I posted on this house when it went pending a couple of weeks ago, but now it's closed and its sale price reported

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248 Round Hill Road, $11.4 million on an $1.9 million ask. A completely renovated home, it was listed in December ‘22 by its previous owner and sold to this builder the following June for $3.5. It was on the market for 136 days then, while this time it took only 107 days. Faster time on the market, with far a superior result.

Well, Elon, you CAN buy this one, and perhaps for even less. Call me – we'll talk.

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Somebody I’ve never heard of is preemptively refusing to sell his website to Elon — I’m more practical, and I think Elon will appreciate that.

Contracts reported

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180 Round Hill Road, $6.4 million asked. Long ago — 2005 —-the then owners of this property listed it for $5.250 million, and we agents came, shrugged, and moved on. The house was eventually sold via foreclosure to these owners in 2020 for $2 million. It’s been completely redone, and expanded from 3,268 sq. ft. to 5,920, and this time, the price seems reasonable.

9 Dorchester Lane, Riverside, $5.995 million.

(Okay, that’s a picture of the house that was on the land when it sold in June last year for $1.550. Its replacement is shown below.)

Insane, or simply retarded? (UPDATED)

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Hello? Can you hear me now? Hello?

Gavin Newsom proposes 'insane' move against Elon Musk as he attempts to defy Trump with electric car rebates that excludes Tesla

Gavin Newsom is plotting to defy Donald Trump while stiffing key MAGA ally Elon Musk, as California plans an electric vehicle rebate program that intentionally leaves out Tesla.

The California governor is planning to introduce a state tax rebate on purchasing electric cars if the Trump administration eliminates the federal tax cut. 

Newsom even bragged that his policies have made Tesla and Musk 'so damn successful.'

The new rebates could exclude Tesla and other automakers with a large market share in an effort to promote more competition, the governor's office said. But that is subject to negotiation with the state Legislature. 

Tesla holds 55% of California's EV market share, down from 64% a year ago. Hyundai and BMW are the next two biggest EV sellers in the state, at just 6.4% and 5.5%, respectively. 

Musk, whose company is the only one that actually manufactures EVs in the Golden State, clearly felt singled out and slammed Newsom's proposal.

'Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California! This is insane,' he wrote on X. 

A Musk fan posted a video to the social media site showing Newsom actually gloating about being responsible for Musk and Tesla's riches. 

'It's one of the reasons guys like Elon Musk and others have become so damn successful,' Newsom said in October. 'It's because we've set price signals, we've created markets, we've created opportunities for investments. We're the number one manufacturer for a reason. We continue to be the envy of the world.'

Noisome knows, or his handlers must have told him, that his threat is toothless beca8use (a) his bankrupt state can’t afford another government handout program; and (b) a thing called the United States Constitution stands in his way. No matter, he’s just shoring up his base, getting ready for his presidential drive in 2028, and needs to achieve no more than that.

Interesting that, for all the media’s shrieking about Trump being a threat to democracy, it’s their California matinee idol who keeps coming up with anti-democratic schemes to deny citizens their constitutional rights and freedoms. Like this assault on the First Amendment, for instance.

UPDATE: CALIFORNIA IS A THIRD-WORLD NATION — CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT, AND UNCONCERNED: They’re STILL Counting Votes, but Four Million Are Still Missing.

While I was out ...

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Five more sales were reported

  • 7 Cherry Blossom Road (Greenwich/Banksville border): $6.7 million achieved on a $6.895 listing price. Built in 2023, it took a while to find a buyer.

  • 25 Upper Cross Road, $4.250 million, it asked $5.875 million when it was listed in September 2021. The seller had paid $5.475 million for this 10-acre Conyers Farm building lot just three months before, so this abrupt changing of the mind was costly.