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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
Most of us know he was a very successful self made individual and this is further proof of that. I’m glad that Katheryn will be well taken care of. https://www.wsj.com/articles/r...155-million-f5e9bd31 ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | ||
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Wow. By the main pic on the article, the place looks gorgeous. God bless America. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
From $3.9 million in 1998 to $155 million in 2023. I guess he did OK. By comparison, I paid 224K for my house in 1996, so about the same time frame, and couldn't even get twice that now. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Great house and location. Probably has some historic value if a nice brass sign proclaimed "Rush Slept Here." U.S. Army 11F4P Vietnam 69-70 NRA Life Member | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Some articles speculating it could be a planned tear down for new project. Those numbers boggle my simple mind. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Think about insuring the place. In Florida.  End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Yeah, that M14 video guy... |
It should be a museum. Owner, TonyBen, LLC, Type-07 FFL www.tonybenm14.com (Site under construction). e-mail: tonyben@tonybenm14.com | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I have a hard time understanding how that home and property, as beautiful and magnificent has it is, sold for $155 million. That seems completely outrageous. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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The amount of FU money held by tech billionaires is beyond comprehension. Larry Ellison bought the entire island of Lanai in Hawaii. Per the article on Rush's house Ellison paid a similar amount for an ultra-high-end property also in Palm Beach. Too much money chasing too few really desirable properties. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
That looks like a really nice house. I can tell of some of the littler buildings in the foreground are part of the estate or no. Seems like they would be since they are small as compared to the other houses that can be seen. Still, for 155 million I think I'd look elsewhere. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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I can't imagine the yearly property tax on that expensive of a house, especially in Florida. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else |
I remember Rush talking about how expensive it was to insure valuable property in FL and basically said that he selfed insured the property and that his break even point was something ridiculous like only 7 years. He said that many of the super wealthy do the same thing… ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Nice digs, but I could put 155 million to much better use...even if I had FU money. And if I did buy that place, I'd have to spend another 10-20 million to air condition the entire 2.7 acres. I don't know how you guys live down there. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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The estate spans a total of 2.7 acres, and has three homes: a main 16,600-square-foot mansion, a 2,900-square-foot house, and a 2,200-square-foot house. The homes have a combined 13 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. Over 7,000 per SQ ft? They must have thrown in the patio furniture  Collecting dust. | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
I’d be curious what was there when he bought it in 1998 for $3.9 million. It could have been an empty lot. | |||
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