All Forum Posts by: Ron Brady

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You should have masks with you at all times for environmental pollutants when looking at hoarder houses - animal feces, dead animals, asbestos, gas, etc.

As for protocol, hoarder houses are not an easy buy because if the resident is still there it's not a money issue, it's an emotional issue. Hoarders get attached to their belongings so not only do they not want to let go of all the stuff, they don't want to leave.

If it's an heir of a hoarder, the play is easy. You will clean it out, but for that, you need to get it at a lesser price, bargain basement because this place is dangerous.

 Thanks for the information Johnathan, will definitely be keeping some N95s in my car going forward. To provide a bit more context, I am an agent showing distressed properties to investors looking to fix and flip. Want to feel more prepared the next time I step into a dangerous place like the one I saw today. 

These days I'm more concerned about fentanyl "It is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine" they are suually little blue pills and you might see small squares of burnt aluminum foil. They spill and roll into cracks and crevices. Inhale one of those and you'll be writing from your hospital bed.

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Here is what he said, verbatim (parenthesis are mine, the rest is his):

"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous... whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light... and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting... and then I see the disinfectant (talking about bleach) where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that. I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what (points to his head)."

Perhaps paraphrasing this to say that he said people should inject bleach as a cure is slightly unfair, but I wouldn't call it a lie because the underlying point is accurate: he was suggesting that injecting bleach was a cure and bragging about how smart he is because he came up with the idea, and it's obviously all crazy talk. It was a sensitive time for the country and a terrible time for the president to engage in crazy talk like that during a press conference, which is why it got so much attention and is still referenced. You were working with DR's without borders (good for you btw), he was propagating conspiracy theories and bragging about his brilliant idea to cure covid by putting UV light and disinfectant into the body.  

For the record I read both Fox News and CNN and I realize that the truth is somewhere in between the two. I agree with you that we are in the "post-truth" era of journalism unfortunately. I consider myself a centrist so I don't really have a "side". I have voted for Republicans, so your comments about tribalism are false assumptions. I truly disliked Trump before he became a Republican (he has switched parties 5 times remember). 

I'm from the NYC area originally and not many there like him. He and his family have long held a reputation in the city for not being honest people. For example they are well-known for stiffing contractors (which by the way weren't you a contractor)? Trump actually wasn't respected at all as a businessman in the NYC business community. He was always more of a joke. A flashy rich kid pretending to be a real estate investor, without really being part of the real estate investment inner circle like the Rudin's and Tisch's. They all laughed at him. But he eventually spun his inherited wealth into an image of being a smart businessman (despite several bankruptcies, many failed businesses, burning a lot of people and being part of many, many bad deals and scams). His biggest success was his show where he played a successful businessman (which is when he started writing off $70k per year for his hair which you can see in his tax returns, and $95k for his daughters hair). If anyone doubts he's a grifter just look at his tax returns which is why he never released them like every other president has. 73% of his home town voted against him in 2020. What does that say about a person when nobody in their home town even likes them? 

You can lose respect for me for having a different opinion than you if you want, or we can just agree to disagree. I'd prefer the latter although I have to say your ranting about communism and name-calling and some other comments here are pretty off-putting at times. For example saying racism is worse than it was in our parents lifetime... my parents remember when there were separate bathrooms and water fountains for different races and people were still being lynched in the South, so it's obviously an egregiously untrue statement although I agree that racism is still a big problem. I have relatives who like Trump and we agree to disagree but still love each other. 

The underlying issue is like you said: true unbiased journalism is extinct and has devolved into rivaling echo chambers vying for clicks to sell ads. I understand why we've become so polarized and more people are moving to the extremes, so I try not to judge people personally for their opinions. We are all just misinformed. But my opinion of Trump precedes all that, and he's only gotten worse since then. You have a different opinion and that's fine, you've gotten different information on which you base your opinion. We can agree to disagree and not get personal. 

I've said my piece and look forward to getting back to talking about real estate with you. This is why I'm not a fan of discussing politics on BP!  

edit: Dan H. beat me to it, and more concisely too.