{"id":3338,"date":"2008-04-11T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2008-04-11T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:40:37","slug":"adjustable_rate_mortgages_--_ugg_boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/adjustable_rate_mortgages_--_ugg_boot.html","title":{"rendered":"Adjustable Rate Mortgages &#8212; Ugg (Boot)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of the self-consciously trendy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/31\/15\/31_15_houses_for_hipsters.html\">they&#8217;re always a step or two behind<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The promise of learning the cold, hard realities of today&#8217;s housing market is what brought more than a dozen skinny-jean-wearing, tattoo-sporting members of Williamsburg&#8217;s art and music scene to Hugs bar last month to attend [real estate agent Eve] Levine&#8217;s first &#8220;Hipster Mortgage Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the latest version of a marketing campaign Levin first began as mere barroom lectures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is so much information people just don&#8217;t know,&#8221; said Levine, a musician and artist herself who created the event not only as a tool for marketing her own business, but also a means of supplying financial and home buying know-how to a group of people she bluntly describes as &#8220;the opposite of Wall Street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of that group, frankly, agree with that assessment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Figuring out how to buy a home in New York City is like climbing Mount Everest,&#8221; said Margaret Raimondi, who attended the event with her fianc\u00c3\u00a9, Brad Augustine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, &#8216;Hipster Mortgage Night&#8217; will make it more like climbing Mount Rainier,&#8221; she added, referring to the much-shorter mountain in Washington State.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of the self-consciously trendy is they&#8217;re always a step or two behind: The promise of learning the cold, hard realities of today&#8217;s housing market is what brought more than a dozen skinny-jean-wearing, tattoo-sporting members of Williamsburg&#8217;s art and music scene to Hugs bar last month to attend [real estate agent Eve] Levine&#8217;s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,39,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-real_estate","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}