Amazing. Do it again from this angle a few viewpoint a few blocks further back when 175 Park Avenue tops out! /s

Exactly. Certainly a conundrum any way around it. Easier to provide services when you get a bunch of people in need to stay in one place, so hotels are obvious choices. Not like many people would be champing at the bit to have them living nextdoor either. Price tag aside there probably aren't many other options besides repurposing unused office space or something like that, and the groundwork and pushback (from other tenants in such a theoretical building) around that sort of fix likely makes it a bad option as well.

I mean he was the/a keynote speaker at the "Mayors’ Summit Against Antisemitism" and those travel plans were documented weeks ago, that was the reason for being in Athens.

I don't care for the guy but if he decided to see a World Cup game because he was a 4 hour flight away instead of 13 hours, then so be it. While many people sadly don't get sick days or vacation, or will get fired if they decide to take them, doesn't mean I think everyone shouldn't be entitled to them, public office or not.

Hard to think of anything super malicious or underhanded about him piggybacking a few vacation days on the end of what should objectively be considered official business, regardless of whether we feel the official business reason is where he should be focusing his efforts.

I'd much rather hear that he saw a soccer match and went out for a night than had shady meetings with X and X and X characters.

Yeah though it was odd because I had read the standard was that commission income was counted if you could prove last 2 years, while I had 4 years of steadily increasing income at the same company. First lender went to said they basically instantly discount all commission based W2's by 40% regardless.

Mine was jumbo as well, Citizen's Bank ended up not having an issue once I submitted that letter which essentially counted as written verification of income and employment, but a couple other lenders wouldn't even give pre-approval.

I lied (in cooperation with my work) on my mortgage last year since the banks would only take my base pay into account when determining eligibility. Base pay is about 40% of what I get paid and my commission is extremely consistent since everything is paid out over the course of 12 months. Boss wrote a letter for me saying I was getting a raise, extra equity etc, put it on a company letterhead and signed it. Basically said I made 60% more money base and had a 20% variable commission instead of the 50% base 50% variable which is the actual target structure assuming I don't exceed sales goals.

I bought completely within my means but the banks were not having it based on my actual pay structure.