Mel Gibson's New House

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, the LA Times reported that Mel Gibson just dropped $24 Million on a Malibu beach house.

I guess $24 Million isn’t what it used to be. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful house, but for $24MM I’d expect a smallish country! (It’s on Broad Beach, which is also home to Tom Hanks and others, and which has been in the news because of the aggressive security guards that tour the beach on ATVs.)

Here’s a (big) photo: http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=200500154&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=0&year=2005

And here’s the listing from the realtor: http://www.w-e-agency.com/idetail.php?id=346

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How does a realtor get away with touting “privacy” when you’re within touching distance of your neighbors?

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I am the only one seeing the pools at the beach houses?

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Aren’t they all.

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That’s right because the ocean is cold and there are things swimming in it. Icky.

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Bitey things.

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It looks very . . . brown. If I had $24 million to spend on a house, I think I’d buy one in a more interesting locale. Like Hawaii.

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And this is the same Mel Gibson who made The Passion of the Christ, correct? About the guy who said, among other things, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”?

Can somebody point me to the irony department? Thanks.

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Does he get the vacant lot next door?

(I’m assuming it’s the big house towards the right middle, and not one of the others)

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Ah. I didn’t scroll over far enough. Is it the one with some vacant space on both sides?

Actually, the little place across the highway looks pretty nice too. Lots of trees, fenced yard. I wonder what their property taxes are, with multi-million dollar houses in the neighborhood. :frowning:

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California has that Prop 13(?) thing, where the tax increases are capped until you sell. Which means there is a big jump if you buy that property, but not so bad if you’ve owned and held it for a long time.

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I was wondering that too. The realtor’s listing doesn’t mention those lots, which I think would be something they’d tout.

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That’s right. Mel will be paying about $240,000/year in property taxes though.

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:confused: They’re awfully tall to be just 1 story; and 6 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms on 1 floor?

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That took it’s time loading, and for a while all I saw was the little place across the highway. And I was thinking, “um, yeeaaaahhh, i see $24 million there…?”

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Next big storm off Hawaii and Mel will have a $24 million pile of soggy rubble. People who buy beachfront property in Malibu are nuts.

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That’s what I thought too, but then I scrolled down and over. Humongous houses, several very close together and an even larger one sorta set apart from the others.

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Yeah, and you can’t relax in one of those floaty chairs with holes in the arms for your beer without worrying about being blown out to sea.

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Even very large houses in Southern California are often only one level. It comes from the time when land used to be cheap, there was no reason to build up. On the other hand, beach houses, even small ones, do tend to be multistory.

I can understand why someone living in Malibu would want a pool. Unless you wear a wetsuit, the ocean water is too cold for swimming for the majority of the year.

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If he doesn’t own the lots it would be somewhat amusing if the paparazzi all chipped in and built a house right next door, so that they could take pictures whenever they want.