Mother Nature is winning the land war.
When the property was last sold in 1988, a large piece of land and another structure acted as a buffer between the home and the ocean.Real estate is in short supply on the exclusive Massachusetts vacation island of Nantucket — and according to an astonishing viral time-lapse video, the market’s about to get even tighter.
The 1,700 square foot summer palace, purchased in 1988 by Jean Carlin and Ben Gifford, is “about ready to go in” to the drink, now mere feet from the abode, theCompiled by the Current, the video uses aerial images of the 1,700-square-foot pad and surrounding area to show the dramatic changes to the shoreline.
Then, unexpectedly, a businessman and the decade-long owner of a neighboring property , Don Vaccaro, rang the couple offering to purchase the ill-fated pad. “We said ‘Whoa! We’re not going to say no’,” said Carlin, who subsequently sold the abode — which was assessed by the town this year to be worth $1.9 million — to Vaccaro for just $200,000.
“Basically, the house may not last more than six months,” Vaccaro told the Current. “Inevitably the ocean will win. The house is only temporary, everything in life is temporary.”The Dyson Airstrait changed the life and style of my hair — and it's $100 off on Amazon right now
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