TONIGHT on #FridayNightZillow!
*Georgia party mansion w/massive Chinese garden, chapel, 100s of fountains, 3,000 square foot bedroom and an epic backstory
*Bonkers concrete cowboy house
*5 historic homes sold as combo
+Much, much more...
Hope they put a smile on your face!
FIRST on #FridayNightZillow: a BONKERS mansion known for holding some of Georgia's biggest and craziest parties.
16,900 sf, 15 acres, $2.5M
Includes "the largest private Chinese Garden and the largest residential fountain system in the United States" zillow.com/homedetails/13…
The garden has *350* fountain heads, per an article in The Palm Beach Post on the lavish party the owners held for 300 when it was done. A fun read at the link: newspapers.com/clip/23432297/…
This is the Master Bedroom. It is 3,000 square feet. Larger than most *houses.* The ceiling!!! #FridayNightZillow
The WayBack Machine treats us to the Top 5 parties held at the mansion, "perhaps the most talked about residence in Middle Georgia." Click through for a fun read on the themed parties that sometime reached 1,000 people: web.archive.org/web/2017031719…#FridayNightZillow
Of course, the mansion also has it's very own chapel. Because, really, why not? #FridayNightZillow
Edwina Barnes was "the hostess with the mostest, the Perle Mesta of Macon" per Atlanta Journal Constitution in 1987. "I've never had a dull party, or one that ended on time."
"I wanted to make a statement, to bring some of Europe back to Macon" -husband Emmett #FridayNightZillow
Emmett died in 2008. A lot of people left nice words at this obituary page, including fond memories of the mansion and the Barnes family. Edwina has popped up in the news quite a bit as a major supporter of animal welfare. #FridayNightZillowlegacy.com/us/obituaries/…
Four years ago, the owner of the estate who had been rehabbing it sought permission to create a private club, but the local zoning commission denied his request; neighbors said they didn't want the alcohol and noise they remembered from the Barnes parties! macon.com/news/business/…
Apparently he got the fountains running for a garden tour in 2012 that was very well received, but judging from the pics, they aren't on now. (Just filling it with 112,000 gallons of water wouldn't be cheap!) #FridayNightZillowmacon.com/news/article30…
Make it make sense. Because I can't even begin to describe it. It's concrete. And more concrete. With cowboy stuff. And a giant pond. And... zillow.com/homedetails/30…
5BR, 5BA, nearly 12,550 sf of concrete madness. Exposed pipes, some taxidermy, horsey stuff. $5.95M
That is *A LOT* of riprap. I guess this is where you park your truck? #FridayNightZillow
My wife told me last night this house looks like a Bond villain lives there. #FridayNightZillow
Up next: Michigan madness!
*FIVE* historic copper-baron mansions in a combo package for just $3.5M. I say we each put in $100K 50 ways; we each get to stay whenever we'd like plus rental income.
The inn and surroundings are gorgeous. A lot nicer than some homes I see. The other houses are cool too and worth your click. #FridayNightZillow
Laurium has some history: "The Gipper" was born here.
It was a boom town in the 1890s and early 1900s, but it's lost population every decade for about 100 years, per Census data, with <2K living there now.
Oops. I read the listing again and it says it actually includes *8* properties, 40BR and 33BA! (Not sure why the Zillow stats are off?) #FridayNightZillow
Uh-oh.
"It served as Thomas Funeral Home from 1949 to 1979, owned by the undertaker Maynard R. Hurlburt, but this business was tragically terminated when Maynard killed his wife Jane and grandson Tommy before killing himself." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H.…#HauntedZillow
The only drawback I really see to these beautiful homes is they are a long, long, long way from population centers. It's a 9-hour drive to Detroit — DC is closer!
More than 5 hours north of Milwaukee. And so on. #FridayNightZillow
Up next, Washingtonian Hall, a 4BR, 3BA modernized 1799 home with >4800 sf. LOVE THIS! Overlooks the Susquehanna River in New York. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/37…
Maybe you are just looking for some cheap land. $40K gets you 4 acres and this sweet propane tank in Kentucky! We could set up a campground and all retire there. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/Bl…
I guess when you are spending $8+ million you can't just have normal bathrooms. #FridayNightZillow
You know I think master bedrooms like this are way too big, but I *will* give them props for proper TV placement. #FridayNightZillow
This $5.9M Florida waterfront home has a man-cave in the basement, complete with gun range, "No gun, No fun" sign, murals, TV, classic cars. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/11…
I've never seen so many party showers -- didn't even know the term, until I started looking at expensive mansions. They almost all above about $6M seem to have them these days. #FridayNightZillow
It's 2021 and we still haven't figured out how to stop robocall car warranty scams.
Like, SpaceX can land office-building-sized rockets on drone ships in the middle of the ocean, but the phone companies / FTC / Congress somehow can't figure out how to block / track down / put out of business these scammers?
I wonder if a 1-5 cents a call phone tax - replacing other per line phone taxes - would end this practice.
That in turn would be enough to buy a Tesla for most of the households in Utah. He could have been Oprah-like, but for an entire state. "You get a car and you get a car..."
Fwiw, Romney drives a nice Cadillac SUV and likes to drive it himself, unlike a lot of other senators who often get driven around.
Tesla drivers in Congress that I'm aware of:
Massie
AOC
I think Schiff?
Heinrich
Kelly
Carper
Trump literally walked out of the meeting where Pelosi and Schumer were offering him a $2T infrastructure deal because he was upset about other things. That was the end of his infrastructure deal.
There was that time right before the election when Trump was pitching more money than Pelosi for stimulus and McConnell was far, far below...and nothing happened until December.
Some of the ways wealthy people shield their wealth are going untouched in the BBB bill so far: Never-realized gains, depreciation of appreciating real estate, 1031 provision that allows selling real estate without realizing gains, stepped-up basis at death, etc.
World's richest person is running a Twitter poll today on whether he should decide to realize some gains and therefore pay some taxes, or continue to not realize those gains and not pay taxes (which is perfectly legal under our system).
"Realize" is kind of a figurative term here, because billionaires can realize those gains in other ways by pledging a small portion of their wealth as collateral for low-interest loans for walking around money or for capital to start new companies.
Let's break down the cost of the $550B Biden infrastructure combo platter bill in a way most anyone can understand. 1/
The $550B almost entirely gets appropriated over 5 years, though it takes a little longer for some of the money to actually leave federal coffers. But we are talking roughly $110B a year extra for five years. What does that mean? 2/
$110B a year is about 2% of the federal budget.
Maybe think of a 49-deck cruise ship and you added another deck, maybe.
A lot of money? YES.
A big deal. YES.
Changing the arc of the budget universe? Not really. 3/