Posted on 05/13/2023 8:53:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Michael Jordan's enormous house in Chicago is still on the market after 10 years.
Jordan has tried to sweeten the pot by cutting the price nearly in half and throwing in a complete set of Air Jordans with the purchase of the house. And yet, it remains unsold and he pays more than $100,000 in annual property taxes.
The house was originally listed for $29 million and has every bell and whistle you can think of. Some "over-improvements" and the house's location are making it hard to sell the property.
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Too many stupid additions, personalizations and dumb designs to list.
One of the dumbest is the projection screen with a very large, non-dimmable window behind it and no shades.
Suck it, mj. Price of ego.
Simple solution:
Buy and designate the house as the Chicago Bears clubhouse. Attach a stadium for 50,000 fans. Name the stadium “I Still Own You,” with an Aaron Rodgers skybox for when he shows up to play.
Been on the market for 10 years and see why he can’t sell it.
Does it have fire insurance
After reading this thread all the way to post 102 ... Someone should ask ChatGPT “What to do with it?”
And set a limit of 100 words or less.
People with the kind of money to buy a house that price want their house to reflect their tastes, not somebody else’s taste.
And mostly they buy based on the location of the house, then tear it down, and build the house they want.
There’s really nothing special about the location of this particular house.
Same sentiments here. Looks like stale 1980’s design, which it is.
Doesn’t help it’s in Chicago - though maybe a drug Lord would snatch it up.
Looks like a sanitarium. Maybe someone could repurpose it for the insane.
You can’t fix ugly. What mega-millionaire wants to live in a dark, tacky, brutality dungeon?
*brutalist
(Good old autocorrect!)
He sure likes circles.
And remember how great it was when athletes were idolized for their talent and not for bashing America?
Skylights can be kind of a mess. They can leak, sun can shine down when you don’t want it, etc.
Everyone I’ve known who had one had a lot of problems with it.
(Of course, the people I’ve known weren’t in Jordan’s tax bracket, but I doubt a skylight anywhere is without problems.)
I was once enamored of Bucky Fuller type ‘Dome Homes’. Then I met some people who had actually lived in one...:-)
Dude, you were a CO for 25 years? Burned me out in a year. Mad respect/.
I put a skylight in a mobile home once and it never leaked!
Thanks, though I'm a 75 year old mother of two sons. Only worked in male prisons during my 25 year sentence.
Today I probably wouldn't last long since I wouldn't put up with the bullshit I'm sure goes on in the prisons today. Back when I started you were still allowed to do the job. It was starting to get bad before I retired. Glad I got out when I did.
Looks like it suffers from a problem common to custom built homes: the personal quirks and eccentricity of the person in was built for make it undesirable to others. This was built for a professional basketball player. Very few people want to live in a house built around a basketball court and most of the rest aren’t interested in spending that kind of money to radically rebuild the house before they can move in. Even then, they might be called the bad guy for ruining the Michael Jordan legacy of the property.
Jordan has money enough to take the hit.
From the stories I’ve heard, you were lucky.
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