[UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say "Wharton" ?

2007-07-28 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/28/2007 2:00:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On today's front page of the Inq., there is one of thos stories of a Penn real estate love in. You've read this crap many times, so I won't bore you with details. It was a newsmercial about Penn and ca

Re: [UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say "Wharton" ?

2007-07-28 Thread Amara Rockar
Just gonna wonk out here a little. Don't mind me. The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick! Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter! Bad!) Anyway, a one bedroom in the luxurious Dom

Re: [UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say "Wharton" ?

2007-07-28 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Amara Rockar wrote: Just gonna wonk out here a little. Don't mind me. The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick! Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter! Bad!) Anyway, a one bedroo

Re: [UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say "Wharton" ?

2007-07-28 Thread Isabel Lugo
$200 a month isn't negligible, and that sentence to me feels like it's deliberately constructed to hide somehing. And it seems incredibly disingenuous to fold the meal plan into the comparison, unless Stratum is *also* going to be feeding people. Isabel On 7/28/07, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say "Wharton" ?

2007-07-28 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Isabel Lugo wrote: $200 a month isn't negligible, and that sentence to me feels like it's deliberately constructed to hide somehing. And it seems incredibly disingenuous to fold the meal plan into the comparison, unless Stratum is *also* going to be feeding people. from the article, it sound

Re: [UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say "Wharton" ?

2007-07-28 Thread Anthony West
Different eyes read differently. Stratum appears to be promising some kind of new, top-end rental unit that's been tested on comparable student markets elsewhere.. If that's so, it can't be modeled on the Quad; it would have to be something the Quad isn't. Maybe the top end of the student rent