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by DanGPhoton 2034 days ago
This feels like guerilla marketing for a mystery movi
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Something does feel really strange about the article.

I couldn't be bothered to read the entire thing. Apparently you're expected to click NEXT every hundred words. But I did get this far:

According to reports, the mansion is owned by an unnamed wealthy property owner who regularly buys large mansions and leaves them to deteriorate. The owner has apparently purchased a number of lavish homes and left them all to rot.

That's strange. How about a link to the "reports".

I'd love to see the NYC tax records where they record ownership by "an unnamed wealthy property owner". The property tax on six acres in NYC is high enough that people who can afford that are smart enough to manage their money more prudently. But I suppose it could be money from Chinese or Russians moving their wealth overseas.

There's just enough strange phraseology that I'd venture that the article was written by a non-US person.