And I'd thought these houses weren't selling because they were priced too high!

Your friends will drool with envy

Greenwich Time reports on several expensive homes for sale that have had rooms “repurposed” to accommodate bar setups for their boozy owners and guests. Does such an amenity help sell a house? I doubt it, but in real estate, everything circles around, so if a 1950s concept replaced an obsolete 1990s basement home theater or a 2000 empty wine cellar, why not give it a try? Can avocado refrigerators and whirlpool baths be next to return?

From $11.5 mm to $3.9, 1,274 days on market, and still falling

Your great-grandfather’s Oldsmobile is AROUND BACK

137 Old Mill Road, “new” today at $3.9 million. David Ogilvy kicked off the festivities here in June, 2014, when he set a price of $11.5 million, and the house remained at that price until November, 2017, despite the deafening silence of the marketplace.* Another broker finally took over and escorted it, gently but unsuccessfully, from $6.7 to $5.8. Now a third attempt is being made; when, oh when, will salavation and a moving van appear?

The house itself is a graceful, 1927 relic (instead of the “masterprice” David Ogilvy described in the original listing, it now cautions, “sold as is”) on four acres of land, and someone with the time, inclination and several million dollars could restore it and have a wonderful home. Whether that someone actually exists is still an open question.

• A stubbornness commented on here back in 2016, and occasionally thereafter

Back country sale pending

17 Cameron Drive (off N. Stanwich), is pending just 45 days after being listed at $3.450 million. The owner paid $4 million for it in 2000, but I’m sure he’s pleased to get this over with so quckly, and all credit to listing agent Bill Andruss for coming up wih a price that accomplished that.

But mark another markdown for our Grand List.

Third anniversary of this twat's tweet. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Good thing he's retired: General Hysteria hits the airwaves, and boy, is he scared!

Buy your own damn paper

Trump’s cancellation of government-paid subscriptions to the New York Times and Washington Post makes him “Literally Mussolini!” says retired Army General Barry McTremble:

The White House Trump statement telling the entire Federal Government to terminate subscriptions to the NYT and Wash Post is a watershed moment in national history,” McCaffrey said. “No room for HUMOROUS media coverage. This is deadly serious. This is Mussolini.”

Government employees required to pay for their own reading materials is the crushing of democracy and imposition of martial law? Really, General? Tell it to the Marines.

I cancelled my own subscription to the Times years ago. Why should the money I saved from that decision be seized from me by the government and given to a band of overpaid enemies of the people?

And what are the odds that this same deep state actor will wax hysterical when the actions of his colleagues to stage a coup are revealed? Exactly the same as those for the Times and the Post.

On a related note, yesterday Selectman candidate Litvak’s wife Joanna Swomley took a break from finding hiding places for her household help to hide in while evading the recent ICE raid on back country mansions and defended her Invisible Greenwich group’s placement of phony Trump/Camillo signs around town:

Our agenda is to protect our democracy and people from authoritarianism. This agenda is only controversial to those who don’t see anything wrong with Trump’s undermining of our Constitution, the Rule of Law and our Democratic values.”

Swomley and the general are equally duplicitous. The sole purpose of this three-year battle against Trump is to protect and hide the Deep State’s attempt to nullify the 2016 election. Those who still hope that the revelations in the Inspector General’s report and the separate criminal investigation by John Durham will shock the nation are naive; there will be no coverage of these crimes by any of the Democrats’ media co-conspirators, and certainly their tools like Swomley and General McTremble will forget all about their concern about the “undermining our constitution and rule of law” when the subject turns away from Trump and towards the conspiracy of our intelligence services and the entire Washington establishment to suppress the Deplorable class and continue the erosion of liberty.

A Biological Male Raced a Bunch of Girls — You Won't Believe What Happened Next!

That headline belongs to one of these two stories, only one of which is meant as satire.

Male Runner Named NCAA Female Athlete of the Week

The Big Sky Conference named University of Montana runner June Eastwood, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, the cross-country female athlete of the week.

“June Eastwood finished second in a field of 204 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational,” helping “Montana place seventh as a team,” the conference noted in its announcement Tuesday. Eastwood previously competed on the University of Montana’s men’s team.

Male Bicyclist wins women’s tournament

The inspiring tale began when Rachel McKinnon, a biological male and self-described transgender woman, went to race against biological women. While you'd expect that the competition would be even, since men and women are the same and in no way are there any biological differences between the two genders, this wasn't the case.

What happened next will shock you.

McKinnon crushed all of them. They didn't stand a chance. It was almost like she had a biological advantage, but …. it must just be her human spirit and dedication that caused her to win against the women.

The heartwarming tale is teaching men everywhere they can do anything if they believe in themselves and also change genders to beat on the women instead of the much tougher men's class.

"It's just so inspiring to see that when you believe in yourself, follow your dreams, and identify as a woman to make the competition a lot easier, you can do anything," said one male cyclist. "I've been struggling with middling performance, but now I know that if I reach for the stars and stop racing against men and crush the women instead, I can be anything I want to be: even a world champion."

But stop the presses! There’s a third story! Motorcycle rider who identifies as a bicyclist sets cycling world record!

There will soon be male sports competitions, and co-ed, but no female sports. It took decades for women to demand and achieve recognition as atheletes in their own right, and it’s taking just moments to see that all get washed away in a flood of political correctness. You go, girl — go away.

Wear it proudly, is my advice

The Greenwich Republican Town Committee is upset by these fake “Trump/Camillo” signs, being planted around town by Sean Goldbrick and his fellow Democrats, but why? Goldbrick and company are running a criminal whose best qualification for office is a proven track record of disloyalty to her running mates and willingness to shove their heads underwater if necessary, and while they think that demonstrates toughness, it also doesn’t leave them with much of a platform to use. “I promise to raise your taxes and waste your money”, while an accurate summary of the Oberland Position, lacks a certain appeal.

So of course they’ll try to bring the Wicked Ogre into the race, and run against him, but big deal. The next two years will be all about Trump anyway, and pretending that we local Republicans have never heard of the man or, worse, are embarrassed by him, is a losing proposition. Stand by your man, Freddie, and embrace the power of Orange.

And besides, “Make Greenwich Great Again” is a far more positive goal than is Jilting’ Jill’s own, “Greenwich: Hartford Aborning”. The former is catchy; Jill’s is just depressing.

There's one born every 1,610 days

Convenient to transportation!

3 Meadow Wood Drive, which dropped its price to $3.5 million just a week ago, has a buyer and a pending deal. The owners paid $3.425 for this weigh station accessory building in 2006, gutted and renovated it, and placed it back up for sale in May, 2015, asking $6.375 million. They didn’t get it.

$3.425 for this property was a silly price in 2006, and still is. But no sillier than its marketing video, I suppose.

Black tennis shoes at the Belle Haven Club? Lavender shorts? He won’t get past the gate.

The new civility

Midnight for Bette draws near

Has-been singer Better Midler joins the woke

North Street contract

474 North Street, asking $2..675 million, reports a contract. The house has been on and off the market for 8 years or so, beginning at $5.495 and dropping as low as $2.595 as recently as June, 2018; not sure why its new agent priced it at $2.675 last month, but a buyer has appeared, so apparently the price hike worked.

But we’ll have to wait to see what the final sales price turns out to be; I viewed this house with clients back when it was in, I think, the mid-threes, and while we made several visits, it remained in the same condition: ridden hard and put away wet, so we passed. Divorce, rentals and foreclosure will do that.

I’d be surprised if it goes for much above $2.2.