Those looking for a head-start on Valentine’s Day now have the perfect gift option: a poorly constructed house! That’s right — for a limited time, Rysar Properties — the company that brought you a neighborhood full of publicly subsidized houses with slanted driveways and sinking steps — is offering discounted houses for that special someone.
On its website, the company touts the Rysar Giveback program. Apparently, this innovative method of giving back to the community involves . . . selling more houses. Write the company to nominate your friends and neighbors to receive special discounts on Rysar homes. Sign up now, and the house might last till next Christmas! — Lisa Rab
This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2007.
Cheap houses is right. Not just the driveways and steps, now it’s the basements that are sinking. Crappy houses and a crappy company.