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06-18-2009, 03:31 PM
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Bill Gates Buys Historic Wyoming Ranch
Looks like you have a new neighbor.
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Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, has reportedly purchased Irma Lake Lodge, a famous Wyoming ranch once owned by William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
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Bill Gates Buys Historic Wyoming Ranch | Zillow Blog - Real Estate Analysis, Celebrity Real Estate, and Mortgages |
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06-18-2009, 04:03 PM
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Happy in Wyoming
I'm sorry to read this. I hope he doesn't raise home prices to astronomical levels.
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06-18-2009, 04:31 PM
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Well, he paid 8.9 million for the ranch, so...
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06-18-2009, 06:23 PM
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Less is more/more or less
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Good for him. We are supposed to pay him homage for all of his charitable donations, but if you and I had his money, we'd give some away too...for tax shelters...and wouldn't it be more of a donation, if no one knew he gave it?
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06-18-2009, 06:46 PM
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Bill Gates on the South Fork and Erik Prince on the North Fork: redoubts?
Prices are never going to be like Jackson's here because there is simply too much private land.  |
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06-19-2009, 01:54 AM
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Of course you have all noted that he paid only 60% of asking price, and probably below appraisal of the last owner...
Tho I'm anything but a MS-DOS type... (UX for me), you could have a lot worse neighbors (and you do, so do I).
I pay $1,000 / month property taxes for the benefit of living next to CA folks who got paid to move to WA and inflate our property values, then they were whining about having to move, so they got to keep their 'retained' CA wages (~ 30% more than ours), then all us locals got 'bumped' of the top of pay curve, now we are laid off and the CA weasels are milking the last buck out of the company.
life's not fair, on to the next chapter...same thing happened to me when I was forced from Colo in the early 80's... build the farm and barns and soils and fences, and get taxed out... Good riddance according to the cty gov. They just want the revenue, not the whiners.
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06-19-2009, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by StealthRabbit
Tho I'm anything but a MS-DOS type... (UX for me), you could have a lot worse neighbors (and you do, so do I).
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No, I don't. And even if they were, the nearest is 1/2 mile.  |
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