[AGL] 301 West Ave. Austin TX 78701

[Frances Morey]

Thank you so much, Les!
Best,
Frances

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:13 AM Les Moore <wed3am at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frances,
> The Swiss voted down the 2016 plan for national ‘universal Income’ but now-
> The Swiss village of Rheinau is being targeted for a basic income
> experiment.-
>
> Switzerland: A basic income experiment is on the verge of starting in
> Switzerland October 8, 2018
> <https://basicincome.org/news/2018/10/switzerland-a-basic-income-experiment-is-on-the-verge-of-starting-in-switzerland/> -
>
> https://basicincome.org/news/2018/10/switzerland-a-basic-income-experiment-is-on-the-verge-of-starting-in-switzerland/
> .
>
>
> Les Moore
>
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2019, at 10:07 AM, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I ihave a book that was recommended by Bill Irwin in Hawaii, "The Party"
> is a fascinating look into Chinese society and government. I also read "The
> Wild Swans", a three generation biography of Chinese women in one family.
> The Chinese are more like ants in a social colony than we are, enterprising
> and driven with a capacity for ruthlessness.
> The CCP rules the land with an iron fist but they are unelected and below
> the radar of the general public while having operatives in every business
> and institution across the land, usually in the human relations
> departments--so they control who works where
> They are "socialist" in every sense of the word while embracing capitalism
> with enthusiasm, something their philosophy seems to accept without
> hesitation. It is a very interesting culture with a 3000 year history
> unlike our 200 years of babyhood as a society.
>
> BTW, Charlie, I had a very interesting conversation with a lovely 80 year
> old retired doctor over dinner last night. The subject of Andrew Yang's
> idea of paying every adult $1000 a month due to the massive unemployment
> coming our way and he doubted the wisdom of that solution. I said that
> there are countries that have experimented with the guaranteed annual
> income experiment, like Switzerland, and he asked me to try to find
> research results about that. I don't know how to research it. Have you any
> insight into why the Swiss gave up on the idea? For a time they were giving
> each citizen $2,400 a month. I resented that at the time because this was
> three times what I was recieving on Social Security! I know you lived there
> for school for a time. Perhaps you know how to find out what their thinking
> on it was.
> Best,
> Frances
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:10 AM Michael Eisenstadt <
> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In China, they build them to Chinese standards. Here's a photo of a whole
>> complex of 16 or so storey apartment towers that fell down. A friend of
>> mine who was teaching English in Shanghai asked her Chinese boyfriend if
>> the photo was genuine. He told her it was. (Subsequently married they live
>> in Brooklyn with 1 child). 301 West Ave is built to American code.
>>
>> The empty apartments in Chinese projects are meant to be sold and
>> inhabited. My wife's niece Carla sells real estate in Austin. I've emailed
>> her asking whether any 301 West Ave apartments are for sale in the multiple
>> listings.
>> I'm betting not.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/3/2019 8:05 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
>>
>> *Don't the Chinese build cities in places where there are no people? I
>> saw a video of one in Mongolia, airport, hotels, apartments, roads,
>> infrastructure, restaurants, statues, and no people. And there are other
>> ones too. Sort of build it and they will come?*
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 10:51 PM Kdoyle <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Funny story about the 60 minutes show, Mike. Glad to know there 's one
>>> good lawyer.
>>>
>>> When I say “Jenga Tower” do you know which building I am referring to?
>>>
>>> Yes sometimes it seems we are just another Banana Republic where big
>>> business and big money can come in and exploit whatever they want.. But I
>>> don't know if that is the case with this building.
>>>
>>> I always  do like to know the names of the folks behind something and to
>>> be able to call them if I want to. Ha! Increasingly real estate is held by
>>> acronymic anonymous no-name persons.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <
>>> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kathy,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your sleuthing. The name of the building is as yet unknown.
>>> Best guess is that it is 45 or more storeys. Have you played Jenga? The
>>> entiy Cvi-Ecc, LLC you unearthed owns 3d & West. 60 Minutes did a
>>> fascinating report on how foreign money on the run can be legally set up as
>>> an interlocing number of trusts who own trusts who own other trusts etc.
>>> effectively concealing the identity of the African dictator or whoever's
>>> money it is. It's legal to do so. The 60 Minutes did a piece on this scam.
>>> They secretly taped many law office settings with complicit lawyers only
>>> too happy for the work. Delicious footage. For a counterweight they filmed
>>> a lawyer saying he didn't do that kind of work.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 7/2/2019 1:29 PM, Kdoyle wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael does that building have a name? is it the one that looks like a
>>> Jenga tower?
>>> its very hard to find information about them. when i found them on Wikki
>>> and clicked “key People” no one showed up but they gave another business(
>>> Cvi- Ecc) as a partner. see link below. still no names.
>>> "3rd & West Lp Overview
>>>
>>> 3rd & West Lp filed as a *Foreign Limited Partnership (LP)* in the *State
>>> of Texas* on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 and is approximately five years old,
>>> as recorded in documents filed with *Texas Secretary of State*. A
>>> corporate filing is called a foreign filing when an existing corporate
>>> entity files in a state other than the state they originally filed in. This
>>> does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.”
>>>
>>> https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2g4a05/cvi-ecc-llc#people
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:06 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <
>>> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I looked up the giant 45+ storey skyscraper on 3d and West Ave in the
>>> Austin Real Estate Properties database (
>>> http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/SearchResults.aspx). See also
>>> the attached spread sheet about the property.
>>>
>>> Apparently all the apartments are still owned by 3d and West LP (limited
>>> partners) and the property assessments are a joke, some as low as $40,000,
>>> about 1/5 to 1/10th of the appraised value of downtown condo apartments. As
>>> tax assessments are based on actual prices paid for comparable properties,
>>> presumably not a one of the apartments has ever been sold. As I said, as
>>> far as I can see, none of the apartments have residents as is indicated by
>>> the lack of furniture on any of the 100s of balconies. No lights on at
>>> night. All windows show drawn curtains. Perhaps the owner(s)' notion is to
>>> place a store of value offshore from China just in case the SHTF over
>>> there. If I understood the tax database, the overall value of the building
>>> is stated to be $3,999,999 which is the bigest joke of all. If that is the
>>> case, the property tax on the building is derisory and there are no other
>>> costs than to keep the electricity turned on. As I mentioned, a Chinese
>>> friend of mine told me it was Chinese money that built it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>>
>>
>>
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