Won't somebody send a bulldozer up here and end the owner's misery?

The solution is child’s play

918 North Street, a monstrous mock Tudor built in 2006 has for the zillionth time cut its price and changed agents, again, and is now down to $4.999, a rather drastic drop from its 2009 price of $16.9. Even at the new number it’s probably still overpriced, because the past nine years have indicated — shouted, in fact — that there’s no market for pretentious, unlivable pretend castles in Greenwich. Maybe it would go in Westchester; I don’t know that market, but I pass through the area from time to time, and have seen similar homes, so someone buys these things, somewhere.

The owners paid $3.5 for the original house and its four acres in 2004, but I wouldn’t think that same land would fetch as much today. Scrape it and forget it, is my advice. The owner’s a car dealer, and he’s surely sold his share of lemons in his day, so I’d suggest he do the same thing he’s probably told disappointed buyers: suck it up, fella, and move on. Today’s price cut is a good step in that direction, but there are miles to go before this horror sleeps.

Regrettable house design, Vol. 1

Kozy Kitchen

Oh for Crissake, who needs a two-story privy, even with a virgin fireplace?