Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools? - Gawker Comments

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

di — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:59:13 EDT

i'm clearly delayed in responding to this, but that's hysterical. i haven't seen any of these posters around and i live in brooklyn and take the G to lorimer/metropolitan often, for that matter. still, i'm no hipster (or maybe i am and am just denying it), so i'm not the targeted demographic anyway.

doesn't corcoran know that hipsters are dirty, unbathed and pretentious and would never deign to attend one of those monthly meetings? they're also broke. hmm.

but, then again, maybe they're onto something and i should targeting the hipsters, too?

[www.tregny.com]

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

dado — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:45:14 EDT

I'm going to get in a Death Cab for Cuties and head the other way.

dado

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

miss_msry — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:01:44 EDT

@if_i_only_had_a_heart:

I tried to talk my parents into the same scenario while I was in college in the early '70s. They looked at me like I was crazy. Fools.

But, eventually I bought a duplex and had my renters basically pay my mortgage.

miss_msry

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

ADismalScience — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:29:45 EDT

I'm in the housing market. The NorthEast is very different from most of the rest of America, in that there wasn't the explosion in building and values experienced elsewhere. So it's actually quite competitive! And a pain in the ass.

ADismalScience

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

Mike_Jahn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:25:09 EDT

Is there a chapter on proofing your new home on the L line against drive-by shootings?

Mike_Jahn

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

htotheomo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:40:58 EDT

@ rebecca (sic): I wondered why this post seemed familiar:

[gawker.com]

htotheomo

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

hipsterdoofus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:13:21 EDT

@NewMrsAstor: ...with guys who look like Jason Bateman in "Juno."

hipsterdoofus

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

Bell County — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:08:01 EDT

@fileunder: A lien and hungry look.

Bell County

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

fileunder — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:55:21 EDT

La petite mort(gage)

fileunder

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

izzodee544 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:55:04 EDT

@FitnessMadeSimple: free drugs! photos by the cobrasnake.

izzodee544

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

if_i_only_had_a_heart — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:47:52 EDT

@unutterable: and both supported by mumsie and pops

if_i_only_had_a_heart

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

NewMrsAstor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:43:16 EDT

I bet its packed.

NewMrsAstor

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:42:30 EDT

I bet they could attract way more hipsters if the flier said:

Home Buying for people who are able to use sideburn combs.

FitnessMadeSimple

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

PickleTitsTurner — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:39:58 EDT

Of course there's the other side to this: the secret, smoky back room shennanigans of "Slumlording for Soshes"

PickleTitsTurner

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

unutterable — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:31:38 EDT

coincidentally (?), one of the owners of union pool was recently featured in the ny times real estate section [www.nytimes.com]

so there you go. it's about time people realized hipsters today are what hippies were in 1973 - passé.

unutterable

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

disslexic — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:30:40 EDT

Even the graphics on the posters are completely off key. Are they trying to entice cool cats like Bob Vila? I'm going to call Eve and give her a piece of my mind.

disslexic

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

JesseJb — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:30:22 EDT

A paragraph in one of those links includes:

"Fun Fact that provides a fictional and somehow functional, yet probably arbitrary anchor: HBfH's age on MySpace is 34."

CouGrrrrreat!

JesseJb

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

Clare — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:30:08 EDT

What perfect timing! I just met with a realtor today to buy a condo. If I hadn't already had an anxiety attack today, I'd be having one right now. Thanks, Gawker! So servicey!

Clare

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

if_i_only_had_a_heart — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:19:27 EDT

hey if parents are gonna be supporting the little greasy bastards they might as well make an investment vs paying rent

i have a friend whose parents bought a 2br apt in college and made her get a roommate and the roommate pretty much paid the mortgage

now that's capitalism -- making the kids get you a tenant and coming out ahead on room and board for college instead of taking out loans

i have to go kill myself now

if_i_only_had_a_heart

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

StrawBerryShortCake — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:17:30 EDT

Baking for burnouts meets everything other thurs in the same building!

StrawBerryShortCake

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:16:15 EDT

What kind of poster would a clever person who is in-the-know make to attract hipsters to such a meeting?

FitnessMadeSimple

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

StrawBerryShortCake — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:13:29 EDT

pottery for pot heads on the other hand is great!

StrawBerryShortCake

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

oneinsixbillion — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:13:07 EDT

Maybe we'll get lucky and this is just a sting to weed out the hipsters from the general population.

oneinsixbillion

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

StabbyFerosh — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:11:32 EDT

How to be a douche 101
Prof. Hipster Doofus, Cosmo Kramer

StabbyFerosh

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

Bell County — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:59:46 EDT

Blue States Close.

Bell County

Is 'Home Buying For Hipsters' Actually Just For Tools?

mattymcd — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:56:59 EDT

What, is McKibbin for sale or something?

mattymcd