This lawsuit business has been going on since 2010. In two years you can take a lot of awkward elevator rides and it must have been pretty unbearable, because the Irish-dry-stout heiress tried to sell her apartment earlier this year — at an over $1 million loss. (She quietly delisted four months ago and futher details haven’t been made available.) The suit was finally settled, and fairly, it seems. Guinness won’t have to pay $1 million dollars for causing a filthy rich couple “emotional distress” on account of some bathroom flooding, and she will also not be legally barred from bathing — although she will have to pay damages. The exact sum will be established at a later hearing.
So the moral of the story is: owning real estate is a serious headache. Sometimes it’s lawsuits and tense encounters in the lobby and people trying to make it illegal for you to take a bath. I find the rental life far more satisfying: the tub’s way too creepy for baths to ever be an appealing possibility (no spillage issues), the only time I hear from my neighbor is when I hear him having sex through the walls (that kind of closeness “breeds compassion,” in the words of Lady Gaga), and I don’t even have a lobby. Or an elevator. Downgrade, ladies and gentlemen. Simplify your lives.
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[via NYPost]
