15-bedroom American mansion with a guitar-shaped driveway gone up for auction. starting bid of $0.00

[RKP5637]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3266162/Yours-little-1-Alabama-guitar-house-market-14m-just-year.html

Here you go, just in time for Christmas, etc.

The impressive 16-bathroom property includes a decadent foyer with ceiling murals and crystal chandeliers.

It also boasts a screening room with a 170-inch screen, theatre-style seating for 25 people and an authentic box-office, a commercial-grade elevator, a wine cellar with shelving for 2,000 bottles and a game room.

[Phentex]

1. "Too big for Mr. House"...

you can't make this stuff up!

[RKP5637]

5. LOL!!! I had to look at that one twice!!!

[pinboy3niner]

2. I've been looking for a modest hideaway and the price is right

But somehow I think I might not have the winning bid.

[RKP5637]

6. You would likely have to get a larger lawn mower! I stole that, it was in one of the comments!

[pinboy3niner]

20. If I get that place for my bid of 30 cents, I can afford a bigger mower!

[RKP5637]

22. Here you go!

[pinboy3niner]

23. Lord knows, a little exercise wouldn't hurt me

I'm in!

[RKP5637]

24. I'll buy the gas!

[mainer]

3. Made his money sucking up health care dollars

This is where all those healthcare dollars are going -- to businessmen who build houses like this.

Owner is "the former CEO of MedPartners, a firm that supplies staff to hospitals and medical centres"

[RKP5637]

7. Exactly! And some wonder why our healthcare costs are 2X other countries. It's a total ripoff. n/t

[hobbit709]

4. I'll offer $5.

[RKP5637]

9. Sounds good! Taxes might be a bit more! lol! n/t

[hollysmom]

28. This is alabama

taxes are low and so is the staff.

[RKP5637]

29. Good point. I'm OK with the taxes, then, but my $10 bid likely won't win the auction.

[Worried senior]

8. Even if I could afford

it, I wouldn't want it.

[RKP5637]

10. Yep!!! Same here!!! n/t

[LWolf]

11. I don't think I could keep up with the upkeep.

That's a hell of a lot of dusting and scrubbing.

That, and it's in Alabama.

I'll stay here in the PNW.

[RKP5637]

12. It would take a lot of vacuum cleaners to keep it clean, and the windows?

[LWolf]

13. When would I sleep?

Or go to work to make a living?

[RKP5637]

14. Cutting grass sure wouldn't bring in much. It's really opulent, isn't it, and no

wonder health care costs are so great.

[LiberalElite]

15. Not my taste

doesn't even begin to describe my reaction to this.

[RKP5637]

16. It's pretty gross in a country with so many in distress and run away capitalism. A fine example

of gaming the win/lose system of run away capitalism, garish and opulent.

[hunter]

17. Turn it into a prison for crooked CEO's, perhaps?

I'm sure we could build a big wall around it, watchtowers on the roof, and pack a few hundred in there.

[RKP5637]

18. Best idea yet. I bet he will continue to have a hard time selling it. To me, it's not a good

location.

[DFW]

19. Like the guy in the movie said:

But I still wouldn't live in it.

[RKP5637]

21. It's just sooooo huge. It's like a palace. It'll be interesting to see what happens at the auction.

I don't think he'll get anywhere near want he wants, but I've not studied that market much! LOL!

[DFW]

25. I knew a guy who built a place like that.

Not exactly the image of a stand-up guy, if you know what I mean. His little phony empire eventually finally came crashing down around him, but not before he had big fundraisers for local Republicans (of course). I heard the bank finally managed to sell his place for $5 million, or about a fifth of what it cost to build some 20 years ago. A guy who had been there told me that each of the 10 bedrooms had their own individual elevator to the ground floor (!!!!).

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Just the monthly upkeep must have been more than I make in a year.

[RKP5637]

32. I've had friends that built some amazing places, but they were on the ocean and the entire area

had a lot to offer. They were exceptionally wealthy, but not showy and were of old money, not out to impress, but had a nice place. I don't think I could even afford the electric bill for one day for these places.

[DFW]

34. That's the difference between people who are obsessed by money and those who aren't

This guy had a lot of street smarts but a huge chip on his shoulder and wanted everybody to know what he had. I had heard about his place but never saw it. When he got in trouble, it made the papers, and that's when I saw this photo of his place for the first time. I had heard it was over the top, but this still went beyond anything I had imagined. One guy, his wife and two kids living in a place to which the British royal family would probably consider their own residences as downsizing. You don't even need to get into the right and wrong of this--this was just sick.

[cantbeserious]

26. Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen

eom

[alarimer]

27. Why do rich people have such terrible taste?

This is like Versailles or something. It's just hideous. I expect it from dissolute monarchs, who may have genetic predisposition, but this is just vulgar.

[GoCubsGo]

30. Eeeeeeewwww!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had the means, I might buy it, gut it, renovate it, and turn it into a small hotel. But, I am flat broke, I am quite happy to see this abomination remain somebody else's problem.

[RKP5637]

31. You know what it reminds me of, the before shot of abandoned places like you see on You Tube.

Places that became abandoned for whatever reason, too expensive to maintain, no buyers, etc. It's going to be interesting to see if it sells at auction. It's a place that Mr. House built and will own forever or end up selling it for pennies on the dollar unless some institution or whatever/whomever picks it up. IMO, most people spending this kind of money would want a different location. It's so opulent and garish it's sickening.

[GoCubsGo]

33. Yeah, I had the same reaction.

It reminds me of some of the shots of the abandoned theaters and libraries in Detroit. Rush Dimbulb and that Trump kook also had places decorated like that.