This guy's zero shame in highlighting "gentrifying" as a positive aspect in this ad for a tiny $1100 studio in Fishtown. These people make me sick.
Posted May 9, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC
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OP is fragile.
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Boo hoo, guy is selling his apartment to people who have money to pay the rent.
Just like every single real estate agent selling almost all of greater Kensington and Port Richmond as "Fishtown" makes you sick?
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That cracks my shit up when realtors post things like "nestled in the heart of fishtown" and it's like tulip and somerset. Sometimes I feel bad for the people that don't do their research though and take the realtor at their word. Right now there's a house/business on my block advertising as "steps away" from frankford hall but they don't say how many steps and it's legit 30-40 minutes if you're walking.
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The market dictates the price not the landlord. Hate em all you want but the eb and flow of neighborhoods is not something that can be stopped. Just as this neighborhood is going up in price others are going down. Move there.
He is basically saying what everyone else is saying "up and coming neighborhood" but using a word that you are apparently offended by.
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lol at commie OP getting shit on by everyone
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I knew I could count on you to support gentrification anywhere and everywhere. Yeah just kick out everyone who can't afford $1300/mth condos and turn the whole world into a strip mall. Turn society into a dystopian pyramid scheme with anyone who doesn't own property or wealth at the bottom. Let you think you have freedom but really everything is governed by the 1% who control almost all the wealth and property in the world. And you think communism is somehow worse than this?
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You got a negative attitude. That's what's stopping you. You gotta get your act together.
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yo... $1300/month condos are cheap! Where these at?
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If he got the $1100.00 from section 8 would it make you feel better?
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I got $5 on OP being a white kid from the suburbs.
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Is it normal use a cemetery as a dog park (as this ad suggests)? I'm not the most sentimental person, but even I think we should respect the dead enough to not let our pets shit all over their resting place...
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What app is that?
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Pretty sure it's padmapper.
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This is the exact reason I squat in abandoned yuppie condos, those idiets usually leave a shitload of vegan burgers and tofu around it's lit.
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Gentrification only really hurts the poor and people on a fixed income (largely the elderly).
Poor people get hurt from every angle, so it sucks, but gentrification is close to the bottom of their worries.
Government programs, like the homestead exception, help those on a fixed income. It sucks when this isn't enough help, but that's often the exception rather than the rule.
With that in mind, it's best to get in while the gettin's good. Although, you're way too late if you're looking in that area...
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edit: replying to wrong thread
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This must be stopped, who knows what adjective he could use next
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Quaint? charming? My god, it may even be on a bustling street!
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OP is with the ANTIFA bandits that destroy neighborhoods over Gentrification. GTFO OP nobody wants you or your antics in this city.
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Fishtown's over
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Yeah, I'm not paying $1100 to live in one room, some people are suckers.
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Agent here: You can actually report this person to the real estate commission if they are an agent or realtor. You CANNOT ever say "safe" neighborhood, you can recommend a tenant or buyer look into crime statistics but cannot classify an area as "safe". You also certainly cannot say "blue collar" neighborhood. Its steering.
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Is this trollbiat? "Gentrifying" IS a positive term. It always has been. You know what the opposite of it is? Destruction.
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Fuck you OP.
"Gentrifying" has made Fishtown more interesting than it ever, ever, was.
Because 20 years ago that place was an inbred fuckin' DUMP.
Please do not burn my comment down.
I'm glad you think it's nice now. Let me ask, and be honest-- the average price for a 1 bedroom apartment there is $1300. Can you afford that alone?
Yes.
The dude's renting an apartment at about what it costs to rent an apartment in Fishtown. Overreacting to his blunt choice of language isn't going to help the situation. Trying to shame people because of behavior you personally find unethical is something I'd imagine you wouldn't like done to you. All it does is help sow seeds of resentment and further the divisiveness that piles on to racial and class tensions that already exist. If you have a specific prescription to help keep some amount of housing affordable in Fishtown that doesn't inflict financial damage on those who choose to rent at market value, I'm sincerely interested in hearing it as a resident of the neighborhood.
$1300 for a 600 sq ft studio is obscene. You cannot talk around that.
It says $1100?
$1100, dipshit. And it's a lot. I'd never pay that, because I wouldn't want a studio. But that's the market.
you must be new to east coast cities...
What does that have to do with anything?
He asked if I can afford $1.3k by myself. And I said I could. But I also like saving more money and I like living in a bigger house. Both are things I can still do in Fishtown.Granted I wasn't OP and he wasn't asking me but this is r/philadelphia and I like butting into threads.EDIT: Jesus Christ I can't read the thread lines. Sorry r/surfnsound
did you not read the preceding question?
redwoodser didn't ask a question. coldfire asked a question that I don't see is relevant to redwoodser's point.
First of all, I'm 55 years old, independently wealthy and retired. Second of all, I think $1,300 a month for a 1 bedroom is fucking wack, BUT, if people could not afford to live there and were not willing to pay that much, the places for rent all over Fishtown would be empty.
Pushing people out that can't afford the rent has been going on in different places in Philly for over 30 years, beginning with Old City and then Northern Liberties. There's just much more money in the City these days than there ever has been. Is it fair for people that can afford to pay only $600 for a (nonexistent) spot in Old City but cannot afford to live there? No, it's not. I never said life was fair.
"Pushed out" with a $525,000 check on a home they bought in 1999 for $1 from their parents who bought it in 1983 for $16,000.
This guy gets it
Whaaaat, are you really 55?
https://media.giphy.com/media/XuBJvrKHutnkQ/giphy.gif
So...
Are you the one I really need to be asking for twenty bucks?
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Yes I can. But I pay $550 to split a house with four people because I like having a 2.5k square foot house and I like roommates.
Also, $1300/mo is $15,600 == at 50% income that's $31,200, and at 30% it's $52,000. That's $15-$25/hr. at 40 hours a week. If you're not making that, maybe you shouldn't be living on your own in a hot-market area.
Sorry but a $52K job with 35% of your pay gone to federal/state/city taxes means you are only netting about $2700-$2800 per month. So 1300 would be almost half your monthly income. Oh yeah then you still have to pay for utilities, water, internet, loan payments, food, deductions for health/dental/401K. You'll be lucky to have anything left.
What the fuck is the meaning of life to you people?
Fed = 19% State = 2.8% Local = 3%
≈≈ 25% before deductions
so $39,000 to play with ($3250mo)
≈≈ $3,250
utilities = $100mo for 1person (we pay approx. $220 for 4)
food = $400mo
loan payments = $0mo (what would I have loan payments on, I don't own a house)
deductions (which would be pre-tax and lower your taxed income) - est. 15% ≈≈ $650
== $2100 to get your dick hard with
the fact that you said "utilities" then expanded out to water, internet...
you're just bad at budgeting and it's why Fishtown isn't for you
Again, I was able to make it 3 years on $20k/yr here while in grad. school.
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Yes, and obviously so can a lot of other people or the market wouldn't be demanding that price
I live like 4 blocks from there and pay $550 for a bedroom with its own bathroom in a house with washer dryer, garbage disposal, etc. This person is price gouging and you're an idiot.
Could I, yes. Would I, no.
OP is with the ANTIFA bandits that destroy neighborhoods over Gentrification. GTFO OP nobody wants you or your antics in this city.