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America's largest home nicknamed 'Versailles' is back from the brink [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| May 7, 2015
| Ashley Collman
Posted on 05/07/2015 7:04:37 AM PDT by C19fan
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The home owner is the owner of Westgate Timeshares. I got suckered into buying one. The most aggravating part is the association fees that runs to almost $900. For a week timeshare that is almost $130 a day. I could probably a comparable hotel for that amount and I am still paying off the original price of the timeshare. Sales reps keep on bothering me trying to get more money from me. What is pathetic is they have a check off box if you want to contribute to Mr. Segal's charity. I leave that blank. How about using some of your own money for the charity and cut back on the gaudy mansion.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:04:38 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Maybe I’m being silly here forgive me, but I thought that the Biltmore Estate, built by the Vanderbilt family and featured in the movie “Being There”, was the largest home in the United States?
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:12:51 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
To: OttawaFreeper
Technically the Biltmore now is a museum and not a residence. The Biltmore has over 150 K sq foot of living space.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:18:44 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Looks like a mosque minus the spires.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:19:07 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: OttawaFreeper
It is and was, at 179k.
I think they mean the largest actually in use.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:19:20 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: OttawaFreeper
Whatever the size of Biltmore (built by George Vanderbilt) it is no longer a home but only a house.
To: C19fan
What an embarrassing, bloated turd that “house” is!
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:21:18 AM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: demshateGod
As fake as the Marie Antoinette wanna be
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:26:35 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: all the best
The Biltmore is a beautiful, faithful rendering of french chateau-style architecture. This is an awful, EIFS McMansion that will fall apart about 2 years after the old con-man dies. His trophy wife will have to pay some newly minted Obamanation citizens to do a crappy patch job on the styrofoam facade.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:27:47 AM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: C19fan
One picture of the inside actually looks like the main hall of Saddam’s bombed out Victory over America palace.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:31:28 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: all the best
It’s not just a house , but a museum ,and a working orchard with a winery . The rose gardens are gorgeous . It provides jobs for the locals .
To: C19fan
Kind of ugly for my taste.
To: C19fan
Big isn’t the same as Good. It looks like something you’d see at Disney World. And just as fake.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:36:30 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: C19fan
'If I have my way, it's going to be bigger,' Jackie Siegel said in a recent interviewThe trophy wife (he was 65, she was 34) knows no end to her materialism.
The unfinished home sits on 10 acres of lakefront property and when completed will feature 11 kitchens, 30 bathrooms, 20-car garage, two-lane bowling alley, indoor rollerskating rink, three indoor pools, two outdoor pools, video arcade, ballroom, two-story movie theater modeled off the Paris Opera House, fitness center with 10,000-square-foot spa, yoga studios, 20,000-bottle wine cellar and an exotic fish aquarium... Two tennis courts, a baseball diamond and formal garden will be included on the grounds.
'I'm not at the ending to my story yet, but so far, it's a happy ending, and I'm really looking forward to starting the next chapter of my life and moving into my palace, finishing it and throwing lots of parties - anxious for the world to see it,' Mrs Siegel said.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:38:35 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: C19fan
He has a pretty daughter.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:40:07 AM PDT
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: Teacher317
Whoa... he has fathered five more children with her, since he turned 65... she had two previously, and he fathered 4 others previously.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:40:40 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Teacher317
Money can’t buy good taste and class.
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posted on
05/07/2015 7:58:10 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: C19fan
At his age he should be thinking “pyramid” not palace.
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:17:56 AM PDT
by
Moltke
To: Moltke
At his age he should be thinking pyramid not palace.No kidding, right? Thanks for the laugh. : ))
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:37:38 AM PDT
by
broken_clock
( Cruz back to the future!)
To: broken_clock
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:48:09 AM PDT
by
Moltke
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