Mansionmania Tournament: Round 2, Heat 16
 

The final heat of Round 2!


Mansionmania continues with our 32 2nd-round contestants. You will choose among each pair of houses with the following assumptions:

• The purchase price for you is $0.
• All maintenance, utilities, property taxes, HOA fees, and cleaning is included.
• You must live in the home for the rest of your life.
• You can't travel more than 100 miles from home (via google maps drive time) other than 1 two-week vacation each year.
• You get $250,000 per year as a living allowance
• You get an additional living allowance at the cheaper home, which will be valued at 1% of any cost difference annually. I will note this amount in the poll.
• You get the furnishings. If unfurnished, you get an allowance that will give you mid-grade furniture in every room.
• You get any vehicles in the garage. But only the garage - nothing parked outside.

I encourage you to click on the maps in the listings to see the general location and neighborhood.

Also, I will only enter contestants if they have a sufficient number of photos to judge, as determined by me.

Your entries in this heat are:


Wyoming:

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...1_M88490-96176

(You may have to go to realtor.com, "recently sold", and put in the address to get all of the pictures.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxf-XRYcKsA

Wyoming is off the market, so I'm providing the link with some specs, and also the promotional video.


Missouri:

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...5_M70579-02384

This is a juxtaposition of two very different offerings.

The Missouri house is amazing. It's enormous and has everything that a person could want. It's convenient to a large city, but of course that large city is St. Louis. (Insert gif of cringing person here.) You'd have a ton of money to play with, too.

The Jackson house is a lot smaller, but what a view and setting. The town of Jackson is nice and you could get a lot of outdoor time in Yellowstone. But you're not running wild on the minimum $250,000 stipend.

I'd like to pick Missouri just because Jackson is off the market and it's a pain to find a link, but in real life I'd go Jackson all the way. I've lived in the Rockies and I've lived in St. Louis, and those experiences drive my decision.

Easily Wyoming for me. Screw St. Louis. :evil:

This.

I think I'd rather have a prostate exam by a snapping turtle than St. Louis.

Wyoming, and easy.

The MO home looks like a McMansion. The bowling lanes, indoor basketball, and some of those things nearly swung me that way.

BUT the WY home is just much, much nicer and more my style, and so much better setting.

This is a really tough one. I don't know what I'd choose in real life, but I'd have to go with the Missouri one.

Again, I'm a whore for money. The house is better in Missouri, especially the kitchen. Wyoming is Wyoming. Hard to turn that down, but I'm a whore for money.

Wyoming. Easy choice. It's like a modern health spa with a rustic feel. The setting while cold AF in winter is amazing. I would use the stipend on 3 months of massage therapists and to keep the pool heated to 90 degrees year-round, be like one of those white monkeys in the snow chilling in the hot tub.

Missouri looks like Neverland Ranch. Corny.

That Jackson place is fantastic. The main house is over 8000sq ft.

Its an amazing compound. Jackson is a great little town.

Do I have to live with the family that just bought the Wyoming home?

Wyoming. No question

Wyoming. I'll try and hob nob with the billionaires, with my measly quarter mill stipend. I think I can do it.
It's beautiful and its not missouri.

They can't know you're there, so you'll have to sleep in cabinets and only come out at night or in areas of the house that they're not in. But given the size of the house, that shouldn't be a problem.

It's almost as though Missouri isn't even trying.

Did you not even notice the beach-entry swimming pool with swim-up bar and under-turtle grotto?

I still don't get the outdoor pools in places with winter, though. If you're building a legitimate mansion, put it inside.

In door pools suck in the summer.

Does it come with someone to pour my juice after I swim up or am I expected to demean myself in the performance of such menial labor?

I think the minimum wage in Missouri is 75 cents an hour.

Windows bring the outdoors in, and the indoors out.

I don't want to vote against either of these.

The Wyoming place is magnificent - those views, that land, all the fresh air with Jackson within reach. And I agree with TinyE - I dig the modern/rustic deco. But there are parts of that Missouri house that are as if someone read my mind and made it reality, the pool chief among them. Plus, it would be cheaper and more convenient for friends and family to come find you in Wentzville as opposed to Jackson (I'm assuming).

I'm going Missouri, but just by a hair. And 450K more of a stipend, lol.

In the Wyoming house, I'm moving my middle kid into the guest house. The stipulated cleaning should help with her slovenliness. It's not inherent slovenliness, btw.

The Wyoming property is great, but I've got to go Missouri. It's within 100 mi of Columbia, so I'd be able to see family whenever I want. It's also centrally located, so I could make a handful of short trips with the 2-week vacation time. But I'm assuming that we can break that two weeks up and that it doesn't have to be used all at once.

I voted for Wyoming because I like the house better but I figure you're probably stuck on the top of that mountain for 6 months of the year.

The Wyoming home is my dream home, location is exactly where I want to spend the rest of my life. I wouldn’t even need to leave for 2 weeks a year, just send my family off for 2 weeks and I would recharge that way.


It could be a ****ing tiny home in that spot and I would pick it over every house in the tournament