Another price cut on One Hobart Drive

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New agent, slightly improved price, now asking $3.295 million. Custom built in 2002, these owners paid $5.5 for it in 2008 and have been trying to sell it since May 2018, when they started at $4.995. It’s a great looking house, but the ground floor master bedroom deters many buyers with young children, and its assigned school district doesn’t appeal to families with children of any age who attend public school. And it’s a lot of, perhaps too much house for downsizers.

There are certainly enough large families with children in private schools to comprise a market for this property, but it’s a smaller buyer pool than otherwise.

Or at least, that’s my theory of why this very nice home isn’t selling.

Change: bring in the big guns, bring in The Zebra and The Orange!

Change: bring in the big guns, bring in The Zebra and The Orange!

Go long on popcorn shares

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Ready for the season to begin

Ready for the season to begin

Time to get the show on the road

Over at PJ Media Stephen Green gives a report on the Sanders brigade’s doings. Things are crazy out there among the fans of “The Man Who Shouts at Clouds”. Here’s just one sample of the type of voter the DNC’s approved candidates will be trying to appease:

White guy in pussy hat explains the world to his inferiors

White guy in pussy hat explains the world to his inferiors

There's really no need to rely on any news source other than the Babylon Bee

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No soup for you!

No soup for you!

Hick farmers withhold shipping ingredients needed to make avocado toast

"Until further notice, you'll have to farm your own wheat and grow your own avocados," a spokesperson for America's farmers said as he chewed on a stalk of Timothy grass and did other stereotypical farmer things. "Have fun! Yeehaw!"

…..

The coastal elites were devastated by the sanctions, as the only thing they know how to grow is marijuana in their parents' basement.

"Nooooo!!!" screamed one Hollywood screenwriter as his assistant nervously informed him there would be no avocado toast with his latte this morning. "I can't even!"

CNN's Don Lemon wrote a formal apology to the farmers, but they claimed they couldn't read it and so the sanctions would continue.

A few years ago I had occasion to engage in conversation with a young Iowa state trooper, and after the matter of exactly how fast I’d ben traveling the macadam was resolved amicably, the discussion turned to the contemptuous attitude eastern elites held towards rural rubes. The trooper wasn’t particularly concerned about their feelings and certainly not consumed by any sense of inferiority. “Heck, we’ve got the food, they got their cities,” he said. “We figure they can just starve, they’ve a mind to”.

That was in 2014, and I was reminded of that man, and his friends later on, when Hillary was ranting about the deplorables infesting her country. She maybe should have come with me on that road trip.

Courage in New Haven

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Professor Healing Rainbow will see you now

Professor Healing Rainbow will see you now

Yale Medical School to stop teaching medicine discovered by white males

With its discontinuance of instruction on western art and philosophy, and the introduction of the new “no wrong answers” calculus curriculum, Yale administrators were stuck. momentarily, with where next to go in their drive to eradicate the vestiges of racism and patriarchal oppression. They’ve found it.

As the Democrat's bill to shut down the gig economy works its way through Congress, California victims of AB5 protest

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It’s actually called socialism and ironically enough, if this cartoonist lives in California, he’s probably already out of work

It’s actually called socialism and ironically enough, if this cartoonist lives in California, he’s probably already out of work

HB2474, a bill to force freelancers into labor unions and fixed-hour employment is lurking in the corridors down in D.C., awaiting Democrat victory in the fall, but California’s version took effect January 1, and it’s already killing thousands of jobs. Total death toll estimated in the millions.

The Chico Enterprise-Record:

SACRAMENTO — There were truck drivers demonstrating next to dancers, and singers standing in solidarity with court transcribers.

There were also massage therapists, sign language interpreters, choreographers, lots of freelance journalists and, of course, all manners of Democrats and Republicans, all united under the most unlikely of circumstances.

It took Assembly Bill 5 to bring such a diverse group to the west steps of the Capitol on Tuesday morning, where around 300 people listened to several speakers describe how the “gig economy” law had impacted — or, in many cases, eliminated — their livelihoods.

Stephen Kruiser adds:

AB5 is a union-backed effort that has no other aim than to generate more union dues. It masquerades as pro-worker but it’s ultimately a job-killer. Freelance workers deliberately trade certain corporate comforts for flexibility and freedom, which the union ghouls behind AB5 seek to destroy. It’s more nanny-state control-freak garbage from people who are envious.

Like me, most of the friends I left behind in California are freelance, self-employed entertainers and writers. AB5 is wreaking havoc with their lives. The ones who aren’t considering relocating to another state are being forced to incorporate, which I know firsthand is ridiculously expensive in California.

Leftists blather on about “workers’ rights” and “freedom” but don’t believe in either. It’s all about state control.

Every. Single. Time.

Unusual in Greenwich: a new listing that reflects the drop in market value

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176 Stanwich Road, a beautifully renovated 1800 house that still retains a small portion of its original land (0.41 acre) is new to the market today at $2.695 million. Listing agent Kathy Adams represented the owners when they paid $3.165 for it in 2015, and it takes a brave woman to give hard news to clients. But she’s right, and done them a favor.

Great house, by the way.

Auction (might have) worked on Beechcroft

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35 Beechcroft, listed on our MLS with a Greenwich broker, collected offers via an online auction company, Sparkoffer.com. I don’t know whether that helped — sales credit is given to a local Raveis agent — but it least it’s sold, for $3.6 million. No home run here: the owner paid $4.995 for it new in 2006, and originally listed it at $5.385 back in January 2018. But still, it’s sold, and that must be a relief.

I hadn’t heard of this outfit before, but checking their website I see that they claim credit for one of their co-listings, 50 Sumner Road. Their site says it sold for $3.560, our MLS records show a sales price of $3.150. Consumers prefer accurate information, as a rule.

UPDATE: Received the following note from Sparkcom’s principle, Mike Russo, which clarifies both the company’s business model and the different prices reported for Sumner’s sale:

HI Chris. Thank you for mentioning SparkOffer. For clarity, SparkOffer is NOT an auction. An auction is when something is publicly sold to the highest bidder. As in our name, SparkOffer is a residential real estate marketplace that enables buyers, sellers and agents to find, list, offer and negotiate properties completely online. Buyers offers can contain whatever terms they choose including contingencies. The seller is also free to accept, counter or reject any offer. None of which is possible at an auction. As for the 50 Sumner Rd property, the price reflected on the website is the actual price paid by the buyer per the contract.

I don't know who he is, because I've never watched MSNBC, but as Instapundit labelled this story, "Not the Babylon Bee"

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MSNBC studio, New York

MSNBC studio, New York

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I realize that most Democrats and their scribes in the media don’t actually believe these stories of Russian collusion, bribes , and suchstuff, but it’s always startling to discover that there are some Bedlam inhabitants who do.