I told them that I have to do extensive repairs to the place, and I need to negotiate a brand new lease. I have five years left on my lease at a very high rent, it does not pay for me to do these repairs and just stay for five years.

If it were just for the financial aspect you wouldn't be here. You're here because you love it.

My current rent is $24,000 a month for 2,800 square feet. They want $33,000. I can't afford that.

We also like, believe it or not, Morgan Stanley, which is our top pick in the brokerage field, although they may have another quarter and some stuff to wade through. It's selling at a very steep discount to the group. It's our top pick,

Generally speaking, the whole point of adult masquerades is that you get to do something that you don't normally do.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.