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My father made money with leverage.<\/strong><\/span> He took $13,000 in 1965 and bought an apartment building \u2014 The Marlowe in Lakewood, Ohio. \u00a0Then he bought another building the next year, St. Ed’s, and a year after that, Lakeland. \u00a0He was flying.\u00a0 Leverage works \u2014 if you’re lucky.\u00a0 And he was lucky.<\/p>\n My dad’s mantra was “just make the deal.”\u00a0 Pull the trigger.\u00a0 Which is what he did \u2014 often.<\/p>\n I, on my own, pulled the trigger a few times.<\/strong><\/span> For instance I bought the Riverview building from the Chisling family.\u00a0 Interesting name.\u00a0 Maybe they were trying to tell me something. \u00a0I bought the Roycroft building from a man who was dying of cancer, he said.\u00a0 He was “dying” like we’re all dying.\u00a0 He’s still around, years later. My father made money with leverage. He took $13,000 in 1965 and bought an apartment building \u2014 The Marlowe in Lakewood, Ohio. \u00a0Then he bought another building the next year, St. Ed’s, and a year after that, Lakeland. \u00a0He was flying.\u00a0 Leverage works \u2014 if you’re lucky.\u00a0 And he was lucky. My dad’s mantra was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8579,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nTomorrow:<\/span>
\n“OVER EASY”AT THE BIG EGO . . . Musicians lunching at the Big Ego diner.
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