The trouble with being out of the loop is that it takes so much time to get caught up

(Note the omission by Wilson of the date of the original date, and see why, below)

Ordinarily, I don’t bother; I’ve yet to figure out which one of the Jenners had a penis and which never did, and what relationship any/either of them has to a Kardashian, and I have no interest in figuring it out. But this Tweet from a Rick Wilson to someone named Kayleigh Mcenany caught my eye simply because I had no idea who the parties were and why people were laughing at Wilso

So it turns out Wilson’s a rabid Never Trumper Republican,(“blue checked”, which I believe means that Twitter has labeled him a reliable, trusted source) and pizza lover Kayeigh was a young college student who would grow up, go on to Harvard Law School and eventually take a job as Trump’s press secretary. Domino’s failure to see a Nazi aborning back in 2012 is in Wilson’s opinion enough to “kill their brand”, and he’s just the man to do it; the bastards!

Years from now, when psychiatrists get around to studying Trump Derangement Syndrome this contribution from Wilson will be Exhibit A.

So here’s the full tweet, showing that it was sent eight years ago, and Domino’s reply to Wilson today.

UPDATE: It seems that Wallace wasn’t the only one to jump on the cancel wagon:

Well, EOS, you and I were wrong on how quickly it would sell, but 434 North Street has finally found a buyer

Back In June 2016 I wrote about 434 North Street, an 11,000 sq. ft. 1915 classic on two acres very close to town and EOS and I both swooned, predicting a quick sale at its price of “just” $5.995 million. Today’s buyers’ tastes obviously didn’t run that way and the listing expired in November of that year, unsold. The property returned to the market last June at $4.595and again faltered; no buyer appeared and the listing expired January 30 2020. But either someoe who saw it then or perhaps a new COVID refugee has appeared, and without a return to the MLS a deal has been put together and a sale is now pending. Hooray! A lovely home.

Old listing, new sale

544 North Street

544 North Street is pending, finally. $2.595 million, current ask; owners paid $3.725 in 2005 and have been trying to rescind that deal since 2015, when they started at $3.995.

Faster salvation was found at three more modestly priced addresses in Riverside and Old Greenwich, all of which are reported under contract: 5 Terrace Avenue, Riverside, $1.286, 7 days; 9 Fairfield Avenue, OG, $1.295, 45 days, and 5 Old Greenwich Lane, Riverside (barely) $1.275, 15 days.

Here's an old chestnut that, so far, COVID hasn't bailed out

549 North Street, back lot, dropped its price today to $7.250 million. It asked $12.5 million in June 2005 and fifteen years later, it’s still with us.

Maybe it can catch the promised second wave.

Has waterfront really increased 40% in six years? We'll find out.

31 Vista Drive, 3 acres on Chimney Cove, sold for $8.5 million in 2014 and is back on the market today at $11.9.

The Trumpster’s old place, R, Scott Frantz land, for sale as building sites, across the water

If you don't need a subway to reach it, it's selling

One Dearfield Lane, on the market since 2015 and currently priced at $2.695 million, is pending sale. The original ask was $3.499 but the owners climbed down from that price fairly quickly and the house has been reasonably priced for most of the past five years, so I’d chalk this sale up to another one from Kung Flu — whattaguy!

Moving into a seller's market?

2 Sylvan

There’s certainly a lot of activity for the middle of June. In fact, there’s been an accelerating amount of activity all Spring, despite and in the midst of the COVID requirements that have so effectively curtailed showings. when the dust settles I’ll be curious to see how many of these sales were to New Yorkers. And of course, the sale of an existing house frees the owners to buy something else; it’s been that inability to move that’s hurt our market the past few years.

2 Sylvan Lane, Old Greenwich, $2.890 million, has a contract after 13 days. Setting aside the buyers’ origin or motivation, that’s a quick sale. Of course, Sylvan’s a great neighborhood.

I showed this house to a potential buyers the last time it was for sale in 2005. The buyers liked it but the husband balked, saying he’d always had visions of tossing a baseball with his son in a back yard, which this one lacks. I pointed out that (a) he didn’t even have a son yet, (b) there was a huge side yard on which to toss the ol’ horsehide if that child were to materialize and (c) any kid he did have would either be off with a lacrosse travel team or in his bedroom playing video games. He laughed, but bought another house.

536 River Road

The upper reaches of Cos Cob’s River Road (east of the Mianus, beginning at Sheephill) don’t comprise much of a neighborhood at all, but 536 River Road sat unsold at $1.7 from last June through December. It came back on in late May at $1.680 and has a contract three weeks later.

Plow Lane Contract

11 Plow Lane sold new in 2007 for $4,755,018, tried for $4.990 in 2016 but that effort stalled until it finally sold for $3.250 million in August 2019. This time, priced at $3.450, it found a buyer in 8 days. A COVID sale? Possibly, though a reasonable price surely didn’t hurt.

Don't know nothin' 'bout history. Or anything at all, really, but they're willing to lecture those who do

This keeps up, I'm going to run out of houses to recommend to clients

291 Stanwich Road, a spec house put up for sale 1,336 days ago in December 2014 at $6.695 million, dropped to $3.5 million a while ago and is now pending. I was privately recommending making a run at this place for the past couple of years, because its builder has a track record for building very good homes and very bad marketing decisions and a deal could probably be had, and mentioned that possibility publicly here, way back in 2017. My own clients didn’t like the house, I think because none of them were wild about Stanwich Road, but someone did.