are rich people just inherently stupid or does their money make them so....
Maybe they just don’t know their neighbors? Or they have a security system, but whoever knew the place would be empty might’ve also been able to turn the security system off. An 8M dollar mansion surely has one of those.
Sounds very suspicious to me. The house was up for sale?
It is not “stupid.” But it is “insulated.”
8 million dollar mansion is in a great neighborhood and they likely felt very secure living in their bubble.
House is up for sale and that makes me question why would any valuables be left out and visible?
And they didn’t or do not know their neighbors? Hard to believe in a community like that. Neighbor notifications, police notification etc. before leaving.
Other option that is getting very popular in my business niche is to hire house sitters. People who are background checked to come ‘live’ at your house while you are out of town. I rolled up on a client house a few years ago to a party taking place. I was there to care for the dog. Called the police and called the owner. Poor dog was his crate, pooped the create from stress, etc. Police cleared the house, here it was the son of the owner. The son was supposed to be with the mother for the 2 weeks.
Seaside is an unincorporated planned community in the Florida panhandle developed along “new urbanism” principles. Or, more bluntly, it is a wealthy settlement dominated by big vacation homes packed together on small lots with minimal yards — and the kind of place where neighbors are often absent or simply do not know each other and the new urbanist principle of putting high traffic commercial activity close to residential areas can made it hard to recognize suspicious conduct. Local miscreants no doubt see the area as a venue for fun, mischief, and profit at the expense of out of town rich people. A developer friend of mine refers to new urbanist projects as “slums of the future.”