how big is your bag?

What’s the difference between a $1,000/sqft apartment and a $6,000/sqft apartment? Even more so what separates a $3,500/sqft from the $5,000/sqft apartment especially when they are located on the same block?! What about what “separates” the people that buy them? I believe in the secret (http://www.thesecret.tv/) and in abundance. I wanted to create a blog that explores Manhattan’s “high end" or what I like to call the super luxury market. Looking at it from the inside out as much as from the outside in. What and why do people buy when money is not the deciding factor? I am interested in the psychology and philosophy of it all.

This summer will the “big money” be flowing into the Chelsea Highline Area, the Upper West Side’s Columbus Circle, Lofty Tribeca or the more Traditional Upper Eastside?? And what does that mean for the rest of us?

"The Secret" to me means the more you picture something and believe it the more it becomes reality. To ponder on abundance with positive intention is to attract it.
Always as they say be careful what you wish for because it may just come true!

I believe we can all be judged by the way we treat the people we can’t directly benefit from. I believe in real estate like in life it is important to treat everyone well regardless of price point and to be non judgmental.. in the end does it really matter what kind of drapes people chose? Yes and no. In the end we all deserve love and to be loved.

During Passover I was in Florida visiting family. We went on an hour boat tour of the Ft. Lauderdale harbor. Other than the courthouse which was ground zero of the Anna Nicole saga and famous for its pregnant chads there were the $30 Million mansions with $85 Million Yachts parked nearby lining the waterway. From the vantage point of the tour boat the homes looked like they belonged to dolls. Mostly the help stared back at us. I wondered what their job interview process might have been like. House sitting is from what I understand a coveted job in South Florida at $1,000/week. These mansions might only be used by their owners two weeks out of the year competing among a portfolio of impressive homes. The plots alone went for as much as $12 Million vacant. Over the loud speaker the boat’s captain explained this house belongs to a basketball commissioner and this one to the guy who started a national company and another to an owner of franchises and then there were the ones that belong to the Garbage Man and his family. That’s the Garbage Man’s Daughter’s House and the Garbage Man’s cousin lives over there.

You might ask yourself as you browsed through other people’s backyards how did some accumulate such wealth in their lifetime? What opportunities were they given or born with compared to the people who lived in the mere $3,000,000 condos down the street or the $300,000 houses not more then a mile inland. I thought of the Garbage man and “the Secret”. It makes me wonder how big can I dream? How big is your bag?