New Yorkers love Trump
"Trump’s boyhood home is a modest Tudor-style house at 85-15 Wareham Place in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. It was built in 1940 by his father, Fred C. Trump, who was a real estate developer. The president lived there until he was about 4 years old, when his family relocated to a grander home just behind that five-bedroom, brick-and-stucco house.
The first house was swept up by speculative buyers attempting to cash in on the presidential connection. It had sold for $782,500 in 2008, but was bought by an investor for $1.4 million just before Trump's inauguration in 2017.
Three weeks later, the investor flipped it at auction for $2.14 million. The purchaser was anonymous, hidden behind a limited liability corporation called Trump Birth House. A person with knowledge of the deal at the time confirmed that a woman from China was the owner, but refused to reveal her name. Trump Birth House for a short time offered the home as an $815-a-night Airbnb rental. In the master bedroom, a plaque on the wall pointed out that this was where “President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived.”
Trump Birth House put the home up for auction in 2019, but it failed to sell. This month, Paramount Realty USA, which has represented it three times at auction, came up with a novel stunt: crowdfund the $3 million price and offer the house as a gift to the president.
“Love Trump?” the fundraiser, which kicked off Tuesday, read. “Thank President Trump by contributing to this campaign to buy his childhood home in his honor!” "
"Trump’s boyhood home is a modest Tudor-style house at 85-15 Wareham Place in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. It was built in 1940 by his father, Fred C. Trump, who was a real estate developer. The president lived there until he was about 4 years old, when his family relocated to a grander home just behind that five-bedroom, brick-and-stucco house.
The first house was swept up by speculative buyers attempting to cash in on the presidential connection. It had sold for $782,500 in 2008, but was bought by an investor for $1.4 million just before Trump's inauguration in 2017.
Three weeks later, the investor flipped it at auction for $2.14 million. The purchaser was anonymous, hidden behind a limited liability corporation called Trump Birth House. A person with knowledge of the deal at the time confirmed that a woman from China was the owner, but refused to reveal her name. Trump Birth House for a short time offered the home as an $815-a-night Airbnb rental. In the master bedroom, a plaque on the wall pointed out that this was where “President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived.”
Trump Birth House put the home up for auction in 2019, but it failed to sell. This month, Paramount Realty USA, which has represented it three times at auction, came up with a novel stunt: crowdfund the $3 million price and offer the house as a gift to the president.
“Love Trump?” the fundraiser, which kicked off Tuesday, read. “Thank President Trump by contributing to this campaign to buy his childhood home in his honor!” "
