For What It’s Worth

The Wall Street Journal asks, Is John McCain Stupid?. The author concludes that he is. I’m sorry to say I agree. It probably doesn’t matter, now that Obama is already fitting himself out for the dollar bill but it does seem a shame that we’ve ended up with a choice between a moron and a [...]

8 Mansion Place is in the King Merit development off of King Street in western Greenwich. Not one of our most expensive neighborhoods but that means you can still get over an acre of land (1.19, in this case) and a nice house for far less than the average run-down Riverside house will cost you. [...]

The 12 hour parking slots at Town Hall give you 2 hours for a quarter – a nice price if you need to park for awhile. But take a look at these meters and see whether you can tell how much time is left on the meter. I usually can’t, which means that, even if [...]

A few months ago I would have gagged at this price but now it’s an encouraging signal, I hope, of where the gasoline market is heading – 20¢ less than yesterday! (Taken in Cos Cob at 6:56 this morning)

I’ve refrained from delving into the fiasco involving our two schools (Ham Ave and Glenville) in our west because (a) I don’t know much about what’s going on and (b) http://www.Greenwichroundup.blogspot.com is already doing a fine job of coverage. I do know that, when the town and the YMCA, faced with huge cost overruns on [...]

I don’t think it’s news that Obama supports the wacky bill that would grant native Hawaiians (defined as anyone who is, once was or would like to be known as Hawaiian) rights to most of the state, free education and a Smart car – that’s pretty much a standard democrat platform. No, what I find [...]

Where’s the Sitemeter?The little Sitemeter that’s usually posted on the right is missing today, not because I’m ashamed of my modest readership (which in fact is building very nicely) but because the service that provides it is preparing to upgrade things. Their official explanation:
“For the next 30 – 45 days we will be testing our [...]

The washington Post (above) has examined Fannie Mae’s giving history and the results don’t bode well for us taxpayers no matter who wins this year’s election.

Here’s a link (click on title above) to one of the Greenwich Time articles on the egg tossing incident. We’re still working on the others.

Here’s a great comment on selecting an agent that makes a lot of sense (because I didn’t write it!). I didn’t want it to get lost in the shuffle so I reprint it here.

“Though I agree with some of the techniques Chris mentions in scoping out the “better” agents, I have to say that elevating [...]

Too bad greenwich doesn’t permit for sale signs by Realtors. This one makes sense.

A quiet morning, but check out the comments section – there are a number of discussions going on.
I suppose we can talk about the latest tale of wayward boys causing trouble at the high school. According to the Greenwich Time’s sanitized version, five “high school football players” tossed eggs at a coach’s car over the [...]

I have a friend at a liberal New York magazine who is convinced that global warming is about to bring our doom so the link above is for you, Nick! I continue to side with that master of doom, Glen Reynolds, who says, “I’ll believe that we’re facing a crisis when the people preaching that [...]

Off to see open houses
Not much new on today. Leona Helmsley’s place is open again to us agents but I’ve seen it once and, while it’s very nice, I don’t have any customers in her $125,000,000 price range so I think I’ll pass this time. Those statistics I posted yesterday were so depressing that my [...]

Popular Mechanics (click title above for the link) has a good article on the various options for decking material. I’ve made decks from three of the four mentioned (pressure treated, fir and composite) and my experience matches the reporter’s. I no longer build decks – or I haven’t in a long time – but Rick [...]

Well, as I suspected, we’re a little slow here in town – time to head for the Rockies or the beach until say, next February. Contrary to what I opined in a comment below, the $1 million to $3 million dollar house is still our bread and butter but according to these stats, we’re reduced [...]

In a comment to my previous post concerning active, knowledgeable agents versus the 90% who eat bon bons by their pools and wait to view properties for the first time with a client (I refer to this as a “mutual voyage of discovery” and consider it a huge waste of the client’s time) a reader [...]

The good news is that 1 Flagler Drive, asking $5,900,000, went to contract over the weekend, presumably for something less than asking price but proof nonetheless that there are still some deep-pocketed buyers out there. The bad news is that this gargantuan (by my standards – at 11,000 sq.ft. it’s probably tiny for other folk’s [...]

Greenwich Time refers today to “anti-prohibitionists” who used to run booze up my creek and stash it at what is now Dot McCullough’s boat house. Didn’t we used to call these folks “rum runners”? More colorful and far more accurate: I’m pretty sure that the criminals were very much in favor of Prohibition, because it [...]

Our School Board has sent out a survey to parents, asking if they “support a school resource officer at the high school”. The Board eschewed the use of such inflammatory language as “armed and tasered” because they apparently feared that using the more accurate description might alarm parents and cause them to withhold their support [...]