House of the Day: 1265 President Street Reduced
Timberrrrr! The asking price of the house at 1265 President Street continues to drop precipitously. The four three-story brick-and-limestone house in Crown Heights started its journey back in May on Craigslist praying for a miracle at $1,450,000. We called it “a bit aggressive” at the time; a commenter more astutely referred to it as “fantasyland.”…
Timberrrrr! The asking price of the house at 1265 President Street continues to drop precipitously. The four three-story brick-and-limestone house in Crown Heights started its journey back in May on Craigslist praying for a miracle at $1,450,000. We called it “a bit aggressive” at the time; a commenter more astutely referred to it as “fantasyland.” At some point this summer, Corcoran got the listing and tested the waters at $1,195,000. The result? Still no takers. So this week, in a sign of the times, the price was cut to $995,000. This’ll be very interesting to watch. In this environment, given that the interiors lack the original detail of many of the houses in the area, this is hardly a lay-up even at two-thirds of the original price. Thoughts?
1265 President Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 1265 President Street [Brownstoner]
Yes, but a very smart slave owner.
That would be a contradiction, so therefore impossible.
wrong.
LOL…how did this turn into a conversation about Thomas Jefferson and his slaves? Now regarding the house…It is seriously over priced and to add insult to injury the house has no authentic details. They might get 900k for it but I won’t buy it.
A Clinton Hill Lady
Thomas Jefferson was not just a slave owner but a defender of slave state interests when the Constitution was written. Since half the country and most of the Western World did not partake in slavery at the time, the “everyone was doing it” argument is about as naive as the What’s comments. Thomas Jefferson did not trust banks because he was always in debt and lived beyond his means. He achieved his wealth from inheritance and almost spoiled most of it. But for the work of his slaves, he would have been broke. Thomas Jefferson is the type of person that would have taken out an ARM with a teaser rate, not a prophet foreseeing the problems of today. The What needs to spend some time on a Lyndon Larouche blog and leave reasonable people alone, or at least come up with a better quote.
So Jefferson has slaves. We don’t have slavery today, but every single middle class American works 1/3 of his life to pay interest on personal (mortgage, student loan) debt as well as debt incurred by municipalities, states, and the federal government.
What is worse? Enslaving 10% of your population 100% or the time, or 100% of your population 33% of the time?
Wake up people – there is nowhere near enough money in the world to lend to every legal and government entity in this country. All the bankster class does is create money out of thin air, which then makes your own money less valuable, and lends it to you at interest! You are paying interest on money stolen from you.
Most people will always be slaves, that is the way things are and have always been since mankind first began to abandon the hunter gatherer lifestyle. Even then, you were subject to the whims of nature.
You are all slaves, and Thomas Jefferson did far more to free the world of the slave mindset than any self righteous hate whitey liberal.
4:36 seems to think that every single person alive owned slaves “then,” which is literally impossible. Just because everyone did it doesn’t make it right. Enforced segregation was once the law in this country. Was that OK because “everyone did it?”
The comments regarding slavery are offensive and speak to underlying racist sentiments,subconcious or otherwise, inherent in Brownstone Brooklyn. In fact, in most gentrified areas of Brownstone Brooklyn, brokers stear prospective buyers of color away from desirable locations and properties. Check yourselves people, and please, don’t characterize slavery as some abstract notion that does not still impact the nation today.
everyone owned slaves then.
he was neither smarter nor less smart than anyone now who pays $5 for a cup of coffee at starbucks.
everyone did it.
2:33 likely believes particularly literate slave owners earn some sort of immunity.
Why is smart slave owner a contradiction?
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