[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread John C. LiDestri
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder what it would cost to place billboards next to their other > properties warning prospective owners they could lost their deposits > and leaving them up until Metro does something about this situation? >

[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread justifiedright
John, Smart of your attorney to do so. At least your deposit isn't spent. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "John C. LiDestri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tommy, > > That is very interesting. > > My attorney made one of the conditions of the contract that I would > not have the deposit

[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread John C. LiDestri
Tommy, That is very interesting. My attorney made one of the conditions of the contract that I would not have the deposit money go into a bond, but rather stay in an attorney escrow account. He recommended we stay away from the bond because he had a client who was involved in a failed precont

[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread asburycouple
I wonder what it would cost to place billboards next to their other properties warning prospective owners they could lost their deposits and leaving them up until Metro does something about this situation? That would certainly be a bit more incentive to act... --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.c

[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread justifiedright
John, I had a client with a contract on an Esperanza unit. About 2 months ago I took her out of the contract and got her $65,000.00 deposit back. The reason I counseled her to get out of the contract was that Metro could not show me a deposit bond protecting the deposits. They tried to convi

[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread John C. LiDestri
one other point to add which Werner often points out...the redevelopment plan needs to be redone and more balanced..it seems that the 3,000 condos was not realistic and is also not the best utilization of the available space. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "John C. LiDestri" <[EMAIL

[AsburyPark] Re: Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread John C. LiDestri
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jrcote: > > "release me and let me go..." > > Song by many... > > "release my money, mr metro, and let me go > nicely done! nothing from metro yet.hopefully this will not drag out too long for the sake of the people who believed in

[AsburyPark] And...yet another shooting, this one on Xmas day

2007-12-26 Thread Jack Pitzer
Man injured in gang-related shooting in Asbury Park, police say • DECEMBER 26, 2007 ASBURY PARK — What police have termed a gang related shooting has left a city man hospitalized and detectives scrambling for leads. The 22-year-old man was in the intensive care unit of Jersey Shore University

[AsburyPark] Here's a funny...or interesting one..land and corruption

2007-12-26 Thread oakdorf
Lennar Finds Land Loophole By Michael Corkery, Kemba J. Dunham, and Jonathan Karp >From The Wall Street Journal Online Lennar Corp. used an unusual argument to get out of a land deal, convincing an arbitrator that it didn't have to pay a $70 million deposit on 1,200 acres of land in Palm Beac

[AsburyPark] Bloomberg Article

2007-12-26 Thread oakdorf
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=avYbXq3sIzUA On Builders Balance sheets and the valuations. Reality. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditi

[AsburyPark] In Boca...

2007-12-26 Thread oakdorf
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 BOCA RATON — A condo conversion project once known for its promised luxury and later more notorious for the years it lay untouched and unfinished, might now become an age- restricted apartment complex known as Parc at Eden. Eden developer Ceebraid-Signal submitted a

[AsburyPark] Re: Return the Money, Dean.

2007-12-26 Thread Jack Pitzer
He absolutely should return the money. Also, I read somewhere where somebody stated that Geibel was committed to Asbury Park. Maybe that comment was from him directly. Either way, his insensitivity to our community is completely evident by his actions. He just doesn't get that leaving a partially c

[AsburyPark] Time to rewrite the lyrics to...

2007-12-26 Thread oakdorf
"release me and let me go..." Song by many... "release my money, mr metro, and let me go "Release Me" Hey please release me, let me go And for I don't love you anymore To waste our lives would be a shame (my money...) And release me and let me love again (love = buy) Oh I have found a new love

[AsburyPark] Re: Senior Center at Atkins and Springwood

2007-12-26 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "rook782" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The seniors could then go to the library, stroll in the park, get > something to eat on Cookman or wander down to the boardwalk. It's a > great centralized location to maximize exercizing the brain and the > body. > Gi

[AsburyPark] Return the Money, Dean.

2007-12-26 Thread oakdorf
My daily "Return the Money, Dean" column. Let them spend it elsewhere, Mr. Geibel. South Beach and The Savoy Conversion. good article. Goes back to my first article in 2005 and the Miami market. Luxury conversion or development fails as well. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/business/25real.h

[AsburyPark] Dean Geibel has a history of being insensitive to communities

2007-12-26 Thread Jack Pitzer
The following text comes from March, 2004 which was posted on a blog called "Fund For A Better Waterfront" which deals with development in Hoboken; "Master Plan or master sham? 800 Jackson Street high rise negates recommendations of planning experts The platform for the Ninth Street light rai

[AsburyPark] Senior Center at Atkins and Springwood

2007-12-26 Thread rook782
I just read at Restoreradio.com that this is the new location the city has decided to put the senior center. I still think a location closer to the beach and downtown is much better. I have suggested before that the property directly west of the library is ideal, a senior/community center. T

[AsburyPark] Re: My hope for 2008

2007-12-26 Thread Jack Pitzer
Yesterday, in a "Be careful what you wish for" moment, I noticed a few hispanic gentleman fixing the fences around some of the Creamer construction lot's. Even though I think it's unlikely this was due to my post here about the same subject, I felt guilty thinking about those guys out there on Chri

[AsburyPark] Re: My hope for 2008

2007-12-26 Thread rook782
If I remember correctly, the part in Ocean Avenue is not the main plant and can be flipped to the other side. It would reopen Ocean Avenue. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The worst decision ever made I think was the decision to put the sewer plant > smack on