Unsure About Buying the Apartment? Here, Have Another Drink

111408abc.jpgWith New York's obscene real estate market starting to look ever so slightly less obscene, real estate brokers are panicking like jocks on prom night stuck with dates who won't neck. The crack trend spotters at the Times report that brokers are plying their clients with hard liquor and expensive wine so as to wear down their resistance. "Alcohol brings everyone together," declared broker Kipton Davis while showing a group of bankers and traders around a $9.9 million penthouse—as they knocked back Chardonnay, Chinon, and Lagavulin ($77/bottle) whiskey. But no matter how much these brokers promise to respect their clients in the morning, prudes like 28-year-old banker Jeff Nelson are still throwing up the Heisman. Sure, he's happy to take the free drinks, but let's face it: "The way prices are going, there’s no way to know where these prices will be next year." That's right, Nelson; a wealthy young catch like yourself ought to make 'em beg for it.

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Perfect illustration! I didn't recognize it immediately, but as soon as I started reading the article Ricky Roma came to mind..

Here's to maybe seeing some cheaper rents available somewhere (anywhere!) in the city by next year.

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...And if you're interested in buying, and Kipton Davis is showing the property, consider yourself warned. What a maroon, letting the article use his name while describing what he knows is a questionable practice.

contracts are void of the signee is intoxicated anyway.

not that anyone would be dumb enough to sign for a condo at a showing.

I don't even think that's possible.

1st prize is a cadillac eldorado.
2nd prize is a set of steak knives.
3rd prize is you're fired.

Hey, let me buy you a pack of gum, I'll show you how to chew it

A-B-C.
A-Always
B-Be
C-Closing.
Always be closing, always be closing.

"With New York's obscene real estate market starting to look ever so slightly less obscene, real estate brokers are panicking like jocks on prom night stuck with dates who won't neck"

hahaha seriously?

"You see this watch? You see this watch?"

I can go out right now with these leads and make $15,000.

Lemme know when they start throwing in free BJ's by that Spitzer broad.

I got the Rio Rancho leads safe and secure, and nobody gets to see them.

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