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Minor Deity |
Here's your house! It has everything! Even a pool suitable for a wealthy but doomed playboy! Dusty marble floors! A ballroom suitable for drinking bathtub gin! A beachfront gallery enclosed by many many-paned windows through which to view that d*mned green light as the boats are borne back ceaselessly into the past! We should pool our money and establish the WTF retirement commune here.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
That place has a lot of character. And what a view. Price history is very odd indeed.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
$20K in taxes on a $600K house? That's four times what one would pay here, and I thought our property taxes were high.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
A glorious wreck! It was ugly when it was built and subsequent remodels made it worse. And the property taxes! 
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
It sold for nearly $2 million at the end of 2017, then seemed to go back on the market for a whole bunch less. Wonder if someone carved off a piece of the property to build something and put the original house back on the market....
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
The taxes on that house are 2X what they’d be here, and tax here is roughly 3X what I paid in CA. One has to wonder what the local government is doing to justify that level of funding.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Where your taxes go in upstate NY and ... Yet more ... When I lived in Hamilton NY, the plows came through at Midnight, at 2:00, at 4:00 and again at 6:00 so the roads were clear for the morning. | |||
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| Minor Deity |
The lot to the east is vacant. Maybe it was carved off this one? I'd imagine that waterfront property is worth a good bit.
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Indeed! Yikes, all the work that would be needed to make the house livable... At what point does it become cheaper to tear down and start over? I'm thinking this house is close to that point. But what do I know. Separate from all of that, all my poking around on sites like Zillow means I get all kinds of ads pushed to me with old houses, Victorian houses, huge mansions. And then I get these emails "take the next step" on a 2.5 million dollar home.... Um, yeah... 
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
That’s not upstate New York, it’s downstate…Long Island’s north shore. They get snow, but it’s no comparison to upstate. So taxes are mostly going to other things. Much of Long Island is higher-than-average income and cost of living. Very wealthy enclaves include the “Gold Coast” (not far from Shoreham, where this house is) and of course the Hamptons on the far East End. This place is big, but it lacks the Versailles-like opulence of the mansions of the Gold Coast such as Glen Cove.
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
It's right on the water with what looks like a private beach, in a very tony area. The taxes are probably going up once the house is made livable. It looks like it went through a hurricane.
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Minor Deity |
The property history is interesting..been on and off the market for years..then someone buys it for big buck in 2019..hmm.. And this.."Seller makes no guarantees about property's condition, room count or other physical characteristics nor does seller guarantee accuracy whether property is on public sewer or private septic.  Given it is waterfront, thinking that might be a problem...
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
In another lifetime, we lived in Little Neck, and had a friend who lived in Great Neck. Met her through Gymboree; we had kiddos the same age. They lived above the carriage house (who has a carriage house?) on her in-laws’s estate in Great Neck. Even living over the carriage house, it was much grander than living in a little semi-detached row house in Little Neck. The house in the original post isn’t grand enough. I want BRICK!
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana |
It will probably be bought as a teardown. If I lived closer I'd be keeping an eye out to salvage one of those bathtubs.
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