It's probably no accident that there's an early-settler graveyard in the front yard

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398 Stanwich Road is off the rent roll and back on the market at $3.950 million. This is one of those Jordan Saper mega-homes, popular in 2004, when this one sold, new, for $5.550 million, but which have been losing favor since. These owners bought it for $5.350 in 2010 (down from its original 2008 asking price of $6.345, so it possibly seemed like a bargain, poor saps — or Sapers), and they’ve been trying to unload it since 2014, when they started at $5.695. They temporarily gave up that effort in 2018, when its price had dropped to $4.5, and rented it out. Now the tenant is gone, and so, too is at least $1.450 million, and that’s assuming they will get this price. My guess is that they won’t

Saper was (in) famous for his airplane hangar bedrooms, and this one’s CLASSIC. MAYBE IT CAN BE RENTED OUT TO STORE 737S WHILE BOEING FIGURES OUT WHY THEIR OWN PROJECT IS CRASHING

Saper was (in) famous for his airplane hangar bedrooms, and this one’s CLASSIC. MAYBE IT CAN BE RENTED OUT TO STORE 737S WHILE BOEING FIGURES OUT WHY THEIR OWN PROJECT IS CRASHING