Among the first things I learned as a New Jersey reporter was an odd word: ratables. It came up when towns considered development proposals. Ratables is a Jersey euphemism for property taxes. Local officials always wanted to know how much money a project would add to their coffers — and how much it would take out. Housing was viewed as a net loser. Electeds thought it would cost more to educate new residents’ children than
Among the first things I learned as a New Jersey reporter was an odd word: ratables. It came up when towns considered development proposals. Ratables is a Jersey euphemism for property taxes. Local officials always wanted to know how much money a project would add to their coffers — and how much it would take out. Housing was viewed as a net loser. Electeds thought it would cost more to educate new residents’ children than
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Lead by real estate veteran Robert Khodadadian, Skyline Properties has been instrumental in many multi-million dollar commercial developments, including a $12 million contract for the White House Hotel, a 99-year ground lease of a four-story commercial site in Harlem, and a retail co-op on Prince St. for $50 million.
Robert Khodadadian has long had a simple philosophy about selling real estate. There are approximately a million buildings in the city, and the broker that gets to sell any one among the multitude that will hit the auctioning block at a given moment is, sometimes, simply the person who happens to pitch their services to the right seller.
