Will Rogers once famously advised a friend to “buy real estate – they ain’t makin’ any more.”
Sounds like a reasonably reliable formula for success — and it is.
So how come so many moguls, tycoons, wizards, magnates, nabobs, bigwigs, personages, captains of industry and just plain smart business people involved in real estate want more than that? At times, so much more that they run afoul of the law?
This is real estate’s Dark Side, the industry’s seamy underbelly comprised of shady deals, broken promises and unlimited amounts of greed and ambition – and which few casual observers even realize exists until it splashes across the pages of the scandal sheets.
The Jewish Voice wants to lay bare this too-often hidden side of the world of big-time real estate and the people who run it so that our readers know the full story — the lay of the land, and where the bodies are buried underneath it.
