Mansionmania Tournament: Round 2, Heat 16

[Rain Man]

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

[ClevelandBronco]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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.

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?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

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.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Hoover

In door pools suck in the summer.

Windows bring the outdoors in, and the indoors out.

[Bowser]

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.

[Zebedee DuBois]

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.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

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.

[WhawhaWhat]

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.

[Perineum Ripper]

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