$5 million under-assessment hasn’t caught up
with him yet.
Apparently
three days a week at the office is just too much Wappingers for Dick to handle.
Mere months after taking office, his mansion is on the market for a cool 6.5million dollars. Dr. & Mrs. Dick snapped up the sweeping 15-acre estate on
the banks of the Hudson for a measly 1.5 million back in 2012 and he’s has
spent the past five years and several more millions turning it into a temple of
overindulgence and excess. His manor is tucked away behind an imposing stone
wall with 20-foot high remote-controlled gates to keep out the riffraff, and
among other pleasures includes a home theater and a nectarine orchard (where
Dick reportedly indulges in naked gardening).
Dick’s
sky-high asking price versus his assessment brings to mind his campaign pledge
to lower town assessments – despite the assessor being a separate and
independent office and it would be not merely unethical but outright illegal to
attempt to influence him. Over the last two years, many residents saw their
assessments rise 5 to 15 percent due to the recovering market, but guess whose
assessment didn’t budge? Parcel Access shows that Dick is sitting pretty with a
1.9 million assessment, in contrast to his neighbor’s 2.6 million, despite
being smaller, less lavish and lacking in basic fat cat amenities: no orchard,
no theater, no terraced gardens, no vineyard. It’s unclear how Dick managed
this, as whispers from town hall inform us that the assessor has little respect
for the Dicktor. The phrase “ignorant blowhard” might been used.
Dick isn’t draining the swamp, he’s
draining the town bank accounts. What favors were promised to keep that
assessment so low? Why is he so eager to cash in and vamoose? It’s apparent
that Dick is a carpet-bagger who never had any intention of settling in
Wappingers. For one thing, he has never changed his legal address: that’s still
his New York City penthouse condo on the 35th floor of 101 Warren Street
(currently valued at $20 million).
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