October 1, 2004
Ah, Technology
Round Hill Partners just switched to a new web server in order to create a more perfect web site. That was the hope, anyway. The only thing accomplished so far is to block access to our old page which held (still holds, for all I know) our email. So if you sent a message to me at roundhillpartners.com in the past two weeks and received no reply, please try again at my temporary address, crfount@hotmail.com.
New Listings
Diane Dutcher has listed a new house at 67 Tomac Avenue that’s really very nice. Great quality throughout, with five bedrooms and a detached two car garage. The lot is smallish, but what Old Greenwich lot isn’t? $2,725,000.00. Compared to many of the other new houses currently on the market, I think this one is better made and better priced. Interesting, though, that new construction in most parts of town now commands such high prices. As the entire housing stock is slowly replaced, we’ll also get a new population to afford it. We will, that is, if Wall Street can continue to generate enough twenty-something multi-millionaires. Stay tuned.
Max Weisen’s listing at 97 East Elm is older (1927) but was renovated last year and is in excellent condition. The condominiums across the street are selling for prices well above $2,000,000, so this free standing house for $1,769,000 seems like a good deal, to me. Nice house.
For the same price, you could have bought Mie Glenn’s listing at 140 Park Avenue in Greenwich, but you’re probably too late. Although the house itself was in very good condition, an agent I know tried to show it over the weekend and reports that there were at least ten builders circling. It will be heading for the landfill soon, I suspect. Park Avenue is one of my favorite close-to-town streets in Greenwich, and it will certainly support a multi-million dollar house, but if a building lot on Park is worth close to two million dollars, Max’s East Elm street offering looks positively cheap.
Streetscape Ambience
I hold nothing but admiration for those citizens who pound their knees into scar tissue on our hard asphalt streets in an attempt to work off a few pounds but may I suggest, for those of you who are grossly over-weight, that cramming your adipose tissue into form-fitting spandex creates a sight that is perhaps best left unseen? I am not proposing the donning of chadors (although perhaps in cooler weather …) but really -you look like jiggling collections of Jimmy Dean sausages. None of my business, I know.
Suicide Squirrels
It seems as though more of these rodents than ever are darting across the road and under our car wheels. It could be part of some al Qaeda training mission, I suppose, but it’s more likely that the phenomenon can be attributed to the lack of free roaming dogs; everyone seems to keep poor Fido behind an invisible fence or on the end of a leash, leaving the squirrels free to be fruitful and multiply. Our hawk population provides an exciting remedy but there aren’t enough of them. We need more coyotes.
Car Talk
Of course, if those squirrels are aligned with Bin Laden, you’ll want your car ready to gun them down. One of the best mechanics I’ve found in this area is Tony Corrente, Corrente Auto Service, Inc. in Stamford. (327-1403). Tony won’t serve you $200 a pound green tea while you wait, and the waiting room itself is a bit spartan, but he can fix anything, at a much better price than some of the dealerships. He’s also a very nice man.
They’re Stealing the Election!
The Registrar of Voters recently sent postcards out to town residents notifying them of where to vote. A nice gesture but, it turns out, the cards give the wrong poll locations. New cards are in the works but at least one ardent Democrat I know is convinced that it’s all part of some nefarious plot by the Republicans. Considering that there are (far) more Republicans in town than there are Democrats, it seems unlikely that the former would profit by misdirecting their voters. A more likely suspect, I think, is Dan Rather and CBS - they got burned on documents that were “fake but accurate” so they’re trying “authentic but inaccurate”. I don’t think this will help their credibility, but then, I’m not part of the main stream media.
Christopher Fountain is a non-practicing lawyer and glad of it. Although he works with Round Hill Partners, Ltd. the opinions expressed in this column are very much his own and rarely shared by the Round Hill principals or, for that matter, this newspaper. Comments, questions and complaints may be sent to crfount@hotmail.com. Depending on their tenor, they will (eventually) receive a response.
