Lee's father-in law George Washington Custis dies, and Lee discovers he has inherited the executorship to a very difficult estate at Arlington.
"Silicon Valley is really difficult real estate-wise," said Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist at real estate firm Trulia.
Construction at the site has been repeatedly bogged down by disagreements and a difficult real estate climate.
In the midst of a difficult real estate negotiation a few years ago, the Swatch-wearing Mr. Kushner playfully proposed an unconventional solution to a standoff: an arm-wrestling match.
Having transportation options nearby is always a benefit, especially in a difficult real estate market when financing is tight, but it is less important at the top end of the market, for potential buyers of a place like the chateau, said Joachim Wrang-Widén, Christie's director of affiliate services for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Whoever bought the Empire State Building now would face the prospect of wrangling with two of Manhattan's most difficult real estate titans: Peter Malkin, an iron-willed Harvard-educated lawyer who was exacting to the point of annoyance, and Leona Helmsley, a notoriously volatile woman who was sowing terror through the billion-dollar real estate empire assembled by her ailing husband, Harry.
While acquiring title by adverse possession is fairly difficult, real estate experts say, there are times when a fence, a tennis court, a garage or an in-ground pool that is partly on a neighboring property could provide the opportunity for a costly claim of adverse possession.
One factor making a settlement more difficult, real estate experts said, is that Mr. Fishman is feeling pressure to secure a significant raise to help establish a standard for negotiations that the service employees' union is holding later this year for more than 60,000 workers in 15 other cities.
Where will the council re-home all the druggies and louts.It seems to me that the council will only make life difficult on other estates.
