In fact, all of us have arrived there as soon as we enter
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Starbucks reeducation camp, 2018
And on the other side of Old Mill ...
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5 Old Round Hill (nee Old Mill), is new at $11.45 million. Pretty impressive, 15,000 sq. ft. house, it sold new in 2007 for $11.2 million in 2007, resold for $10.375 in 2013, and now it’s back, looking for that same $11 million bracket.
It could make it: it’s a good-looking mansion, but my sense of the market is that there’s a very shallow pool of buyers for 15,000 square foot, ultra-priced homes.
We’ll see.
Plenty of Zebra going for it
Back Country Blues
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200 Old Mill Road, a Jordan Saper concoction, is new to the market at $4.450 million. It sold new for $6.3 million in 2004, when Saper was building to the market.
This is rich
/Jim Carrey urges fellow Democrats to "stop apologizing and say yes to socialism".
Well, that would (will) be fun. Carrey is apparently unaware that his socialist friends call for worker control of all business decisions, such as what product will be produced, and while masterpieces like “Dumb and Dumber” will surely be safe for sequels, the actors selected for roles will be chosen by committees, as well as their salaries. I’m guessing that the extras, food vendors and makeup-artists will hold a different view of Carrey’s worth than he does.
In the linked-to article, Carrey whines that he’s sick and tired of making movies “by committee”. Oh, won’t he be disappointed in the coming utopia.
Sad, but not unexpected: 1871 house off to the dumpster
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123 Park Avenue (the Greenwich Park Avenue) is scheduled for demolition. Its former owners paid $4,111 million for it in 2007 and poured a huge amount into renovating it before they ran out of money. leaving much to be done (check the patched roof), and the lender came in and forced a sale at $2.650 million this past June.
Which is a shame, but understandable: I showed the house to clients a few years ago and, even knowing that the place was in foreclosure and a bargain could be had, they passed, because of the million-plus in renovations still needed. At some point, a house reaches obsoleteness, and there are few, if any, buyers willing to pay to restore it. So call in the dozers.
The new owners strike me as decent, good people with excellent taste, so I'm sure they'll be putting up a beautiful new house. There's bound to be grumbling, just as, I'm sure, there were complaints when this house went up on a pasture back in 1871, but the cycle continues.
New construction sale on Cos Cob
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117 Bible Street has sold for $2.775 million. Original asking price $3.4. Not an exterior I could love, but if was probably deformed by our FAR requirements, so you can't blame the architect for that. Nice quality, and the price is well within other recent sales on this stretch of Bible.
This keeps up, I wonder whether the opening stretch of Bible Street, originally an Italian enclave of small single and multi-family residences, will survive. Worse, will we lose Scarpelli's Sausage? Shudder.
Bargain of the year?
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121 Lockwood Road, Riverside, hit the market today at $895,000. My guess is that a builder will snap this up by the close of day (town's 2018 appraised value for land alone is $1,054,000), but anyone wanting to get into Riverside at what's considered here to be an "affordable" price should take a look. Owner and listing agent Mark Pruner put a good price on this one.
Dundee school district, not Riverside, but ask almost any Dundee parent and they'll be happy to assure you on that school's merits.
Riverside sale
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10 Club Road closed at $4,357,500. It started in 2017, asking $5.375, so I suppose the seller suffered a bit of disappointment here, but the selling price seems reasonable. Vey nice house, great location, and 0.8 of an acre which, in Riverside these days, is large.
A brutal scalping on Mohawk Lane
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20 Mohawk Lane originally asked $2.9 million; today that price was dropped to $1.895. Mohawk (off Stag Lane and just off Stanwich) can be a tough sell, and $2.9 for a 1964 home was a stretch, even with the property's four acres and 2004 re-do, but $1.8? Better.
Nice kitchen
Beautiful pool
With a bit of shrewd negotiation, both the Zebra and the Orange can probably be yours.
Danger: public "servant" at work
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Fed up with pooches peeing in the flowerpot outside his restaurant, banh mi maestro Duc Nguyen decided to take action — then ended up being declared a public nuisance.
He received a visit Tuesday at his Orange Street Vietnamese restaurant, Duc’s Place, from a city public health inspector, who fined him $250 for a poster he put in his restaurant window aimed at owners of the urinating pets.
Nguyen promises to fight the fine. And he’s fighting mad.
“I’m trying to keep the city clean,” he said Tuesday afternoon. “And I’m a ‘nuisance’?”
Meanwhile, he said, “these dog owners think they own the city. They can roam their dogs and pee and shit everywhere.
Nguyen took action after watching too many dogs relieving themselves in this flowerpot outside the restaurant, which is known for its crunchy, flavorful banh mi and other specialties from his native Vietnam.
“It’s disgusting. It’s right out the doorstep,” he said. “it attracts flies. Every time the door opens, flies come in. This is a food establishment! It’s unsanitary.
“Every night I have to clean the sidewalk. It’s like a river. I’m just fed up with this.”
So two weeks ago he took action. He put a surveillance camera in the window to catch the critters in the act. And he posted this tongue-in-cheek sign. It invited dog-owners to come inside either to “pay” for the privilege of soiling the dirt in the flowerpot, or else have Nguyen “return the favor.”
So naturally, city code enforcer Honda Smith showed up and, refusing to acknowledge the obvious satire of Nguyen's sign, gave him a $250 ticket for creating a public nuisance. She did point out, however, that he was free to spend a few hours away from his business and appeal.
Asked about the anger directed at her by the owner, Miss Smith refused to back down: " Smith said she encounters upset people all the time. 'It doesn’t affect me,” she said. “I’m a public servant. I have to handle it. I’ve got to do a job'. "
In a perfect world, Honda Smith would be reprimanded, suspended w/o pay for two weeks and forced to apologize to Nguyen. None of that will happen.
(photo credit: Paul Bass)