This smells awfully fishy to me.

The guy buys the building and does absolutely nothing, probably doesnt even secure the building ... announces grandiose plans while eating potatoe chips on his sofa playing game boy.

sounds to me like meyer landau pulled alittle @#$% here in Buffalo buying a building, sending a crew out and into an unlocked building to steel all the metal and other valuables and then claim theft once they are safely returned and found alibies where the police could not ascertain the exact date of the theft.

Im sorry to say but if I were an insurance company, I would have @#$% [deleted]

AND NO, I DONT THINK THIS WAS AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENTIAL CRIME BY AN OUT OF TOWN [deleted] DEVELOPER.

Chirs69, way to speak your mind. I can't believe Meyer pulled off this kind of heist, from Brooklyn no less. He almost retrieved half his purchase price. There must be some steel in there too that can be sold.

I am sure the building is a pile of sh!t, but 384k for a building of this size in its location was not a bad price.

Must be nice to have Daddy's money and cherry pick properties in Broke Buffalo.

Where are the violations and fines on this property from the city of Buffalo? It is not secured and a hazard to the neighborhod.

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If this isn't enough to get Chris69's account suspended, then I don't know what is.

I don't think we can just "pluck" Chris69's specific slurs out and make it OK for his comments to stay here. So for the record, he made a series of anti-semitic comments, including the desire to see all downstate Jews deported.

Landau = scam artist

chris69/Timmy = antisemitic, misogynistic filth

CS --

Thanks for your concern for my sex life. It's odd that one of the relatively few people here who has ever calls out racist posters would complain about someone calling chris69 on his antisemitism.

QE, ECB, ec. --

Why is chris69 still posting here? At what point should we assume that his chronic hate and racism mirror your own views?

know nothing about the owner but why does my gut tell me there's something more to this? if the owner did not know (or care) that the copper was stripped sometime during a 6-month period, why should I? is he looking for sympathy or just an insurance check?

tidy return down the road if he was to sell, it. but, what goes around, comes around, no copper & vandels = no sale....

Hey BRO...the site has issues. It ate my post!

Conspiracy theories aside, this looks like a pretty attractive project. I like the plans and the neighborhood is pretty stable as far as Buffalo goes but the proximity to Bennett is probably a problem. The loss of the radiators is probably no big deal given that the heating would be changed out anyway butselling them would have been a source of revenue.

The real issue here is the fact that the guy wants $1.8M more than he paid for it. In Buffalo a set of plans and a year of ownership just isn't worth that. I am sure the development community knows that which is probably why there hasn't been anyone taking a look-see. Get real about the sale price and sell this place or develop it.

Okay, I'm getting pretty tired of reading Chris69's racist posts.

I've seen him make comments about: - Muslims - Asians - Jews

Is BuffaloRising going to do something about this joker?

Add to that his rants about Black women whenever Buff State is mentioned.

I seriously think it is time for Chris69's account to be suspended and his IP address blocked.

Are you guys reading a different post than I am? I don't see anything anti-semitic in Chris' post. Anti out of town developer maybe...

Scrap dealers are licensed in New York, and New York has several laws on the books that limits the purchase of scrap metal, and more specifically copper, if the dealer feels that the items may be stolen. This is similar to the regulations put in place at pawn shops to prevent the fencing of stolen goods. The laws are on the books, they should either be enforced or removed. The theft of copper plumbing would be less attractive to theives if they had to verify their identity (we already have a law in place for this), the origin of the scrap (already a law in place), and if the scrap dealer was accountable for holding the goods if they were determined to be stolen.

Texpat, everything was edited out last night.

Insert the phrases "[deleted]" "[deleted]" and "[deleted] developer" where you see edits have been made.

What happened to suspending accounts BRO? Banning IP addresses?

Ahh...that explains it...I am reading a different post.

Think of Chris69 as our little Reverend Wright but at least on BRO you can click that little "Avoid User" link at the bottom of his messages if you want (no such luck with the Reverend).

Personally, I am against suspending accounts and banning IP addresses. If you want to ignore someone then do so, but let the rest of us have the option to read him or not.

yes this seems pretty shadey indeed. i like how the asking price has gone up about $2m.