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Would you pay $5 million for this house? Pics inside

Svnla

Svnla

Lifer
Let say you are rich, would you?

Specs of the house: The 15,000-square-foot “Mediterranean estate” (five beds, six baths) sits on 8.4 acres along Rush Creek, not far from Martin High (no relation). It features four bowling lanes, a 10-car garage, seven fireplaces, an immense pool (complete with spurting dolphin statues) and, of course, a full basketball court. The property’s assessed valued is $2.5 million (K-Mart reportedly bought it for $3 million in 2008), making the property taxes a whopping $63,000 a year.

Not a bad looking house and no weird/strange/odd things around.

Pics = http://www.dallasnews.com/entertain...dallas-high-school-nba-star-kenyon-martin.ece
 
A slightly smaller house in my area is currently on the market for 7.5million, that would be a bargain if it were here.
 
looks like a standard pro athlete house.

i wonder what the summer cooling costs are for a 15,000 sq ft home with vaulted ceilings...
 
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If it was worth $5 million and I wanted to live there, yes. I think the place looks awesome! 🙂

I also think white is his favorite color.
 
If I could easily transport it out of Dallas to somewhere I would actually want to live, then sure.

KT
 
sure it's nice, but even if i had the money, i wouldn't want something like this.

warren buffet (worth $87 billion) lives in a simple 5 bedroom house with his family.
the same house he has lived in for 40+ years. i really admire the guy. didn't let the money
ruin him.

too often, you see this athlete build this gigantic house, then they run out of money and sell it. i prefer something more modest and quite.

more land, and in the woods. there's no need to a bowling lane. want to go bowling? then go bowling. you won't go bowling everyday.

enjoy the land. better then seven fireplaces, a gigantic pool and a basketball court.
 
No, I wouldn't. Just from the pics that house has a cold, antiseptic feel to it. No personality. It's a house, not a home. I could never feel comfortable in there.
 
ForumMaster said:
sure it's nice, but even if i had the money, i wouldn't want something like this.

warren buffet (worth $87 billion) lives in a simple 5 bedroom house with his family.
the same house he has lived in for 40+ years. i really admire the guy. didn't let the money
ruin him.

too often, you see this athlete build this gigantic house, then they run out of money and sell it. i prefer something more modest and quite.

more land, and in the woods. there's no need to a bowling lane. want to go bowling? then go bowling. you won't go bowling everyday.

enjoy the land. better then seven fireplaces, a gigantic pool and a basketball court.
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I just wouldn't want a ridiculous house.
 
Considering what some athletes do to their houses, that's not too bad.

It still gets me, though, why houses of a certain size all need mroe bathrooms than bedrooms. Does a house really need six bathrooms?
 
Plain white walls and ceiling?
Carpet?
Dallas?

Ugh, no thanks. Even if I wanted a mansion, I would much rather have dark marble and wrought iron and wood paneling everywhere for that warm, opulent look. That mansion just looks like an oversized cookie-cutter suburban tract home.
 
Landlocked?

Ugh! Give me a home on the coast with a view of the ocean, massive waterfall pool/spa, indoor theater and 4-master bedrooms and I'd be set.

5K sq ft would be perfect if I had $50M net worth and the $4-8M it would cost to buy the place I dream of.

Texas would be fine - just put it on on the ocean with Hurricane shutters.
 
ForumMaster said:
warren buffet (worth $87 billion) lives in a simple 5 bedroom house with his family. the same house he has lived in for 40+ years. i really admire the guy. didn't let the money ruin him.
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There are other ways to be "ruined" by money. He could have a penchant for jetting-off to some foreign country where he enjoys eating braised and then delicately fried brown-skinned infants or some critically endangered species. Or underage women, or boys. Or using his money to crush people who just rub him the wrong way or refuse to defer to his greatness. Never know, can't judge a book by its cover.
 
ForumMaster said:
sure it's nice, but even if i had the money, i wouldn't want something like this.

warren buffet (worth $87 billion) lives in a simple 5 bedroom house with his family.
the same house he has lived in for 40+ years. i really admire the guy. didn't let the money
ruin him.

too often, you see this athlete build this gigantic house, then they run out of money and sell it. i prefer something more modest and quite.

more land, and in the woods. there's no need to a bowling lane. want to go bowling? then go bowling. you won't go bowling everyday.

enjoy the land. better then seven fireplaces, a gigantic pool and a basketball court.
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Agree. Also because having all that stuff you still need people to play with, so might as well go to public facilities (or private countryclub facilities, w/e).
 
Svnla said:
Let say you are rich, would you?

The property’s assessed valued is $2.5 million (K-Mart reportedly bought it for $3 million in 2008), making the property taxes a whopping $63,000 a year.
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Maybe. If property values in the area increased from the last assessment and were expected to increase then it might be a decent investment.
 
reminds me of an old joke --
Everything is bigger in Texas....

There once was a blind man who decided to visit Texas.

When he arrived on the plane,he felt the seats and said, "Wow, these seats are big!"

The person next to him answered,"Everything is big in Texas."

When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to visit a bar.
Upon arriving in the bar, he ordered a beer and got a mug placed between his hands. He exclaimed, "Wow these mugs are big!"

The bartender replied, "Everything is big in Texas."

After a couple of beers, the blind man asked the bartender where the bathroom was located. The bartender replied, "Second door to the right." The blind man headed for the bathroom, but accidentally tripped over and skipped the second door. Instead, he entered the third door, which lead to the swimming pool and fell into the pool by accident.

Scared to death, the blind man started shouting...

"Don't flush, don't flush!"
 
It looks nice, but it doesn't look very functional. I never understood these kind of houses. How are you supposed to live in them if you do anything besides entertain and watch tv?
 
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