Michele Bachmann’s housing crisis is resolved with a $1.27 million golf-course manor
Thursday, October 02, 2008 at 8:34 am
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Michele Bachmann's new digs
While Michele Bachmann has been busy blaming poor people and minorities for the Wall Street meltdown and housing foreclosures, she’s also been busy dealing with her own housing crisis: how to sell her toney Stillwater home and move into her new $1.27 million manor overlooking the 18th hole of Stoneridge Golf Course in West Lakeland Township.
Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, listed their 3,200-square-foot Stillwater home this summer at $359,000. It’s still for sale. Their palatial new digs on the golf course are considerably larger, at 5,200 square feet. Built in 2005 on 3.22 acres, it carried an original price tag of $1.75 million, but was listed for as low as $949,900 this summer. Its 2008 assessed value is $1,271,800, down from $1,290,500 in 2007. The Bachmanns’ purchase price is not known.
In 2007, it was featured as a “Dream Home” in the Parade of Homes tour.
“Casual elegance defined by deep rich colors and textures is presented in a European flavor throughout this four-bedroom walkout residence,” the listing read. “The stone exterior with a grand manor roof sets the stage for this dream home overlooking the 18th hole of the Stoneridge Golf Course.
“The arched stone entry is complimented with a western red cedar distressed door with iron highlights. Once inside the foyer, iron rails and hand scraped walnut plank flooring invites you into the gallery where arched openings lead to the magnificent main floor spaces.
”Both the formal dining adjacent to the foyer and a quaint breakfast bay overlook the golf course allowing for quality entertaining or a casual living atmosphere.”
Few amenities were spared: maple kitchen with granite and limestone countertops, powder room, wine cellar, bar, exercise room, resource room, four bathrooms, spa, fully paneled library with a see-through fireplace. And, of course, a three-car garage.
With all that space for “quality entertaining,” Bachmann may not have to go to Lake Minnetonka the next time George Bush or Dick Cheney come to town to raise money for her. She can have them out to her million-dollar country chateau on the back nine at Stoneridge instead.
Not bad for someone who’s never known anything but a government paycheck.
10 Comments
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 10:19 am
Wow, I never knew there was this much money in counseling troubled Christian youth, which is the Bachmanns’ primary source of income. I bet they can really fill the new place up with unwed mothers-to-be who are being deprogrammed to have children they don’t want and can’t care for. Think of the size of the foster care payments they can generate with this new crib. Just one more disturbing detail about the most deranged member of Congress.
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 10:20 am
In fact, I think Palin’s oldest daughter should move in with the Bachmanns. She and her baby will be safe there.
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 11:14 am
Perhaps Mz Bachmann can pitch in on the current Unemployment crisis by putting some of those defaulting poor people and minorities to work: who wouldn’t jump at the American Dream of tending to lawns and sweeping chimneys for off-the-books pittance!
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 11:26 am
It sure looks nicer than the one Obama bought for $1.65 Million.
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
But on par with Sarah Palin’s $1.2 million estate in Alaska: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_el_pr/palins_finances
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
This will explains the problem
http://papundits.blogspot.com/2008/09/burning-down-house-what-caused-our.html
Comment posted October 2, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
Can we be sure to send this to Keith Olbermann so she can make WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD AGAIN?
I am sure Keith and Rachel Maddow would be very interested in Marcus’s De-Gaying business and Bachmann’s connections to Oral Roberts U and fellow alum Ted Haggard?
Anybody know how to nominate? Just do it?
Comment posted October 13, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Oh god, more poor (read: anybody making under $100k/year) liberals whining about why they’re perpetually in the have-nots. yes, minorities did cause the housing bubble. Yes, your refusal to work a little harder, or get that advanced degree is what is causing the rest of you to stagnate in middle class purgatory, never moving forward. stop saying it’s unfair when rich people become rich through hard work. I’m sorry that Sen. Bachmann tried harder than you and doesn’t want to see her decades of hard work jeopardized by lazy halftards clamoring for more government assistance.
Comment posted October 23, 2008 @ 8:50 am
Say Michele, was wondering if you could come back on the show with me so we can talk about the housing bubble and if it is Anti-American. ;p
Thanks,
Chris
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