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Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by shoubidouwah »

eastbound wrote: post #61
gyomu wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Truly a peaceful property What you don’t realize if you’ve never spent time around those ridiculous properties is the amount of upkeep everything takes if you don’t want the indoors to become gross and dusty and the outdoors a wild jungle. When you have that kind of surface area, you’re not taking care of all the cleaning and maintenance yourself in a few hours once a week. There are countless gardeners/cleaners/re…

I have 2000sqm of land and I feel like 1. the CEO of garden operations, 2. a sitting duck in terms of money and invoicing.

> Too much land to manually manicure a lawn on top of > too little land for john deere to be of any practical help I feel you.

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by dfxm12 »

qmr wrote: post #51
boriskourt wrote: post #46

Jennifer Lynch is very active on Reddit and explained why it’s selling for anyone interested. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhb6q9/comment...

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If you read the whole comment, you'll understand the context better.

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by dfxm12 »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #68
gyomu wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Truly a peaceful property What you don’t realize if you’ve never spent time around those ridiculous properties is the amount of upkeep everything takes if you don’t want the indoors to become gross and dusty and the outdoors a wild jungle. When you have that kind of surface area, you’re not taking care of all the cleaning and maintenance yourself in a few hours once a week. There are countless gardeners/cleaners/re…

Does it not come with an army of weirdly mundane hopeful monsters who will reveal themselves to you one by one if you buy it?

The lady in the radiator is anything but mundane. :)

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by e40 »

qmr wrote: post #51
boriskourt wrote: post #46

Jennifer Lynch is very active on Reddit and explained why it’s selling for anyone interested. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhb6q9/comment...

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What people normally mean by wealth is easy access to cash. Someone that owns a $15M house and has very little other liquid assets is not poor, but they definitely don't qualify as wealthy.

Many, many people in CA that live in expensive homes are in this situation. It's what Prop 13 wrought. Variously, in my neighborhood, old people are paying a small fraction of the property tax that I do, and their house is worth a lot of money, but they have almost nothing, living on their social security check, month to month.

I'm not saying Lynch was living on SSI, but given his movies and what we know of how much they made, the story told by his daughter is very plausible.

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by ape4 »

Infernal wrote: post #7
Waterluvian wrote: post #2

Anyone know anything about those fluted V-shaped panels everywhere? They look like very heavy cast iron.

TFA says “The facade’s cement chevrons catch the sun” but I’m not sure about the ones inside.

Maybe they would catch rainwater too - mosquito breading area

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by JeremyNT »

qmr wrote: post #51
boriskourt wrote: post #46

Jennifer Lynch is very active on Reddit and explained why it’s selling for anyone interested. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhb6q9/comment...

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She does explicitly go on to say "by Hollywood standards"

I honestly saw it was $15million and figured that's a bargain for the estate of one of the most esteemed directors of his generation. Relative to his level of fame and respect, his monetary assets do seem low.

But then this certainly matches the public perception of Lynch. He made the things that he wanted to make, not the things that were guaranteed to sell. I'm sure commercial success was important to him, but there were lots of paths he could have taken that would have lead to a lot more.

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by yardie »

maz1b wrote: post #16

Interestingly, this article made me learn that Frank Lloyd Wright had a son who also was an architect, and that son also had a son that became an architect. I dunno, I just find that a little bit cool and interesting.

I was lucky enough to stay in a beach house designed by either the son or grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright. So many amazing architectural details including natural cooling towers. I was young then and didn't really get to appreciate it the house since I was spending my time on the water. But I did take photos and see something interesting every time it rotates through my iPhoto library.

Re: David Lynch LA House

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Post by twalla »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #29
dsr_ wrote: post #25

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Looking at other houses in the neighborhood, it's probably about 10-15% because it's the Lynch residence, and the rest of it is the extent of the land, the number of houses, and, of course, the place where it is. By way of contrast, this is listed for 2.5x the money on the other side of the canyon: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1851-N-Stanley-Ave-Los-An...

I'll bet the seller makes a hell of a Caucasian! (Although I guess it isn't really Jackie Treehorn's place, given that the listing says it was built in 2023.)

Jackie Treehorn’s place is the Sheats-Goldstein residence. Both the residence and the owner are worth going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

https://jamesfgoldstein.com/the-goldstein-residence/

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