# Nine of the Biggest Houston-Area Homes on the Market **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935 "2017-01-23T15:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/1 "2017-01-23T15:51:17Z")
Somehow I found this article on the biggest homes for sale in the Houston area.[-=Link=-](http://www.chron.com/homes/article/9-of-the-biggest-Houston-area-homes-on-the-market-10863266.php) [Look at this one.](https://www.trulia.com/property/3055078542-90-Grand-Regency-Cir-The-Woodlands-TX-77382) 16,000 square feet, 8 beds, 8 full baths, three half baths. **Includes America’s largest three-story closet.** Six car garage, sunken wine grotto. Page through the photos just to find the shower (with picture window and room for parties). (Who are those people in the picture in the bedroom? Did they come with the frame?) Call it six million dollars. I could not imagine even spending an evening in this barn. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/2 "2017-01-23T16:27:08Z")
It looks like a fancy bed and breakfast Inn. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/3 "2017-01-23T16:39:51Z")
The landscaping is really blah. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/4 "2017-01-23T16:39:53Z")
I’m pretty sure I couldn’t even afford the monthly cost to heat or cool the place - especially the 6-car climate-controlled garage!!! :eek: Our house is barely over a tenth of that size, and it’s more than I want to care for sometimes! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/5 "2017-01-24T02:21:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The landscaping is really blah. Agreed If I were in the market for a property in that price range, I’d prefer to spend it on land. A 1.6 acre property with listless grass is uninspiring. Give me an orchard or forest or meadows any day. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/6 "2017-01-24T02:51:23Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’m pretty sure I couldn’t even afford the monthly cost to heat or cool the place - especially the 6-car climate-controlled garage!!! :eek: > > Our house is barely over a tenth of that size, and it’s more than I want to care for sometimes! Pah for your _nouveau riche_ climate control ! Mittens had so much spare money he installed a lift for his cars to keep them warm indoors — and $6 million for a house ?! He was spending **twice** that on just his expansion of which that was part. He’d already paid $12 million to demolish the house. ( It only had one story, and you need two to install a car elevator. ) I like to think he spent 2013 riding up and down non-stop in his best jalopy staring at his dead ambition. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/7 "2017-01-24T03:18:58Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Agreed > > If I were in the market for a property in that price range, I’d prefer to spend it on land. A 1.6 acre property with listless grass is uninspiring. Give me an orchard or forest or meadows any day. It is in the Woodlands, so chances are that it’s probably pretty near some pine forests. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/8 "2017-01-24T03:26:07Z")
Wait, there are trees in a place called “the Woodlands” in Houston? What crazy hijinks are the developers up to down there? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-of-the-biggest-houston-area-homes-on-the-market/777935/9 "2017-01-24T14:14:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, there are trees in a place called “the Woodlands” in Houston? What crazy hijinks are the developers up to down there? I was just pointing out that the development is literally right in the middle of the East Texas pine forest, unlike a lot of other master-planned communities with evocative names that have only the vaguest association with their namesake geographic feature. Case in point- the various “whatever-Hills” or “Lakes of somewhere” or whatever that are on flat ground, or have a couple of man-made ponds in the development, etc…