America's most expensive home ..

[SacDuc]

Just to give people some clue as to what a house like this entails. I worked on a house that was 12000 sqft + garage with two out buildings at 1000 sqft each. 5.5 acres, half of which was landscaped. Pool, home theater, 9 fireplaces, etc. Build cost of around $18M total.

The up keep on this home was over $1,000,000 per year including insurance but not including the maid or the wife's personal assistant. Picture $400k in insurance annually, a $3k monthly electric bill, $4k monthly water bill, several full time gardeners, pool service, koi pond service, spa service, security monitoring, private fire protection, etc. And I have no idea what the taxes were on this joint.

This was a slightly above average home for the neighborhood.

sac



/and this house had no privacy what so ever
//for 18 mil I'm pretty much gonna be naked most of the time

[SacDuc]

The 20-car garage would rule.  

My house is roughly 2,500 sq ft and is too large to use realistically. There are a couple of rooms that I rarely am in, which is weird to me. I've got a double attached for the drivers, and my shop is 1,000 sq ft, which are adequate.

My dream property consists of about five acres just off blacktop, rural (i.e. no neighbors within a half mile), surrounded by trees (or a moat), with living quarters of about 1,500 sq ft and indoor room for 8-10 cars in various states of disassembly.

Will you marry me?

sac

[lethe]

I'd ideally have thousands of acres, a little but nice home and a sprawling garage/shop that takes up the entire interior of a mountain.

[muskrat]

I'd ideally have thousands of acres, a little but nice home and a sprawling garage/shop that takes up the entire interior of a mountain.

that makes two of us with a 10,000 square foot garage for the toys and a track behind the house.  Oh, I'd need a few Playmates to clean the toys after each use.....me included. 

[Speedbag]

Will you marry me?

sac

Sure. 

[Grampa]

Just to give people some clue as to what a house like this entails. I worked on a house that was 12000 sqft + garage with two out buildings at 1000 sqft each. 5.5 acres, half of which was landscaped. Pool, home theater, 9 fireplaces, etc. Build cost of around $18M total.

The up keep on this home was over $1,000,000 per year including insurance but not including the maid or the wife's personal assistant. Picture $400k in insurance annually, a $3k monthly electric bill, $4k monthly water bill, several full time gardeners, pool service, koi pond service, spa service, security monitoring, private fire protection, etc. And I have no idea what the taxes were on this joint.

This was a slightly above average home for the neighborhood.

sac



/and this house had no privacy what so ever
//for 18 mil I'm pretty much gonna be naked most of the time

How is Al Gore these days

[herm]

for that kind of money you could buy a small third world country and set your line up as king/dictator for life, with rights of inheritance.

[herm]

I'd ideally have thousands of acres, a little but nice home and a sprawling garage/shop that takes up the entire interior of a mountain.

you can still find property for sale in the middle of many national forests..

[Howie]

for that kind of money you could buy a small third world country and set your line up as king/dictator for life, with rights of inheritance.

You could, but you would not be living in Bel Air and commuting to work would be a pregnant dog.  I'm sure the value of the land that house is built on is incredible.  I know people in Manhattan that have a 14 room apartment.  Value?  Around 7 Million.  It's Manhattan.

[MendoDave]

My calcs are a bit skewed. That 48,000sqft doesn't really cover 1.1 acres. It would of course be piled onto 2 or 3 floors. But still, that is too much house on not enough land.

Wait until Oprah's estate in Montecito goes up for sale. That one is going to break some records.

sac

Still its more land than say something like this.



http://luxurysfcondos.com/fourseasons/

[DoubleEagle]

Wasn't Aaron Spelling's place for sale for close to $100,000,000 ?

Dolph     

[cyrus buelton]

Whoa


surrounded by a 36ft high wall??


good lord



Now that is what I call a privacy fence

[lethe]

but no moat? WTF

[cyrus buelton]

but no moat? WTF

that's what I was thinking.

If I had that kind of coin, my moat would be full of crocodiles, but then again, it'd have to be salt water (or are there fresh water crocs?).

I'd have a sweet drawbridge as my entrance as well.



Do you realize the wall surrounding this house is, on average depending on what section of the Great Wall of China we are discussing, 10 feet taller???


obviously it isn't as wide.........but it is clearly taller.


What is this guy trying to keep out?

[Popeye the Sailor]

What is this guy trying to keep out?

Everyone and everything.