This site’s a little different than anything I’ve seen before. Who are you, anyway?
I got that job because, like so many of you, I’d been playing the New York market: Seven closings in six years.
In the eighteen years I’ve lived in New York, I’ve bought co-ops, a condo, and a suburban house.
I’ve been a landlady to great tenants, and I’ve evicted a bum who ran out on three months’ rent.
I’ve walked through a Newark crack house with a flashlight and fear, and I’ve drunk champagne in an $11 million Chelsea penthouse.
I’ve bought granite wholesale, renovated a bathroom, and ripped out a basement.
I’ve skim-coated my own wall (never do this), painted more apartments than I could count, and helped attach a roof to a Habitat for Humanity house in Atlanta.
I’ve spoken about real estate at the Brooklyn Real Estate Expo, the Harlem Home Fair, and the Learning Annex Real Estate Wealth Expo at the Javits Center.
And for two years, I shared the joys and sorrows of real estate with half a million readers.
I now write a column for Inman News, the national real estate site. And I still speak about real estate (I’d ask you to donate an honorarium to Habitat).
But I left the Post in 2005 because I had to play the game full-time, not just watch it: how can I help YOU?
email: aliATdgneary.com
ps: The “We” isn’t royal; I’m hoping to expand this site next month to include some design writers.