[ChicagoConservative27]

Property taxes are around 130,000 a year... Lake county Illinois not cook.

[doorgunner69]

One shot makes it llok like a huge barn.

Who with that sort of money would want to live near ChitCongo?

A lot further south, maybe.

[crusty old prospector]

Soon to be filled with the south-of-the-border types.

[libh8er]

Is Lake County all that different from Crook County ?

[Jamestown1630]

I’m not surprised that it hasn’t sold. It looks very cold, and like some kind of institution, not a house or home.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

“He can’t sell it, Jim. He’s dead.” Dr. McCoy.

[Captain Peter Blood]

He can probably stand the laws, so just quit paying taxes and let it go to the county then write it off.

[PGR88]

Having a mansion in Illinois is like having a mansion in the former East Germany

[FLT-bird]

A. Who wants a house with a basketball court in the middle of it?

B. All that money and its not even on the water?

c. All the customized crap that appeals to nobody but him - meaning you’d need to sink a lot of money into the house renovating it after buying it.

d. I’ve always thought those opaque blocks in houses quite ugly.

e. I don’t even like the whole design of the place.

F. Its in Chicago.

Hell no. Do not want.

[EinNYC]

That is one UGLY house. It is soulless and cold. How could anyone feel at home there?

[FlyingEagle]

Ghastly is the word that comes to mind.

[Round Earther]

Mike’s architect real job must be designing elementary schools.

[ansel12]

He got 19 of his best years living in his dream house when he was the right age for it, so he got his money’s worth out of it.

[Persevero]

Very unattractive and concrete-y

[Billthedrill]

The Baghdad dining room table was the only interesting thing in it. 19 bathrooms? Okaaay...

This may explain something too:

Gail Lissner of Integra Realty Resources called the area "much more modest" than what Jordan's property suggests.

It ain't the hood but it ain't shoreside on Lake Michigan either. My old next-door neighbor's house has the same problem on a much more modest scale: built to some very specific - OK, weird - tastes and not lakeside. Originally listed for $2 mil. Went for $670K. And I think they still got ripped off.

[silent_jonny]

Jordan had the house — and the surrounding property — built from scratch to his personal tastes.

Wow.

Shawshank Prison looks more inviting.

[fso301]

1980's Miami Vice influenced design that ends up looking more like a commercial property rather than residential.

[Jonty30]

I like the idea of putting in a professional quality mini-golf course. That seems fun.

[Wuli]

I think the reasons are the Chicagp real estate market itself and that so much of the property is so heavily personalized that any potential buyer starts adding up what they will spemd in money and time to depersonalized the Michael Jordan identity off the property.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BTTT

[eyeamok]

Sounds like a great place to house 500 illegal aliens