I encouraged some clients to toss a bid in the low $4s at this house, but they couldn't get past the furnishings
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But someone did. 11 Bayberry Lane (off Cherry, off Rogues Hill) has sold for $4.3 million. That offer was accepted back in March, when the owner was still asking $4.950, but the place had been on the market since March 2015, when it came on at $7.195, so you know it was ripe for the plucking.
I suppose it could be argued that the selling price was still too generous, but it’s not a bad house at all; just needs to be stripped of its Back Country Muffy decoration.
Bottom Story of the Day
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“It's not racism, I tell you, it's just how we do things here"
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return to quarters
“It’s really no different than how my southern friends do things”, Whitehouse explained to FWIW. “Sipping mint juleps on the verandah at sunset, listening to the darkies sing their spirituals as they return from the fields – you don’t just throw those kinds of moments away in a fit of temporary populist hysteria.
“Our club’s only been around since 1890, so the fact that we’re still studying the issue of admitting coloreds is hardly surprising. We only caved on the Jews in the 1970s, and we all thought that was rushed, but we were in an uncomfortable financial situation at the time and needed their geld.
“You say you want darkies in the same pool as our innocent, pink little girls? Big strong bucks eying our women? Eating near us? I mean they can serve our dinner — in fact, we have a couple of Sambos on the staff right now, but membership? Too soon, my friend, too soon.
“But come back in 2090 – our bicentennial might just be a proper time to consider it”.
Never send a woman to do a man's job
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But we’ll rise to the challenge
Psaking Back: Well this is ad: Female Weightlifter Suffers Tragic Testicle Injury Just Weeks Before Tokyo Olympics
And this one is not the Bee: Transgender bicyclist on US Women’s team says he wants to win so he “can burn the flag on the podium”.
Riverside price war
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242 Riverside Avenue (no link) sold for $3.150 million in 2018, came back on this March in 2021 at $3.5, and has sold for $3.603.
Today’s buyers better hope we've entered a new paradigm.
Backyards in Riverside are sooo yesterday
That blister pack on Meadowcroft has a contract
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32 Meadowcroft Lane, in foreclosure, vacant, and currently asking $7.795 million, started at $9.5 in May ‘20. These owners bought it “new” in 2014 for $8.2 million, after it had sat on the market unloved and unwanted since May 2011, when builder Mark Mariani set it upon the waters at $12.750.
I’ve never been a fan of this house’s design or construction. Why the turret, and for God’s sake, what’s up with that second-floor appendage on the south wall? As to construction, Mariani was (in) famous for bringing in a crew of 100 and throwing up his buildings in weeks or a few months. That may be more efficient, but I’ve never been persuaded that it yields the better home. When I first toured this one, for instance, I noticed that the still-unfinished floors had swollen and jammed the closet doors shut. I’m sure that was corrected later with extensive sanding, but the reason for the warping in the first place is that, while most builders bring their stacks of flooring into a house and let them sit for a few weeks to adjust to the ambient humidity, Mariani liked to nail ‘em down the day they arrived on-site, and deal with the warping later.
And I don’t know whether that’s a worse technique than the traditional approach, but the whole speed-building process unnerves me, a bit.
And to think, just two years ago this was an impeachable offense
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so, presto! down the memory hole
Good advice for any organization — focus on your primary purpose
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chicago’s last republican mayor left office in 1931
June 18, 2021: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasts Bears football team over relocating rumors
"Like most Bears fans, we want the organization to focus on putting a winning football team on the field, beating the Packers finally and being relevant past October. Everything else is noise."
June 18, 2021: Mayor Lori Lightfoot declares racism a “public health crisis”
“We can no longer allow racism our residents [sic] to rob the residents of the opportunity to live and lead full, healthy and happy lives and we are working closely with the Chicago Department of Public Health and community organizations to address these inequities once and for all,” Mayor Lightfoot said.