Just in time for some lucky buyer to experience that back to school feeling

It’s elementary, watson

After 9 years, 158 Clapboard Ridge Road, currently priced at $4.999 million (and surely going for less) is reported pending. The institutional-looking edifice has been on the market since 2013, when it began at $7.495. The time to buy it was probably August ‘22, when the dispirited owners had dropped the price to $3.999. But prospective buyers still shunned it — too many disturbing memories of ruler-wielding-nuns crushing fingers, perhaps — and the house was pulled; until May of this year, when it was brought back at $4.999 to a market that had “evolved”.

It’s interesting to note that, while the beautiful fall foliage shown in this listing’s pictures may depict what can be, unburdened by the summer that has almost passed, they certainly aren’t current —do they date back to 2013, or are they simply an attempt to show that this is a house for all seasons, or, perhaps, one that’s ahead of its time? Either way, the original listing broker must be relieved that she didn’t include that hoary real estate exhortation in the home’s description, “this one won’t last!”