Vick Dogfighting Mansion Fails to Sell at Auction

Fox News ^ | December 16, 2007

[Ditter]

I am just trying to imagine what this guy Vick might choose in the way of interiors, wall covering, plumbing fixtures, tile etc. That stuff is expensive to redo. Think taking the house back to the studs and starting over. Even then it would always be the “Vick place”. No thanks.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I'm picturing the place modeled along the lines of Al Pacino's mansion in Scarface or something similarly gaudy.

[awelliott]

He is a little bit greedy I say.

And a lot stupid. He's actually using Vick as a marketing tool, i.e., the pet-friendly B&B idea, the flagpole with the Atlanta Falcons flag as the "finishing touch" before the auction.

[Ditter]

I wouldn’t want the house OR this real estate broker who bought it. He doesn’t seem to be terribly smart.

[Caipirabob]

Thanks!

[TheBattman]

No - he put $50K in it on top of his purchase price. He is in for around $500K. The offer would have been about a 50% profit... not too bad.

[SouthTexas]

The current owner watched too many “Flip that House” shows. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and sell for a loss. /s

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well said, post #16. A lot of these athletes go into professional sports and try to “keep it real” by hanging out with the losers they grew up with. If I would have made it big in sports, I would have promptly told my “friends” to get bent.

[varon]

The authorities should have seized the property, which was used in the commission of a crime. It’s done every day when cars are seized when the driver is engaged in soliciting prostitution , drug sales and various other crimes.

[MissEdie]

Or Elvis’ Graceland comes to mind.

[JerseyHighlander]

The real problem,

there is an unknown number of unmarked shallow graves containing very large dog corpses on the property.

Each spring during the muddy season those bones could pop up anywhere on the property.

And as Stephen King warned us, you don’t go building a home on top of a pet cemetery.

[The KG9 Kid]

Who the hell wants to live on the former site of Dogschwitz?

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The disgraced NFL star has lost millions in endorsement deals and will lose the final $71 million of his Falcons contract. He also might have to repay the team nearly $20 million

It boggles the mind how much entertainers get paid in this country. I wonder how much cancer researchers are paid?

[Darnright]

Here's a shot of the property:

The investor forgot the primary rule of real estate, "location, location, location". The home is in Surry county which is in the middle of nowhere. Vick is from there, and built there, but the place is pretty isolated.

[Ditter]

The style is not bad as McMansions go but it is difficult to tell what it is constructed of (wood siding painted white?). What does the inside look like? There is NO landscaping and while it may be in a remote area it is not secluded at the end of a winding scenic drive. 15 acres sounds like a lot of land if you are accustomed to living in the city but it really isn’t much to protect your home from somethings that a neighbor in the country might do on his land, hunt, raise hogs to mention a couple. All of the things that are missing would appeal to a person looking for a mansion in the country.

[maggief]

Another pic:

[razorback-bert]

Not too shabby for a $35,000 property as we were told at the beginning of this saga.

[RDTF]

he probably has to sell it to pay for all the fines