[AsburyPark] Re: Market Street Mission

2010-10-07 Thread oakdorf
Come on, where's your philanthropic heart? So it's a car lot (can you repair cars inside), it's a hotel, rooming house, soup kitchen, drug store, religious facility, school, rehab center and and and. The state mandates it. They "can't" do a background check (they can ask permission from th

[AsburyPark] warning the mobile event app for ap

2010-10-06 Thread oakdorf
the mobile event app sent out by gilmour this am may crash your droid. it didn't have a password then started looping. finally was able to kill it. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPar

[AsburyPark] Re: Ross v Asbury Park

2010-10-05 Thread oakdorf
another reason why "dress-down" or "business casual" means different things to different people. Everyone should just wear uniforms to work. And never complement anyone on how nice they look today - male or female. Go to work, don't socialize, don't ask anyone to lunch, don't laugh at jokes,

[AsburyPark] A 93 year old remembers Asbury Park....

2010-10-04 Thread oakdorf
I still get emails to asburyboardwalk.com from people who have great memories of the "old" AP - here's one that came in today. Enjoy. (PS - email to me is permanent - not a tweet or a FB entry about "wow"..) Read on: Hello from sarasota Florida... afriend sent me this web site and we

[AsburyPark] Re: The Jersey apartments

2010-10-04 Thread oakdorf
thanks werner for posting this. To sum it up - the Jury award stand for Jersey Apartments and Rich D walks away with a nice payout and the city has a nice big code violating crumbling POS on it's hands. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on

[AsburyPark] We are in the process of contacting theatre managemen....

2010-10-02 Thread oakdorf
We're sorry, this theater has not delivered showtimes for the date you selected. We are currently in the process of contacting theater management. Please check back for updated information. On moviephone.com - the Baronet. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visi

[AsburyPark] So you want to save a theatre?

2010-10-02 Thread oakdorf
I might of posted this a few years ago. There's another theatre on 7th right off kingsley. It was the Adams Novelty company - you know those hand buzzers and all sorts of neat junk you get at parties etc. Now it's a warehouse - for as long the owner keeps it from the "partners" and eminent do

[AsburyPark] Another iStar Article in The Real Deal

2010-09-30 Thread oakdorf
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/istar-financial-faces-potential-collapse-fitch Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional

[AsburyPark] Re: Baronet - PS - Sass

2010-09-30 Thread oakdorf
The trick is NOT to call IStar. When you do, they call the wrecking ball - just like the apartments. So you should call on all the other junk they own. Since you know of a group that has several million to spend, I can think of a couple other spots that would make a nice theater 1. The 200 blo

[AsburyPark] Re: Baronet - PS - Sass

2010-09-27 Thread oakdorf
50c on the dollar - it was a gift then. A gift to what may have been described as a city viewed as so corrupt, no one even cared if it was on the ocean. What was the city supposed to do? They didn't want the state involved, scuttled a million other bozo plans and not so bozo plans. As least th

[AsburyPark] Re: Tax Hike Signed Today

2010-09-27 Thread oakdorf
You're screwed. I've been telling you that for years. The free ride sooner or later has to wind down. You have to pay your own way. The $11 million was just another gift to hide the financial disaster hiding behind years and years of "will be covered in next years budget". That's why when I se

[AsburyPark] The danger to dogs on the beach - fishing lures.....

2010-09-27 Thread oakdorf
FYI - If you ever see a fish hook or lure on the beach - pick it up and toss it in the trash if it's no good or give it to a fisherman. I had an experience the other day while with my dog on the beach in Deal. I was sitting and relaxing for a few seconds after a nice walk with him - then

[AsburyPark] Re: The Baronet - Just a couple of points of fact

2010-09-24 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "radio881gal" wrote: > > . Just watch those property tax revenues crumble to the ground and blow > away...<< Be happy you still get 95% of the monies you need to run the schools from the STATE. The city still cannot function as an independent entity.

[AsburyPark] Re: Baronet - PS - Sass

2010-09-24 Thread oakdorf
He talks about what he does for a living. Vulture. They "loan" money and invest money - all for a return. They buy tax liens. That enables a town/city to carry on business. I had a tax lien on a property I own. The town sold it. They buyer - sass. 18% interest. They don't get the 18% because t

[AsburyPark] Re: Baronet's Gone! Let's look forward.

