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09-19-2019, 12:20 PM #1
Construction Question
This completely absurd property is for sale: https://chaseinternational.com/listi...89451/61668364
While it's slightly out of my budget, I'm curious as to how it got built. Mostly because it's perched on the side of a rocky hillside, and as far as I can tell, there aren't any roads that go to the house or the lower building (the boat house, or whatever it'd be called). So how does a house like that get built? Are all the materials dropped in with a heli? Brought in by boat? Aside from being absurdly expensive, that just seems impractical. Did they build an access road and then somehow reclaim it?
Here's the google maps view. No access roads that I can see: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2354.../data=!3m1!1e3
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09-19-2019, 12:26 PM #2Registered User
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Why have 4 car garage if no road?
Also prob boats, cranes, helis.....you can do some crazy shit when money is no problem.
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09-19-2019, 12:27 PM #3
Sure looks like there is an access road to the compound.
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09-19-2019, 12:35 PM #4Hucked to flat once
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Looks like the highway around the lake touches the property. I'm sure there was plenty of earth work to build it and plenty of landscaping to cover up the earth work. Maybe I'm missing something. I've seen that house from a boat. It's very impressive. I'm sure the owner's private parts are HUDGE.
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09-19-2019, 12:39 PM #5Registered User
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The driveway (and address) is right off of Highway 28.
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09-19-2019, 12:39 PM #6
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09-19-2019, 12:43 PM #7
So the main house was built in 1997, per the Chase listing. It's right on Highway 28, so no access issue.
If you go on Google Earth, and look at the satellite photo from April 2015, the lower house was under construction then. It appears that there is some kind of temporary dock structure in front of it. So looks like materials and equipment were primarily brought in by boat.
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09-19-2019, 12:50 PM #8
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09-19-2019, 12:51 PM #9
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09-19-2019, 12:52 PM #10Hucked to flat once
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Ah, I see what you're asking. Boat and crane.
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09-19-2019, 12:55 PM #11
There is some kinda realtors video of that place online.
Begs question, why do all that...and then NOT live in it????
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09-19-2019, 12:56 PM #12
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09-19-2019, 12:59 PM #13
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09-19-2019, 01:02 PM #14
You get your own tram...
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09-19-2019, 01:18 PM #15
It's been on the market for 807 days. I bet if you offered $74,000,000 you'd get it.
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09-19-2019, 01:20 PM #16
Ask the chat bot that pops up on the website?
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09-19-2019, 01:21 PM #17
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09-19-2019, 01:24 PM #18
That yellowish thing with linear black shadow coming off of it is a crane. Barge pulls up with material, slang it with that crane up to the house. Rinse repeat.
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09-19-2019, 01:25 PM #19
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09-19-2019, 01:34 PM #20
View from the road...
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09-19-2019, 02:44 PM #21
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09-19-2019, 03:43 PM #22Registered User
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Toast,
Just spoke w/my bank, and got pre-approved to pay the taxes for 1 year. 15-yr fixed is doable for me if I can crash there once in a while.
LMK if that helps w/your decision.
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09-19-2019, 04:25 PM #23
I'm in for $10k on the group buy. Those annual property taxes are gonna be a bitch, though.
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09-19-2019, 05:34 PM #24Funky But Chic
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I'm pretty amazed it's okay to barge construction materials across Lake Tahoe.
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09-19-2019, 06:12 PM #25
egad those people have terrible tastes in their textiles though
Let's spend tens of millions on an amazing home but let's use our old JCPenney bed spreads in every roomskid luxury
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