Fumo Still Asking $6M For Fairmount Place

When Vince Fumo put his mansion in Fairmount on the market for $7 million — he’s since lowered the price to $6m — people wondered how he could only be paying $6,611 a year in property taxes. Or they wondered about it after patriotic American baseball player Brett Mandel complained about it. (And maybe Metro, too? I don’t remember.)

Anyway, somebody was told to look for Vince Fumo’s tax bill and, of course, the city apparently lost it. And, of course, all the renovations he did to his house were done in secret; he got a court order in 1995 to make the renovations to his mansion secret, the only such order ever given out. He got it because he supports abortion rights and was worried for his safety.

But not all is well in Fumo world. Let’s all laugh a little that Vince Fumo thought investing tons of money to build a mansion in Fairmount would work out:

In the interview, Fumo also complained that he had sunk too much money into the property, more than the neighborhood justified.

Ha ha, sucks to be you. If only you were smart and had bought in Wash West.

City tax board says it lost Fumo file [Inquirer]