There's some speculation in the comments on this site that the American Battlefield Trust purchased it as part of an effort to preserve a historic battlefield location in Princeton. So they don't want to be destroying other historic stuff, I guess?
While currently located within the Princeton Public School district, the municipality where the house is moved will determine where students will attend public schools.
As if some people may assume the school zoning would follow the physical house where ever it gets relocated. It's one of those lines that gets added to the description because someone asked that question in the past.
I assume a rich asshole bought it, assuming he could demolish it, found out it is protected, and is now trying to pass the relocation costs on to some other rich asshole. I don’t even see how this place can be moved though, it looks like masonry on a slab.
At first I was thinking this is a great price for a historically important home in Princeton, and you can actually get land pretty cheap a little bit north in Hunterdon County, but jeez, what would it cost to relocate and update that house?!
I think there's a good chance that with proper structural bracing an Apache helicopter could be used to haul chunks of it to its new location yeah but you're looking at maybe a quarter million dollars, maybe a little less if you own the construction company that's moving it.
There is actually a Hoarder house flippers TV show on some streaming service. It’s pretty interesting if anyone is curious to see a house like this turned around. One place even had severe mold and they had it professional cleaned down to the studs.
I am legit curious to see what stage on hoard this was and the state of the inside of the house, any water damage, etc.
Yeah, I definitely agree. The hoarder house part of that show is the main thing that made it interesting, even if most of the flippers were annoying. Seeing the before and after state of a house after a long-term hoarder lived there was amazing.
Man the housing market has gone to shit. We paid $186,000 for our current house in 2017, it’s a 2 story in the suburbs. Zillow now says it’s worth $350K and this is what you get for $180K…
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