Round Hill Partners just switched to a new web server in order to create a more perfect web site. That was the hope, anyway. The only thing accomplished so far is to block access to our old page which held (still holds, for all I know) our email. So if you sent a message to me at roundhillpartners.com in the past two weeks and received no reply, please try again at my temporary address, crfount@hotmail.com.
New Listings
Diane Dutcher has listed a new house at 67 Tomac Avenue that’s really very nice. Great quality throughout, with five bedrooms and a detached two car garage. The lot is smallish, but what Old Greenwich lot isn’t? $2,725,000.00. Compared to many of the other new houses currently on the market, I think this one is better made and better priced. Interesting, though, that new construction in most parts of town now commands such high prices. As the entire housing stock is slowly replaced, we’ll also get a new population to afford it. We will, that is, if Wall Street can continue to generate enough twenty-something multi-millionaires. Stay tuned.
Max Weisen’s listing at 97 East Elm is older (1927) but was renovated last year and is in excellent condition. The condominiums across the street are selling for prices well above $2,000,000, so this free standing house for $1,769,000 seems like a good deal, to me. Nice house.
For the same price, you could have bought Mie Glenn’s listing at 140 Park Avenue in Greenwich, but you’re probably too late. Although the house itself was in very good condition, an agent I know tried to show it over the weekend and reports that there were at least ten builders circling. It will be heading for the landfill soon, I suspect. Park Avenue is one of my favorite close-to-town streets in Greenwich, and it will certainly support a multi-million dollar house, but if a building lot on Park is worth close to two million dollars, Max’s East Elm street offering looks positively cheap.
Streetscape Ambience
I hold nothing but admiration for those citizens who pound their knees into scar tissue on our hard asphalt streets in an attempt to work off a few pounds but may I suggest, for those of you who are grossly over-weight, that cramming your adipose tissue into form-fitting spandex creates a sight that is perhaps best left unseen? I am not proposing the donning of chadors (although perhaps in cooler weather …) but really -you look like jiggling collections of Jimmy Dean sausages. None of my business, I know.
Suicide Squirrels
It seems as though more of these rodents than ever are darting across the road and under our car wheels. It could be part of some al Qaeda training mission, I suppose, but it’s more likely that the phenomenon can be attributed to the lack of free roaming dogs; everyone seems to keep poor Fido behind an invisible fence or on the end of a leash, leaving the squirrels free to be fruitful and multiply. Our hawk population provides an exciting remedy but there aren’t enough of them. We need more coyotes.
Car Talk
Of course, if those squirrels are aligned with Bin Laden, you’ll want your car ready to gun them down. One of the best mechanics I’ve found in this area is Tony Corrente, Corrente Auto Service, Inc. in Stamford. (327-1403). Tony won’t serve you $200 a pound green tea while you wait, and the waiting room itself is a bit spartan, but he can fix anything, at a much better price than some of the dealerships. He’s also a very nice man.
They’re Stealing the Election!
The Registrar of Voters recently sent postcards out to town residents notifying them of where to vote. A nice gesture but, it turns out, the cards give the wrong poll locations. New cards are in the works but at least one ardent Democrat I know is convinced that it’s all part of some nefarious plot by the Republicans. Considering that there are (far) more Republicans in town than there are Democrats, it seems unlikely that the former would profit by misdirecting their voters. A more likely suspect, I think, is Dan Rather and CBS - they got burned on documents that were “fake but accurate” so they’re trying “authentic but inaccurate”. I don’t think this will help their credibility, but then, I’m not part of the main stream media.
Christopher Fountain is a non-practicing lawyer and glad of it. Although he works with Round Hill Partners, Ltd. the opinions expressed in this column are very much his own and rarely shared by the Round Hill principals or, for that matter, this newspaper. Comments, questions and complaints may be sent to crfount@hotmail.com. Depending on their tenor, they will (eventually) receive a response.
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