The reason why this story is ridiculous is because she “gamed” the system. She bought a co-op through a program that was designed to help lower and middle income residents. You have to earn below a certain income to qualify, and obviously most people can’t save the down payment for a $400k apartment (which is actually…

She’s not Marie Antoinette, but anyone who can refer to buying a $400,000 apartment with daddy’s money as “making something out of nothing” is pretty damned clueless about her own privilege.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

She bought into a co-op meant for low-income residents. She’s fucking slime.

YES, other than the hoping she gets mugged (not into wishing violent actions on anyone, excruciatingly insufferable or not).

I agree. Just wish there was a bit more security in renting. Once my year lease was up (on a place I love and never want to leave) I became aware that I could get booted at any time. On the whim of a landlord who is a little unstable. My fridge is old and rusting and the paint is peeling off the walls in my bathroom…

“She rarely gets upset over things like parking tickets or bad-hair days.”

Or running over a 5 year old, apparently.

At current interest rates (~3.7%), to get a 30-year mortgage with monthly payments of $1,200, the loan amount is around $265,000. She offered $407,000 for the condo, so her down payment was around $140,000.

IF ONLY she’d done the Ikea catalog. Even their most spartan layouts have plants and a bit of life to them:

Even with a 20% down payment, oftentimes you’re still out of luck in NYC. You’re competing with all-cash buyers. That was actually the case with this woman. She lost out at first to an all-cash buyer who backed out. Now if someone can explain how housing like this that was intended for lower-income buyers finds a…

Here’s the joke (which is wholly on the subject of the article): Fort Greene is one of the msot expensive neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It’s full $3 million brownstones, large beautiful victorian houses, and semi-bucolic tree lined streets. Fort Greene adjacent Clinton Hill is similar, but not quite as wealthy as Fort…

They sound like two of the most insufferable people on Earth.

What the actual fuck. How nice that killing a child turned out to be such a beautiful and spiritual experience for her.

There’s a lot of advantages to renting. Our roof started leaking last night, so I have to deal with that. If I was renting it would just be a call to the landlord. Heater goes out on Christmas Eve, just call the landlord. It’s a lot more convenient as long as you have a good landlord. You don’t build equity, but you…

That’s a writer who no longer takes their job seriously and has decided to fuck with their readers until someone notices.

WHAT DID I JUST READ?! Did the fact that the bride KILLED A CHILD make it into a story about her wedding as an aside?!

What a wedding announcement! It takes several paragraphs before it mentions the bride killed someone.

Ugh this is like that WaPo article that was written about this family living in Bowie, MD with six kids with zero debt. Their house was 150,000 20 years ago. If I had a 100,000 mortgage I’d be able to pay for a lot more things also.

I love the idea of former Gawker writers just posting their usual stuff despite their new homes. Hamilton posting about income inequality on Kotaku, Ashley blasting Trump on Jalopnik, Hudson talking about Syrian rebels on Deadspin.

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