Seize the Day

125 Pecksland Road, purchased new in 2011 for $11.1 million, has been on the market since 2017, when it started off at $10.5 million. It’s seen numerous brokers and price changes over the ensuing years and ended, unsold, in late 2021 at $7.9. Which is where it started off again this year with broker number 2,341, but there must have finally been some interest, because today it’s been bumped to $9.2 million.

Speaking of Pecksland, buyers interested in living on the street might want to consider the house just two doors down, 131 Pecksland — newish on the market, and priced at $10.750, but possibly available at a steep discount because of its owner Samuel Klein’s guilty pleas last November to security fraud and other bad acts. The title is tied up by what looks like $30 million or so in liens, attachments, and foreclosures, but these can usually be worked out with a little hard negotiating. Why not take a shot?

Sam Klein. Formerly the discount, “Genuine, I promise” Rolex salesman known to many Wall STREETERS as “Sidewalk Sammy” — “would I lie to you?”