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June 13, 2006
Not for Sale in the Sticks
Driving through rural Connecticut this weekend, we saw first-hand that the pressures of "greedy developers" are not limited to our urban confines.
Comments
yes, how dare someone offer the owner of this dump more money than they ever imagined! Yes it's down right criminal!
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 10:51 AM
That "dump" is their HOME, a**hole.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 10:56 AM
Hey that my summer home! I don't think its the developers as much as the constant interuption of my private pilates lessons by nosey real estate agents.
Posted by: Kate Moss at June 13, 2006 10:57 AM
10:51,
why the cursing? Would you rather that their home be redlined and worth nothing? people knock on my door wanting to buy my house all the time. I politely tell that I'm not interested but to keep trying. Many of my neighbors have sold by word of mouth with great success. One former neighbor can now recover from cancer in the lap of luxury in FLA rather than in his rundown Bed-Stuy brownstone. He had no intention of selling until he was approached by a buyer.
Sorry pal, but housing equity improves people's lives.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 1:40 PM
Those damn developers are destroying us all! Curses to them!
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 1:41 PM
What part of CT was this in? Are parts behind Fairfield Cnty now becoming desirable?
CT was always a state that never had a lot of news regarding real estate on.
we call it the tri state but CT often is left out.
Posted by: anonymous at June 13, 2006 2:10 PM
yeah you never heard about Conn. much, even with real estate. what's hot over there?
Posted by: anon at June 13, 2006 2:25 PM
1.40pm,
Rail all you want about the miracles of life that were created and saved by real estate speculators, plucking people out of misfortune, but I think it's pretty crystal clear that whoever owns the posted house, doesn't want ANY of it. And that no amount of door knocking will improve his life. Or, rather, a complete absence of door knocking would.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 2:47 PM
Way out. Southeastern CT.
Posted by: Brownstoner at June 13, 2006 2:57 PM
There is a lot of development, some of it not very good, but more exurb style -farms giving way to developments, unappealing strip mall roads with all the boring chains, local character disappearing. Culture is very low key, some might say boring.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 3:04 PM
What's the term (?) for when realtors deliberately frighten long-time residents into selling their houses because, e.g., the "wrong" people are moving in - "get out while you can." (Or maybe, in a post-Kelo world, get out before the developers exercise eminent domain over your property anyway.) So maybe the homeowner's sign is a reflection of this kind of ugly (and possibly illegal?) sales pressure.
Posted by: anon2 at June 13, 2006 3:51 PM
I live part time in upstate NY. McMansions are to here what Fedders homes are to Brooklyn. I'd rather see them buy someone's home for a teardown than take away any more land. Hey Brownstoner, have you ever driven around Newburgh? Great architecture.
Posted by: Yente at June 13, 2006 4:10 PM
I think the term I was thinking of is "blockbusting."
Posted by: anon2 at June 13, 2006 4:12 PM
Southeastern CT, you say--could this be a Kelo-related statement?
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2006 4:13 PM
Possibly. It's not far from New London...
Posted by: Brownstoner at June 13, 2006 4:18 PM
Yes, Blockbusting is the correct term.
Posted by: OMB at June 13, 2006 4:51 PM
I thought that was social engineering.
Posted by: Chris Erb at June 14, 2006 6:53 PM
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