Gotta love a woman like this

Divorced in October, wife who was ordered to pay deadbeat husband support payments want’s nothing to do with him even after he wins multi-hundred-million dollar lottery.

Eileen Murray told The Post on Thursday she has no plans to get back together with her ex, Mega Millions Jackpot winner Mike Weirsky, — and won’t be calling him anytime soon.

“He’s not appealing to me all of a sudden because he has this money,” said Murray, 53.

During their 15-year marriage, which ended in divorce in October, Murray worked as a cost analyst for a utilities company, but her 54-year-old husband was unemployed. She’s still paying him spousal support, she said.

Still, she has no plans on coming after him for any of the $162.5 million lump sum he’ll be collecting.

“I’m not going after anything. I have morals. I know what I’ve worked for and its everything that I have.”

From follow-up stories I’ve read, many of these lottery winers blow through their cash within a decade. I wish no ill will for this lady’s ex, but I’m impressed by her character, regardless.

In a mostly dormant market, some sparks of life

Mostly rental activity reported this days, but here are two big items;

35 Winding Lane, $7.495 million, is reported as pending after just 42 days on market, which is a good indication that it will be selling for something reasonably close to its asking price. Owners paid $6 million for it new in 2016 and put some major money into improvements, but I’d guess they’re making out here.

And while it took longer, 29 Meadowcroft Lane finally has a pending sale. Last asking price was $5,499,500, which, while a disappointing come down from its initial 2016 price of $8.9 million, is still an impressive price. It’s a 5.5-acre building site, so someone presumably has plans for a $15 million mansion here, and his fellow taxpayers should be pleased.

Our Hartford spenders will be disconsolate to discover that their captured prize isn't as large as they imagined

2 Lauder Way, sold for $6.2 million in 2013 and back on the market since 2017 at $7.295, has dropped to $4.995.

Just as Martin Looney was rubbing his knuckles in gleeful anticipation.

And speaking of a cut and run ...

32 Pecksland Road, purchased for $5.2 million in 1997 and put back in the market in 2017 at $7.2, dropped its price today to $4.350. It’s a grand, 1929 house, nicely maintained, and surely a home that almost anyone would enjoy living in, but the market has moved on.

Connecticut Democrats to millionaires: Get out!

extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

If you’re not willing to stay here and be fleeced then, damn you, go away — who needs you?

HARTFORD — A proposal from Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, would force the state’s wealthiest to pay higher taxes, without raising the income tax.

Looney’s bill, awaiting action in the legislative Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee, would create a statewide 1 percent property tax, forcing those with higher-value homes to pay more, whether or not they live in the state.

It would also end local taxes on motor vehicles, creating a statewide vehicular tax of between 15 and 19 mills.

“This is looking to target high-income people with high assets, some of whom play the game of living out-of-state for six months and a day,” Looney said in an interview. “One thing about the property tax is it’s the most reliable to predict. This idea has more progressivity.”

A large number of state residents: gardeners, attorneys, and plumbers among them, earn a decent living serving the needs of the wealthy. But no, these people must go.

Flip, or flop?

66 Perkins Road (off Dingletown), 1961 construction, was purchased for $2.2 million in 2006 — go figure — then totally renovated, and put back up for sale in 2007 for $3.6. I don’t know whether the owner had hoped to make a profit on this deal or intended to stay in the house and his plans changed but regardless, no buyer appeared, the house was pulled from the market in 2008, and now it’s back at $2.245 million.

All those renovations are 13-years-old and essentially worthless now, but you still have a house that someone thought was worth $2.2, once upon a time, so there’s that. Perkins remains a nice street.

I’d be tempted to rent a Bob Cat dozer to address this problem, but others may differ

If you must fire your agent, at least admit that your asking price was too high, and fire that price, too

There are lots of “new” listings being posted these days, but most of them are just new listings by new brokers with the same, or close to, the same price. Trust me on this; it’s the price that’s been wrong, not your agent. In the age of the Internet, where every potential buyer has full access to prices, property characteristics, school, etc., it’s not a failure of marketing that’s keeping buyers away from your property, it’s your price. Keep you agent, drop your price.

One property owner who at least did half of that is the would-be seller of 28 Oak Street, that neighborhood behind the car dealerships on West Putnam Avenue. He fired his most-excellent agent, though he hired one equally as good, but most important, dropped his price from its 2017 high of $4.249 to $3.295 million.

My personal tastes run against this house because of its Westchester design and its location in an execrable part of town, but that’s just me; someone’s bound to like it — after all, this owner thought enough of it to pay $2.9 for it when it was new in 2006 — and there will surely be more “someones” looking in the low threes than there are in the low fours.

So, look to your price, before you blame your agent

At what cost waterfront?

344 Shore Road, of the Belle Haven Peninsula but not in it (beware when listings describe a house as in the Belle Haven “area”), new construction, hit the market today at $12.5 million. It holds a commanding view of our Grass Island sewage plant, dog park, and municipal marina, but also boasts of a “deep water” dock. My admittedly-limited knowledge of that backwater piece of Greenwich Harbor has me thinking that there’s, maybe, 2’ of water at low tide, which would be sufficient to float a trimaran or smallish powerboat, but not much else. But I could be wrong, so I’d advise checking with our Harbor Master Ian Macmillan before paying a premium for our limited deep water harborage.

Great Expectations, dashed

421 Stanwich Road is back on the active list, now priced at $4.950 million, which is, conveniently, the amount of its mortgage.

A Jordan Saper creation, it sold new in 2000 for $4.7 million, and was up for sale between 2008 and 2010 for $8.250, which would have been a puzzling price had the listing agent not been Tamar Lurie, but Tamar’s always brought a droll sense of whimsy to her pricing.

Town’s appraised it at $6.069 million, so knock another million-and-a-half off our Grand List. At least.

Recruiting app screens out Negroes, Jews, Muslims and woman; anything wrong with that?

Justice!

Oops! Had that wrong: it only screens out males

The Women in Bizz feature … excludes men from a user's pool of potential connections. The idea is to help a traditionally underrepresented workforce connect and build support systems outside the office.

"Representation is critically important for women, especially in traditionally male dominated industries," CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said in a statement to CNBC. "We're helping women connect with other women to show them what's possible and give them resources as they build their careers." 

Bumble Bizz, launched in late 2017, is often used by recruiters or hiring managers to find new talent. Limiting the potential pool could help women compete for jobs in male-dominated industries.

"We hope women embrace the opportunity to help foster each others' development and ask for the time they may not be getting in the work place," the company said in a statement.