The Dean of TV Realtors I find Ty Burrell’s charactor on “Modern Family” to be more believable (“Phil Dunphy, Realtor“). But for the record, easily the longest running TV realtor would be Evelyn Harper on “Two and a Half Men,” played by the wonderful Holland Taylor (also Tom Hanks’ boss on the show where he...Read More
Google is near a deal to acquire Groupon, the pioneering online discounter, for as much as $6 billion. —The New York Times (11/30/2010) There’s got to be not a little irony in Groupon being bought out at something like 15x its annual revenues of $350 million. By contrast, established consumer goods companies can sell for...Read More
Prelude to a DealCourting my wife in Manhattan in the late ’90’s, I remember my (quick) progression from “Friend,” to “Special Friend,” to “Boyfriend,” to “fiance,” to “husband.” (The only interim title that I really objected to was “Special Friend,” which sounded vaguely insulting.) Is there a similar progression in a real estate “courtship?” Reading...Read More
Ticking Clocks and Cold Sweats As an undergrad and Law School student, I would occasionally dream that I was hopelessly behind on an exam, with time running out (once, the exam was literally in an unrecognizable foreign language). As a lawyer, that was replaced by a new, albeit infrequent nightmare: that I was months behind...Read More
