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Ken takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on seven to ten. Wr Ken
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Speaker 1: from Mark Today, Yere's Ken Rosato and good be with you.
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Speaker 1: On a Friday, straight to our busy phones, we go
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Speaker 1: to our friend Vincent in Brooklyn. Good morning, Vincent.
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Speaker 2: Can can you hear me?
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Speaker 1: I sure? Ken?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Ken? I heard the real estate expert that you
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Speaker 2: just had on your show. Ken. Me and my family
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Speaker 2: have been in the real estate business for ninety five
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Speaker 2: years in New York City. There was at one time
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Speaker 2: there wasn't a neighborhood where my grandfather owned or owned
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Speaker 2: in the past house. He bought his first department building
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Speaker 2: two weeks before the Great Depression. One of the biggest
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Speaker 2: drivers of the high rents in New York City is
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Speaker 2: you can't have twenty million immigrants come into this country,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of them are going to the big
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Speaker 2: blue cities like New York, Chicago, La Boston. They also
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Speaker 2: apartments that used to be let's say marginal. Let's say
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Speaker 2: apartments that ah, they were like a sled. Put it
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Speaker 2: this way, they would be considered starter apartments. There would
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Speaker 2: be an apartment that you rented when you first got
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Speaker 2: out of school, or you first got married or whatever,
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Speaker 2: and then you'd work your way up. Now those apartments
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Speaker 2: are considered high end. The people are not building new
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Speaker 2: buildings here because of all the regulations. Every month there's
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Speaker 2: a new regulation I have to comply with. The newest
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Speaker 2: one was a number of years ago, about ten years ago.
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Speaker 2: There was the lead paint certification. Right, okay, when you
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Speaker 2: ret the apartment, you had to certify that there were
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Speaker 2: no children under six years old. There was no lead paint.
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Speaker 2: Everything was either ripped out or painted over, which makes
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Speaker 2: the lead innocuous. Now recently, two weeks ago, I got
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Speaker 2: an email from the City of New York saying that
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Speaker 2: I have to prove in advance that there's no lead.
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Speaker 1: How do you How are you supposed to do that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the here's the can. You have to call
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Speaker 2: up a lead abatement company and they come down and
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Speaker 2: every inch of your house they inspect for lead paint, vapors,
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Speaker 2: lead paint, lead and paint hasn't been used in a
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Speaker 2: hundred years. The only place and I used to work
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Speaker 2: in a steel factory sixty or sixty years ago, where
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Speaker 2: we used to make fuel tanks for gas nations and
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Speaker 2: for apartment buildings. When they would come off the assembly line,
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Speaker 2: me and this other kid. He was on the right
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Speaker 2: side and I was on the left side, and we
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Speaker 2: have buckets of red oxide primate paith and we would
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Speaker 2: paint the it's anti corrosive anthe was. We would paint
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Speaker 2: the tanks and then when they were shipped out, the
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Speaker 2: landlord or whomever would paint them. What are the color
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Speaker 2: you want? That's the only place where it was found.
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Speaker 2: So now, when I got this letter, I called up
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Speaker 2: some letter batement companies. They want two hundred and seventy
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Speaker 2: five dollars per apartment. She because we'll certify that you
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Speaker 2: don't have lead VAPEI is over a certain amount of million.
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Speaker 1: And Vincent I don't mean to step on the only
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Speaker 1: because it's almost news time at Vincent. I guarantee there
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Speaker 1: are only certain people who qualify to do that job.
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Speaker 1: And I wonder what their connection is with the officials.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't know. But here I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: leave you with this. Vincent, could you will appreciate this.
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Speaker 1: I saw this story that I thought of you last night.
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Speaker 1: When I read this story, New York City will see
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Speaker 1: a wave of apartment buildings with ninety nine units. Did
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Speaker 1: you hear this. So apparently there's a new tax program.
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Speaker 1: New York City developers have hit a fresh snag in
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Speaker 1: trying to solve the city's housing process. It's a new
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Speaker 1: tax program that costs them extra money if they build
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Speaker 1: a building that has one hundred apartments or more. So
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Speaker 1: what are they doing to save? And it's a lot
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Speaker 1: of money. So they're capping it off at ninety nine.
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Speaker 1: So now you're gonna get like thousands of apartment buildings
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Speaker 1: with ninety nine units or less as a result. Here
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Speaker 1: they want to solve the housing process, the housing crisis
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Speaker 1: in New York City, but yet they impost penalties on
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Speaker 1: landlords who want to build buildings with one hundred units
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Speaker 1: or more. So why bother doing it? This is the Left.
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Speaker 1: They always cut off their noses despite their faces. Vincent,
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Speaker 1: you know, I love talking to you, my friend. Have
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Speaker 1: a wonderful weekend, enjoy it. Ah, my goodness. All right,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about ID coming up. It is Friday,
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Speaker 1: Ken Rozotto and from Mark In just minutes from now,
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Speaker 1: we will speak with brand and digital strategist Fisher about
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Speaker 1: a new easy way to get through the airport using
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Speaker 1: your phone instead of a passport, and then we're going
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Speaker 1: to hit on the issue of digital ID