Lockwood & Mead Valentine’s Day Special!

Happier days in Cos Cob

We here at L&M Realty were shocked to learn that in England,  couples are being forced by the high cost of alternative shelter to stick together despite their deep, unabated hatred for one another, even long past their divorce! We wondered, could that be happening here and if so, what could we do to help?

Well the answer was obvious: tomorrow only, CCF will dust off his law degree and together with Fuducker will offer a Valentine Special: one free divorce, one free listing for the family love nest and two reduced commissions on the purchase of new cabins for each of you. Call now, because as we like to say in this dignified profession, this one won’t last.

UPDATE: Turns out that here in Greenwich 30% of all grooms marrying in town are doing so for the second time. In view of that, and considering the extra burden imposed on alimony-paying hedge feuders, L&M has decided to extend our offer to include a “Trophy Wife Package”: a reduced commission on the purchase of the new Round Hill Road digs for the new little lady and no commission at all on the sale of the former incumbent’s house so she’ll get the hell out of town. And we’ll toss in a box of chocolates for each.

Immigration reform, Obama style

DHS won’t track aliens enrolling on welfare rolls.

In a response letter to four top Republican lawmakers, the Department of Homeland Security revealed it initiated only one case against an immigrant for becoming a “public charge,” or being primarily dependent upon the government, in fiscal year 2012. The case was later withdrawn.

While the department’s response to Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch and Pat Roberts’ August oversight request offered an overview of the centuries-old federal public-charge restrictions, it noticeably avoided several of the senators’ direct questions and demonstrated potentially significant inadequacies in record-keeping by immigration officials, who legally should be enforcing public-charge rules for immigrants both inside and outside of the country.

The response, for example, failed to explain why immigrants are only assessed for their potential reliance on just two of the more than 80 federal means-tested welfare programs when the government determines if they are “public charges” prior to their entry into the U.S. — meaning that they are likely to become primarily dependent on federal aid for subsistence after arriving.

 

Second of the pair goes to contract

35 Shore Rd

35 Shore Road in Old Greenwich reports a contract. (Last) asking price was $2.695; the same house next door, same builder, just sold for about $2.5 so I’d expect that’s what this one is selling for. Neither were unattractive and at this price, a pretty good deal for new construction in OG, even on a busy road like Shore.

He may be an idiot, but he’s a truth-speaking one

And that puts him way ahead of his boss.

Speaking of fire sales

(Not necessarily representative)

78 Doubling Road, last discussed here in December when ownership switched to a relocation company, reports a contract. Bought new in 2007 for $8.6 million, reduced over time to $6.1, someone is presumably picking this up for around, what – $5.75? Not bad.

Is Paris burning?

Death Panel

One small part of it is, apparently. Frenchman self-immolates after being denied unemployment benefits. So far, Obama has contented himself with merely encouraging the unemployed to drop out of the job market and go on disability so as to lower the official unemployment rate, but like all of his type he’s a Francophile, so don’t be surprised if this nouvelle technique drifts over here.

Surprisingly, this rarely works

 

Sunshine, on my shoulders makes me whacky ….

48 Sunshine Avenue, previously priced at $889,000, has raised its price to $899,000.

 

30 Montgomery

The only new listing today, so far, is 30 Montgomery Lane, (click link above for both listings) $2.350 million. I like the street, within reason, and this price is a good spot to be in right now, so I’ll be interested to see the open house tomorrow.

The King and I

“We are citizens” Obama proclaimed last night, and then proceeded to define that term as it is understood by Regressives:

“It’s a word that doesn’t just describe our nationality or legal status,” he said with great vehemence. “It captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.”

I’ve been reading McCullough’s biography of John Adams and am reminded again of the incredible bravery of those few subjects of George III who dared to stand in defiance and claim that their lives belonged to them as of right, and not because of the beneficence of some ruler. Obama’s speech last night perfectly exposed the contrast between those who created this country and what it is now.  A nation of revolutionaries has declined to a sorry collection of has-beens, led by this low scum of a president espousing a collective swarm philosophy of central control. Nowhere in his talk did this despicable little man mention an “obligation” to take responsibility for one’s life, to refrain from bringing children into the world if one can’t feed or shelter them, to work for one’s living, to educate oneself, or do anything, in fact, but turn to the government and beg it for succor.

Adams demanded recognition of our individual, inalienable rights of liberty – Obama says we are nothing more than a source of labor, the fruits of which are to be voluntarily handed over to our rulers and redistributed as the Whore of Babylon sees fit. That’s quite a decline in just a couple of hundred years. In fact, it puts us right back where we started from.

Walter Noel hits a new low, if that’s possible

Shudder bugs

Not content with defrauding his customers to the tune of $400 million with his “Leave it to Bernie” investment scam, Walt’s been hiding behind the plantation shutters in his Mustique cabana “Yemanja“, snapping pics of the Royal Couple and selling them to the press! 

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge faced fresh anguish over privacy today after Italian and Australian magazines published photographs of pregnant Kate in a bikini and more publications round the world lined up to do the same.

Palace sources condemned the ‘violating’ pictures, which show the couple walking along a beach while holidaying on the secluded Caribbean island of Mustique.

“Mr. Noel and his firm will no longer be permitted to claim an appointment to the crown,” the palace announced, “as we have rescinded their royal warrant. Simply shocking behavior.”

Obama: “shovel-ready” jobs to restore the economy

 

Destiny’s child

I think last night he used “fix it first” or some such blather, but he’s promising those same shovel ready things he promised $4 trillion dollars ago but never delivered. What’s different this time? Well obviously, it’s different because this time he really, really means it!

But all in all, the man did take a daring, refreshingly new approach to governing, promising to depart from his old policies and turn to a something he hadn’t thought of before: soak the rich and spend a whole bunch more of other people’s money. Innovative, bold and effective. We’re in the best of hands.

Oh yeah – more nursery schools.