>Also fwiw, last week I met a woman who says she's been in real estate for years and has worked with Trump's firms, as have many of her associates. Her comment was "we have no respect for him."

As I said once before here:
There is business
There is the real estate business
There is the New York real estate business
There is the New York City real estate business.
If there anything beneath people who deal in the latter category, I don't want to know about it.
We did a system for a vendor who dealt with these people.
The statute of limitations is probably up, but I'd still rather not discuss what I saw there.
This actual anecdote might give you just a clue:
I was playing golf with two NYC real estate guys when they waved at someone playing in another foursome.
One real estate guy, a look of awe on his face, said to the other, pointing at the other group:
"His checks are good."

Just imagine.
Trump got to the top of that heap.