2010-09-23 Thread oakdorf
What was wanted in AP: Burned, collapsed or was simply leveled. One of these days, someone will come up with an entertainment "square" - sure it will be the "original" - but it sure can tie on the downtown, the boardwalk and the residential areas. I'd to make it "real" - as I said I'd tie in a

[AsburyPark] Re: IStar in Bankruptcy

2010-09-22 Thread oakdorf
Their new plan is to operate parking lots. This is what happens to govt retirement plans that the govt still guarenetees to those that contribute - the states cover the losses for having the contributors monies mismanaged. hedge funds, money markets, reits and the stock market is general is no

[AsburyPark] So you want to save a theatre?

2010-09-22 Thread oakdorf
I might of posted this a few years ago. There's another theatre on 7th right off kingsley. It was the Adams Novelty company - you know those hand buzzers and all sorts of neat junk you get at parties etc. Now it's a warehouse - for as long the owner keeps it from the "partners" and eminent do

[AsburyPark] Re: Is AP preparing to demolish The Baronet?

2010-09-22 Thread oakdorf
It's a weird thing the Baronet. Thinking back since I was around 3 and my parents lived in Wanamassa (that was around 46 years ago according to the calculator), I never went into the baronet. Parents never took me, I never went etc etc. All I remember of it was it being closed or a porn palace

[AsburyPark] Re: IStar in Bankruptcy

2010-09-22 Thread oakdorf
on IStar stock comments (from a stock blog) Given the news (iStar Financial is mulling a strategic bankruptcy), the company should ultimately come out of it - if it happens - cleaner, and technically make SFI more valuable rather than less valuable. The problem is, there's a psychological aspec

[AsburyPark] Re: IStar in Bankruptcy

2010-09-22 Thread oakdorf
1. Support the local merchants. 2. Be rather "funny" if the fish were to return - if IStar can't pre-package and rather files for bankruptcy straight out. 3. Get rid of the tax liability, knock em down and build parking lots instead of real ratables. I know,it's not permanent. -

[AsburyPark] IStar May File Bankruptcy Next Year

2010-09-21 Thread oakdorf
Why not? Join the crowd. They are sitting on a bunch of worthless (compared to what they gave out) promises and fantasies. Madoff went to jail. In the real business world, you don't go to jail for f'in up with other people's money. You still get paid, get bonuses or just issue more stock to cov

[AsburyPark] Re: Massive Tree Massacre Cookman Elsewhere in AP?

2010-09-17 Thread oakdorf
Sometimes things have to be changed. History has let us ship jo s ooverseas and kept us to a gas engine. If it were me i would of torn down 3/4 of the downtown and incorporated wesley lake in a new downtown. I read a quote a few weeks ago from a respected architect...history is expenso e to

[AsburyPark] 200% increase in home sales YTD in AP...

2010-09-14 Thread oakdorf
Got your attention? As gathered from listings in the Monmouth MLS (Multiple Listing) 1. Single family homes in AP YTD - no change. 19 home single family homes sold. Avg home was in the $200-$250,000 price range (12) 2. Condos - 43 sold YTD (most in the $100-150,000) range. The 200% increase YT

[AsburyPark] Re: Fwd: Re Madison Marquette's iPhone app for Asbury Park

2010-09-08 Thread oakdorf
Iphone apps are about one percent or less of internet access. Well it depends on what you are promoting. Apps on mobile devices will. Continue to grow. I gave up the blackberry. I love the droid. In the near future mobile will replace the laptop or desk as first point of access to the internet

[AsburyPark] Re: A Lesson in This?

2010-09-08 Thread oakdorf
- A couple things. 1. The owners are no dummies. There's plenty of smart money playing with the banks... "I know you gave me $135 million and somehow, you really thought our projections were good...but guess what - we (and you) goofed - so work with us...or you can have it" 2. By the

[AsburyPark] Re: AP Power Plant as Site for Contemp Art? Is Gary Mottola Always this Difficult?

