(New York Post)
A $3 million home on Nantucket is being offered for free to the right buyer. There is a significant catch attached to the deal that makes the ‘free’ part complicated.
Someone is handing out a $3 million Nantucket home for free and the entire internet collectively lost its mind for about eleven seconds before reading the second paragraph.
I read it. I read the whole thing. And I want you to sit with this for a moment because it is genuinely one of the most Nantucket moves ever executed on American soil.
The catch is so perfectly, specifically Nantucket that I almost respect it. It’s like getting handed a golden ticket and being told the chocolate factory has a mandatory six-month residency requirement.
Here’s my thing. The second anyone puts the word “free” next to the words “$3 million” and “Nantucket” in the same sentence, you already know. You already KNOW. There is no version of this story where a regular human being just gets a mansion on the most aggressively expensive island on the Eastern Seaboard because someone felt generous. That has never happened. Not once.
Alas, half a million people shared this like they were putting in their two weeks notice.
The house is probably beautiful. The catch is probably a legal obligation that would make a real estate attorney physically ill. And somewhere on Nantucket right now, a man named Tad in a pink Vineyard Vines quarter-zip is explaining the situation to his wife Courtney over Sauvignon Blanc and they’re both nodding like no white trash will ever own a home on this island.
#WASPY
