Contracts reported

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180 Round Hill Road, $6.4 million asked. Long ago — 2005 —-the then owners of this property listed it for $5.250 million, and we agents came, shrugged, and moved on. The house was eventually sold via foreclosure to these owners in 2020 for $2 million. It’s been completely redone, and expanded from 3,268 sq. ft. to 5,920, and this time, the price seems reasonable.

9 Dorchester Lane, Riverside, $5.995 million.

(Okay, that’s a picture of the house that was on the land when it sold in June last year for $1.550. Its replacement is shown below.)

Insane, or simply retarded? (UPDATED)

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Hello? Can you hear me now? Hello?

Gavin Newsom proposes 'insane' move against Elon Musk as he attempts to defy Trump with electric car rebates that excludes Tesla

Gavin Newsom is plotting to defy Donald Trump while stiffing key MAGA ally Elon Musk, as California plans an electric vehicle rebate program that intentionally leaves out Tesla.

The California governor is planning to introduce a state tax rebate on purchasing electric cars if the Trump administration eliminates the federal tax cut. 

Newsom even bragged that his policies have made Tesla and Musk 'so damn successful.'

The new rebates could exclude Tesla and other automakers with a large market share in an effort to promote more competition, the governor's office said. But that is subject to negotiation with the state Legislature. 

Tesla holds 55% of California's EV market share, down from 64% a year ago. Hyundai and BMW are the next two biggest EV sellers in the state, at just 6.4% and 5.5%, respectively. 

Musk, whose company is the only one that actually manufactures EVs in the Golden State, clearly felt singled out and slammed Newsom's proposal.

'Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California! This is insane,' he wrote on X. 

A Musk fan posted a video to the social media site showing Newsom actually gloating about being responsible for Musk and Tesla's riches. 

'It's one of the reasons guys like Elon Musk and others have become so damn successful,' Newsom said in October. 'It's because we've set price signals, we've created markets, we've created opportunities for investments. We're the number one manufacturer for a reason. We continue to be the envy of the world.'

Noisome knows, or his handlers must have told him, that his threat is toothless beca8use (a) his bankrupt state can’t afford another government handout program; and (b) a thing called the United States Constitution stands in his way. No matter, he’s just shoring up his base, getting ready for his presidential drive in 2028, and needs to achieve no more than that.

Interesting that, for all the media’s shrieking about Trump being a threat to democracy, it’s their California matinee idol who keeps coming up with anti-democratic schemes to deny citizens their constitutional rights and freedoms. Like this assault on the First Amendment, for instance.

UPDATE: CALIFORNIA IS A THIRD-WORLD NATION — CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT, AND UNCONCERNED: They’re STILL Counting Votes, but Four Million Are Still Missing.

While I was out ...

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Five more sales were reported

  • 7 Cherry Blossom Road (Greenwich/Banksville border): $6.7 million achieved on a $6.895 listing price. Built in 2023, it took a while to find a buyer.

  • 25 Upper Cross Road, $4.250 million, it asked $5.875 million when it was listed in September 2021. The seller had paid $5.475 million for this 10-acre Conyers Farm building lot just three months before, so this abrupt changing of the mind was costly.

Understand, these public servants are the same people who themselves haven't been able to provide shelter for their citizens

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Amish Volunteers Built 100+ 'Tiny Homes' for Hurricane Victims but Guess What Happened Next...

After Hurricane Helene which left untold thousands of western North Carolina (WNC) residents homeless, volunteer Amish carpenters showed up to build temporary shelters, but the heartwarming story has a bitter ending.

There are a couple of stories here that the mainstream media hasn't reported on much. The first is that FEMA, for whatever reason, has not been up to the task after Helen destroyed or damaged approximately 100,000 homes in WNC, impacting more than 200,000 people. People are living in trailers or even tents all these weeks later — and as temperatures drop. 

WNC resident (and X user) Margo reported last month that her area had "56 passenger bus load groups of skilled Amish carpenters coming down from Lancaster PA weekly to help build tiny homes for Cabins for Christ." Margo was doing her bit, looking for help finding room to lodge all of the volunteers. "We are bringing our own supplies and would be 100% self-sufficient," she posted, "Just need a place under [a] roof to sleep and house our volunteers from Monday night through Friday night every week."

And Another Thing: According to another X user, Scott Presler helped make sure all those volunteers voted early in Pennsylvania before they trekked down to North Carolina. Is this a remarkable time for conservatives or what?

That's the kind of spirit that helps make America great. Then there's all the hard work those Amish carpenters accomplished after they arrived.

Teamed up with Cabins 4 Christ, the Amish volunteers have been working five-day shifts before swapping out for the next team of volunteers. Nobody seems to know how many tiny homes have been built. But I used my paid research assistant, ChatGPT, to do some investigating for me. For whatever it's worth, ChatGPT claims that "In disaster relief efforts, such as the recent North Carolina project, Amish carpenters often build small cabins in as little as 5 days."

If a small team can build a home each week, and there are hundreds of volunteers working for almost four weeks, they must have built more than a hundred quality cottages by now. All on their own dime. If you know anything about Amish carpentry, you might safely assume those little cottages are well-built.

So of course …

Old Greenwich sale price reported

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24 Meadowbank Road was listed for $2.3 million October 15th, went to highest and best almost immediately, and closed this past Friday for $2.615. Meadowbank floods on a somewhat regular basis, and this particular house’s elevation certificate doesn’t give much hope that it won’t get wet feet, but Meadowbank has always attracted buyers (with Zodiacs?) and, obviously, continues to. And why not? It’s a nice street, in a friendly neighborhood. Its low-lying topography wouldn’t scare me off, either.

Just guessing here, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the winning bid came from a builder.