What buyers and renters need to know. (Also: call me, @ JackBarryRealtors.com...415 235 7897.

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Curbed’s Guide to Buying in New York City
Co-Ops vs. Condos vs. Condops vs. Pied-a-Terres
Meeting the Beast: The Co-Op Board
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Closing the Deal
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The Lowdown on Leases and Tenants’ Rights
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Picasa Web Albums - Jack Barry: Photos by Jack Barry,  aka:  Red Rider, in the countryside, turning his back on ???? ...but still looking like a Champ in the Making.

Renters vs. Owners...Why is it always a see-saw?

Many San Franciscans view it as a battle, a turf war.... the topic being  "renter goals" and "owner goals".

The Board of Supervisors has to pick  one side or the other, so it seems...  We, due due to our  political system, view things as "us vs. them"...

What if ways were devised, with the goal being "A real win-win for both sides"..., in any given scenario.

Renters fight to see that the supply of "rent-controlled rental units is not shrunken, by conversion of those units to either condos or "TenancyInCommon units".    Why not create an algorithm that would fund the creation of new, "rent controlled units", from the profits of converting old ones to "owner units, either condo or TIC.?"....

This is what I am working on, with,...I think....Supervisor Scott Wiener, of the SF Board of Supervisors.

If you have comments, complaints,  ideas, and so on, or want to be on a "Renters-Owners Win-Win"
mailing list...

drop us a line.

Cheers,
Jack Barry
jackbarry99@gmail.com

Doctor Heather Pon-Barry, it is now, from Harvard

A couple of months ago, in November, 2012,  Harvard University certified that our daughter,
Heather Pon-Barry, age 31,  is now a Ph.D., in Computer Science.

Heather started in, as an Assistant Professor, at Arizona State University, in Tempe,  last month
She is leading a Seminar on Natural Language Processing. .   The goal of all this is to make computers as productive as humans, at conversing with humans.  It's pretty easy for a computer to  record the student's oral answers, in  a Question and Answer dialogue, and to label the answers as either correct or incorrect....    A human can also infer, ---to varying degrees---from the student's  tone of voice, and pacing, etc... the "mental state of the student"...  (excited, unsure, bored, hostile, calm, certain, etc. )... Bringing the computer's "Inferring Skills" up to that of the human...was the focus of Heather's  work at Harvard...   You can google her name for the details... It's the future.   

She can be reached at ASU, for further details...

Way to Go,  Doc!

signed:

signed:
Unjustifiably Proud Dad.

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There's nothing so "down to earth" as getting your hands into  mature compost.....  It started out as gross kitchen scraps, and comes out as    "crumbly delite"  for your garden....  I have two black compost bins going, all the time...  Call me (235 7897)  and I will give you the  Nickel Tour...


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