Plane Spotters Special

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70 Sherwood Avenue, listed at $4.295 million, has sold for $4,724,528.12 (here’s a case where that open auction feature, discussed earlier this week, could have helped the winning buyer avoid such a silly bid).

The builders who renovated this house back in 2007 tried for $5.775 that year but had to settle for $3.375 in 2010. Those buyers, in turn, sold it to these sellers in 2021 for $3.495 million, and without making any noticable changes or improvements, sold it this week for a handsome profit. Timing is everything.

First, he systematically killed the world's poorest citizens; now he's disenfranchising illegal aliens here in America. Oh, make him stop; won't SOMEBODY make him STOP!?

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David Strom, HotAir:

Democrats are super angry about, and Marc Elias is suing to stop, a Trump Executive Order requiring states to ask people whether they are United States citizens on voter registration forms. 

…. Democrats are right to be concerned. After all, they have spent years and years, not to mention many billions in taxpayer dollars, running one of the largest human trafficking operations in world history to import millions of illegal aliens. 

Sure, they made a huge profit off the operation. Countless NGOs harvested billions of dollars in USAID grants, and lots of contractors made a mint transporting, feeding, and housing the flood of illegals, but the Democrats counted on harvesting millions of illegal votes in the bargain as well. 

Why do you think that all those Blue states started handing out driver's licenses and voter registration forms to illegals? To promote public safety or something? Or encourage the flood of illegals who were carrying communicable diseases, unvaccinated for COVID or other more preventable but deadly diseases, or sent all those mail-in ballots to homeless shelters?

I'm not saying that all 5'2", 449 lb people are insane, just beware of the ones who are if they share your crazy cat lady neighbor's politics

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Texas menace accused of ramming mini 4-wheeler into parked Teslas in chaotic spree

A 5-foot-2, 449-pound ATV-riding Texan was a massive problem to Tesla owners when he allegedly rammed his 4-wheeler into multiple cars during an unprovoked hit-and-run spree on Tuesday.

Demarqeyun Marquize Cox was arrested after one of his alleged attacks was recorded by the Tesla he purposely ran into, police in Texarkana, Texas announced.

mini-mario escape vehicle

Five weeks in and already Trump's killed poor, sick people all around the world; is there NOTHING he'll stop at?

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drop us a postcard from Geneva

Associated Propaganda BODIED for Shameful Article Blaming Trump Admin for Ethiopian AIDS Problem

We knew that the Left would start blaming President Donald Trump and DOGE for every death around the world following his USAID cuts.

And they already have. New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof said President Trump killed two kids in South Sudan and Alex Cole blamed him for the death of a Taiwanese national in Thailand.

Kristoff first:

“Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington. The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through UNFPA in December, [emphasis added] and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust.”

How long has African poverty been going on? How long have pregnant women “been bleeding to death in the dust”? How long has the UN been operating in the continent? How much UN (US taxpayers’) money has gone to medical care vs Swiss bank accounts of corrupt African politicans? Kristoff doesn’t say.

Now Cole, with a comment from a woman who isn’t impressed with the reporter’s sudden concern for the wellbeing of a woman in another country on the other side of the world:

Twitchy’s Amy Curtis has questions:

The woman was a Taiwanese national who died in Thailand.

Thailand has universal healthcare. Why didn't they provide oxygen?

And I have a question: there are something like 3 billion people on the globe earning less than $2 a day; how many of those are we required to provide free medical care?

The Associated Press is here to add more bodies to the tally with this article:

HIV soars after a deadly war in Ethiopia’s Tigray.

Again, Curtis has questions:

Where is the U.N.? Where's the E.U.? Where are other African countries?

By the way, the war started in 2020. Who was president from 2021 until 2025, again?

We'll provide more real estate coverage when there's more real estate activity to cover

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Although there are bound to be a few more sales reported tomorrow and Friday, I looked at the past week’s activity on the MLS and it shows what’s happening: pretty much nothing.

Four single-family sales from last Wednesday to today, ranging from $16.9 million to $1,203,051.

No contracts, but note that, in this market, houses are moving straight to pending — no contingencies. Eight homes did exactly that.

And there you have it. I believe I’ve written about each one, and I’ll revist them when the quick-pending ones sell, because most of them will be going for more than their asking price.

Good luck with that, pal

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this dog won’t hunt

Hunter Biden hires Alex Murdaugh's lawyer in latest court case

Hunter Biden has hired a heavyweight South Carolina attorney — with a similar high profile to his last lawyer — to go after a right-wing business executive for defamation.

Former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, a self-described "Joe Biden guy" who recently represented Low Country prosecutor turned convicted killer Alex Murdaugh, is the younger Biden’s new lawyer as he pursues ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in court.

Biden, who was pardoned by his father for those allegations, is primed to go to Los Angeles court in July against Byrne.

The suit claims Byrne wrongfully accused Biden of being in touch with Iranian officials in 2021, seeking a bribe in exchange for unfreezing $8 billion in funds at the behest of his father.

…. Biden is reportedly claiming defamatory statements from the Iran allegation that led him to lose "economic opportunities," including memoir and art sales and speaking engagements estimated to be collectively worth about $500,000. 

Problems I see include:

  • Hunter’s a public figure, so the burden of proof is much, much higher than if he were a private individual

  • As a convicted criminal and a fully-exposed (so to speak) history of coke-fueled sex trysts and illegal gun possession, he has no character left to damage.

  • “Lost” artwork sales of his scribbles are imaginary; the few paintings that did sell were purchased by buyers seeking access to his father’s influence, and evaporated once that influence faded.

    I suppose a sympathetic jury (is the trial being held in D.C.?) might award the man $1 in nominal damges, but I hope not.

No more cops in NoPo — not at these prices

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No more lawyers, either. 24 Riverside Lane, one of the original “temporary” houses put up for returning WWII veterans in 1948 is new on the MLS today at $1.195 million. One feature that was lacking back then has been corrected: it now has window air conditioners, and they’re included in the price.

Just as an aside, while the expense of staging a house in this price bracket might dissuade an owner or agent from going through the trouble, de-cluttering costs nothing, and never hurts.

W Lyon Farm sale price reported

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January contract, March closing, 414 W Lyon Farm has sold for $1.5 million. That’s a tad lower than some other recent sales of renovated units here, but that’s possibly due to its debuting last June at $1.995 million and being a bit laggard in suiting price to market.

Buyers came from Scarsdale, and why not? As my Uncle Gary, native of that town (8 Heathcote, originally) said when packing his bags and moving to Vermont, “50 years in Scarsdale is enough for any man”.