Dear Editor: I view with concern and alarm
State of the market
Brother Gideon writes,

I keep running into listing brokers who are getting "ridiculous" offers on their houses. Seems like people are trying to buy but Greenwich sellers aren't impressed.

All very possible - I don't know, obviously, what these offers were, and I'd advise you to run your potential offer past a good agent to see whether you've veered across the line from painful but acceptable into, "see you in Hell" land.

What I do know, however, is that I passed along some offers a few months ago that were scorned by sellers as beneath their dignity to reply and, today, those offers would look pretty good. So ....

Off to the open house tour. A quick look at the hot sheet seems to indicate that sellers still aren't getting it, but perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised. If so, you'll read about it here, first.