Famous People in and around Huntsville? (Mobile, Lincoln: taxes, live, appraise)

[TimG]

I know its hard to believe, but for some the amount something costs is subjective, relative to their net worth. Think of it as a percentage. To us such a property reflects perhaps life times of work. To others, its less than a few percentage points of their net worth.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by TimG

I know its hard to believe, but for some the amount something costs is subjective, relative to their net worth. Think of it as a percentage. To us such a property reflects perhaps life times of work. To others, its less than a few percentage points of their net worth.

True.

It's also true that people don't get rich by spending $3M to build a fortress and then selling it for $1.2M because there is no market for $3M homes.

[Southlander]

I see the current appraised value is a little more than $3 million. They pay $11,000 in property taxes!
Heck I don't even want to think about the utility costs...glad it's not mine!!

[Sarges Dad]

Originally Posted by Keeper

He could sell it as a town.

Turn it into a Mall.

[TimG]

I for one don't think they lack brains just because they happen to have lots of money. I am also not too worried if they take a loss on an eventual sale. With more money comes more freedom; let them eat cake. (lol)

[DRvortec]

Originally Posted by Keeper

Really, how do you live in a house that big? I checked the name and didn't come up with anyone famous.. but maybe that is their real name not their stage name.

Lotto winners!

[financelife]

Originally Posted by Reactionary

Mike Durant lives in Madison - Blackhawk Down pilot shot down in Mogadishu, author of In the Company of Heroes, and local businessman.

Fred Berry - 'Rerun' from What's Happening, lived here.

Fasttrack cartoonist Bill Holbrook is from here.

Actress Tallulah Bankhead (Bankhead Parkway) is from here.

I used to hear about 'Steppenwolf' band member Larry Byrom living here.

Actress Kim Dickens (Deadwood, Hollow Man) went to Lee HS. The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is real...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales went to Randolph.

Are these people still living?

[Keeper]

If you click on the name, it will tell you more about the person. Tallulah Bankhead is not alive, she passed away back in the late 60s.

Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile was named after someone in her family

[Charles]

This is pretty incredible:

Roger Woodward (Niagara Falls)
This article is about the man that survived a plunge over the Horseshoe (Niagara) Falls. Roger Woodward (born in 1953) became famous at the age of seven when he survived a plunge over the Niagara Falls. On July 9 1960, he and his sister, seventeen-year-old Deanne Woodward, were taken on a boat ride in the upper Niagara River by a local man named Jim Honeycutt. The boat's motor failed and it capsized, sending its passengers into the water rapidly approaching the cataract. Honeycutt was swept over the Falls and died. His body was found four days later. Deanne was rescued from the water just metres from the brink of the Canadian Falls.

Roger, wearing only a life jacket, went over the Horseshoe Falls and miraculously survived. A Maid of the Mist boat lifted him out of the water downstream of the Falls. He suffered only a slight concussion. As of 2006, he remains the only person who has survived an unprotected drop over the Falls.

He lives today in Huntsville, Alabama.

from

http://en.allexperts.com/e/r/ro/roger_woodward_%28niagara_falls%29.htm (broken link)

[Southlander]

I see he's your neighbor, Charles.