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Attention Florida Homeowners: SLS Is Cranking Up Foreclosures!

Attention Florida Homeowners: SLS Is Cranking Up Foreclosures!

Attention Florida Homeowners: Specialized Loan Servicing Is Cranking Up Florida Foreclosures For The Holidays! Are You Prepared?  Specialized Loan Servicing is cranking up Florida foreclosures. This is bad news for Florida homeowners because Lakeview Loan is hellbent on seizing your home!  Therefore, MFI-Miami has teamed up with several Florida law firms to create a Florida foreclosure defense…

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Free Legal Advice and Representation in Connecticut

Free legal advice and representation are readily available to people in need throughout Connecticut. Many Connecticut law firms have partnerships with Statewide Legal Services, which offers free legal advice to low-income families, working poor people, and elderly people. The state’s many legal aid programs are designed to assist qualified residents, and representatives from these organizations help qualified individuals navigate the various programs. Read on to learn more. Below are just a few of the benefits offered by free legal services in Connecticut.

Housing discrimination is a pressing problem for thousands of Connecticut families. Many people are facing eviction from their apartments, foreclosure, and other housing discrimination. Attorneys can help tenants address these issues, stop foreclosure, and prevent utility disconnections. These services are a huge help to individuals struggling with the soaring costs of home ownership. If you or someone you love is facing housing discrimination, you can receive free legal advice from a housing attorney about your rights and how to fight back.

Lawyers are also available to help unemployed, fired, and low-income people get back on their feet. Some lawyers help low-income residents navigate the government’s programs, such as Social Security and unemployment insurance. Many people struggle to apply for these programs and receive approval. However, there are many organizations that offer free legal assistance and information about the benefits available to these individuals. The services provided by these organizations include assistance in applying for benefits and advice regarding successful pardon applications.

Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut (SLS) is the entry point to the legal services network in Connecticut. Through SLS, people call for free legal advice and will be referred to a nonprofit law firm in their area. The legal services network is funded by the Legal Services Corporation. Connecticut Legal Services provides free or low-cost legal representation to low-income individuals throughout the state. While Connecticut Legal Services does not provide representation in the greater Hartford area, the organization’s sister agency Greater Hartford Legal Aid provides free or low-cost legal representation to individuals in need.

Szilagyi & Daly attorneys are committed to providing top-notch legal services to individuals and organizations throughout Connecticut. They take pride in their dedication to their clients and their goals. They strive to meet each client’s expectations while adhering to high legal standards. They have built long-standing relationships with clients and provide exceptional service and legal representation. So, whether you need help with a lawsuit or need legal advice, Szilagyi & Daly is the law firm for you.

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Commercial real estate stocks are bouncing back this week after taking a big hit. Shares of SL Green, Manhattan’s biggest office landlord, are up 14 percent. On Monday, SL Green unveiled a $3 billion, 77-story new office tower in midtown, showing the company is betting on a future that includes workers going back into the office. Andrew Mathias, president of SL Green, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss.

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SL Green is moving to seal off 590 Fifth Avenue 2020

SL Green is moving to seal off 590 Fifth Avenue 2020

Large New York landlord SL Green has moved to seal off the 19-story, 100,000-square-foot office building on 590 Fifth Avenue.

The foreclosure reveals that the building's landlord, Thor Equities, has defaulted on a $ 25 million mezzanine loan held by SL Green against the property.

The situation is a sign of the times as revenues in various segments of the real estate sector deteriorate, forcing…

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Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! SLS Is Pursuing Zombie Debt

Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! SLS Is Pursuing Zombie Debt

Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! Specialized Loan Servicing Is Shaking Down You Down Over Uncollectable Zombie 2nd Mortgages MFI-Miami is issuing a Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! Armies of bottom-feeding lawyers armed with thousands of zombie foreclosures coming to your front door! They are barging down the doors of courthouses across New York like Walmart shoppers on Black Friday…

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to kill the future in the present: Sade LaNay Interviews Jennif(f)er Tamayo

Content warning: This interview contains sensitive topics regarding racial violence

Sade LaNay: First I want to say thank you. I have been obsessed with your voice since 2015 when I read your lyric manifestos at Weird Sister. I remember those essays and Wet Land by Lucas de Lima breaking and opening in me, the process of crediting my work as an artist to myself and validating my self in the world.

