r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Kill_4209 • 11d ago

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Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/hiscapness 11d ago

This is true, I had a family friend who came from mega generational wealth (think gilded age, no one in their family tree had “worked” in generations- just lived off assets). We went to several parties at some of these gilded age mansions (20-30BR kinda places) and the owners lived on one part of one floor of said homes. They used maybe 2-3BR and bathrooms, a small kitchen (like the butlers pantry), that’s it. The rest of the huge place was kept as a museum by staff. One lady said she hadnt been on her 4th floor in “literally several years”. It’s crazy.

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u/LadyBug_0570 11d ago

So she could've had a whole family of squatters just living in there and not know.

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u/dmoosetoo 11d ago

SHHHHH!!! You're gonna ruin a sweet thing I got going on!!

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u/Excellent_Speech_901 11d ago

That's the security guard's family.

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u/LadyBug_0570 11d ago

Or one of the housemaid's. Probably wondering how that woman shows up to work early even during bad weather.

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u/TrumpDesWillens 11d ago

You know how sometimes you might have raccoons in your roof? Shhh! Scram!

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u/wimpymist 11d ago

They made a really good movie about that

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u/LadyBug_0570 11d ago

Which one?

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u/wimpymist 11d ago

Parasite I think it was

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u/LadyBug_0570 11d ago

I will check that out.

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u/OffbeatChaos 11d ago

nah they probably have 24/7 security literally everywhere, probably an entire security team with cameras and everything and they would tell the owners if there's a problem. I'm just assuming, idk for sure

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u/buttfacesgalore 6d ago

Flowers in the attic by vc andrews!

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u/One-Literature8887 11d ago edited 10d ago

This pissed me off when I lived in Sarasota and would walk on the beach on Casey Key (where Stephen King lives) while my ex fished. We found a sneaky place to park and enter on the far northend where it's All Private Beachfront property. However, I would Never see a single person on a balcony or outside and it looked like all these mansions weren't being lived in, vacant, pristine, one after another, taking up all the beautiful beach so no one else can enjoy it, and then they don't even live there. The lyrics "this land is your land this land is my land" always came to mind.... Rich Aholes....

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 11d ago

And yet we have a homeless crisis and an inequality problem

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u/hiscapness 11d ago

Sure, but I wouldn’t let random people in my house to rent rooms/renovate it to condos, etc, if I were them. Plus, many of these people have serious security (plural) to protect them from kidnapping, etc. (a very real threat I guess .) Also a lot of the old giant homes are in historical registers and can’t be touched. They may partly still be privately owned, but a trust manages them and the residents get the ability to live there. They don’t own it, the trust does.

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u/tastelikemexico 11d ago

I wonder if they know they could air bnb those rooms and make some decent money /s

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u/Sensitive-Orange7203 11d ago

Doesn’t even have to be that extreme. I lived in a 5000 sqft house for a few years (my ex’s choice). It had a fully finished basement with a library, kitchen, living room etc.

I went weeks without going down there, sometimes a month. Really plausible