Family Begs for $1 Million to Buy Fancy Apartment

[Beneath the Shadows]

Family Begs for $1 Million To Buy Fancy Apartment

Posted Dec 7th 2007 11:49AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Strange

A family on the Upper West Side of New York has placed an ad in New York magazine pleading for $1 million to buy an apartment so they can stay in their wealthy neighborhood. Gawker spotted the ad and posted it here; it reads:

"WE NEED HELP BUYING AN APARTMENT on the UWS, 3bd 2 bath. YOU are a philanthropic, wealthy person who would not miss a million bucks and would be interested in donating (or even investing) in a highly targeted manner: to my family. WE are a wonderful, hard working middle class family who contributes to our UWS community, is entrenched, happy and desperately wants to remain on the UWS (lest the city lose yet another wonderful family to the burbs). We can afford 600-700K, so you see the predicament. Can you help us??"

We're not going to reprint their email address (Gawker has it), because we don't want any of you millionaires being tempted to help these horrid people. As charities that serve, I don't know, POOR PEOPLE, make their holiday pleas for donations, this rich family has the GALL to imply that they with their 700K budget are needy. We WISH we had their problems.

Oh wait, we DO. That's why we live in a teensy apartment in Brooklyn, where our 100-square-foot home office is also our son's nursery. And still, we're donating to actual charities this year, like the Red Cross. We also ran a list here on Babble's holiday gift guide of some smaller, family-friendly do-gooding organizations, like Modest Needs, where you can help a genuinely struggling family with an unexpectedly high electric bill or transportation to work.

Are you donating to charities this year? What are your favorite ones? Please don't say the Upper West Side Whiners Society.

Source.

And the sad thing is, there are probably people out there that would rather give these people money rather than someone who actually needs it.

[Valrys]

Hahaha, some people....honestly.......*angry face*

I reckon they should be prevented from being an apartment in that area for being such self centred idiots.
Like the article says, there are many, many actually needy people who could put that money to good use.

[Eturnus_Frost]

This is absurd.

My family and I, have been struggling with High electric bills, close to 980$ monthly, and high water bills.

We're surviving off of my Mother's Social Security check by a hair.
We had to sign up for Foodstamps this past year.



No, we don't waste electricity..well of course everyone does, but we don't waste it foolishly. We're all gone half the day and turn off every single light, mechanic in the house.

And there is hundred times worse families out there today than my family is today.

700,000$...

And they want a Million...

Here I was thinking 700,000$ would buy a pretty damn fancy apartment.

[CptSternn]

Originally Posted by Eturnus_Frost

Here I was thinking 700,000$ would buy a pretty damn fancy apartment.

Not on the upper west side. They START at about a million.

[Renatus]

Just goes to show you what kids who are raised as spoiled brats will grow into.

[AngelikDemonik]

That makes me sick.

[KontanKarite]

They want to continue being with those who they are more closely liken to.They're asking other rich people to help them out. They're not asking you or I or any of the middle to lower class people.

How many of us have actually needed help from our friends and community for one thing or another?

What may be a million dollars to us is like a hundred dollars to them. How many of us would have donated at least 50 to 100 dollars to a friend of ours to help them out?

[Beneath the Shadows]

If a million dollars was like chump change to these people, they wouldn't be begging for it.

[DepthsofSpace]

Originally Posted by KontanKarite

They want to continue being with those who they are more closely liken to.They're asking other rich people to help them out. They're not asking you or I or any of the middle to lower class people.

How many of us have actually needed help from our friends and community for one thing or another?

What may be a million dollars to us is like a hundred dollars to them. How many of us would have donated at least 50 to 100 dollars to a friend of ours to help them out?

Be honest, I have to agree. In NYC a low paying job starts at $60,000 a year. Apartments are outrageous, cost of living is one of the highest in the nation.

Like Kontan said, a million to them might be a hundred bucks to us. A hundred dollars for us, is some people's yearly salary in some parts of the world and your minimum wage job at McDonald's might have someone in to the middle-class in another country.

[Beneath the Shadows]

The thing is, just because they say what they say in the ad, that doesn't mean that what they say is automatically true. I find it much more likely that it's some person living in a box trying to con someone out of a cool million.

[Mon Coeur Noir]

WHAT THE HELL? I'm gonna put out an add:

Needs 25K to pay off debt. Please send monies.

[Corpsey]

Even so, Kotan, it is incredibly immoral to beg for money to such an extreme when they already have so much.

I would also consider it immoral to help such people when such an exorbitant sum could help thousands instead of just one or two.

Whatever the case of what their financial issues are and their desire for a flat is, asking for such a sum is greed and shows a disregard for those who are of a lower social standard than whoever put out this demand.

[Opteron_Man]

what!? lol!