It’s a gift to be able to talk to you about your chapbook, to kill the future in the present, a work that I find incredibly tender and generative. This is a text I can think and feel with. I’m inspired by the foundation you establish for a distinct poesy. This chapbook is mood, a heated conversation, the epitome of free writing, the kind of writing that bothers insecure people. Aesthetically, it’s like staring into the sun. It pulses with repressed feeling, the need to be held and the knowledge that our precarity is not rare.

Do you want to speak to the path you’ve been on creatively from that point in time to now?

Jennif(f)er Tamayo: thank you, Sade luv, for sharing that process of breaking/opening. it’s an honor to hear you say that. Lucas’s work also does that for me too -- his new book Tropical Sacrifice claims the lowly, (in)toxicated chicken as a kind of hero and I’m in love with its intensity, its “lyric power bottom” thrusting.

Something has been happening to me since that period of time you indexed, gracias a lxs diosxs!! From the outside in, it has appeared like less public writing, less public production, less ambient generosity with how I move through writing communities. From the inside, it has also meant more unlearning and untying toxic bonds to anti-Blackness that permeate through art/poetry spaces. Much of the change is indebted to the excessive and antagonistic performances of the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo, who inspired me to remain repulsed by and repulsive to whitened poetries. They spoiled so many of us <3 <3 <3

SL: Goddess, I miss MCAG. I miss the abundance of hope and creative energy I had then. I miss needing to write to survive, that is, to continue spiritually instead of needing to write to piece together a precarious material existence. I also think this is a time to sharpen every tool we can get our hands on.

JT: YeSSSS! I miss the way I would write poems that felt like fire in my mouth. But now, I want to sharpen that fire, to direct it more carefully. Specifically, what I want -- and this relates to your questions about creative paths -- is to write sentences with a clear enemy in mind. Or, better, to reorganize structures of sentencing for traveling in time. These are the same things to me.

SL: Will you explain what you mean by sentencing because I don’t want to assume? I think of my own anxiety regarding the sentence--how to move from the poetry I write which formally avoids the sentence and feeling inadequate about the act of placing sentences on a page one after another, having confidence that my ideas are successfully expressed.

JT: In to kill Ii had a story I wanted to tell, but first (and forevermore) I needed to address the formal and violent challenges that the sentence, as a structure, has reproduced at the level of being and knowing ourselves. The sentence-- as a familiarly enforced unit of expression and a unit to challenge/break/resist -- has so much to do with ideas of subjectivity, temporality and geography; the arrangement and duration of ?. Sentences are enf0rced and lived encl0sure committed to progress, straightness, capitalist accumulation...enforced enclosure... So I am seduced by the conditions of the sentence & the structures it reproduces & I have asthma & it has been getting worse & worse every year & with every new(ly) (in)toxicated place I move to & So, what about a ___________________ struggle for ___ body, in a more _______ way.

& the sentence is also a kind of sentencing. The carceral sentence that (en)traps and subjugates: the sentence was handed down today... and so on. These are related formations. I see my favoring of the sentence in this particular part of my creative life as a way of attending to the various mechanism that determines anti-Blackness as a way of living/writing. So I am carefully studying the sentencing of those poet-scholars I admire, like Sylvia Wynter and Frank Wilderson, III, who have diagramed the (im)possibilities of this foreclosure.

For all these reasons, the sentence and its ruptures are about precision. This is sentencing. I want no nervousness about what I am trying to articulate. This is hard work, and particularly with poetry; readers are so prepared to freely and wildly interpret you. But we know what this feeling of freedom portends...

SL: The connection between identity and theory is something that excites me about your writing in to kill the future in the present. Experiencing this style of writing from you emboldens me to confront my own fears of illegibility, unintelligibility. Due to that fear, I often restrict my writing to my experiences, my identity, things I can articulate confidently. The harder thing is to excavate from that writing a new way forward.

I think of Octavia Butler’s fiction. In Kindred, on her trips to the past, Dana is considered aberrant by whites and blacks because of her tone; her lack of accent and lack of affective deference to white supremacy. It’s a familiar struggle. As well as the labor of confronting experiences of being “too little to be little” with intimates, with therapy, with writing (other people’s and my own). Our bodies carry so much of what makes us tender and tinder, how are you staying soft, how are you keeping from combusting?

