West Windsor Township

Yep.

And Plainsboro guys, and the West Windsor guys, and you know, Dick, and all those guys.

Uh, they're good friends, you know.

And still keep up with them, you know, how many years later, right?

This is part two of The Misfit, The Crimes of John Smith.

In March of 1992, Detective Michael Dansbury of the West Windsor PD made a call.

West Windsor, New Jersey was where John Smith and his wife Fran had been living when Fran had gone missing.

Thanks to some detective work by Fran's sister and daughter, Dansbury now knew that Fran not only wasn't John's first wife, she wasn't the first wife who had gone missing.

In 1974, John's first wife, Janice Hartman, had disappeared in Ohio shortly after divorcing him.

Eh." And then they, they have to let him go.

Back home, John took a call from Sheila Sauder, his longtime girlfriend up in Connecticut.

Unknown to John, Sheila had agreed to work with the police, good for her, and a couple of detectives were sitting with her as she made the call, and the cops in West Windsor recorded John's side of the conversation.

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some of the key points from this article is a West Windsor, uh, which is in Mercer County, New Jer- New Jersey, the adjacent county to where we are sitting right now in-

Yeah

... northern Burlington County, New Jersey.

Um, but a West Windsor homeowner, Bradley King, converted his corner f- lot front yard into a native plant garden extending to the property's edge.

Uh, it was certified as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation with a sign to prove it.

Um, the conflict is that neighbors say the tall native meadow blocks sight lines at the intersection for pedestrians, cyclists.

I, I, I don't agree with that.

You have a lot going on.

And selling a home in Princeton, West Windsor, Montgomery, Central New Jersey is not as simple as putting in the MLS, right? It's just not that easy.

You have to have a timeline.

And the timeline can be very different depending on your price point.

supply and demand in the market.

However, it is not the be all end all, right? So again, the other thing to think about too is price point.

So right now in West Windsor, there's a lot of townhouses for sale.

In Montgomery, there's a lot of townhouses for sale because they're building new construction.

The market is inflating during those five years.

And so I always love to tell the story of Bob Toll from Toll Brothers, who had a project in West Windsor that took him, West Windsor, New Jersey, took him 10 years to get approved.

And years later, Bob would say that West Windsor did him this incredible favor because the market moved so much higher that the profits that they made from that project were so many multiples than what they would have made.

But that also means that a lot of people were then priced out of that particular project.

And that's a story that's repeated all over New Jersey and all over the country.

It's revenue positive.

And then, of course, is the other extreme, which is a very large home, which presumably is going to be occupied by at least a couple kids, if not more.

And you get into a specific example, I like to use West Windsor just because it's in our area, but it's the same story in any community that's not necessarily an urban community, but a suburban community.

I co-own and run the number one boutique real estate agency here in Central New Jersey.

And we've helped thousands of people buy and sell real estate, which has given me a front row seat to help you make smart decisions as to where to live in Princeton, West Windsor, and Montgomery.

So if you're thinking about moving here, you should listen to this before you make that decision.

So the first complaint, obviously, this is a big one.

So yeah, it's not the easiest commute in the world.

It does not have a direct train from Princeton to Manhattan or from Princeton to Philadelphia.

So in Princeton, if you're taking the train, you have to go either on the dinky, which is what we call our train to the West Windsor, And then from there, you have to take the Midtown direct to Manhattan, or perhaps you're going to get off downtown in Newark, take the path over to Wall Street.

So it's not a direct connect, and it is about an hour and a half commute each way.

And then it was full on soccer by the time I was 13, 14 years old.

But I played in my local rec team in West Windsor, New Jersey.

And then I moved on to PDA, Players Development Academy, in North Jersey, which is quite a well-recognized and reputable non-MLS academy, where I stayed for the last seven to eight years before going to college.

And while I was there, I was fortunate enough to also play high school soccer at the Pennington School.

Yeah, no, th- tha- thanks, Coach, I appreciate that.

Um, and obviously having the West Windsor, you know, uh, Plainsboro North crew there, uh, is super-

Sure

... meaningful for us.