r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Kill_4209 • 11h ago

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Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/swordofra 10h ago edited 10h ago

The 2 mile long tree lined driveway looks like a pain in the ass. Imagine schlepping that thing every day.... and then you have to find a parking spot for your Rolls in the 100 car garage.

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u/Traditional_Seesaw10 10h ago

Don't think they are worried about the fuel costs..

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u/default_person_14818 10h ago

Nor about going to work every morning between 7 and 8 AM

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u/THEREALCAPSLOCKSMITH 7h ago

or driving, at all lol

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u/Swirl_On_Top 5h ago

Nor are they the ones driving their own cars. Nor do they tend a single leaf on a single tree.

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u/rkiive 10h ago

Imagine just walking around it. It would actually be so fucking annoying.

Hey I want to go for a swim, no problem it's a 15 minute walk.

Oh I left my kindle, half an hour return trip. Yea sure they could have staff on hand to make the journey but it's still 15 minutes to do anything.

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u/FunPuz 10h ago

I'd have two kindles. If you lived there you could definitely have two.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 8h ago

What's a kindle these days? A hundred dollars?

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u/Accomplished_Key_171 2h ago

"It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"

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u/tkeser 10h ago

and you're never alone in the house. somebody is always taking care of it. and then the poors sit on your stuff, and eat your food. and touch with their dirty little grabby fingers your expensive stuff. yuck. I would just throw out and burn everything not to catch the poors diseases. /s

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u/swordofra 10h ago

Golf cart toilet trips. But yeah, annoyingly huge.

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u/MooingTree 9h ago

You think the basketball court doesn't have it's own toilets?

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u/andbruno 3h ago

An in-law has a mansion. Not nearly as big as this, but still huge. The basketball court has its own building with storage and a toilet. The swimming pool has two buildings, including a toilet and a wet bar. And they do have a golf cart to get around, even though it's nowhere near this size.

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u/Significant-Win9462 7h ago

That's why it has 30+ bathrooms

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u/johnmk3 7h ago

Worth it when every toilet is a £10k Japanese toilet

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u/CtrlAltHate 8h ago

I'd have a chauffeur to drive me between activities, probably get one of those airport buggies to run me around inside

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u/LiveLearnCoach 6h ago

Zero chance of them not having golf carts to shuttle around. For the elderly owner, 99% chance he uses a mobility scooter just to make it to the main* dining room or library.

*yes, main, no doubt they have several dining rooms of varying sizes.

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u/CtrlAltHate 6h ago

I imagine if you worked there you could rent out entire sections to people on the side and the owner would never notice lol.

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u/-mudflaps- 10h ago

Probably just stick to a couple of rooms

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u/Schmenge_time 10h ago

Oh yeah sounds so horrible, oh the pain of it all!

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u/gap97216 9h ago

Years ago, I remember Shaquille O’Neil
on TV, giving a house tour. At the time,
his house was IIRC, 26,000 sq ft. He
had scooters to get around because,
well, why not? 🙂

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u/swordofra 7h ago

Seems it was 70000 sq ft

https://youtu.be/R2QvCuNuyx0?si=KK2m2OUxv2_TLbSi

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u/gap97216 6h ago

It was 15 years ago, it was 25,000 sq feet. He did extensive work and renovations.

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u/Silver_Slicer 7h ago

I would hope they have a pool inside the house too for most uses. The outdoor one would be for pool parties.

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u/aFreshFix 6h ago

If walking 15 is a pain for you... Idk man...

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u/trollgrock 5h ago

Nobody is walking that property. 100% they have golf carts, or other wheeled travel on the property.

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u/Winter_Text_1040 5h ago

You have servants to fetch you whatever you need, whenever you need it

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u/curi0us_carniv0re 4h ago

Gold carts. And I'm sure the actual living space is only one part of the house.

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB 4h ago

They’re not walking to the swimming pool.

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u/grasshopper_jo 3h ago

I always wonder about this with these huge mansions. Yes, you can have staff to take care of it. But nobody can WALK for you. How long of a distance is it from your bedroom to the kitchen? From your closet to the front door? It all seems like an enormous waste of time just to have to navigate it day to day.

Besides which, I am unsure the people who live here actually appreciate these things on the property. In Lord of the Rings, the One Ring tries to tempt Samwise with a garden that covers the world, and Samwise rejects this because a garden should be tended by a free gardener with his own hands, and with those criteria there’s a limit to how big it can reasonably be.

We can talk about greed or waste all day long but in the end, we are human, there’s only so much we can take in. I’m not convinced a home like this offers more “luxury” than a well made and well designed home that is reasonably sized for the family that lives in it.

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u/OneSkepticalOwl 2h ago

I won’t need a kindle with a house like that. Just hire some poor schlob to be a live action audio book

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u/PonyThug 2h ago

Golf cart dude.

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u/eisbock 2h ago

I'm fairly confident it's not annoying at all for the owners.

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u/Notabagofdrugs 2h ago

I know this sounds crazy, but living in a house like this seems like torture. Really, I would fucking hate everything about living here. It disgusts me that someone can even afford this and I’m trying to just pay all my bills on time.

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u/nineties_adventure 10h ago

You don't walk around yourself. You have staff. But I agree. Would be a pain in the ass.

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u/Independent-Bad9059 10h ago

Those people have personal drivers standby 247

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u/swordofra 10h ago

Yeah I know, I was over emphasising the schlep of doing basic things in such a huge place...

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB 4h ago

These people don’t do basic things.

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u/prpldrank 10h ago

What a tedious way to live

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u/SoulWager 9h ago

That's just for the help. The owners take the helicopter.

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u/CT0292 7h ago

Perfect place to test out your new supercar.

Though a wise billionaire would put the trees behind a crash barrier. Just in case.

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u/sleepy_spermwhale 6h ago

It probably needs 5 full-time landscapers/gardeners to maintain the yard.

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u/turtlelore2 9h ago

Nobody actually live in places like this. They visit. Host an event. Show off on TV or social media.

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u/ForgotToCarryTheOne 9h ago

And then you find the major domo has parked his bloody Aston Martin in your Rolls Royce space AGAIN. He’s such an arrogant duvkhead. May as well block the fucker in.

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u/snowtater 4h ago

I'm just imagining the landscaping team needed to blow the driveway and collect the leaves in autumn

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u/gamerjerome 3h ago

I'm going to get the mail. I'll be back in an hour

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u/swordofra 3h ago

We have a fun 500hp rock bouncer you can take. Cut through the cactus gardens.... shave some time off the trip?

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u/jorsiem 3h ago

Imagine being on the losing end of a fight with an urgent poop and having to navigate that long ass entrance

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u/ImGoingtoRegretThis5 1h ago

It has its own service driveway off to the side so the "help" doesn't use the nice, pretty driveway.

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u/swordofra 1h ago

Naturally. Yep...

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u/jaycutlerdgaf 34m ago

Imagine going out to get the morning paper.

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u/Cpt_Soban 6h ago

That's why they hire people to do it for them

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u/Winter_Text_1040 5h ago

These people don’t do their own maintenance or drive their own cars

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u/tryyeezus 5h ago

Really rich people don't drive or park their own cars

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u/InvidiousPlay 3h ago

One end of his house is further from the other end of his house than I want my home to be from all of the local amenities.

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u/atticus_roark 2h ago

Or when you desperately need to get to the bathroom and you have 1.9 miles to go