[AGL] 301 West Ave. Austin TX 78701

Wed Jul 3 12:12:45 EDT 2019

Frances, 
The Swiss voted down the 2016 plan for national ‘universal Income’ but now-
The Swiss village of Rheinau is being targeted for a basic income experiment.-

> Switzerland: A basic income experiment is on the verge of starting in Switzerland
>  October 8, 2018 <https://basicincome.org/news/2018/10/switzerland-a-basic-income-experiment-is-on-the-verge-of-starting-in-switzerland/> -  https://basicincome.org/news/2018/10/switzerland-a-basic-income-experiment-is-on-the-verge-of-starting-in-switzerland/ <https://basicincome.org/news/2018/10/switzerland-a-basic-income-experiment-is-on-the-verge-of-starting-in-switzerland/>. 

Les Moore


> On Jul 3, 2019, at 10:07 AM, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I ihave a book that was recommended by Bill Irwin in Hawaii, "The Party" is a fascinating look into Chinese society and government. I also read "The Wild Swans", a three generation biography of Chinese women in one family. The Chinese are more like ants in a social colony than we are, enterprising and driven with a capacity for ruthlessness. 
> The CCP rules the land with an iron fist but they are unelected and below the radar of the general public while having operatives in every business and institution across the land, usually in the human relations departments--so they control who works where 
> They are "socialist" in every sense of the word while embracing capitalism with enthusiasm, something their philosophy seems to accept without hesitation. It is a very interesting culture with a 3000 year history unlike our 200 years of babyhood as a society.
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> BTW, Charlie, I had a very interesting conversation with a lovely 80 year old retired doctor over dinner last night. The subject of Andrew Yang's idea of paying every adult $1000 a month due to the massive unemployment coming our way and he doubted the wisdom of that solution. I said that there are countries that have experimented with the guaranteed annual income experiment, like Switzerland, and he asked me to try to find research results about that. I don't know how to research it. Have you any insight into why the Swiss gave up on the idea? For a time they were giving each citizen $2,400 a month. I resented that at the time because this was three times what I was recieving on Social Security! I know you lived there for school for a time. Perhaps you know how to find out what their thinking on it was.
> Best,
> Frances
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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:10 AM Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
> In China, they build them to Chinese standards. Here's a photo of a whole complex of 16 or so storey apartment towers that fell down. A friend of mine who was teaching English in Shanghai asked her Chinese boyfriend if the photo was genuine. He told her it was. (Subsequently married they live in Brooklyn with 1 child). 301 West Ave is built to American code. 
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> The empty apartments in Chinese projects are meant to be sold and inhabited. My wife's niece Carla sells real estate in Austin. I've emailed her asking whether any 301 West Ave apartments are for sale in the multiple listings. 
> I'm betting not.
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> On 7/3/2019 8:05 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
>> Don't the Chinese build cities in places where there are no people? I saw a video of one in Mongolia, airport, hotels, apartments, roads, infrastructure, restaurants, statues, and no people. And there are other ones too. Sort of build it and they will come?
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>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 10:51 PM Kdoyle <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com <mailto:kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>> wrote:
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>> Funny story about the 60 minutes show, Mike. Glad to know there 's one good lawyer. 
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>> When I say “Jenga Tower” do you know which building I am referring to?  
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>> Yes sometimes it seems we are just another Banana Republic where big business and big money can come in and exploit whatever they want.. But I don't know if that is the case with this building.
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>> I always  do like to know the names of the folks behind something and to be able to call them if I want to. Ha! Increasingly real estate is held by acronymic anonymous no-name persons.
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>>> On Jul 2, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> Kathy,
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>>> Thanks for your sleuthing. The name of the building is as yet unknown.  Best guess is that it is 45 or more storeys. Have you played Jenga? The entiy Cvi-Ecc, LLC you unearthed owns 3d & West. 60 Minutes did a fascinating report on how foreign money on the run can be legally set up as an interlocing number of trusts who own trusts who own other trusts etc. effectively concealing the identity of the African dictator or whoever's money it is. It's legal to do so. The 60 Minutes did a piece on this scam. They secretly taped many law office settings with complicit lawyers only too happy for the work. Delicious footage. For a counterweight they filmed a lawyer saying he didn't do that kind of work.
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>>> Mike
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>>> On 7/2/2019 1:29 PM, Kdoyle wrote:
>>>> Michael does that building have a name? is it the one that looks like a Jenga tower?
>>>> its very hard to find information about them. when i found them on Wikki and clicked “key People” no one showed up but they gave another business( Cvi- Ecc) as a partner. see link below. still no names.
>>>> "3rd & West Lp Overview
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>>>> 3rd & West Lp filed as a Foreign Limited Partnership (LP) in the State of Texas on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 and is approximately five years old, as recorded in documents filed with Texas Secretary of State. A corporate filing is called a foreign filing when an existing corporate entity files in a state other than the state they originally filed in. This does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.”  
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>>>> https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2g4a05/cvi-ecc-llc#people <https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2g4a05/cvi-ecc-llc#people>
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>>>>> On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:06 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>>> I looked up the giant 45+ storey skyscraper on 3d and West Ave in the Austin Real Estate Properties database (http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/SearchResults.aspx <http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/SearchResults.aspx>). See also the attached spread sheet about the property.
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>>>>> Apparently all the apartments are still owned by 3d and West LP (limited partners) and the property assessments are a joke, some as low as $40,000, about 1/5 to 1/10th of the appraised value of downtown condo apartments. As tax assessments are based on actual prices paid for comparable properties, presumably not a one of the apartments has ever been sold. As I said, as far as I can see, none of the apartments have residents as is indicated by the lack of furniture on any of the 100s of balconies. No lights on at night. All windows show drawn curtains. Perhaps the owner(s)' notion is to place a store of value offshore from China just in case the SHTF over there. If I understood the tax database, the overall value of the building is stated to be $3,999,999 which is the bigest joke of all. If that is the case, the property tax on the building is derisory and there are no other costs than to keep the electricity turned on. As I mentioned, a Chinese friend of mine told me it was Chinese money that built it.
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>> Charlie Loving
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