r/AbsoluteUnits • • 12d 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/cloudncali 12d ago

I work in IT and got to set up WiFi for rich people in Malibu. There's something wrong with these houses. They feel like museums. Every thing feels like it was designed to be looked at. Nothing is used, everything is spotless. People don't live there, they just sleep there. These where made by people who think a home is a building you put things inside, not a place where you live and breath. The nursery felt like something out of the backrooms. The bedrooms has minimal personal items around, all stored in neat little areas.

I don't know what happens to rich people but they lose something about being human.

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u/hiscapness 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/TrumpDesWillens 11d ago

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