The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when.
Erosion has marched right up to the concrete footings of the multimillion-dollar home where it overlooks the bay. Massive sliding doors that used to open onto a wide deck, complete with hot tub, are now barricaded by thin wooden slats that prevent anyone from stepping through and falling 25 feet to the beach below.
The owner knew it. He removed the deck and other parts of the house, including a small tower that held the primary bedroom, before stopping work and falling into a standoff with the town. He’s since sold the place to a salvage company, according to his attorney, that says it won’t pay for work.
Better question: When it crumbles into rubble, are the rich fucks that own it going to clean that shit up, or will that fall on the public’s shoulders?
The article says he sold it to a salvage company that wont pay to remove it, which leaves me confused; does the salvage company not want to remove it because they were told they would get paid for the labour but the rich guy wont pay? or that they bought it and now dont think its worth the price they paid to reclaim the materials?
Obviously that’s going to be the latter option.