JT: I suppose to travel in time is to subject the self to a kind of disfigurement of consciousness. Butler literalizes this in Kindred. What does it look like to combust under the weight of too much body knowledge? Dana’s story always struck me as some kind of invitation and warning: tendered tinder.

Sade, I have wanted to combust. I have sensed that many of us need to burn for what we have inherited and continue to reproduce. I am speaking directly to non-Black non-Indigenous latinxs here. How have we constructed “brownness” to enable proximity and intimacy with whiteness? To enact anti-Blackness? For example, RAICES, the non-profit that is supporting families fight incarceration at the U.S./Mexico border raised close to 20 million dollars-- where was this material support for the “refugee ban”? Where is this material support for Black Lives Matter?

I think I save my tenderness and softness for my most beloveds, my best friends -- and I keep it private. It’s hard for me to talk about it in a place that will become public (like this one), because I want to safeguard it from those who will turn it into something it is not <3 But I do remember my therapist teaching me about the word “empathy” and it being like a fucking surprise to me. I mean, I have been grateful that my resentment and bitterness has sharpened me against this world’s bullshit, but I also want to be able to hold someone I love without a slight edge running through me. I know this because I have been held this way and it feels beautiful. I want to hold you that way, Sade.

For now, I guess, my tenderness has meant to continue. As in, continuing to live and to remain on earth despite the hopelessness and dejection I feel.

SL: I’ve been struggling with hopelessness this summer (and forever). Feeling so sick with it that it was hard to get out of bed for weeks at a time. My belief in my ability to escape institutional and intimate spaces and relationships rooted in and perpetuating white supremacy wavers drastically. After Dana is whipped for running away, she thinks of how “[n]othing in my education... had helped me escape” yet still teaches children on the plantation to read. In to kill, Moten reminds us “Escape is an activity, it is not an achievement.” I worry that fugitivity might last forever if I don’t know where I can escape to.

I’m getting ready to begin my first adjunct position, teaching at a state prison. Should we expect not to encounter freedom in our relationships and environments? Is resistance an everlasting condition of fugitivity?

JT: Moten seems to note this very thing: “you don't get escap ed ” -- the verb gestures toward forever. I am sorry for this. I am sorry. I am in a space of considering how my migration from South America fits into the pattern of predation -- how I am might be both the fugitive and/but the captor. The narrative of displaced non-black Latin American migrants leans very heavily toward salvation and redemption-- but what habits of anti-Blackness have me and my family brought with us in this “Latinx” Diaspora. We brought this shit with us too. And, more importantly, how were we, in some ways, escaping our own whiteness in coming to the States.

SL: What do you hear and/or imagine when I say “trauma informed care”? Currently, trauma informed care is geared toward getting a trauma’d body to function successfully within a body negating white supremacist jingocapitalist cisheteropatriarchy.

I want to say trauma informed care without intersectionality ain’t shit. Trauma informed care that doesn’t track racism’s permutations geographically and temporally is trash. Trauma informed care without abolishing “the various material and abstract enclosures that organize life within violence” is triage. For me to kill the future in the present is doing the labor of trauma informed care.

JT: Thank you for sharing this take on “trauma informed care” with me -- I was not familiar with it. But thinking with the caveats of your question, I am reminded of the critiques that have swirled around what has emerged around a “self-care industrial complex” As in, how might self-care alternate from community-care? And, how might self-care be complicated by different notions of the self personhood that require a broader set of parameters? As you say, “trauma informed care without intersectionality ain’t shit.”

I am also trying to sit with the feeling that maybe I don’t want to or I am afraid to “function successfully” in my body. In different words, I am curious about what opportunities for seeking justice are foreclosed to the healing body, particularly my non-Black, non-Indigenous healing body. I acknowledge the privilege that comes with saying this. And also acknowledge the discourse on “failure” that usually ensues from this line of thought (particularly in the academy). This is not what I am talking about.

So much of the therapeutic care I’ve experienced is about trying to work through my trauma and I am wondering about what it feels like to work with trauma. Because, to closely consider and study history is to attend to trauma on a massive, unfathomable scale. There is no working through but perhaps there is a working with. I am still trying to make myself tender to this particular historical, cosmic trauma, to let it prism through me, particularly in writing and performance.

