250k was still a shit ton of money back then, not a round trip to the grocery store like now.
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Assuming they purchased that home in 1980 at 250k that would be valued just under 1 million today after inflation.
That house would easily be selling for 2 to 3 million now
So I mean after all the damage that Kevin and the wet bandits did to the house of course they needed to have renovations done.
Keep the wet bandits name out of your lying mouth. It was all Kevin. The wet bandits are the real victims here.
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That value may be inflated due to the film.
I'd like to see comparative properties in the same area
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Yeah but also it was like a 9b/6.5br house with bonkers common space
and that trump was in one of them being a creep
once you stop taking politics seriously it's fucking hilarious that the americans elected a president who felt the need to be in a fucking Home Alone movie because he is that egotistical.
you probably have to do a ton of weed or randomly dissociate after coming home from the grocery store where you spent your life savings, but man once you get there
He had to be in it because they filmed in his hotel. Imagine Paris Hilton wanting to be in a film because part of the movie is shot in a Hilton. It wasn't enough that everything in that hotel is labeled "Trump", he had to show up and have a speaking role because otherwise you might forget who the hotel belongs to.
Nah it was the Plaza Hotel, so it's very understabable he wanted to make it clear in whose hotel Kevin is
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I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that
The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up
Hell, there's a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in
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I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so.....
It's always been a joke.
It's not really that surprising that Trump would request a cameo considering they used one of his hotels for filming.
The thing that I have never been able to get over is how the guy who live in a luxurious penthouse suite and shits on a gilded toilet, that has built his entire brand identity about being a rich douchebag somehow convinced people that he was a champion of the common man, as if he has literally anything in common with the average American whatsoever. I still burn even today when I think about how stupid people are to have fallen for it in the first place.
Now any criticism of him is automatically political, because he got elected to the most important job in the nation. Even criticism of him before he became a politician is being reframed as just disgruntled Democrats trying to tear down Trump.
I hate him. So much.
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don't think there's a point to attribute morality or judgment from a cameo from a then tv celebrity.
he is one of the worst people who ever lived. but i doubt that cameo had anything to do with it.
It’s an easy way to get your name out there. Look at Zelenskyy, dude played a fictional president before being elected. That’s like electing Kevin Spacey for being in House of Cards.
Just imagine Kevin Spacey as a president. Noone would vote for a known pedo and a sex offender, right?
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My fav part is on the plane when Kevin's dad guesses that the issue is he left the garage door open... and is completely unbothered by it. This sort of thing would have ruined my dad's entire vacation.
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Had so many kids that they forgot one for the longest time. TBH they were fine without him too.
And he was a messy little fucker, anyway
are you going to blame the child for developing coping mechanisms for the intense neglect he grew up with?
happy ending of home alone, CPS intervenes at the end
Not his fault and his parents definitely suck, but I don’t want to live with him. I would very, very much prefer being robbed to dealing with his antics.
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They somehow made it look bland as hell. They added a fucking basketball court? Are they targeting Chicago Bulls players?
I'm having this argument with my realtor right now. She wants me to paint the entire house a boring white color, destroying all of its character; even ruin the wood cabinets by painting them too. I think she's crazy but the wife is siding with her so I don't know what the fuck to do. I don't want to ruin my beautiful stained wood with ugly, white paint. I find it hard to believe that this is what actually sells.
Bruh, 2 things.
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its not going to be your house anymore.
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Either you trust the realtor or you dont.
Despite sincerely understanding the parent comment's POV, yours is the correct degree of detachment for such a crucial, life-altering (I assume) set of financial decisions.
Expanding cuz I'm apparently chatty tonight - if you trust your realtor, because your realtor can demonstrate doing their job well (both with your current experience and from prior ones with others), and you the seller lack such expertise, get out of the way and let the professional work (I'm on the clueless client end of the spectrum, to be clear).
If you do not trust your realtor, identify why and fix that immediately, this is WAY too big for well-founded misgivings. That fix ranges from fixing one's own internal POV to firing the realtor, entirely situational (I've done both), but 100% critical before taking further steps. Slowing down is usually better than moving forward badly, too.
- Take photos.
- Get an AI to paint the cabinets white.
- Do some AB testing.
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We are getting ready to sell our house and the realtor wants us to paint everything boring colors and it's killing me. She mentioned white was a good choice lol.
I can't wait to get in my new place and paint it so I can feel normal again. Who wants to be surrounded by boring white walls all day
I went through this last year and was pretty gutted by the process... at first.
When the final bill came in for all the renovations and prep for sale, we just added it to the list price. Our realtor's thinking was that we could entice buyers with something that is turn-key, rather than just doing the bare minimum. It was boring looking, but you wouldn't have to change anything because it was perfectly inoffensive, if not without flair. And the buyer gets to finance un-doing our to-taste changes along with the house. Win-win.
The key here was that our realtor had the float to finance the renovations, a crew that could do the work for a steal, and felt our home was a sure bet. YMMV.
Now, my new place... yeah. Still saving up to un-fuckulate what the last guy did.
Same. Been arguing with the realtor and wife over the same issue. I mean, who the fuck wants painted white cabinets over a nice stained wood? Whoever buys the house is going to have a hell of a time sanding it off.
It makes sense. You want a blank canvas.
Fuck that, let the new owners change it around. Let them build in material costs to their mortgage if they need to. Welcome to home ownership!
We sold our first house as is for 10k over asking, and it was flipped in two years. The new owners did a lot of reno on the place even though it didn't need much. They replaced carpet and painted cabinets and natural woodwork and that's it.
Had I put in the work of renovating before selling it would not have made a difference.
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Jesus. This house has nothing in common with Home Alone anymore. I bet they would bank more on keeping it as close to original as possible, or in other words - do nothing and win.
"who would need a vacation to Paris when you have this" under a pic of the blandest, whitest, most boring bedroom I've ever seen.
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Why do renovations always mean "make it look like a lab, not a home?" Someone get Kevin's aunt and uncle in New York on the phone before it's too late for them.
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That would be at least $350k in today’s money.
And a person who made 250k in a decade then, would make 275k now.
That's a 500k house easily
oh shit today's my cakeday let's goooo
Happy cake day, I think that house will be in the millions. That's basically a mansion in a Chicago suburb, a relatively nice neighborhood, and in walking distance of a big park.
Edit: fix my terrible spelling of millions, and also judging by other comments, yes it's an expensive house.
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Aside from the house, who the hell is going to pay the electric bill.
Does every damn light in the place need to be on?
And this is pre-LED bulb days. They didn't even have compact florescents. Imagine the power bill from incandescent bulbs running for several days.
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