$45 million dollar home for sale

16 years ago

Someone at an exercise message board I frequent wrote a post about this house--unbelievable! It's outside of Atlanta and listed at $45 million!

Here is a link that might be useful: Humphrey Estate

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dixiedo
16 years ago
If we all chipped in... LOL!!
moonshadow
16 years ago
lol dixiedo ;D
Nice place! (I got curious and googled the owner because the "About" description was vague to me. Apparently he's a motivational speaker. Must be really motivating!)
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msrose
16 years ago
OMG, there's no reason to ever leave the house. They have bowling, a movie theater, exercise room, massage room and even a little 50's diner.

Laurie
mitchdesj
16 years ago
I love it, all 90 acres of it.
graywings123
16 years ago
He's the king of high-fee insurance and investment combinations, sold Amway style.
les917
16 years ago
Love the stairway with the domed ceiling. Fun to have your own bowling alley, and DH would LOVE to have the golf room and golf course.

As I looked at the pix, tho, there wasn't much that felt like a home to me - what do two people do in a space like that on a day-to-day basis? Great for parties and business events, I am sure. I just can't imagine rattling around in there when the house is empty. Of course, with a staff of 16-20 people, I guess it is never really empty, eh?
perky_2
16 years ago
I googled the architect.

Not what I expected...

Here is a link that might be useful: askins architect
magnaverde
16 years ago
I'm with Les917: this doesn't look like a home--anybody's home--it has the impersonal look of a fancy resort, although not one I'd want to spend much time at. It's in a stylistic no-man's-land halfway between the homes of most of us on this board & a place like San Simeon. That is, it's without the warmth & casual friendliness of one & without the splendid richness & sense of history of the other. I guess $45 M doesn't go as far as it used to.

Even so, with that amount, you could buy several historically significant--and beautiful--estates with lots of rooms that offer various combinations of grandeur, elegance, warmth & comfort, few of which qualities I see here, and then only in some of the architectural details, not the way in which those details are applied to the gargantuan, soulless spaces, and certainly not in the decorating choices. Mostly what I see here is the evidence of too many evenings spent with a stack of old Architectural Digests. Oh, well. At least it kept a bunch of people gainfully employed.
texanjana
16 years ago
Incredible! I was wondering if he was related to the former VP, this website says he isn't. It also gives more info about the house, saying construction started in 2004 and took 3 years (so now they are downsizing)?

Here is a link that might be useful: How to Sell a $45 Million Home
amcofar
16 years ago
I noticed that the home's name translates to "The Dream." I certainly wouldn't mind enjoying a week or two there! I'd especially enjoy a massage in the "massage room." Alas, my massage room is currently being renovated. ; ) Amazing home!
User
16 years ago
Well, it's impressive, that's for sure. Even so, if I had $45 million to "spare", I'd still desire a sweet little cottage to call home. And I'd use the $$ to travel to beautiful, interesting places around the world!
wodka
16 years ago
I don't know, it's most likely that if they can afford this mansion, they probably can afford or already have a cottage or two, and have toured the world. Perhaps, that's why this "home" is for sale. To downsize and simplify their lives.

I enjoyed viewing every picture, even though not many would fit my lifestyle. Amco, I'm with you, as far as enjoying a massage! Heck, it would be a thrill for me just to walk through their gardens!
estreya
16 years ago
Well, it's shockingly grand, but beyond that, i really don't care much for it. Like other posters before me have said, it doesn't look like "home."

If i had that kind of money to spend, i'd want a far more modest home with immodest acreage in the San Juan islands or someplace. I'd want to overlook ocean, and mountains, and maybe even city lights across the water. Point being, if i had the money to spend on a place like that, i wouldn't buy a place like that. :)
deegw
16 years ago
It would be really hard to make a mammoth like that feel like "home". Most of the time when I look at places like this I think "lots of money, no taste". But I think in this case the deocrator did a pretty impressive job. It looks like a resort that I wouldn't mind visitng.
cooperbailey
16 years ago
Ohhh Igloooo! Look at this house. If you buy it we will come..... LOL Sue
igloochic
16 years ago
LMAO Sue, I did have to go look at it. I have to admit...I could live there :) (I'm a bit short of funds at the present moment though) :OP

I didn't think it was impersonal. I thought it was very tasefully dressed, and elegant. Exactly the feel I wanted for French House. (Our dream home in Duluth).

When you see pics like these they're often staged and don't include the family "things" you expect in a home. I'm sure they have walls of photo's and art somewhere...it's not cool enough for the website :) I did expect to see what dee described...lots of money, no taste so I was very suprised to see the opposite.

Honestly...I could live there. Mind you I couldn't afford to keep it heated or cooled, but I'd sure enjoy it in the spring (isn't that the only nice weather in the region?) and DH would kill for the golf.
skypathway
16 years ago
Wow, I could never live in a place like this, but I agree with Igloochic - it is elegant. Clearly it wasn't built as someone's private house - it's more of a swanky hotel designed to entertain his business associates. I wonder if the downsizing has to do with the problems in the mortgage and housing markets.

Sky
Ideefixe
16 years ago
Considering what a scam artist the owner is/was, I'd say it's a cursed property.

Here is a link that might be useful: Money Magazine on Hubert the Great.
brutuses
16 years ago
So that's what you do when you have too much money and don't want to put it to good use!! I liked the blue bedroom, that's about it.
dgmarie
16 years ago
ideefixe: thanks for that link. I read it all. What a scammer. Nice to see they've downsized to only 18,000 sq ft. I hope the new owner is a nicer person!
tetrazzini
16 years ago
Do these people have any taste? Do they know the first thing about anything? I doubt it. Their house looks like it was a generic "millionaire's special". They're the Clampetts in The Beverly Hillbillies. Lots of money and no clue about anything worthwhile to spend it on. This is the kind of thing that gives Americans a bad reputation abroad: classless billionaires making money in pyramid schemes and spending it all on themselves....

IMHO.
oceanna
16 years ago
It looks... lonely. It looks like you'd rattle in there. Cavernous. Cold.

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