What would you do with a $12.3 million/17,000sqft house? Tear it down and build a new one?

[The Straight Story]

Tiger Woods' ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, has razed the $12.3 million estate she purchased after her divorce settlement from the 14-time major winner.

Nordegren obtained a permit to tear down the 17,000-square-foot home, located in the Seminole Landing development near North Palm Beach, and build a new one, according to the Palm Beach Post.

She is living in a nearby condominium while the work is being done.

The house that formerly occupied the plot was built in 1932 and had eight bathrooms and an elevator, The Golf Channel reported.

http://www.clickorlando.com/sports/Tiger-Woods-ex-destroys-12M-mansion/-/1636890/7654358/-/8b3bhoz/-/index.html

Ah, the lives of the 1%. Probably need more than 8 bedrooms and one elevator

[think]

1. Rumor has it that this was once a Tiger den...

[babylonsister]

2. Maybe sell it and give some $$ away to those less fortunate

(and there are a lot of people suffering in FL), be a bit less self-involved than she seems to be?

[madmax]

4. I'm with you, babylonsister.

Such a waste. She could have sold it and donated the money to charity. Hell hath no fury... but, this is just plain stupid.

[joeglow3]

19. Can you say: rush to judgement?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[GoCubsGo]

7. Hell, she didn't even have to give the money away.

I really can't understand why she didn't just jack the price up, based on the fact that it was the place where Tiger Wood's ex-wife beat him up with a golf club after finding out he cheated on her. There are people out there who would pay big bucks to own such a place. She could have just pocketed all that cash. She's not only self-absorbed, she's downright stupid. What does she have now? An empty lot, and she's out the cost of demolition, as well as the cost for a new place. That's a shitpile of money that she's spent for a tantrum. What a dumbass.

[global1]

10. I Don't Think That This House She Tore Down Was The One That She Lived In With Tiger......

Their house was in Windemere, Florida and this one is in the Palm Beach area. I'm beginning to think that she is bats*** crazy and am beginning to feel sorry for Tiger. Perhaps maybe she was the cause of Tiger wandering. Hmmm...... just a thought.

[onethatcares]

14. I think having that much money

will make people batshit crazy. Imagine the choices, eat well or eat well, be very comfortable or outlandishly comfortable, drive which 80K auto today? Jeeez, one could lose their mind just contemplating all of that.

[GoCubsGo]

16. I hate to say it, but...

I was also beginning to think the same regarding Tiger's wanderings.

I guess if I had read the whole thing better I would have known that wasn't the same property. Still, I can't understand why she bought the house in the first place. Why didn't she just buy some property and build on it? I guess if the price tag was mainly for the property, rather than the house, I could see tearing it down. Especially given the age of the place. It just seems rather sad to me.

[joeglow3]

20. This should clear it up

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[GoCubsGo]

23. Thank you. That makes much more sense.

I wish they had just said so up front, instead of making her look like kind of vindictive nutbag. In retrospect, I'm not surprised to hear about the termites, especially in a house that old. They are pretty bad in the Southeast and Florida, especially in the coastal areas, where those nasty Formosan termites are a big problem.

[joeglow3]

22. Maybe not

Hmmmm.......just a thought:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[asjr]

3. Are they sure it was not Mitt Romney?

[trumad]

5. Beautiful old house.

Such a shame

[Pisces]

6. She's putting people to work rebuilding her dream house.

[CJCRANE]

8. That's exactly what I would do

if I had more money than sense.

[MH1]

9. I don't really care what she does with her money, there are thousands of wealthy people who

spend their money in all kinds of whacky, frivolous, and sometimes harmful ways.

The mere existence of Las Vegas is testament.

This is at least the third thread I've seen on this woman knocking down this house. But I won't see it any more because after this post I'm going for the "trash" button. And same for any other threads on this subject.



:flush:

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. Chump change. A friend of mine who's a contractor told me about....

a guy that he was doing work for buying two 25 million dollar homes, side by side, on Long Island Sound. He was tearing them both down to build one 50 million dollar home. The funny thing is that his wife was trying to save all the brass fixtures so they were not just thrown away. He said he didn't care as long as it didn't affect his 50 million dollar budget for the new home. What a guy. That's 100 million he was spending.

[Left coast liberal]

12. Let them eat cake, the princess said. Bleh....

[TheWraith]

13. Actually, that quote is apocryphal.

No one ever ACTUALLY said that in a serious way.

I agree it's a waste, but just wanted to correct a historical myth.

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. very selfish - by any standards

[sylveste]

17. i don't get the outrage,

buildings are razed all the time. hell people line up to watch it sometimes

[joeglow3]

18. Anyone coming back to admit being an asshat rushing to judgement?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[MrCoffee]

21. Hell no! It's so much easier to jerk those knees.