2010-09-04 Thread oakdorf
What makes people think an owner of a building has to give them something - for free? The building needs a carousel. THAT would bring MORE people in. At least, from my past experiece and what I see today. There's plenty of places for a musuem. It's hard to listen to people when they don't ev

[AsburyPark] Re: sublime

2010-08-30 Thread oakdorf
they don't get it - or they felt they made enough money for the day. You can do a whole day on those nights from midnight to 3 am. We used to close and COME BACK and reopen for the AFTER CONCERT crowd. At $3 or more a slice - I'd be open. I don't care how much I did all day. But that was the

[AsburyPark] Re: sublime

2010-08-30 Thread oakdorf
...those clouds of smoke didn't seem like it was from the fireworks. I kind of thought they made pot legal between first and second - the boardwalk to kingsley the night of that concert. Future residents, those damn kids. I know my kids had fun - so they said. Saturday night it took ten minu

[AsburyPark] Re: sublime

2010-08-30 Thread oakdorf
The night of the concert there was alot going on people were sitting, climbing anything they could to see... They were siting and standing on the tops of the "containers" of the toilets- and not being told to get down. It was a zoo. then again, it was also a zoo this saturday night as well

[AsburyPark] Re: Another parking lot in the making

2010-08-26 Thread oakdorf
n. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "maubddny" wrote: > > > good news.. we need some parking lots on 2nd between bergh and Kinsley. > > Bring in the bulldozers before the Jersey Apts collapse onto the street. > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakd

[AsburyPark] Another parking lot in the making

2010-08-25 Thread oakdorf
as the vacant apartments get knocked down @ 8th ave. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online g

[AsburyPark] AP - A Great Experience

2010-08-23 Thread oakdorf
Well, let's go the other way. My buddy finally got a few days to himself as his wife and kids headed west. So I made plans to do something fun - I asked him so where do you want to go (he lives in brick) - AC - Game in NY (mets were home...) - anywhere - anywhere Friday night it was the Bluec

[AsburyPark] Re: New Musuem in AP - NYT

2010-08-18 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatk...@... wrote: > > Mottola is a jackass > Imagine you have to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars to invest to someone. The money you are handing over isn't even your money to hand over. It's called money management - "Trust Management" Wha

[AsburyPark] Re: ABC News / Travel: Asbury Park, NJ: The Glory Days Are Back

2010-08-16 Thread oakdorf
Oh great, more publicity. Now where is everyone going to park? And by August 15, I can't wait for those Autumn days. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings:

[AsburyPark] How to solve the parking "problem"

2010-08-15 Thread oakdorf
1. Burn down the boardwalk. 2. Close the Stone Pony 3. Let medical waste wash up on the beach 4. Board up the downtown 5. Tell everyone AP is a ghost town . 1. NEw development must have more then 1.5 parking spaces - not including street parking. 2. No

[AsburyPark] Right or wrong?

2010-08-12 Thread oakdorf
If you don't pay any rent out of your own pocket (all paid by the government), should you be getting directtv or cable (I don't think the govt is paying for that, unless you're in jail). Or should you be "forced" to watch the generic stations that wind up on your tv / receiver? Should that mon

[AsburyPark] Re: The failure of AP paid parking

2010-08-11 Thread oakdorf
The job of a code enforcement officer is to enforce "code violations". If he didn't address those concerns - like cracked sidewalks etc - someone might wind up suing the homeowner, city and - maybe even the code enforcement officer - or they would just complain on this board that no one is doing

[AsburyPark] Re: The failure of AP paid parking

2010-08-11 Thread oakdorf
well maybe no one at the city glances over here on the gripe board. Maybe the do. Maybe someone forwards the messages over...maybe not. Maybe everyone is busy, Maybe someone heard me gripe for months about eh blinking light at Kinglsey, Cookman and AP Ave... Man was i pissed the last couple da

[AsburyPark] Re: The failure of AP paid parking

2010-08-11 Thread oakdorf
Failure or success? 1. While it mwould nice that everyone worked on the boardwalk lived in town and can walk to work safely 0 that's not the case. - Since MOST of the time there's plenty of the room in the lots, MM or the employer should issue employee parking permits. That way the kids don't

[AsburyPark] Re: IStar

2010-08-10 Thread oakdorf
> Why is iStar offering lease agreements instead of sales, when they keep > losing money quarter after quarter? Some free market. What's keeping these > guys artificially afloat? > Maureen > > ' OPM keeps them afloat. OPM = other peoples money. that's how the free market works, that's how cit

[AsburyPark] What this? Long Branch wants to be like Asbury?

