How to best stunt on others in real estate?

How do New Yorkers stunt on others in the commercial real estate biz?  

In Texas, you get a king ranch.  Or if you have little kids I guess at least a yukon/tahoe.  You wear cowboy boots.  Even a billionaire can drive a pickup if it's nice enough (and yes they can get expensive).

But that's in the south.  How does Michael Stern let people know he's the boss of the site?

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buy some super expensive real estate then keep pretending you are going to give it to an agent to sell as a listing then keep faking them out and never do

 

That is awesome.  Monkeys pay attention, I'm sure he built his own detailed Argus model from scratch (if you want something done right, ya gotta do it yourself!) for each deal and knows it backward and forward.

 

Stunting is easy: Raise a family on north shore of Long Island, have your kids syndicate "value add" deals in the outer boroughs and watch the money pile up. 

The above isn't my life, but I told my dad one thing about NYC CRE: "First you get the watch, then you get the car, then you get the girl." His response: "You are a f***** idiot." This is sarcasm and he knows it.  

For me, stunting on others in NYC means leaving your clients in a better place and having more fun than the next guy with money coming last. Sounds cheesy but looking forward to more of that in 2021. 

 

I knew of a guy who gifted his granddaughter a CVS ground-lease for her 14th birthday. That's a flex if I ever saw one. 

 

Oh, you can get one of those plaques to put on a building with your (company) name on it out front. It seems like a lot of NYC owners do this. 

 

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