Would you pay $1.2 million for this Pacific Palisades estate?
Same, girl, same
Hasn’t the NY Times taught the world repeatedly you should pretty much only hire Angelenos to cover LA?
Yesterday Patch wrote about this killer mansion in the Palisades and said it was going for $1.2 million. Immediately I put my baseball cards on eBay bc: WANT.
Sure it looks sterile, vanilla, and uninspired, but that Ye color palate will impress my new neighbors for sure, right?
Sadly, after doing some due diligence on Redfin, I saw that not only had the author missed an $11 million dollar digit digit somehow, but got the number of bathrooms wrong in the subhed.. and the square footage wrong too.
The reporter thought you could get a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home for $1.2 million? Does she even live here?
Of course not.
Not only that, but she also writes about “news” in Colorado.
I’m not here to shame an obviously overworked writer, but why would Patch put people at this sort of disadvantage?
It’s hard enough to cover your own town every day. Hell, some columnists struggle with a handful of pieces a month.
I’m relatively new to this, but isn’t price like the first thing you look for when you’re mansion shopping … after the size of the hot tub? Therefore shouldn’t that be the first thing you double check?
Also, three bathrooms?
I didn’t grow up in the lap of luxury, but even our humble home had three bedrooms and it sure didn’t look like this.
Which brings us back to the issue. When you hire people to cover places they don’t live in, and you either pay them by the post or by the number of cities they cover, they make unforced errors.
Worse, they make your publication look ridiculous.
Why do you think I stopped my subscription to the NY Times? Because they disrespected the city I love one time too many, and they don’t even have the excuse Patch does.
The Gray Lady has budget. They don’t hire Angelenos to cover LA because they think they’re owning us by trolling us in this way.
All of this has led me to feel more empty than this too-spacious kitchen whose island was recently smashed and grabbed.
