September 29, 2008 – 5:26 pm
The Summer is now officially over. Mostly it’s still hot and muggy, but there have been a few cold, wet, rainy days and a slight chill of Autumn is in the air. With the Summer goes the Summer selling season and consequently the number of homes on MLS is slowly dropping. A couple of homes [...]
September 28, 2008 – 12:29 pm
39 Totten Pl MLS# 2104849 – Zillow Page Ask $429,900 3 bedrooms – 1.5 bath $7,069 – Village Taxes: $474.60 This is my very first post on the blog and possibly my last for a while, I’m due to have our little girl any day now. Anyway, this is my report on 39 Totten Place. [...]
September 26, 2008 – 11:24 pm
I’ve been pretty unrestrained in my criticisms for MLSLI.Com in the past. One of the things I’ve constantly harped on is the design, which looks pretty much like it used to back in 1997 when I worked for the now defunct Long Island Savings Bank and used to do updates and tweaks on it. About [...]
September 26, 2008 – 3:39 pm
I know that I haven’t been updating the blog much recently. I’m sorry about that, but things have been busy here at HIB headquarters. I changed my nickname on the blog from Chuchundra to Gary. Chuchundra has been my internet alias for going on ten years now. I use it mainly for posting on political [...]
September 22, 2008 – 1:44 pm
From the NY Times: Dear Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Paulson: My student loans are too big and it is hurting the economy. Can I have a bailout, please? I need $92,000. Thanks. Nathan Kottke
September 16, 2008 – 7:33 am
We saw these open houses three weeks ago. These may be our last open houses for a while. I’m working this weekend coming up and the Tuesday after that is my wife’s official due date. Time flies when you’re having fun. There were 13 open houses Sunday, 8/24/2008 in Babylon Village. I often work on [...]
September 15, 2008 – 8:26 pm
From Newsday: The most recent act of vandalism at St. Joseph’s Church on Carll Avenue occurred sometime between 4 p.m. Saturday and 7:15 a.m. Sunday, police said Monday afternoon. This incident included “anti-religious phrases spray painted on church grounds,” according to a Suffolk police news release. Police did not say how many incidents have occurred [...]
September 13, 2008 – 11:33 pm
Here are the rest of the houses sold in Babylon in August 2008. This a followup to this post on home sales in the first half of August. There’s not a lot here that we’d have been particularly interested in. This makes a total of 11 homes sold in August. With 95 homes in MLS [...]
September 13, 2008 – 7:57 pm
From Newsday Frank Mundus, the legendary Montauk shark fisherman on whom the crusty Captain Quint character from the movie “Jaws” was said to be based, died in Honolulu after returning there a week ago from a shark fishing trip off Long Island, his wife said Saturday. He was 82. My wife spent her summers in [...]
September 11, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Who is freaking out here? Well, first of all, there’s me. The baby is due any day now and we’re still in out two bedroom apartment. On top of that, with foreclosures on the upswing, Fannie and Freddie in the dumper and a major recession looming, the thought that I might actually buy a house [...]