Posted by Bess Levin, Jul 30, 2009, 9:36am
[via
Barry]
Listen. We've talked about Tim Geithner's housing troubles at length. The elfin Treasury Secretary and his wife Carole bought the Larchmont Tudor in 2004 for $1.602 million. Then buddy boy got a gig in DC and they tried to sell it March for $1.635 million. When that didn't take, the price was dropped to $1.575 million. No dice. T. Geith was reduced to renting the place out for $7,500/month, which many have helpfully pointed out probably doesn't even cover the li'l fella's mortgage payments. So does he really need some hussy in a pantsuit going on TV and shouting it out that this thing is never gonna happen? No, he doesn't, and dollars to donuts the first thing he thought while watching this segment on TDS last night was, "Lady, I'd like to tie you to the back of a fucking truck." The pity from Shiller is nice, but a little embarrassing and likely caused the tips of TG's ears to turn red, as they're prone to do when he's just been humiliated. Let's just give the monumental failure (at house slinging) some room to breathe, okay? (And time to re-tile the bathroom, which Shiller notes is absolutely ghastly, and probably the reason no one will buy the place.)
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 9:47AM
that bathroom = dealbreaker
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 9:53AM
the realtor is midly doable.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 9:58AM
that tiling burned my eyes.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 9:59AM
I will sell this house today!
--TG
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:00AM
"Lady, I'd like to tie you to the back of a fucking truck."
..is the same thing he says to himself during meetings with Larry Summers.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:00AM
@2
you probably think Alf is mildly doable too.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:01AM
@6 who doesn't?!?!
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:01AM
He expected to get MORE after the real estate market tanked in 2007, than he paid in 2004? It's always "my house is different". He'll get $1 mil if he's lucky.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:03AM
When TDS does a hit job, they do it well. No half-hearted attempts.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:03AM
@7
i don't, i like 'm shaved
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:04AM
"He expected to get MORE after the real estate market tanked in 2007, than he paid in 2004?"
what's wrong with that?
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:09AM
@6 you're making me nostalgic for the day bess stuck alf clips in all of carney's posts.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:11AM
@11 remember this is also the guy who decided he didn't have to pay taxes for several years.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:29AM
@13 he would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those nomination hearings.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 10:31AM
@13 i TOLD YOU, it was the god damn turbo tax.
-tg
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 11:06AM
Again, its Mamaroneck NOT Larchmont
Its like calling a Lexington Ave top-floor a Park Ave Penthouse
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 11:08AM
@16 larchmont? park ave penthouse? don't make me laugh, peasant.
-norwalk dweller
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 11:10AM
@16 larchmont is a shithole. know that.
-fairfield county resident pissing in your mouth
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 11:11AM
#17, I agree Larchmont is NO Scarsdale or Bedford...but I had to spell i out for knaves....
Posted by NAS Keflavik boi , Jul 30, 2009 11:11AM
@ 2 she's definitely a soup chicken
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soup+chicken
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 12:24PM
Clearly all you losers worried about Mamaroneck vs. Larchmont are the same plebians that live in New Rochelle but claim to be from Scarsdale.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 12:24PM
Clearly all you losers worried about Mamaroneck vs. Larchmont are the same plebians that live in New Rochelle but claim to be from Scarsdale.
Posted by guest , Jul 30, 2009 12:52PM
@17-22
Monaco, biatches
Not that it's gonna help your yankee asses tax-wise
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 12:08PM
soup kitchen. i love it. and yea, she def is