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Why you can't afford New York real estate

Maybe it's because you'd be bidding against this guy.

To whoever left this at the Cafe Duke ATM: You won't be keeping that money for long if you keep paying those $1.75 terminal fees. You know your bank charges you an extra dollar on top of that, right?

(Thanks to my colleague Sam Grobart for stumbling on this and donating it to Generation Risk.)
Posted by Pat Regnier 3:13 PM 4 Comments comment | Add a Comment

Wow! If that's what this person has floating around in their checking account, I'd be real interested to see what their investment accounts look like.

No worries though. There are lots of ways to avoid being priced out of the market.
Posted By Nigel Swaby, SLC, UT : 2:15 PM  

How about "nobody rings a bell at the top". I think Allen Greenspan rang the bell a couple of day's ago.
Posted By Phil ,Buffalo, New York : 3:40 PM  

The reason his balance is so high is that he just got paid his wall Street bonus by direct deposit in the middle of February. That happens to us all before we move it to our investment accont
Posted By Bob Green, New York NY : 6:03 PM  

Why is the balance reading $0.00 though?
Posted By Tom, Tom, NJ : 6:32 PM  

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