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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Pinto, Henderson, and JLG would all be competitive in the race, but out of the three, Henderson would have the best chance of winning.[/quote]

I'd definitely prefer JLG of the three but don't know how she'd do citywide.  Henderson would be a great pick.  From what I've seen of her she's smart, ethical, hard working, and has a spine.  That would be a nice change from the current mayor.[/quote]

+1 on JLG. Henderson just voted to take away my TOPA rights as someone living in a newer building so not too keen on her, and Pinto is even worse. Total nepo baby carpetbagger who bought her council seat with daddy and his connecticut friends' money [/quote]

If it makes you feel any better about TOPA, my newish apt building was up for sale in 2020 and we formed a tenants association to buy the building and hired one of the couple lawyers in the city who works on these sort of TOPA deals to get his take. This short of it was we had to come up with like $10 million in cash to make a purchase, and because not all tenants were interested in purchasing (this was a high turn over building with lots of young professionals), the interested tenants would have to pony up like $200k each. And because we were a market rate building with mostly professionals, we weren’t eligible for any special assistance. The lawyer said that really the only time such purchases are successful is when the building is mostly low income tenants because they can qualify for monetary assistance. I’ll admit I’m not super familiar with the legislation, but if it exempted newer buildings from TOPA it may mean there’s no practical difference, only that real estate deals close faster. [/quote]

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