Misleading Local Story on Blockshopper.com site

I really love the stlouis.blockshopper.com site since they write up little stories about recent home sales in the area. Unfortunately sometimes they make some errors. For example they reported on the sale of a brand new infill home in Brentwood, but list it with the details of the old house that stood there before it was demolished and rebuilt. They state the house is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1,400 square foot house built in 1961 when it is really a 3,500 square foot brand new Kingbridge home with 5 bedrooms, and 4 and 1/2 baths (new house pictured below). Did they really think a building materials executive would purchase a 50 year old 1,400 square foot home for $735,000? I did check both Google Maps and Bing Maps and both still have the old 2009 house sitting there, so I saved its old picture and added it to this post. Otherwise in a few years, people will forget the old house that used to sit there (much like our old house in Brentwood that was torn down by Kingbridge whose photo I have saved for posterity.) I also like how the Blockshopper folks placed a picture of the entrance to Brentwood Forest as the photo on that story. That house is fairly close to Brentwood Forest in proximity, but it is now several times larger and several times more expensive that any condominium you will find in the complex. It does not take a fancy online mortgage calculator to figure that out (yes, of course I must plug my own calculator site!) I was actually originally on the BlockShopper site to see if they had any news on the house for sale on our street which seems to have disappeared from the CBGundaker.com site. We saw a bunch of cars parked in front of it on Sunday night and wondered if something was going on with its sale. There is no change yet on the county revenue site, but that usually takes a while. Heck, we are still waiting for the lady to move in who bought the house diagonally across from us in the summer of 2009!

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