Doormen or front desk people at Condos, Co-ops, and Apartments

[Guest Ultimate Walker]

Do any of you feel it beneficial to "tip" your doormen or front desk people when you ask them to send up a client? Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

Thanks.

[Kevin Slater]

I would absolutely avoid the situation altogether by not working out of a doorman building. This was discussed in a previous thread.

 

If you do find yourself in a doorman building, I'm tempted to say it couldn't hurt to tip, at least until one doorman gets the impression you tip another one higher, gets his nose out of joint, and makes your (and your clients') life awkward.

 

Kevin Slater

[JT Brooklyn]

Do any of you feel it beneficial to "tip" your doormen or front desk people when you ask them to send up a client? Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

Thanks.

 

Only IF your Rate is $400 an hour! Nowadays there's not to many Working Guys "Working It" out of 550K Coops or Condos!

 

More like 1200 a month Sub-Lets in NYC! and that's a Good Rent in 2011....

[cany10011]

You might want to explain to them you are a (sex) therapist and have hourly appointments that way they won't really question why you have an influx of men coming and going. Otherwise, it's probably better to stay in a non-doorman building.

[Doe Be Doe]

I've wondered about the reverse: having escorts come to me. I'm sure my doormen are not stupid. That said, I hope one of the doormen in particular figures out he could make a little extra!

[zeferrelli]

i've never even thought about it; it's their job!

[Guest Bauer]

Only IF your Rate is $400 an hour! Nowadays there's not to many Working Guys "Working It" out of 550K Coops or Condos!

 

More like 1200 a month Sub-Lets in NYC! and that's a Good Rent in 2011....

Funny story. the Newsmaker George Soros (who made squillions on the French Franc, with implications for the Swiss Franc) "has been sued for $10 Million by a former Brazilian soap star who said he reneged on promises to give her an expensive apartment on Manhattan's Upper East side.

Adriana Ferreyr, 28, said Soros had twice during the five years they dated promised to buy her apartments but never followed through according to her complaint filed Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Ferreyr said she and Soros who turned 81 today and is among the world's most admired investors, had been dating for more than three years when he promised on Jan 1, 2010, to buy her an apartment worth nearly $2 Million, two blocks from his home on the Upper East Side.

The pair broke up two months later and soon reconciled, but Soros told her AS THEY LAY IN BED IN AUGUST 2010 THAT HE HAD GIVEN THE APARTMENT TO A NEW GIRLFRIEND, the lawsuit said."

[dannyboynyc]

I've been hiring for years and have lived in my present apartment - in a doorman building - for more than 20 years. I've never tipped a doorman when an escort came to visit. Many years ago the escort activity in and out of my apartment was much higher, and one escort (later) told me he tipped the doorman on nights that were more active than normal. I don't know that tipping or not tipping many any difference. Doorman do get their year end tip, which covers everything else.

[JT Brooklyn]

Sugar does turn Sour....

 

Funny story. the Newsmaker George Soros (who made squillions on the French Franc, with implications for the Swiss Franc) "has been sued for $10 Million by a former Brazilian soap star who said he reneged on promises to give her an expensive apartment on Manhattan's Upper East side.

Adriana Ferreyr, 28, said Soros had twice during the five years they dated promised to buy her apartments but never followed through according to her complaint filed Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Ferreyr said she and Soros who turned 81 today and is among the world's most admired investors, had been dating for more than three years when he promised on Jan 1, 2010, to buy her an apartment worth nearly $2 Million, two blocks from his home on the Upper East Side.

The pair broke up two months later and soon reconciled, but Soros told her AS THEY LAY IN BED IN AUGUST 2010 THAT HE HAD GIVEN THE APARTMENT TO A NEW GIRLFRIEND, the lawsuit said."

 

Very Funny! "Sugar Daddys" are a notorious "Fickle Specie's" as those who gravitate to them usually find out the HARD WAY...They'll always be someone right on line behind ya to reap the rewards!

[happyguy2]

My condo is in a doorman building that is 26 stories high, with lots of us in here. They talk about all of us, and I certainly would never risk having them find out that "things" were going on at my place. For me, I prefer to bring a date in by car, our parking is underground, and we just take the elevator right up. My friends, on the other hand, are well known by the doormen, and that is no problem at all. As for tips, I tip them all well, a few times a year, to thank them for what they do. But I don't trust them at all to keep any secrets.

[JT Brooklyn]

Smart Man! This is what Xmas is all about!

[raulgmanzo]

My condo is in a doorman building that is 26 stories high, with lots of us in here. They talk about all of us, and I certainly would never risk having them find out that "things" were going on at my place. For me, I prefer to bring a date in by car, our parking is underground, and we just take the elevator right up. My friends, on the other hand, are well known by the doormen, and that is no problem at all. As for tips, I tip them all well, a few times a year, to thank them for what they do. But I don't trust them at all to keep any secrets.

 

So how would they know a visitor was an escort and why wouldn't they think it was a friend, relative, an art apraiser, drug dealer, work colleague helping with a last minute presentation (yes even at 2am), your psychologist etc?

 

One guy I see always concocts a story and he'll tell me on the phone, if you see s\anyone, uh tell them you are coming to talk about remodeling my bathroom. Uh ok I say. But OF COURSE NOONE thinks anything of a visitor coming over. Nobody ever looks oddly at me or says, OHHHH you're coming to see john, well why would john be having a visitor at 9pm? So never once have I had to USE his story.

[rvwnsd]

My condo complex is very small, so there is no doorman. However, everyone knows everyone else and neighbors are often outside of their units. Not once has a neighbor asked about the nature of a visitor's business.

[Guest LatinoRican]

I think some people here enjoy making up horror stories like the terrors of rimming and the stalking doormen in the buildings where they live. Life is hard enough as it is! Lighten up, people! You must realize that everybody is not out to "get" you. Enjoy it while you can!

[hornytwells]

I work from home as a teacher, so I constantly have people visiting all throughout the day> Like the other guy said, why wouldn't the person visiting be a friend/client/business meeting/accountant, whatever? Unless they turn up in leather chaps with their ass hanging out, I don't see where the problem would be? I have a great relationship with my doormen-granted I tip them very well each Christmas, but consequently, they are very obliging and do me a lot of favours in return