SL: Yes yes yes. Time and trauma are unavoidable nonlinear energies that many of us are trying to navigate with a finite, needful body. Deciding to work with instead of through or even against those energies; my body precludes my participation in and cooperation with the myriad manifestations of white supremacist violence.

The voice of Nina Simone does the labor of trauma informed care for me, sonically manipulates time. Her performance at the Westbury Music Fair, fifty years ago, the day after Dr. King was gunned down, comprises the album ‘Nuff Said in which Nina alchemizes the poisonous present into a timeless and time-filled gift.

JT: “Timeless and time-filled gift” is such a precise way of describing Nina Simone’s performances and the way her voice refracts various temporalities. When she says, “Are you ready to smash white things,” at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, reading from the poem “Are You Ready” by The Last Poets,  I sense this timelessness. She is trying to tangle time so that her audience feels its pressures. The refrain “are you ready” scoots, ever-forward, the present experience of pain in-the-now. I am not this performance’s intended or primary audience but I have been beckoned by its registers and directions.

SL: I think of how resistance affected the arc of Nina’s life. The vibrancy of her performance of “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” at Morehouse in 1969 is subdued by 1988 in Hamburg. It doesn’t sit well to feel like the artists who live at the densest intersections; are most ardent in their resistance to white supremacy, will garner the least recognition and support while they are living. I don’t want more than I need. I don’t want the choices I make, in my art and life, to resist oppression to alienate me from relationships and resources. I don’t want death to seem more inviting than the present moment I’m surviving. I want 400 years of BLACK FEMME JUBILEE. The end of punitive debt and the distribution of wealth. What kind of reparative scaffolding do you want to see erected, in addition to “400 YEARS OF WHITE SILENCE”?

JT: Sade, this is a tough question and I don’t know if I am the one to attempt an answer. I am not sure my answers on reparations and scaffolding can be trusted. In “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang remind me that as an accomplice in a fight for Black and Indigenous justice, my “moves toward innocence” will be to try to reconcile and to rescue myself. (Am I doing it now?) The (first) item on the agenda: return Indigenous lands. The (first) item on the agenda: “end the war on black people.” This is not a sufficient answer to your question, but as I think and study, I have found that I need to keep these agendas stitched to my mind.

When I say, “400 YEARS OF WHITE SILENCE,” I am wondering if the fight begins with a move toward silence or, better, a certain kind of silencing-labor by those of us who have spoken for too long and who may not have a fucking clue what we are talking about. What does this silence or effort toward silence, as it relates to poetry and writing, feel like: less books by white(ned) people, less books by cis people, less books by non-Black latinxs, more writing that is not writing, more writing that is a kind research, writing that is caretaking, writing that is editing, writing that is being with ( as Alexis Pauline Gumbs has considered), writing that unequivocally centers the two primary demands on the table, writing that takes down/ breaks/up.

SL: In to kill the future in the present you redact the notes you take regarding the details about your crossing. Is this a self-preservative, protective measure? It feels like both a deliberate and reflexive gesture under eyes that “wouldn’t think we were so sane” when we tell our stories. Another way to manipulate time and sound through absence, the vacuum of inarticulation that trauma creates.

JT: In the past, I haven’t been careful enough to protect my family’s stories -- I haven’t always treated them with the honor they deserve. Through newer writing, I am trying to be more intentional with and protective of my storying. These stories may be “mine”-- as the saying goes in certain writerly traditions -- but they may not be mine to share in the way I do. I want to protect the power and magic they contain; they have been secretive for a reason. I’m learning that the hard way...

In another sense, the redaction was also a gesture of refusal. I refuse you the titillating story of our capture. Our detention. I refuse you the perverse pleasure you get from the details of our suffering. I refuse you the language, the articulation, the narrative, the coherence. You see lines of various length but the oral/aurality of it is withheld. It is trapped in my body, my mother’s body, through the telling. There was no way to tell this-- and I didn’t want to tell it, even if I could.

In the past few months, I was upset and disappointed to see the image of a crying child at the U.S./Mexico border traveling the internet (via a fundraiser) and then landing on the cover of Time magazine. What kind of work is this image doing for us? What habit of spectacle does it satisfy? I wondered whether the child could have given consent to be captured like this and how this image would impact her later...