2010-08-09 Thread oakdorf
In last week's article about Long Branch looking to raise beach revenues - "...asbury gets $65 ..." (long branch$35 season) "...asbury gets lots of revenue from parking" (all the lots around LB charge $10 and up) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit

[AsburyPark] Parking

2010-08-09 Thread oakdorf
Another way to increase parking west of kingsley - extend the median down the road - at least down first Ave to Grand - It will also slow down the traffic some. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/gr

[AsburyPark] Re: City to Create/ Lease Parking Lots - Council Mtg 8/4/10

2010-08-05 Thread oakdorf
Smart move. Will they use attendants or simply add pay stations and number the spaces in the lots (that's what I would do...) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your emai

[AsburyPark] Re: IStar

2010-08-05 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "radio881gal" wrote: > > Oak - > What did you mean by what's backing their 'investments'? > I guess the right word here is collateral- when they gave out money for these deals in their portfolios - what did they get in return, how was it valued, was money f

[AsburyPark] Re: IStar

2010-08-05 Thread oakdorf
Maybe if their asset manager would return a phone call, they'd be able to unload a property or two in AP and I'd make a buck or two. "...and either sell them at a discount or operate them until the market picks up steam in the next few years." Until the market picks up steam.< First you ha

[AsburyPark] Re: Sec 8 - Oh Brother

2010-08-04 Thread oakdorf
Ok, I'll bite. Yes, tenants are "scoring". Even if you aren't a section 8 tenant (or one who receives housing voucher), in many parts of the country today (even at North Beach), renting in many cases is betrer then buying. Look at this way - regardless of the National Association of Realtors or

[AsburyPark] Re: Check out Wöhr Parking Systems - Wöhr Multiparker 730 - Budapest, Hungary

2010-07-29 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatk...@... wrote: > > Why isn't that garage open more often, not a single garage in JC actually > requires some to physically be there Geez,why do you think so simple?? First things first: 1. Why is the light still blinking at Kinglsey, Asbury and Coo

[AsburyPark] Re: What makes for BW success during the day?

2010-07-21 Thread oakdorf
> > AP still doesn't lure in crowds during the weekdays. > > === > > Hmmm? Maybe not generic "AP" luring crowds. But more than a few > businesses are. More so than in a long, long time. Hard to find parking > (convenient parking lol) 9-10 pm on a Tu

[AsburyPark] Re: The Esperanza and the lot behind the Empress

2010-07-21 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "maubddny" wrote: > > Don't forget about 2nd Avenue between Berg and Kingsly. > Parts of 1st 2nd and 3rd still look like a battleground. Face it unless you come in from Sunset Ave - At least many of the streets are getting a makeover - looks better -even t

[AsburyPark] What makes for BW success during the day?

2010-07-21 Thread oakdorf
I just got back from the BW for a nice walk and some food. 1. SPLASH PARK - fairly priced - hot weather and fun for KIDS. KIDS. 2. MINI GOLF - KIDS KIDS with parents. KIDS with camp. So what were the parents doing who weren't at the Splash Park - eating. The kid comes running back ma, can I get

[AsburyPark] Re: The Esperanza and the lot behind the Empress

2010-07-21 Thread oakdorf
> > I heard there were 30 of them up there at one time. Mottola and his wife's > pet project. Not for the cats, but Gary Mottola is a loon. > Given that and 85 degree weather Sun night, there was a slight stink coming from there. Yahoo! Groups Links

[AsburyPark] Re: The Esperanza and the lot behind the Empress

2010-07-21 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: > > I can't understand why their pavilion still looks like part of a strip mall > on Tobacco Road. > Not until sunday night while I was walking the boardwalk did I realize the cats lived upstairs in the 4th Ave Pavilion. Southeast cor

[AsburyPark] Re: The Esperanza and the lot behind the Empress

2010-07-21 Thread oakdorf
The lot behind the empress WAS always a parking lot. haul away the crap and make money - unless you'd rather keep parking limited in instead of getting $10 or $20 a pop, you get $5. People may rather pay $5 to park in a lot vs the meter depending on their day -it's easy to park and go or park w

