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1. “And we had real estate expertise. We had a lot of technology that we were playing with. I used to sell units in an on-site sales condo, new development on the Upper East Side. And I literally put the entire Schedule A, which is the pricing square footage unit numbers in a Hewlett-Packard 41B using bitmapping. And we could walk around. And instead of having, you know, when people would ask me, what are the common chargers? I'd literally have it in my handheld. And we sort of turn that into a valuation business. And it's been since 86 that we've been in appraising property about $5 billion a year in Manhattan.”

   2023-09-01 · Masters in Business · Jonathan Miller on High Mortgage Rates · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Well, when we moved and we went through, we basically, you know, got the ideas of family to start a real estate appraisal business. We'd actually raised money. From Japanese investors through an attorney to start a real estate brokerage firm. And got to the bottom of the form where you had to sign the dotted line and said, no, let's do appraisal. It was just like just this sort of odd moment where we really didn't want to become real estate brokers.”

   2023-09-01 · Masters in Business · Jonathan Miller on High Mortgage Rates · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Well, actually, I moved to New York in the mid-80s because my parents had moved here and my sister had moved here and they're saying, this is incredible. I grew up in the DC area and was living in the Midwest. My wife and I came to a wedding here and were completely hooked within three weeks. We sold our cars and moved and slept on my parents' apartment, one bedroom apartment floor within three weeks of our visit here. We just wanted to be here and there's no regrets. We love it”

   2023-09-01 · Masters in Business · Jonathan Miller on High Mortgage Rates · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source