Absolutely NO ONE Wants to Buy Trump's Childhood Home

[DinahMoeHum]

https://www.curbed.com/2020/12/trump-house-queens-nyc-for-sale.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Curbed%20-%20December%209%2C%202020&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20Curbed#comments

In a fittingly grifty real-estate move, the owners of Donald Trump’s first home in Queens have started a GoFundMe to allow MAGA fans to buy the house as a gift to their man as he leaves office. (Whether he does so voluntarily or not.) The sellers want $3 million, after which they’ll hand the keys to Trump so he can gold-plate it, or turn it into a petite presidential library full of torn-up-and-taped-together memos, or do whatever the hell else he wants with it. As of this afternoon, the campaign to raise that $3 million has taken in $125, which will perhaps cover the electric bill for a week or two.

The building has been bought twice during these grim four years, apparently by buyers who saw it as a potential growth asset. Not long before the inauguration in 2017, it went for $1.4 million, and it was auctioned within months to another buyer — said to be a Chinese investor — for $2.14 million. (Comparable houses nearby sell for considerably less than that.) It was offered at auction again last year and failed to sell, which perhaps explains why the owner’s trying this GoFundMe scheme. You could rent the house as an overpriced Airbnb for awhile, too. Hey, if Tricky Dick’s birthplace is a place to visit, why not Donald J. Trump’s?

Any real estate appraisers here? Your thoughts?

[mitch96]

1. Buy it, raze it to the ground and put up a BLM memorial.....nt

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Please start a GoFundMe account for that purpose.

[mitch96]

20. Be my guest, I'm just the idea man....;)

[FSogol]

2. Delcare it a Superfund site and label it with this:

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Not an appraiser, but to the best of my knowledge, there are two numbers for any property:

1) The real value, and

2) What Buyers are willing to spend.


Here's an example:

My family bought this house and property in Southampton, NY in 1969 for $60,000. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/93-Cold-Spring-Point-Rd-Southampton-NY-11968/32732715_zpid/
They sold it in 1982 for $250,000
It was sold again last year for just under $3 million.

Why? B/c the property is on the Great Peconic Bay. The house has been knocked down and a mega-beach house is being constructed.

[Miigwech]

4. POS idea for a POS house for a POS price for a POS. Makes perfect sense for this crowd.

[MoonRiver]

5. Looks kind of dinky.

From Mary's book I thought it was close to a mansion. But Fred was very miserly. Disclaimer, I am NOT a real estate appraiser.

[mercuryblues]

13. It isn't large by today's standard

It would have been considered large back then, especially to a child.

[smirkymonkey]

22. It's tiny!

I wonder if he's embarrassed by having people know that he spent the first four years of his life in such a humble abode. Not that anyone else should be, but you know how he is.

[mercuryblues]

24. It's 2,500 Square foot home with a detached 2 car garage

with 5 bedrooms and 4 baths.

It's no Biltmore, but it is a good sized home for the 1940's. Today it doesn't even qualify as a McMansion.

[smirkymonkey]

25. The rooms just seem very small to me.

And it looks very small from the outside. Very deceiving. I grew up in a house built in the 1830's and it was enormous compared to that.

[Mariana]

16. From Mary's book I thought it was close to a mansion.

Maybe it seemed that way to her at the time, compared to where she lived.

[MoonRiver]

18. Maybe, but she was an adult when she wrote the book.

I don't care one way or the other. Just surprised at the unimpressive nature of that house.

[Tanuki]

21. Different home. Per NYTimes, DJT only lived in this house until the age of 4.

The family then moved to a 23-room home in Jamaica Estates, Queens. Since his niece is much younger, that would have been the home she was familiar with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/nyregion/trump-house-queens.html

..."The seller’s hope is not necessarily for Mr. Trump to end up once again in 85-15 Wareham Place, where he lived until he was 4 years old, but to donate it to a charity of his choosing, or perhaps install a presidential library. Mr. Trump’s father, Fred C. Trump, a real estate developer, built the home in 1940."...

[BannonsLiver]

26. This is a different house

The other Queens house bought after FT’s real estate business took off is considerably larger.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I heard this story on my news radio station this morning

[Drunken Irishman]

8. It's a cute house.

[genxlib]

9. It's a scam

A scam being run by the real estate agent for himself and the current owner.

It is not worth $3 million. They are just trying to get rubes to contribute so that they can sell it way over the legitimate value.

Glad to see it isn't working.

[dalton99a]

10. Nice scam.

[mercuryblues]

11. The house is way over priced for the area

only a fool would buy it for that much.

There is a much larger house for sale on the same street.

85-40 Wareham Pl, Jamaica, NY
$1,325,000
6 bd
3 ba
3,072 sqft
Price cut: $70K (11/20)

85-36 Wareham Pl

$1,295,000
4 bd
4 ba
-- sqft
Price cut: $50K (10/27)
85-36 Wareham Pl, Jamaica, NY 11432

[gratuitous]

15. As we have seen these past four years

There seems to be a never-ending supply of fools willing to embarrass themselves for the greater glory of Trump.

[mercuryblues]

17. A fool and their money are soon parted.

[MineralMan]

12. That Is a Fugly House.

In my opinion, of course.

[fishwax]

14. the brick entryway plus chimney makes it look like it's giving the world the middle finger

which, I suppose, seems appropriate.

[DBoon]

19. Use it to house asylum seekers from Central America

They need a place to stay while their applications are being reviewed, and this is as good as any

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. What that place needs is an exorcist.....

much like Joe will need for our White House, along with fumigation and extermination services.

Some people are saying even the ghosts of the tRump clan are psychopaths......