Wave Maker: Those Pesky Details

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Those Pesky Details

They'll get you every time.

Eric McLaughlin is an enterprising and ambitious sort of fellow. But he's just got to control that impulsive streak.

McLaughlin paid $1.00 for a three story victorian mansion. The trick was, he had to move it from Chapaquoit Island, transport it up Buzzards Bayto Old Silver Beach, and move it from a barge onto land, then down Old Main Street and Winslow Road to his property in one of Falmouths "most storied neighborhoods."

Eric got the house moved, alright, all the way to Old Silver Beach, where it sits collecting a $75 per day bill for storage, while he fights with the neighbors about his plan to finish the journey. What's the problem?

Eh, trees. Big, old ones.

Eric is the Chairman of the local Conservation Commission. How embarrassing for him. He's been asked to resign.

He might also consider moving, with his house, somewhere else.

Object lesson in thinking through a project before you start it?

Posted by: Wave Maker / 11:09 AM/ |