still, what you haven't commented on is how the constituents of Hong Kong of on their own controlled the spread of COVID19 on HongKong.
Posted on: 2020/5/25 20:31
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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Meanwhile, Mack Cali stock continues to plummet. I regret not going short on it March 1, 2020.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mack+c ... &sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Posted on: 2020/5/22 17:22
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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Much of what they said wasn't accurate. Though, I think it's fair to say that most people do not trust the Chinese government. Still the US does business with them.
Posted on: 2020/5/18 1:26
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Re: JC Covid cases, don't seem to be decreasing that much
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Jersey City is seeing a pretty good drop in new cases.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/jer ... sinJerseyCity?publish=yes
Posted on: 2020/5/14 20:48
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I don't discount possibilities. But for now I just suspect a bad period. It's not like it's never happened.
Posted on: 2020/5/12 18:42
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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Articles I just read on LinkedIn addressing this exact issue:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/cit ... losing-its-shine-4848580/ And the Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article ... cost-cities?sref=2Wo6zJsr
Posted on: 2020/5/11 21:50
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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You may be or are probably right about the health club phenomena. But I have to say, I really, really miss going to my gym. If there was a vaccine and my gym opened tomorrow I would go back immediately. I very much like working out. I've been exercising regularly at home and taking two 20 mile bike rides a week. Still I miss all of the equipment at the gym, the people and the energy. I have my work friends, most of whose last names I don't know. But they're part of my life routine. Only time will tell. Quote:
Posted on: 2020/5/8 15:00
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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Well I qualified it as anecdotal. But I still suspect things are going to change. I don't claim to have a crystal ball. I just can't believe things will go back to normal and urban life will be the same. I don't believe real estate values won't drop significantly over the next 18 months. Again, I'm not saying this is absolutely correct. It's just my theory. I'm a home owner in JC with a lot of equity on my home. It would not make me at all happy to see this. It's just my fear right now. Quote:
Ah, the Yvonne method of trying to prove things -
Posted on: 2020/5/8 1:20
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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The notion that crime has increased came came from two different liberal democrat friends of mine who live in Manhattan. They've reported anecdotally an increase number of muggings on the streets and on the subways. It's an apparent result of De Blasio releasing low level criminals from prison. One is a CFO of a small biotech start up and the other the CIO of a large law firm. The CIO has been living in Manhattan since 1978.
Posted on: 2020/5/7 18:41
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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I agree with you in principal. However, there has already been a long period of excessive unemployment. What we don't know is the extent of the reduction in many peoples' income in reduced commissions and bonuses, though they may be still employed. A lot of people more recently paid top dollar for homes and then put in like $500k of renovations. It's going to be hard for a lot of people to hold on. Also, let's not forget the added real estate tax burden. To add insult to injury, I've been hearing about increased crime in NYC.
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Posted on: 2020/5/7 17:20
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Re: The Pandemic's effect on the Jersey City and overall Urban Real Estate Market
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I absolutely this will have a long lasting impact on the commercial real estate market. For one, I think a lot of organizations will be relocating at least in part out to the burbs and many more people will work remotely.
Not at all unrelated friends of mine who own an apartment in the West Village and a house down the Jersey shore have advised me that on April 1, the relocated to the Jersey shore house because apparently of an increase in crime, mostly muggins in NYC. An apparent consequence of the decision to release some inmates. I think that's going to be a hard thing to reverse. I think this will only further push people to leave urban areas.
Posted on: 2020/5/5 22:39
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that will be very interesting to see.Quote:
Posted on: 2020/4/26 13:55
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