Time was, East Hampton could count on the guys taking home enormous packages at year-end to buy up its inventory of multi-million dollar homes. They’d come to a mutual understanding, if you will. Now, due to the bloody financial crisis, some people aren’t holding up their end of the arrangement. Whereas prior to the whole shit hitting the fan “incident,” traders and similarly compensated financial services employees would roll in town and pay cash for some $45 million, 18-bedroom spread, now outhouse pictured at left can’t even sell. So you don’t know if you’re going to have a job in 2011 let alone if your bonus will be anything to write home about, so what??? We had an agreement. You selfish pricks. Continue reading »