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Pete Smith
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Retired Real Estate Executive - Pearson Partners | Blackstone | Capital Trust
Star Wars on its release date (bunch of us cut school to see it).

Alien on its first run.
December 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I left Blackstone in 2016 and worked in their real estate debt group. I had no involvement with their rental housing investments.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Nonsense. Housing is expensive because we don’t build enough of it. Rents are set by the market, they aren’t “fixed” by billionaires.
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Investment companies bought derelict foreclosed houses, renovated them and rented them for market rents. There was (and still is) a shortage of rental housing. People have been unjustly badmouthing the real estate industry on this for years.
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m in good hands
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Good day to announce his retirement.
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Zero. Zilch. Nil. Nada.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
WTAF?
September 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Star Wars occurs in the past not the future. Every movie starts with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NYC: Fuck around and find out
August 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
$5.69/lb at ShopRite ($5.19/lb if you buy 3 lbs).
July 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Laos? Kazakhstan?
July 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Do the Democrats have 51 seats? No? Then STFU.
May 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Thank you for sharing. My dad was a B-17 pilot with the 384th Bomb Group. He flew 36 missions from 1944-45. He survived the war, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this, but he did retain strong memories of his service and his comrades for the rest of his life.
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Walmart’s operating margin (before taxes) is about 4%. How is it supposed to “eat” a 10% or 30% tariff?
May 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM