I think the last buyer is out of luck.
I'm thinking about buying it and letting Rosie O' Donell moving in.
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Oh, if it would just disappear into a major sinkhole.
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I’ll buy it if it comes with a copy of Trumps tax records.
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- This guy's quote is icing on this LOL cake -
Might a member of the first family be tempted to buy?
“Trump likes to present that he buys low and sells high,” Mr. Smith said. An overture now would betray the art of the deal.
If I was Tom Steyer, I’d buy it and level it
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Tear it down.
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I would like to buy it and then turn it into an anti Trump museum. I'd call it the Museum of Lies, Racism, Sexism, Authoritarianism and Treason.
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Who in the world would want to buy a house that Trump lived in? Worst real estate venture ever, as bad any associated with Trump's name.
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What will sell that house is painting the entire interior white or off-white. That house is dark as a cave, and nobody likes that anymore.
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I’m sure they would have to disclose this.
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Having grown up nearby, I can tell people that the neighborhood actually has a sizable immigrant population (typically of Queens in general) and a mosque not too far away. Many of the immigrants here are pretty successful, hard workers who are achieving the ‘American dream’ of (single family detached) home ownership - a rarity in NYC. The neighborhood is better off than many others in Queens, but not hip and astronomically priced like some in Brooklyn. The Trump connection was long ago just a curious part of neighborhood lore (until he became an embarrassment). Please let this tenuous connection go. The tourists are a nuisance and not welcome in the neighborhood.
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What is wrong with NY? Apparently the property taxes on that house the year after it sold for $2.14 million were about the same as the property taxes on my home.
Mine is worth less than half that, and I am in what locals in VA call a high tax county.
How does NY fund their schools?
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@Lydia New York City has an extremely large commercial tax base.
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@Lydia
NYC itself also has a personal income tax.
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To prepare for sale this house requires an exorcism!
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I believe this property would be classified as “psychologically distressed.”
Tear it down and build new.
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If I had the money I'd bulldoze the thing and replace it with a garden.
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Hey hey hey hey now, lets show some respect for our presidency!
Dip it in gold.
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Build a steel cage around the entire house.
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I agree with Stan G. If I had the resources I would tear it down.
How about we all get together and pool our money to tear this dreadful house that a non human lived in.
It's not worth the money and yet it's also not worth the memory.
What to do?????
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If I had the resources, I'd buy it and tear it down...
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I am hoping Marianne Williamson purchases the house. If anyone can rid this property of Trump’s evil spirit, she can. She may not make it to the Oval Office, she can cleanse us after we’re rid of him.
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I'd pay good money to never hear about Donald Trump again.
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Set it on fire. I’ll bring marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers. Let’s party.
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Think of the karma!
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A secret benefactor should buy it and then gift it to a hard working immigrant family.
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@JCAZ This beats torching the place - what a perfect statement!!
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@JCAZ Preferably a family consisting of a Black father,Muslim mother,and a few Latino children of Mexican descent.......
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I wish someone would buy it and tear it down.
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The investors should just face facts: it's a looser. Even at the neighborhood price of 900K, it would be a disgusting place to live in. Bad bad vibes.
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“ The Stable Genius School Of Bankruptcy “.
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I found the website for the auction: https://www.prusa.com/auctions/trumps-childhood-home-2019/
Needs major renovation -- new bathrooms and kitchen to name two -- for 2.4 million it is not a bargain; to buy it because Trump once lived there -- ugh, what a waste of good money.
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Someone should do America a favor & purchase it & demolish it. After all it is just a childhood home & not the golden tower. At least it wouldn't become a shrine for his base to make pilgrimage.
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I'll pass.
It would take too much time to fumigate it.
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$9,587 in yearly property taxes for a 2k square foot home....simply madness.
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@Nature Voter
We are a blue state which means most of our money goes to red states like YOURS.
You're welcome.
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@Nature Voter
Actually, by Westchester standards, where a property in the $400,000's get taxed at around $14,000 to $14,000, I am baffled by how LOW they are for the area. NYC's boroughs actually are taxed at lower than surrounding counties.
I'd hate to be a neighbor -- it will only attract Trump lovers and Trump haters, and It would make me worry about safety issues.
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@Nature Voter — You must be new to the NYT Real Estate section. This figure is low compared to a lot of featured properties here.
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What, no Presidential library or historic landmark? I guess that's fitting as we're living in an age of no books and no sense of history.
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@Fritz Lauenstein He doesn't read daily briefs and such, remember. He has people give him a 5 minute verbal briefing. So this house would be the perfect size for his library.
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@Trailerman The BATHROOM in this house would be the perfect size for his library. And the most appropriate as well. Just duct-tape a cell phone next to the commode.
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WHY would anyone want to buy this house, unless they just like the house and want to live in it? "Trump birth house"....please!
He lived there for four years? Wow, I gotta have it. (rolling my eyes).
I could certainly agree with posters below who said to crowd source buying it, raze it and turn it into a small park.
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I think we should deal with this property the same we dealt with the corpse of Osama Bin Landen.
The house should be razed, the lot paved with 36" deep concrete, and a 14" razor wire fence built around the remains to be unusable and abandoned for all time. This will prevent it from becoming a shrine to the crazy trumpies out there.
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@etkindh 1
I can’t stand Trump, but that suggestion would just ruin a nice block in Queens. Just no.
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Someone convinced a foreign buyer to pay $2.1 mil for a house that's assessed around $900k? Mr. Trump could learn something from these real estate hustlers.
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I consider Trump's presidency a stain on American history, but ... might this not be an ideal location for the Trump library, once one needs to be established? Neighbors might disagree, but how many visitors does a presidential library have each day anyway. Plus it would provide recognition to the city that helped make him a Teflon(R) president.
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@DSL
I'm not sure what Trump library would contain: digital records of Twitter posts? We know he doesn't like to read.
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@DSL
We New Yorkers had no hand in the development of the mess Donald J. Trump. We can't stand him. Never could. Never will.
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@DSL
It would be too big. Plus I think Trump might be illiterate.
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I believe that fire departments are always on the lookout for properties they can burn down to practice rescue and fire suppression tactics. If this house were donated for this purpose, it would be the first time a Trump legacy could actually benefit society. Once burned to the ground we can convert the property into a nice little pocket park & playground.
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@Geoff Morris
I love this idea. "Burn it Down" has a nicer ring to it than "Lock Her Up".
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At the risk of hair-splitting, owing to 45’s severe case of arrested development, shouldn’t any of his residences be considered his “childhood home”?
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@Steve Griffith Perfect idea!
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#1 Tear it down and then #2 put up one (or more) of the following: a mosque, a homeless shelter, a women’s crisis center, or a refugee shelter.
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The best use: an undisclosed location, “ Safe House “ for Abused Women. THAT would be perfect.
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@Phyliss Dalmatian A “no fee”abortion center for immigrants.
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I’d pay not to live there.
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@Annie B
We're all paying. And will continue to pay for years to come.
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If it is now owned by some Chinese person maybe it can be taken from them and used to house some persecuted Uyghur refugees. If not maybe it can demolished and blamed on Hurricane Dorian.
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Exorcist included ???
Sad.
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Let's start a crowd-funded movement to buy and demolish Trump's childhood home!
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@AynRant Crowd fund to buy the house then sell five minute increments with a sledge hammer to knock it down.
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Potential future set location for "The Amityville Horror 2"
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There's gotta be a Democrat out there who's rich enough to buy it and then burn it to the ground.
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@Will
Why add to carbon emissions? Tear it down piece by piece.
Perhaps a community garden in its place.
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Toilets keep running until you jiggle the handles . Sounds like a former resident .
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Way overpriced for what could be a starter home for a family living in a rented apartment somewhere else in Queens. These detached houses on 40x100 lots offer small rooms and little privacy. For example the dining room window might look out onto the neighbor's driveway and side entrance. Still, it is not part of a large tract, but rather two or three dwellings that might have been built by Fred Trump, one for himself and one or two to sell. To live on such a nice street and yet be able to walk to the subway is a rarity in Queens.
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A beautiful property. Would be simply wonderful if a young immigrant couple with hopes and dreams could be the occupants - that's what made this country great.
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Oh, that I could buy it and GIVE it to a deserving family.
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Who picks which family is deserving? Do they have to be Democrats? Do they have to be citizens of the US?
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@Richard Wright
none of those...just deserving
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Jeff Bezos: Are you listening?
What a perfect opportunity to literally take Trump down a notch by buying the property and replacing it mosque.
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A great place for the Trump presidential library. It wouldn't even need any bookshelves, just a table to display the only book he ever read the cover of, "The Art of the Deal."
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@Christy
There will not be books in the Trump Library. it will be full of TV screens replaying "The Apprentice" as well as other moments of " I can do,. .. I know..., I am the best president ever! No other President has....'
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Is there evidence that Trump did in fact read The Art of the Deal cover to cover? Word on the street is, that he is no reader of the printed word. And it was ghost-written.....
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@Margaret Thompson At least one of Trump's ghostwriters who asked Trump to read through the book to check for errors was told "I don't have to read it. That's your job."
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It's being auctioned or listed at 3 times the rate of other comparables in the neighborhood. Definitely an investment loss to offset gains, as there is no value that Trump lived in this house once. He has done little in his miserable cheating life and now as President, this will be listed as the once home of one of the worst US Presidents in history. Like that will make an investor money.
As another post says - make it the Trump library. Since he writes and reads little, his administration's history will just be a series of Tweets. Don't need much space for that, oh, plus all the photos of himself shaking the hands of evil dictators and despots across the world.
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Make it the New York Ice House this winter.
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The house is nice enough, of a certain type, with its dark kitchen, in a pleasant neighborhood.
Perhaps it will finally be sold for what it's worth, probably 1.3 million, and the family who lives there can exorcise the bad vibes of both the Trump family and the speculators who have been turning it over for increasingly silly sums.
The house itself is not to blame for its former occupants or its subsequent owners.
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@B.
There isn't enough sage in the world to cleanse that house. Nor is there a shaman who could cleanse it. No, knock it down and remove any evidence that it ever stood.
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Someone with money to spare should buy it, attach a sign that says, “This is America,” and then each time Trump tweets, a brick is removed from the house.
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@Jeff Siegel... and each time he lies, two bricks are removed.
I think the president should buy it back and use it for his library with all the tweets lighting up and going around the house outside. The Trump Tower in NYC is probably better, but I'm waiting to see where his library will be built.
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@wilel Do presidents who are impeached still get a library? Who’s paying for that?
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@wilel
Trump's library will fit into a broom closet containing a projector showcasing his Tweets on a continuous loop.
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@wilel "...I'm waiting to see where his library will be built."
Given Trump's record on the environment, it should be built either in Flint, Michigan or right next door to the Love Canal.
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"In February, the owner listed the property w/ the brokerage Compass for $2.9 million, w/ staging that included a life-size cutout of Mr. Trump, and a framed sign in a bedroom that suggested the future president may have been conceived in the room." Can you believe it? Anyone/thing associated w/ Trump is where class goes to die.
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I’d like to pay 37 cents for it (that’s all I’m willing to spend) and then have the pleasure of razing it.
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@Bob Hawthorne Maybe we could crowdsource the purchase and then raze it to the ground.
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Can we hold you to personally accepting the high cost and many regulations of razing the home? If so put it in writing and go for it.
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Build a big, beautiful wall around it.
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@Jerry And make Mexico pay for it...
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It should be turned into a shelter for all former fired members of the Trump administration ( we would need that basement as a bedroom as the numbers keep growing). They can live there Big Brother style. It would be the ultimate in reality TV.
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No matter what happens in the 2020 election, one thing that will most likely happen is the end of the Trump empire.
His name is mud among progressives, upscale people, more wealthier people, educated people. These are the people that would stay at his golf resorts, hotels etc but hate the man.
The more fearful, lower middle class, uneducated white people who are his hard core followers would never stay at his properties.
Almost nobody who can afford this house will buy it because of Trump's reputation. I would contribute to a fund to raze it down just like it done when a House has a history of a horror story living in it.
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Sadly, I have the misfortune of knowing a lot of educated professionals, who despise him but support him because he's good for their bank accounts. Money talks and money walks.
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@Urban.Warrior-Thank you for your reply. I am sure you are right but the bulk of his hard core backers are less educated, less wealthy and easily frightened by advancements in society.
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If I had excess cash, I would buy this property and erect a beautiful fence on the perimeter.
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If your family Income is over $150,000 a year, Elizabeth Warren says that you are rich. You can afford it.
@Richard Wright, in the 1960's I dreamed to earn $200 per week, $10,200 each year and my financial future would be set. If my income today was $150,000+ and lived in NYC, I'd be eating ramen noodles and shopping at consignment stores. I'll stick to my enjoyable retirement in FL!
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I'm usually one of those people who opposes homes of this type (older, single family, in a historic neighborhood...) being sold for tearing down. I hate what the real estate industry is doing to my borough of Brooklyn.
For me, however, this is the one exception. It should be purchased for a dollar, razed to the ground, and a playground built on the site.
This will never happen, of course, but I can dream...
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@Andy Jo
It should be bought by a family who plans to live there and doesn't care who the previous residents were. Let's preserve the neighborhood as a neighborhood.
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@mirucha
Would like a philanthropist to buy the house and deed it to an immigrant family.
Would you be ok with that?
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@mirucha
As I noted, my personal fantasy for the house won't happen -- wouldn't happen.
It would be great if someone/some family were to "cleanse" the house by being a wholesome presence. I believe, however, that would not be a realistic expectation either. As long as it exists, there is a chance it will be a shrine to 45.
In my own fantasy, a playground is built. Is there any reason why a playground makes the area "not a neighborhood"? I should think that area children might enjoy playing there.
All that said -- and despite everyone's good ideas -- none of them are realistic. Someone will buy it who will make it an office or, if they resolve the violations, another AirBnB for the MAGA set.
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