Our appetite for images and narratives of suffering cannot continue to be the catalyst for our move toward action. Imagine if this was your child... NO. Narrative refusal, a kin to what Audra Simpson calls ethnographic refusal, attempts to retrain the kind of expectations for consuming and reproducing suffering.

SL: Final question, what are your pronouns? Mine are they/them/hers. 

JT: My pronouns, currently, are she/her/hers. Also, I luv you.

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It’s not 50% for biz nor personal income tax. Isn’t DT lowering both taxes too? Not to mention, wasn’t it posted a while back J had his headquarters (was it a post office box address?) in another state where they don’t pay state taxes or a low rate rather than CA? Hmm. He has various sources of income as well as investments, besides the salaries mentioned. I think AIW/Vyrt, etc were all paying for themselves (as a unit at least), esp since the employees would sometimes cross over, so no extra money was coming out of J’s pockets. He’s likely making profits off of them. I think J is smart or at least decent when it comes to his money. S, who seems to live more ostentatiously but with less sources of income, not as much… which is why the supposed state of BF and him having his home rented out should probably not be shocking. He has his own bed, some of his stuff, and isn’t that some of J’s (and his own) art? If he was no longer using it and it was solely a rental, more generic/non-personal art and removing those valuables would seem like a logical move. 

Funny he wasn’t panhandling in the streets before SS nor the G contract, despite a $30m suit looming over him, so how did he manage if he was hard up for cash?

As for the trust, wasn’t CL listed on both SL’s and J’s property as a trustee? I thought it was so that if either would get sued for something, they couldn’t take the property or something like that? Perhaps bartmanfredi knows better. Did she ever transfer the property to S (or J)? Why did the link say foreclosure? Was it foreclosed on CL or on the previous owner that CL bought it from via a trust? There might’ve been some posts about this a while back

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Yeah I recall seeing something about CL and the trust.

Weird trickery.

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SLS South Beach, Rosetta Bakery, Zuma, Miller’s Ale House lay off 871

From top left, clockwise: SLS South Beach Hotel, Rosetta Bakery, Zuma Japanese Restaurant, Miller’s Ale House

One of South Beach’s most well-known hotels, a popular bakery, a Japanese restaurant and a sports bar chain laid off a total of 871 employees in South Florida.

Sam Nazarian’s SLS South Beach laid off 340 employees as hotels across South Florida have been forced to shut down due to the impacts of coronavirus, according to a WARN notice filed with the state. The 140-room hotel at 1701 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach is closed until May 1, according to its website.

Rosetta Bakery, with locations in Aventura and two locations in Miami Beach, also announced that it laid off 184 people, according to WARN notices.

Zuma Japanese Restaurant at 270 Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami laid off 115 people. The restaurant closed down, according to a WARN Notice.

Miller’s Ale House, a sports bar chain, laid off hundreds of employees across Florida, including 232 people in South Florida, according to WARN notices. The location at 11625 North Kendall Drive in Miami laid off 66 employees; the location at 3215 Oakwood Boulevard in Hollywood laid off 103 workers; and the location at 2080 South University Drive in Davie laid off 63 employees.

South Florida hotels have been hit hard by coronavirus, as many have been forced to shut down. Earlier this month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order, requiring all non-essential businesses to shutter. The order followed previous decisions by individual counties and municipalities, including in some cases, ordering hotels to close.

During the week of April 12-18, Miami hotel occupancy dropped to 20.3 percent, down from 65.6 percent March 8-14, according to the hotel data provider STR. Revenue per available room fell to $20 from $146, during the same time period.

The latest layoffs follow 655 layoffs the state reported last week. JW Marriott Marquis Miami and Boulud Sud in downtown Miami, the JW Marriott Miami on Brickell Avenue, Nobu in Miami Beach, and Miami International Airport restaurants all filed WARN notices with the state.

Two weeks ago, additional WARN notices released revealed that South Beach Hotel Group, led by longtime Miami Beach hotelier Alan Lieberman, laid off over 700 employees at 13 of its 16 boutique Miami Beach hotels, including the Catalina Hotel, the Harding Hotel and the Riviera Loft Hotel.

The hotel industry is also facing over $4 billion in debt payments on commercial mortgage-backed securities loans. The loans are harder to restructure than conventional loans and are more likely to head to foreclosure, according to industry experts.

