Posted on 09/26/2007 2:17:24 PM PDT by Dubya
Gov. Rick Perry and wife, Anita, will move out of the 150-year-old Gov.'s Mansion next month and into a three-story, limestone home with four bedrooms, a heated pool and an outdoor cabana.
The state will pony up $9,900-a.m.onth in rent for at least a year while the Gov.'s Mansion undergoes renovations starting next month. The 6,386 square foot home in a posh west Austin neighborhood has been listed on the market for more than a year, with the most recent asking price $1.85 million.
The home with "luxurious Texas styling" sits on 3.25 acres and has pecan hardwood floors, a gourmet kitchen with marble countertops and another kitchen outside by the pool. It includes a subzero refrigerator, a balcony and a third-story attic converted to a game room. A separate guest house will be used as staff quarters.
All four bedrooms in the home are upstairs, a feature Perry liked, said spokesman Robert Black. The upstairs bedrooms give the family "a level of privacy" while hosting guests, he said.
The Perrys will move into the house by the first part of October, Black said.
Rent for the new residence is part of the estimated $10 million in renovation costs. Perry is required by law to live in Austin while governor.
The Gov.'s Mansion, a designated National Historic Landmark, is set for a facelift starting this fall. In addition to new plumbing, the project will include lead and asbestos abatement and an effort to preserve some of the historic pine wood used around the windows.
The new home is surrounded by a wrought iron fence within a gated community, another feature that appealed to Perry, Black said.
"Security was one of the driving factors," he said. "Being able to use it for the functions one might expect of the first family of Texas and all of the logistics that go with that."
The home is being leased from Murell Campbell through his daughter and son-in-law, Melinda and Guy Grace. Grace has contributed $2,500 a year to Perry's campaign every year since 2005, but Black said Perry has not met Grace.
The county tax office appraised the value of the home at $1.004 million.
After I posted, I realized that you probably meant something along those lines.
My first reaction was the Mexico connection.
Bump.
[Hey maybe someone can “condemn” the property for the NAFTA Superhighway....]
That’s what it’s all about! Cities, farmers, and ranchers are up in arms because it will go right through their property.
Dividing farms and ranches with no easy access to the other ‘side’.
These people WILL be paid for property but that isn’t pleasing when it cuts your land in half.
LOL!!! Make sure there's a Toll-Tag section, so as to speed entrance for all lobbyists.
Or a parking lot for the trucks from Mexico while they are waiting to unload.
Yes they do, but that doesn’t bother me so much as the way they have come to behave like royalty, with an air of contempt for we who elect them. There’s an ostentatious way about them these days that just grates on me.
I'm sure he'd see to it that his double-wide was on Rim Rd., in East Ridge or Coronado Hills.
Eminent Domain the property for the TTC.
Good for that landlord. My guess is a third of that $9,000/month is Texas property taxes.
This makes just about everyone in the state of Texas sick....to include El Pasoans.
Corporation supposedly owned by the Saudis and ben laden family, you do know where the King of Saudi Arabia spent the last years of his life.
[Corporation supposedly owned by the Saudis and ben laden family,]
I did not know that! Very interesting.
Not understood. If you are saying county property taxes are county assessments, you are right. However, it is the State Constitution that permits these taxes to be collected by the counties. The same goes for this County's property tax on automobiles newer than ten years.
You said TX was getting half of the rent. Not true.
The tax payers of TX are paying through the nose for our BIG SHOT GOV.
I have no idea what yu are saying. If I knew I would try to answer you.
LOL Chicken Ranch employee.
I'm not aware of ANY CEO who has the cost of their residence provided by the company they work for. I'd expect that whatever the state has provided for our moron gov. in the past in the way of housing has to have been reflected in his tax return. This should be income.
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