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    Crazy Times

    Swamplot sheds its anonymity to charge high-rise harassment: Rice prof filessuit against condo chief

    Sarah Rufca
    Aug 28, 2012 | 4:53 pm
    • Robinhood Condominiums at 2520 Robinhood
    • Swamplot.com

    The high-rise condominium tower 2520 Robinhood is no stranger to controversy. In addition to being known as the Houston home of acquitted non-murderer Robert Durst, the Rice Village high-rise has found itself embroiled in legal disputes with neighboring businesses Hans' Bier Haus and Hudson Lounge.

    But while those lawsuits allege plenty of bad behavior on the part of former Robinhood homeowners' association president Marc Thuesen, it's nothing compared to what the founders of real estate blog Swamplot allege that Thuesen, 2520 Robinhood and management company Creative Management put them through after the blog reported on the high-rise's legal issues.

    Swamplot founder Laurence Albert, an architect and Rice professor who posts under the pseudonym Gus Allen, and his wife, Beth Brinsdon, document allegations of increasingly erratic and threatening behavior by Thuesen beginning in April 2011. They're now seeking damages for malicious civil prosecution, defamation, threat of bodily injury, trespassing, stalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress and 13 other causes of action, in addition to applying for a temporary restraining order.

    Laurence Albert, an architect and Rice professor who posts under the pseudonym Gus Allen, and his wife, Beth Brinsdon, document allegations of increasingly erratic and threatening behavior.

    In 2011 Robinhood and Thuesen sued Swamplot over comments on the site that Albert says were third party and alleges were actually made by Thuesen himself with the goal of forcing Albert out of anonymity and into bankruptcy and to shut down the website. That suit was eventually withdrawn by the plaintiffs, but Albert and Brindson allege the harassment went much further.

    Thuesen allegedly created a Blogspot website to post defamatory (and gross) things while posing as Albert, labeling Swamplot "your source for real estate in houston and gay homosexual updates with young boys and cocaine." [Full disclosure: The same Blogspot account also targeted a former CultureMap staffer who covered the Robinhood lawsuits.]

    Posts and comments on the blogspot page included "child pornography and graphic accounts of bestiality" as well as allegations of criminal behavior and racist and anti-Semitic remarks. The lawsuit repeats only a selection of comments "due to their extreme and offensive nature," including:

    Tell this foreign Jew to leave Houston with his Swamplot.com trash. The Laurence Albert Jew takes his dirty real estate money and launders it through the [ ] synagogue located at [ ]. The evil filthy Swamplot.com never attacks Jewish owned real estate but relentlessly attacks Christian owned real estate."

    and

    "Albert and Beth lured a young pizza hut boy into their house and offered sex for pizza. Houston Police are investigating. They have Alberts bite marks around boys private area."

    If these are the comments that were fit to print I can't begin to imagine what was in the rest of the entries.

    More disturbingly the suit details explicit threats made against Albert and Brinsdon, with Thuesen allegedly taking his vendetta offline. Albert's suit charges that Thuesen trespassed into the couple's backyard, went through their mail and trash and harassed Swamplot employees and advertisers at their homes and places of work.

    It's hard to believe, but the craziness alleged in this lawsuit rivals the "50 Shades of Murder" response by hitman-hiring Michelle Gaiser earlier this year. What do you make of it?

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    HAUTE PROPERTIES

    Hill Country property rumored to have buried treasure hits market for $9.9M

    Brandon Watson
    Oct 31, 2025 | 3:30 pm
    Bullhead Mountain Ranch
    Photo courtesy of West and Swope Ranches
    A gate leads to the primary residence.

    There’s gold in them there hills — at least according to legend. A new $9.9 million ranch listing in the Hill Country community of Vance is rumored to include a trove of buried coins left behind from Spanish soldiers.

    Bullhead Mountain Ranch

    Photo courtesy of West and Swope Ranches

    A gate leads to the primary residence.

    Bullhead Mountain Ranch is rich with local lore. The land was once used as a popular campsite for conquistadores traveling through the region. Generations of Hill Country fortune seekers have tried to find the loot purportedly buried among the cliffs.

    Buried treasure or not, the main draw is the breathtaking land centered around Bullhead Creek, a sparkling, spring-fed stream that runs year-round on the property. The tract, located about two hours from San Antonio in western Real County, is a snapshot of the region’s grandeur with open pastures, shaded creek bottoms, and plenty of breathtaking vistas.

     Bullhead Mountain Ranch Fish from your own backyard.Photo courtesy of West and Swope Ranches

    Local real estate firm West and Swope Ranches is handling the sale of the 1,266-acre tract. The grounds include two main homes, a foreman’s house, guest quarters, and a full ranch infrastructure, including barns, sheds, and working pens. For anyone with Yellowstone aspirations, the ranch supports both livestock and abundant wildlife, including deer, wild turkeys, and hogs.

    The main lodge is just short of 4,900 square feet. The home offers plenty of room for a growing family with five bedrooms, a massive great room, and large outdoor living areas that make the most of the views of the valley below. The second stone home isn’t quite as large but carries the benefit of never having to share your home with visiting overnight guests.

    “Bullhead Mountain Ranch has all the pieces people are looking for — live water, good access, great improvements, and a setting that feels like classic Hill Country,” said Louie Swope, broker and owner of West and Swope Ranches, in a release. “It’s a place that works as both a family getaway and a working ranch, and those are getting harder to find.”

    More details on the property, including a video walkthrough, are available online.

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