Easy Ways to Get Rich: Play hard to get with real estate developers

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Easy Ways to Get Rich: Play hard to get with real estate developers

Owning the last house standing in the way of a big real estate project can pay off. This April, Daniel Goldstein, the final holdout property owner against the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, sold his three-bedroom apartment for $3 million—about five times what he paid for it in 2003, according to nytimes.com.