Comments on Chickaboomer: Joe Biden's Delaware "Compound"

Zillow.com says the house is valued at $1.36M

2008-10-03T17:03:00.000-04:00

Zillow.com says the house is valued at $1.36M

OK, looking at the car in the "parking lot" in fro...

2008-10-03T01:07:00.000-04:00

OK, looking at the car in the "parking lot" in front, we can call it 20 ft. long. Extrapolate that to the width of the house and it's roughly 80-100 ft. wide. Guesstimate 40-50 ft. deep and we get roughly 3200-5000 sq. ft. per floor, double that and it's 6400 to 10000 square feet, total.

That's on a 4+ acre parcel, with a pond (i'm sorry, but I can't call that a lake...) in a neighborhood of similar or larger "mansions" and a "carriage house" too???

I think we can safely say that Biden isn't in any way familiar with very many middle class issues.

OOPS....I just found out that Biden bought a LOT a...

2008-09-14T23:42:00.000-04:00

OOPS....I just found out that Biden bought a LOT and then built a house on it. Real sweet deal, too.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080906/NEWS02/809060343/1007

.....neighbor

Of course, assessed value is usually much less tha...

2008-09-14T23:19:00.000-04:00

Of course, assessed value is usually much less than the REAL value of a home. My house in Delaware is assessed at 25% of its true value.

I find it curious that the Bidens sold their previous home for $1.2 million (to an MBNA executive), a house that was much smaller and on a small lot. And then moved to an estate with 4 acres for which they paid $350,000 -- the same amount Keith Stoltz had paid 5 years earlier.

Something is fishy about that document that someone linked in their comment. It also says that the house was built AFTER he bought it! hahahaha

The document also shows 2007 property taxes to be about $11,000 yet he claimed $28,000 in property taxes on his 2007 tax return.

HMMMMMM

...neighbor

Why is Joe so big on his Pa. roots, he has been in...

2008-08-30T23:35:00.000-04:00

Why is Joe so big on his Pa. roots, he has been in Delaware for 50 plus year.

The inside square footage over 2800 I didn't have....

2008-08-24T16:35:00.000-04:00

The inside square footage over 2800 I didn't have. Thanks, Grandpa D!

Yeah, I went over this, too, Anon and Grandpa D. ...

2008-08-24T16:32:00.000-04:00

Yeah, I went over this, too, Anon and Grandpa D. Well into the night last night. I did Google Earth - there's one house.

I believe the 1800 sq. feet is the building outside... I'm not sure. Real estate and land transactions are not my forte.

Further digging shows two residences on that 1209 ...

2008-08-24T13:07:00.000-04:00

Further digging shows two residences on that 1209 Barley Mill Rd. property. The New Castle County website lists one with 6850 sq. ft. and a second with 1900 sq. ft. Read the minutia here. (Press the shift key as you click to get a new window.)

Agreed, anonymous. There's no way that this house...

2008-08-24T10:55:00.000-04:00

Agreed, anonymous. There's no way that this house is only 1803 square feet with an assessed value of 526K.

Ummm, the house is much larger than 1803 square fe...

2008-08-24T10:24:00.000-04:00

Ummm, the house is much larger than 1803 square feet and as far as owning only one house, Title can be held under different entities.