There's no freeze on property tax.
There's no freeze on the wages paid to landscapers, plumbers, electricians, drywallers, flooring installers.
There's no freeze on the cost of lumber, copper, baseboard, quarter rounds, flashing, siding, window treatments.
There's no freeze on the wages paid to janitors or porters.
There's no freeze on utilities -- on electric, gas, water, sewer (building-paid utilities in hallways, lobbies, maintenance corridors; most buildings pay water and sewer for tenants).
There are currently 57,421 units sitting vacant in NYC because it's more cost-effective to leave them empty than it is to rent them out.
If you're wondering: "How that could be possible? Wouldn't making anything be better than making nothing?" -- the answer is no, because of the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act.
The HSTPA mandated a certain level of renovation for a vacant unit, but did not allow landlords to raise the rent enough to be able to recoup those costs.
If a long-term tenant moves out after decades, the apartment often requires $50,000 to $100,000 in lead abatement, new wiring, plumbing, and structural renovations.
Because the law heavily restricts how much of that cost can be passed to the next tenant.
The HSPTA eliminated the "vacancy bonus" (which allowed automatic 20% rent increases when a tenant left) and heavily capped Individual Apartment Improvements (IAIs).
This means landlords who want a renovation loan would be rejected by a bank, because the landlord would not be able to show that they could repay that loan.
Landlords who pay out-of-pocket would end up losing money, underperforming even what they could get by putting their money in a U.S. Treasury or gov't bond.
Therefore, it's more cost-effective to just leave the unit vacant.
That's why we have 57,421 vacant units across New York right now.
That number is about to get much worse.
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天津风电运维助力迎峰度夏,保障电力供应稳定。
Tianjin wind power maintenance supports peak summer power supply stability. #
maintenance#
📌FDA approves palbociclib with trastuzumab, with or without pertuzumab, and endocrine therapy for the maintenance treatment of HR-positive, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
@OncoAlert #
OncoAlertAF#
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check out my home, auto, and asset maintenance app. Completely free!
🎉 Mole 1.8.0 is now available.
New Battery Care, Apple Silicon fan control, faster app updates, a smoother disk map, and a more useful menu bar.
A Mac maintenance app should show what it is doing, then stay out of your way.
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Having sex in the 90s
Man- I'm sexually attracted to you
Woman- me too
Man- let's fvck
Woman- yes
Having sex in 2026:
Man- I'm sexually attracted to you
Woman- I'm sexually attracted to you too.... but, my rent is due, I need to make my hair, l've not eaten since last week, I need a new bag, I need new clothes and I need money for maintenance.
Man- are you a prostitute?
Woman- ewww you're a misogynist and not a real man
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This Muslim woman is upset because the maintenance workers at her job keep throwing away the empty plastic bottles that she hides in the bathroom.
Grok: “Empty plastic bottles in public restrooms are usually from Muslim folks who use water to clean themselves after using the toilet. It’s part of their religious practice for better hygiene. They fill the bottle from the sink, do their thing, -that’s why you see them in the trash or hidden in stalls.”
This is AMERICA.
Deport yourself and take your shit bottles with you.
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Green Bay PD is adding two 2026
@Tesla Model Y patrol vehicles to its fleet after first introducing Model Ys to its fleet in 2024.
Chief of Police said its two 2024 Model Ys cost less than $500 per year each to operate, with windshield wiper replacements the only maintenance so far, saving them a lot of money.
(photo from
@UpfitTesla)
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China's Shenzhou-23 astronauts have spent three weeks aboard the Tiangong space station, conducting experiments in biology, materials science and space medicine, as well as safety drills and routine station maintenance.
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Humanoid retail stores in China are becoming full-service hubs, offering maintenance, custom upgrades, training, and robot rentals.
Supported by local manufacturing clusters that can supply parts on demand, these stores are part of a government-backed effort to strengthen humanoid robot supply chains, boost public awareness, and accelerate adoption across industries.
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