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Toby Radloff (tobyradloff)
Apr 25, 2013 3:58AM
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An example in Ohio is the mansion professional boxer Mike Tyson built in Southington, Ohio, in the heart of Amish country in Trumbull County.  That mansion ended up in foreclosure shortly afterward, after Tyson's boxing career went south after that ear-biting incident. 
oldschool 55
Apr 4, 2013 8:45AM
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This is a classic example of people getting rich and going nuts with it. It would be so nice if people would see that God has blessed them with wealth to be good stewards of it. How foolish it is to build an estate that you can not possibly maintain or even use all of it. There are people starving in this world and people are throwing money away on this foolishness. Outrageous!

ThePlainTruthNC
Mar 23, 2013 8:41AM
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I can understand having a house beyond what is needed for comfort because, they are usually located in better neighborhoods that are populated with people who have something invested in the continuity of a civilized society.   However, this is sheer arrogance. 
. . (Reckoning)
Mar 23, 2013 8:28AM
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If I get screwed, everybody  should get screwed---Pro democrat
bill0438
Mar 23, 2013 2:47AM
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I bet every one of them is a Republican. . . . .
Someone
Mar 23, 2013 2:24AM
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It sounds to me like many of these were strategic defaults, i.e., owners purposefully walking away and declaring bankruptcy of a shell LLC corp. while the rest of their assets are protected in a trust, separate corp., partnership, etc. What’s even more amazing is how many of these flops were the brainchild of so-called professional experts in the real estate industry. Now we all get to pay for the bad loans behind these white elephants via bank bailouts concocted by the creative minds of the Federal Reserve and Wall Street.

 

Heads they win, tails we all lose. The rich know how to stick it to us in more ways than we can possibly imagine. Thanks for bringing that to my attention again Forbes.

 

spygolf
Mar 23, 2013 1:31AM
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big is nice, but this is outrageous. What happened to classic elegant styles?

Isis Whispers
Mar 22, 2013 11:54PM
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The vanity of the human being astounds.

I design
Mar 19, 2013 9:03AM
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"Versailles" (slide 6) is not the biggest house in the US, that title goes to Biltmore (in Ashville NC) at 179000 s.f. + a 35000 s.f. stables.  Really how tough tough is it to put correct facts in articles
justredd66
Mar 19, 2013 8:59AM
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Incedible waste of people building shrines to themselves...vanity beyond belief.
Cumming GA Resident
Mar 19, 2013 8:48AM
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La Reve is in Cumming, GA, not Cummings.  It is only about 5 minutes from where we currently live.
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