Richard Baker
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1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And my grandmother was a very bold entrepreneurial lady.
And she lived, uh, in early 1930s in Hoboken and she was aggravated and frustrated because he's beautiful homes, limestone and brownstone townhouses.
that used to be filled with rich families by the early 1930s, 1933, the kids were breaking the windows and they looked horrible and they were all empty because those folks had lost all their money during the stock market crash.
And so my grandmother, because she
had get up and go kind of way about her, went to meet the bank that owned most of them and said, what are you doing?
This is terrible.
And the bank said, well, there's nothing we can do.
No one wants them.
And they're zoned for single family.
So she said, well, why don't you get them rezoned for multifamily?
And they said, well, why don't you get them rezoned for multifamily?
So she took a purchase agreement to buy
several of these houses.
She was friends with the mayor's sister.
She went to the planning board.
She got approvals to have them converted to multifamily.
She used friends and relationships and she renovated them and leased them up.
And she became a real estate entrepreneur.
And she was the first person in my family to understand how to make money as a real estate entrepreneur with no money.
And that is the philosophy of the family.
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