Some details of the Snowbama homestead .. more about the deal at link:
"Obama and his wife were already flush with success when they went house hunting last year. Their combined income--bolstered by payments for his best-selling autobiography and advances for future books--topped $1.67 million. His wife, Michelle, had recently been promoted to a $316,962-a-year position as vice president at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
House has 4 fireplaces
They were drawn to a 96-year-old Georgian revival home that has four fireplaces, glass-door bookcases fashioned from Honduran mahogany, and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar, according to real estate listings and an interview. The house and the adjoining yard--which is surveyed as a separate lot--are rimmed by 12-foot-tall evergreens.
In the past, the two lots had been sold as a single estate. But in 2005, the owners listed the two parcels for sale separately."
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Zoning changes .... ? I'll just bet that happened first, maybe with some 'persuasion.'
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The mansion of Snowbama's 20-year former, now retired 'pastor' and 'mentor,' Jeremiah Wright:
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"(William) Ayers, 63, ((MY NOTE: 60's Weathermen terrorist)) lives in a three-story brownstone with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a comrade in the Weathermen and fellow fugitive for most of the 1970s.
Ayers-Dohrn brownstone probably resemling these
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Christopher Dodd's 'other' home in East Haddam, CT, for which he received unusual terms, while claiming that this and his DC home were BOTH 'primary' residences:
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One more for good measure, the Feinstein mansion in San Francisco:
