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Old 05-25-2015, 05:54 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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LMAO! The house next door has drop ceilings and office style lighting....

What a crap hole!
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Old 05-28-2015, 09:01 PM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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What an ugly house...guess whoever was building it ran into financial problems? Over half of the inside looks unfinished. Any idea on square footage?
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Old 05-29-2015, 10:57 PM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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In a better part of Texas, it would be $50M as well.
No.
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Old 05-31-2015, 09:55 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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What an ugly house...guess whoever was building it ran into financial problems? Over half of the inside looks unfinished. Any idea on square footage?

Sigh. If you bothered to read the article which was linked in OP's post, you'd know it was 60,175 square feet. That'll be $58 per square foot. Seems cheap to me! But it ain't done yet!
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Old 06-01-2015, 10:22 AM
 
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Wow...if this was in California it would probably be going for around $50 Million!
Yep. And that's exactly why houses in certain areas of Texas that cost $200,000 a couple of years ago, for example, now cost $375,000 and are pricing most middle class Texans out of the housing market.

It's great if you are coming to Texas from California with $800,000 in cash that you made before you sold your overpriced Cali house that was the equivalent of the formerly $200,000 Texas house, but it sucks for the majority of us who are native to Texas and the South and now have to deal with California housing prices in Texas.
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Old 06-01-2015, 11:16 AM
 
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San Antonio has a low cost of living, and even we have 6-bedroom houses that go for more than $5 million. There is clearly a good reason why this house is so cheap.
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Old 06-03-2015, 11:47 AM
 
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It was never designed to be a house. I was ment to be an institution for old people and the sick. doesn't anyone do any research.
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Old 06-03-2015, 04:15 PM
 
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Wow...if this was in California it would probably be going for around $50 Million!

Abandoned behemoth with 46 bedrooms -- or 'more like 70' -- is for sale in Texas (where else?)
Meanwhile, Lakewood church in 2005 bought "Compaq Center" where the Houston Rockets used to play for $7.5 million from the city of Houston.
Even though just the piece of land might be worth that much.

Drive 1 mile North from Lakewood church to "River Oaks" and houses cost $300/sqft
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Old 06-03-2015, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Pacific 🌉 °N, 🌄°W
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It was never designed to be a house. I was ment to be an institution for old people and the sick. doesn't anyone do any research.
This is all I could find about it.

"What became of the house after after Dr. Watkins abandoned it and went on to build the halfling mansion next door isn't a matter of public record".

"The bank that owns both houses has had a feasibility study performed to determine whether or not they would be appropriate for group homes or assisted living facilities".
Inside Pearland's Mystery Mansion | Houston Press

The land those houses sit on is so barren and fugly!
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Old 06-03-2015, 06:07 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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I'll take it! Could prove to be a great host for hide and seek.
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