• 30 Jul 2009 at 9:36 AM

Robert Shiller, Westchester-Area Realtor Rub Tim Geithner’s Nose In It

By Bess Levin
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[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.)

Comments (24)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 9:47 AM

    that bathroom = dealbreaker

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 9:53 AM

    the realtor is midly doable.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM

    that tiling burned my eyes.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 9:59 AM

    I will sell this house today!
    –TG

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    “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.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    @2
    you probably think Alf is mildly doable too.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    @6 who doesn’t?!?!

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    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.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM

    When TDS does a hit job, they do it well. No half-hearted attempts.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM

    @7
    i don’t, i like ‘m shaved

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:04 AM

    “He expected to get MORE after the real estate market tanked in 2007, than he paid in 2004?”
    what’s wrong with that?

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:09 AM

    @6 you’re making me nostalgic for the day bess stuck alf clips in all of carney’s posts.

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM

    @11 remember this is also the guy who decided he didn’t have to pay taxes for several years.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM

    @13 he would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those nomination hearings.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    @13 i TOLD YOU, it was the god damn turbo tax.
    -tg

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM

    Again, its Mamaroneck NOT Larchmont
    Its like calling a Lexington Ave top-floor a Park Ave Penthouse

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    @16 larchmont? park ave penthouse? don’t make me laugh, peasant.
    -norwalk dweller

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM

    @16 larchmont is a shithole. know that.
    -fairfield county resident pissing in your mouth

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    #17, I agree Larchmont is NO Scarsdale or Bedford…but I had to spell i out for knaves….

  20. 20
    Posted by NAS Keflavik boi | July 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    @ 2 she’s definitely a soup chicken
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soup+chicken

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    Clearly all you losers worried about Mamaroneck vs. Larchmont are the same plebians that live in New Rochelle but claim to be from Scarsdale.

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    Clearly all you losers worried about Mamaroneck vs. Larchmont are the same plebians that live in New Rochelle but claim to be from Scarsdale.

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | July 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    @17-22
    Monaco, biatches
    Not that it’s gonna help your yankee asses tax-wise

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM

    soup kitchen. i love it. and yea, she def is

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