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Las Vegas’ top 10 real estate deals of 2018

Boxer Floyd Mayweather bought the home at 9504 Kings Gate Court in Las Vegas, seen above, for $10 million. (Luxury Estates International) Patrons play pinball machines during a visit to the Pinball Hall of Fame located at 1610 E. Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 28, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson speaks at a press conference at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on Friday, March 30, 2018. (Las Vegas Review-Journal) The interior of Lucky Dragon, which shut down gaming and casino restaurant operations in early Jan., in Las Vegas on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (Las Vegas Review-Journal) A vacant property next to the SLS Las Vegas at the corner of Sahara Avenue and Paradise Road photographed on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, in Las Vegas. The World Buddhism Association Headquarters acquired 12 acres of the property. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye Las Vegas’ commercial real estate market shows sharp disparities Inventory of homes for sale is soaring in Las Vegas Primm’s Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas faces grim future Big Las Vegas real estate deals have materialized in December

Las Vegas’ real estate market draws no shortage of wheelers and dealers.

Investors are always buying, selling, building — and, if things go south, facing lawsuits and other problems.

Here is my list of Las Vegas’ top 10 real estate deals of 2018:

1. Buddhist temple

When it comes to land on or near the Strip, developers usually set out to build casinos, condo towers or other big projects. (Whether they build anything is another story.) But this summer, a different buyer emerged with very different plans.

The World Buddhism Association Headquarters bought a mostly vacant 12-acre lot at Sahara Avenue and Paradise Road, just east of the Strip, for $17.5 million. The sale closed in July.

The Southern California-based group plans to build a Buddhist temple. But the organization “has very limited funds,” and “there is no possibility of quickly beginning” construction, its attorney said this summer.

2. Hard Rock Hotel

British billionaire Richard Branson, the flamboyant founder of the Virgin Group, and partners acquired the Hard Rock Hotel, with plans to make it a Virgin-branded resort by the end of 2019.

The sale was announced in March. The price was not disclosed, but a person familiar with the matter said the 1,500-room hotel-casino sold for about $500 million.

3. Lucky Dragon foreclosure

It wasn’t a sale, but the Lucky Dragon traded hands – and I doubt anyone celebrated.

San Francisco developer Enrique Landa’s Snow Covered Capital, the resort’s main lender, foreclosed on the shuttered hotel-casino in October.

The 203-room Chinese-themed property opened in 2016 but struggled to draw big crowds, went bankrupt and closed its doors. Its demise was perhaps the fastest in Las Vegas in decades.

4. Mandarin Oriental

Panda Express is known for slinging broccoli beef and chow mein at malls and airports, but the fast-food chain’s founders also bought a luxury piece of the Strip this year.

Andrew and Peggy Cherng, co-CEOs of Panda Restaurant Group, teamed with hotel investor Tiffany Lam to acquire the Mandarin Oriental for $214 million. The sale closed in August.

The 47-story tower with hotel rooms and condos is now a Waldorf Astoria.

5. Station land

In a throwback to the pre-recession days, Station Casinos bought around 40 acres of land in the Skye Canyon community, in the upper northwest valley, for $36 million. The sale closed in November.

It was unclear if Station had any project plans, but the casino operator added to its sizable land holdings in the Las Vegas suburbs.

6. Raiders neighbor

With the Raiders building a 65,000-seat football stadium in Las Vegas, a small industrial site across the street became lucrative real estate.

Osprey Real Estate Capital and Huntington Hotel Group bought a 2-acre industrial property just west of the stadium for $6.5 million. The sale closed in November.

Osprey founder Sean Dalesandro said his group was planning a mixed-use project with a hotel and retail space.

7. Lotus

Months after the first renters moved to Lotus, developer Jonathan Fore sold the luxury Chinatown-area apartment complex for $76.7 million.

The purchase, by Green Leaf Partners, closed in November. It amounted to $260,000 per unit, double the market average as tracked by Colliers International.

8. Pinball Hall of Fame

In another unexpected deal for the resort corridor, operators of the Pinball Hall of Fame bought a 1.76-acre parcel of land at the south edge of the Strip for more than $4.5 million. The sale was recorded in August.