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...- Road Trip BS

2010-07-20 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, gg...@... wrote: > > Oh yeah, one more thing. All events such as the ones that took place this > past weekend do come before a special events committee. Recommendations are > then given to the City Council and they have the final say if the event > happens

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...- Road Trip BS

2010-07-20 Thread oakdorf
sitting here getting hungry. I would of called biggies and asked them to get me at the door or bring me an order of clams. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email sett

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...- Road Trip BS

2010-07-20 Thread oakdorf
Dan just sums it all up. Those boys from Brooklyn. Imagine if you had to pay school taxes for real - what those property taxes would be? Here's a summary of a new tax bill I just got on a property I own in Ocean Twp. The lot is 100x100 and next to wet lands and is on a DIRT road. The HOUSE is

[AsburyPark] A funny from a little kid....

2010-07-20 Thread oakdorf
A little kid was walking with his big brother past my house the other day. I was picking weeds from the garden. The little kid is telling his brother... "...we got to Asbury beach..they have everything there...it's real fun...it's like a city" The kid was around 6, his brother around 15.

[AsburyPark] Real estate, part 2

2010-07-20 Thread oakdorf
Do you know what makes a great real estate agent? A perfect seller and perfect buyer. A seller has to be willing to sell and a buyer has to be willing to buy. Nothing worse then giving a seller a real offer and having them respond they want more. You have over 100 agents that are licensed in

[AsburyPark] Home sales - Waht came first - Chicken or the Egg?

2010-07-20 Thread oakdorf
So what drove AP to where it was today? 1. Ever since Bradley first envisioned HIS Asbury Park, redevelopment, corruption and greed plagued Asbury Park, just as it does almost every other piece of land. This is America and we are capaitalists - most people like to have money and some, even more

[AsburyPark] diners..

2010-07-19 Thread oakdorf
A diner? There's a better use of the space used by Mcloones on the Boardwalk. Four Seasons Diner in Eatontown, Americana in Shrewsbury Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your e

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...- Road Trip BS

2010-07-19 Thread oakdorf
...locals ARE supposed to go North of CH. That's the way it was. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change sett

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...- Road Trip BS

2010-07-19 Thread oakdorf
> > MM pays for the cops monitoring the meters. A joke. We need those bike cops > back. Late Saturday cops checking coolers on beach for alcohol and issued > tickets. Should be patrolling streets and stopping muggings. Someone got > mugged getting off the train Friday. > They want you to BU

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...

2010-07-19 Thread oakdorf
Blue Swan in Ocean Twp Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.c

[AsburyPark] Re: Observations this weekend...

2010-07-19 Thread oakdorf
the inkwell still exists and is crowded in West End... I asked my wife to stop the other day to see if the spider plant she asked me to get an apartment with 27 years ago is still there. I can swear about three years ago it WAS the same plant and same plaid plastic table cloth.. And I can't go

[AsburyPark] Observations this weekend...

2010-07-19 Thread oakdorf
1. What's the story with the lights at Kingsley/Cookman/Asbury Ave? - I parked the west side of Kingsley and played chicken with the traffic last night getting across. 2. Street lights - people complained those lights look terrible. However - there are not enough lights down Asbury Ave/cookman,

[AsburyPark] Re: Attack in AP last night

2010-07-17 Thread oakdorf
Over a year agp I started one of the larger TENANT SCREENING SERVICES for SMALL LANDLORDS in a partnership arrangement with TransUnion's SmartMove - http://rentlaw.mysmartmove.com There's a few thousand small landlords using it now. The problem is you know have many landlords that are landlor

[AsburyPark] Re: Attack in AP last night

2010-07-17 Thread oakdorf
1. As for Section 8 Landlords - (or any landlords) - since I am one in Ocean Twp, I had "regular" tenants for 17-20 years - until I wound up with 4 dead beats at one time. I slowly accepted Section 8 or "Housing Voucher" tenants. Out of my 7, 5 are covered by the state/county. I guess I am lucky

[AsburyPark] Re: Attack in AP last night

2010-07-16 Thread oakdorf
It's still hard to read on the pay station... especially if ten people are behind you... Your instructions are good and should be printed up just like that. When you get to you're late 40's, those instructions are hard to read - especially at night. You know you're old when Valerie Bertinelli

