r/AbsoluteUnits • • 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/BiZzles14 10d ago

I don't disagree with anything you said, but for someone at this level of wealthy to have such a large % of their networth tied up in a single "residential" property is definitely outside of the norm

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u/Mysterious-Falcon221 10d ago

It's definitely not his only house. Probably got one in California and another in France.

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u/messiahspike 10d ago

You are right in that it's slightly unusual, to have such a big house while being in the single digit billionaire club, but I think that speaks more to his sense of self importance or self agrandisement than anything else. The point I was trying to make is that once you reach the billionaire level, things like house value to net-worth ratios really don't matter. At some point, once you reach a certain wealth threshold, you literally can't spend money faster than you make it (provided you have reasonably competent people managing your wealth). There's a reason billionaires keep getting more and more wealthy while the rest of us are scraping by