Charlotte Owens, who launched the Las Vegas arcade with her husband, Tim Arnold, said they want to build a 27,000-square-foot facility that would look, on the outside, like a pinball machine.

9. Google Henderson

Google acquired 64 acres of land in Henderson to build a data center, but the internet-search giant did it all under a shroud of secrecy.

An obscure entity called Jasmine Development LLC bought the project site in January for $19 million. The Review-Journal first reported in October on the data center and the rumors that Google was behind it, but public records did not show which company was behind Jasmine or any definitive links to Google, and the city of Henderson’s spokeswoman was mum on the developer, citing “confidentiality reasons.”

Google’s name eventually surfaced through the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, which approved $25.2 million in tax incentives for the project in November.

10. Mayweather mansion

Las Vegas’ luxury housing market notched a big sale in October, when, property records show, boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather bought a suburban compound for $10 million.

It includes a 16,357-square-foot mansion, two guesthouses, a pool house, small vineyard, underground garage, gym, wine cellar and indoor spa with a current that allows for stationary swimming, according to listing broker Kamran Zand, founder of Luxury Estates International.

Contact Eli Segall at esegall@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall on Twitter.

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SLS Scam Alert: SLS Busted Shaking Down New Yorkers

SLS Scam Alert: SLS Busted Shaking Down New Yorkers

SLS SCAM ALERT: SLS Is Shaking Down New York Homeowners Over Zombie Loans. However, SLS Can’t Prove They Own The Debt.  SLS SCAM ALERT! SLS is at it again! They are shaking down New York homeowners again. This time they are acting like a mafia crime boss. Unfortunately, this time it appears Specialized Loan Servicing bought another U-Haul truck full of worthless 2nd mortgages from Bank of…

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Specialized Loan Servicing Is Ramping Up New York Foreclosures!

Specialized Loan Servicing Is Ramping Up New York Foreclosures!

Specialized Loan Servicing Is Ramping Up New York Foreclosures! Are You Prepared? Call 888.737.6344 Before It’s Too Late! Specialized Loan Servicing is ramping up New York foreclosures. This is bad news for New York homeowners because SLS is hellbent on seizing homes!  Therefore, MFI-Miami has teamed up with several New York law firm to create a New York foreclosure defense team specializing in…

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SLS Shaking Down Homeowners Over Zombie Debt They Don't Owe

SLS Shaking Down Homeowners Over Zombie Debt They Don’t Owe

SLS Shaking Down Homeowners Over Bank Of America Zombie Mortgages. Problem Is, SLS Can’t Prove They Own The Debt.

Is SLS shaking down homeowners again? It appears they are. This time like a mafia crime boss.

Unfortunately, this time it appears Specialized Loan Servicing bought a U-Haul truck full of worthless paper from Bank of America. Yet, that hasn’t stopped the lender from trying to

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Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! Can SLS Validate Your Debt?

Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! Can SLS Validate Your Debt?

Specialized Loan Servicing Warning! Can Specialized Loan Servicing Validate Your Mortgage Debt? Probably Not!

Steve Dibert, CEO of internationally-renowned mortgage fraud investigation firm MFI-Miami, announced today that MFI-Miami has discovered serious flaws in the way Specialized Loan Servicing validates debt owed by homeowners. Specialized Loan Servicing is owned by Computershareout of…

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SLS COVID-19 Foreclosure Defense Hotline! Call 888.737.6344

SLS COVID-19 Foreclosure Defense Hotline! Call 888.737.6344

MFI-Miami Launches The SLS COVID-19 Foreclosure Defense Hotline! Call Us At 888.737.6344

MFI-Miami has created the SLS COVID-19 Foreclosure Defense Hotline. If you’re facing foreclosure from SLS during these perilous times during the coronavirus pandemic, we can help. Call 888.737.6344.

The coronavirus pandemic has put America is in a crisis. MFI-Miami is doing our part to help during…

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Specialized Loan Servicing Spanked By The CFPB

Specialized Loan Servicing Spanked By The CFPB

Specialized Loan Servicing Spanked By The CFPB To The Tune Of  $1.5 Million For Dual Tracking

Specialized Loan Servicing spanked again by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau! The Australian owned mortgage servicer will pay more than $1.5 million as part of a settlement with the CFPB. The CFPB accused SLS of taking illegal foreclosure actions against mortgage borrowers who were…