[AsburyPark] Re: Attack in AP last night

2010-07-16 Thread oakdorf
-to add to the CAMERAS - better street lighting - light up your sidewalks. You can get good lighting fairly cheap. or get a pit bull with a real long leash. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

[AsburyPark] Re: Attack in AP last night

2010-07-16 Thread oakdorf
C..A..M..E..R..A..S. Take the cops away from the parking meters and hire some kids for $10 an hour to tell people how to use the meters. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" wrote: > > Heath Kit ruled. I miss their store on Rt. 35 in Ocean. > > http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ > And times changed. Get a cheap china made tv for less the cost of the parts to build it And - two 47 year olds sitting on the interne

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hemeon wrote: > > DOn't interfere and don't swear and you should be fine. The more power you operate the more problems you have.  > > bring back the heathkit (build your own tv) and cb radios... Yahoo! Groups Link

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" wrote: > > I doubt Grock is savable. > Take a look at this: > > http://www.grockradio.com/ > Advertising dollars. Advertisers what proof their ads are working. Sometimes right or wrong, advertisers cut in bad times vs. continuing to advertise

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- jack read this. Let ur pirate fantasies take over... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBFR_(pirate_radio) Didn't there used to be a pirate station that operated off the NJ coast - or did I see a movie? Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the

[AsburyPark] Re: Impact of Unsold Condos on AP Appraisals

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
well that's where an appraisal is only worth to the guy who wants to sell or to a banker trying to cover his/her ass. If someone says it "worth" 500,000, but you still have 50 to sell just in one building - and they haven't sold in a year or moreand are not likely to sell at that price in a

[AsburyPark] Re: Impact of Unsold Condos on AP Appraisals

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
---> > > What a jolt of memories "The Deal Factor" > > > and I consider homes around me owned my non-jews as house for sale. Funny when you here people complaining about "those people" ruining the neighborhood. Then they wind up getting a hell of alot more for their house then the unkept t

[AsburyPark] Re: Impact of Unsold Condos on AP Appraisals

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "theshortsalepro" wrote: > > > > What a jolt of memories "The Deal Factor" > > I had to argue last year with someone from Utah (It think) on a B

[AsburyPark] Re: Impact of Unsold Condos on AP Appraisals

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "theshortsalepro" wrote: > > What a jolt of memories "The Deal Factor" > I was through Brooklyn on Sat... A synagogue is gold to property value - IF it's the "right" one. AP needs a new one. It had one on Asbury Ave. Lazarus, Gilman, Conover etc. all go

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" wrote: > > What about a smaller station, like a pirate one, that has a smaller power output and > broadcasts to a "micro market". > My other neighbor is in the record/music distriubtion business - just got laid off...

[AsburyPark] Re: Impact of Unsold Condos on AP Appraisals

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "theshortsalepro" wrote: > > A BPO, or Brokers Price Opinion, doesn't carry the weight of a > certified appraisal, or the price tag... A BPO can be just as accurate > as a full appraisal, or, riddled with inaccuracies intentional or > otherwise. > And in

[AsburyPark] mickey rourke on nbc this am....

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
he's talking to matt about his golden globe for best actor in the wrestler... Matt: so you get to request a song - you still have clout Rourke: yea...you know we were in Asbury Park...we thought it would be cool if Springsteen did a song...se I sent him a note. The story about a comeback. Op

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-23 Thread oakdorf
-->>firings... well google tried to capture the entire advertising world by buying key ad agencies and automating the entire ad buying process across all media - radio, tv, print, net etc like Clear Channel tried to control all outlets. Google was trying to automate the ad buying proce

[AsburyPark] Re: Pay Freeze and Freedom of Information Act relief

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Gabrielle Obre" wrote: > > I have no idea if this is true, but something that I have listened to > a number of people complain about is that there are a good number of > "patronage" jobs in ap. > IF it is true, it's the way all co's and muni's etc USED to op

[AsburyPark] Re: Pay Freeze and Freedom of Information Act relief

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Gabrielle Obre" wrote: > > I was wondering if Ap would feel the pressure for a kind of similar > pay freeze. Why not? It ain't making no money and is running negative numbers. Sure it's not all the employees fault if at all. Better a freeze vs no job.

