FUCK
Cert. denied https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/10/02/supreme-court-rejects-ny-rent-law-challenge/
Policy and Regulation
Rocks and Other Hard Places
In US tax law, a ‘whipsaw’ effect is said to happen when the government gets it coming and going because two or more taxpayers treat a payment inconsistently. For example, if a buyer of a business allocates a portion of the purchase price to a covenant not to compete but the seller does not allocate …
Choctaw Bingo
In 2009, a writer in Slate said that the James McMurtry song Choctaw Bingo should be the new national anthem, because it describes life for the majority of Americans in the post financial downturn gig economy. The music is not much to listen to, but the lyrics are brilliant. In the song, McMurtry (son of …
Talons and Allonges
In the early eighties, the U.S. government didn’t know what to do about bearer bonds. The government hated them because they are a tool for tax evasion. American corporations that donated to political campaigns, by contrast, liked them because they are a good way of raising capital. So in 1982, Congress split the difference by …
A Boulder, a Hill and a Deadbeat
Here’s a text a resident of my park in northern New York who I will call Maria Gutierrez recently sent to Mike, the manager of that park: Hi Mike, I really need your help. What do I have to do to take Casey off of this lease? I don’t want him here anymore. I have …
Municipal Finance, Manufactured Housing, and the Fourteenth Amendment
I got a ‘B’ in con law class, but I think that my reasoning is sound in the attached. Newfies, Kerrymen, and employees in the manufactured housing section of the title division of the DMV can click here.
Accounting Methods
As the years go by, you converse with fewer voices. Almost a decade ago, I sat in the now-defunct Queen Diner in Dryden, NY with Dee Dee, the manager of my park in central New York and her now-ex-husband, Ben. We were going to pay the waitress, and Ben and I each had a ten-dollar …
The Second-Cruelest Month
At his worst, George Seferis was a low-rent T.S. Eliot. You can see that in passages like this: This is a way of thinking, a wayTo begin to speak of things that you confessuneasily, at times when you can’t hold back, to a friendwho escaped secretly and bringsword from home and from the companions,and you …
Tontines, Viatical Settlements, Rent Control, and Girls, Girls, Girls!
Economists say that tontines create perverse incentives. A tontine is an investment pursuant to which each participant puts a certain amount of money into a pot. The money in the pot is invested in whatever the participants want it to be invested in (biotech companies say, or swamp land in Florida). The money stays in …
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Has Frank Rolfe Lost It?
No, Frank Rolfe has not lost it. At least, not yet, not as far as I know. Frank is the Elon Musk of the manufactured housing industry. An entity in which he owns a big stake is one of the largest mobile home park owners in the United States. His educational company, Mobile Home University, …