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This place looks realy great and it's a mear $15,000,000.00 If you had the money, would you buy it for your personal residence, or would you turn it into a hotel and conference center?

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I'd live in it.








As long as it had secret passages and a maze garden.

Its a nice castle house but its would be to much troube to make it into something like a hotel and i think it might be abit innapropriate.

The grounds look a bit dreary to me. I'd still live there, though.

I'd live in it.








As long as it had secret passages and a maze garden.

If you had the money for that place you could easily pay to have a giant hedge made and cut into and maze . But places like that basically need a maze garden and hidden passage ways or its just another house..

It would be nice to live there but it would sure be expensive to upkeep. The staff you would need to employ to keep it from looking like shit would be quite high I'm sure.

Even though the place looks like it could use some good landscaping upgrades. Which would mean more money...

If you had the money for that place you could easily pay to have a giant hedge made and cut into and maze . But places like that basically need a maze garden and hidden passage ways or its just another house..

It would take forever for the hedge to grow. It's also somehow not as fun that way.

It would also need gargoyles. And a wishing well.

no, it's ugly.


besides, you can get a real castle for less than a tenth of the price.

I'd rather do something else with that kind of money... Although that house does look cool.

What's wrong with it? $15e6 is cheap, why?

If I had that kind of money I would spend it on something smarter and more useful than an upper class mansion.

Given that an acquaintance of mine is a member of the Searles family, several of my friends and I have been trying to convince him to demand his ancestral home back and let us live in it. :)

It would take forever for the hedge to grow. It's also somehow not as fun that way.

It would also need gargoyles. And a wishing well.

I'm sure the dungeon would need some remodeling as well. A rack (for wine) here, some chains there (to help you remain standing while drinking the wine) a whip over there, ....

Given that an acquaintance of mine is a member of the Searles family, several of my friends and I have been trying to convince him to demand his ancestral home back and let us live in it. :)

This was built, not owned, by the Searles.

It was owned by the Hopkins.

Absolutely! *hopes parents win lottery*

I'm sure the dungeon would need some remodeling as well. A rack (for wine) here, some chains there (to help you remain standing while drinking the wine) a whip over there, ....

Well, I would be hoping for multiple dungeons in a residence that size.

This was built, not owned, by the Searles.

It was owned by the Hopkins.

Check again. Mrs. Hopkins married Mr. Searles. :)

Ugh, those windows look like they were designed by a 60s architect. Thanks, but no thanks.

... and it certainly doesn't deserve the name 'castle'.

What's wrong with it? $15e6 is cheap, why?
It's haunted by an old man in a white sheet. He'll get away with it, too, unless someone can find some meddling kids.

I might consider buying it if I were a crazy millionaire, but I'd probably opt for a different one. Sure, this castle has a dungeon (what, exactly, does a late 19th Century plutocrat's widow need with a dungeon?) and the exterior is almost perfect, but somehow I'd always imagined my Evil Lair being slightly more than a few yards from the town hall, or local restaurants and shops.

It's haunted by an old man in a white sheet. He'll get away with it, too, unless someone can find some meddling kids.

I might consider buying it if I were a crazy millionaire, but I'd probably opt for a different one. Sure, this castle has a dungeon (what, exactly, does a late 19th Century plutocrat's widow need with a dungeon?) and the exterior is almost perfect, but somehow I'd always imagined my Evil Lair being slightly more than a few yards from the town hall, or local restaurants and shops.
Convenience, my friend, convenience. 7-11 always seems too far away when you are ripped and just want a bag of Doritos. Imagine if it actually was far away.

Put in a nice grass landing strip and a hanger and I'll buy it! :D

Convenience, my friend, convenience. 7-11 always seems too far away when you are ripped and just want a bag of Doritos. Imagine if it actually was far away.
If I had that much money to drop on a house, I'd already have my own private chef who could drive out to the 7-11 at the nearest village and purchase my Doritos.

If I had that much money to drop on a house, I'd already have my own private chef who could drive out to the 7-11 at the nearest village and purchase my Doritos.
Where's the adventure in that? I can guarantee you that if your chef buys your Doritos, you will never end up sleeping with your neighbour's kinky daughter.

all you peoples who said they'd use it as a residence or not buy it gotta be crappin me, you pay the $15 mil, then you pay anotha $15 mil, to make it a hotel, you have 100 rooms, 20 conference centers, and you charge $350 a night per room, and $1000 an hour for the conference rooms. let's say an average of 75 guests a night and 6, 4 hour conferences a day and before employee costs and taxes (aka- net profit) you'd make your money back in 2 years.

Where's the adventure in that? I can guarantee you that if your chef buys your Doritos, you will never end up sleeping with your neighbour's kinky daughter.
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Apparently convenience stores in Canada are a lot more interesting than their US counterparts.

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Apparently convenience stores in Canada are a lot more interesting than their US counterparts.
It's more the fact you don't really know which house is yours. Then don't really know why your neighbour is in your house, but you don't really care.

No, I wouldn't buy it. I'd keep expecting Mickey Mouse to jump out from behind a door.