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
--- My motherworked at RCA in NYC when she was kid as a file clerk. Floors and floors of files. Eventually, you didn't need all those file cabinets or manilla folders. Some guy went around buying up all little cell companies. Same for radio. We don't know the real future of owning these right

[AsburyPark] where your IRA money and bailout money goes...

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
...Thain spent $1.2 million to redecorate his office at New York-based Merrill, CNBC reported today. Merrill former Ceo now bank of america guru... Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/

[AsburyPark] Newark has it's own Gov Channel...

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
It's not called cops newark... Today - Newark has a new television studio and its own government access channel. Cablevision customers will now be able to see live city council meetings and other government events and information on Cablevision Channel 78. The city is unveiling the new studi

[AsburyPark] Obama's Urban Policy...

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
Maybe Jennifer should be the head of it... Good Reading. http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/urban_policy/ I already wrote O. AP could be the model city for these programs. Small and already has alot going for it - but with a big hole and lots of money coming in with no clear plan to recover -w

[AsburyPark] Re: Impact of Unsold Condos on AP Appraisals

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "radio881gal" wrote: > > Hi, Jennifer - > Thanks for the information. I imagine it's hard for someone buying a > unit in North Beach to get a mortgage since they instituted the > process by which they only finish off a unit as it's sold. That's been the case

[AsburyPark] Re: Oak's Ad

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" wrote: >> > the right keywords and geography to setting daily dollar limits on > spending. And the service works on a pay-per-click basis, so you don't > pay for exposures but for those who actually click to your site. > The trick is to mana

[AsburyPark] Re: How come no one

2009-01-22 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "sharon_b283" wrote: > > Jack, > I agree! So why aren't well-heeled Thieves like Madoff, not being > prosecuted? Neither are the former execs who quietly packed up and left the banks knowing full well the end had come. They left with hundreds of millons i

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-21 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "fancypaaantz" wrote: > > Oak- what you wrote has nothing to do with a local radio station > changing format. How about that GRock use to sponsor local concerst > all the time, and now that sponsorship is gone. > that's because they to look to see how their a

[AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock

2009-01-21 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "fancypaaantz" wrote: > > http://www.petitiononline.com/grock/petition.html Interesting you bring up the radio. This morning, my kids must of had on 101.5 which I guess is mostly african american. The host was talking about how now maybe "black" kids, espec

[AsburyPark] Pay Freeze and Freedom of Information Act relief

2009-01-21 Thread oakdorf
in Obama's Admin not in AP. In an attempt to deliver on pledges of a transparent government, Obama said he would change the way the federal government interprets the Freedom of Information Act. He said he was directing agencies that vet requests for information to err on the side of ma

[AsburyPark] Re: Could the city benefit by adding a blog to it's website?

2009-01-21 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Michael W. Brim" wrote: > > Jack: > > > > Interesting concept. > > and a very simple site. How about just adding this as a note and maybe post it in every school: >>The Robinsons lived in a brick bungalow on the South Side of Chicago. Fraser was a

[AsburyPark] Re: Reality vs Rose Colored Glasses

2009-01-21 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" wrote: > > === > > Now there's a reality we can agree on. > > Werner I've been to man planning board meetings (not in ap) where it has cost the builder tens of thousands of dollars (or more) to ma

[AsburyPark] Re: How come no one

2009-01-20 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" wrote: > on on the bailout - I have a local bank to do a refi on a handshake deal. But someone asked someone from provident to give me a call. I finally hung up on them Investment property. "Oh" "What's your credit score"? Me: mid 6's some

[AsburyPark] Re: How come no one

2009-01-20 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" wrote:> > Really want to see the economy tank - stop spending. > How about spending smarter and/or healthier? It's great when it's coming in - if you/your spouse or family have seen no impact or worried about job security- then spend away. But th

[AsburyPark] Re: How come no one

2009-01-20 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dsher4" wrote: > > I agree, great speech > Actually, I thought if they pumped up an inaguration event in CH or P, they would of could of had an event that would of meant something to the diveristy of AP - something like that anyway. They are calling OB one g

[AsburyPark] Re: How come no one

2009-01-20 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dsher4" wrote: > > Well exactly who would pay for it and what would the turn out be? Turn on the TV or better yet, the Internet. No one would come, you're right. He gave a great speech. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To vi

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