From the Daily Mail:
Multi-billionaire who gave a lecture about American’s ‘needing to have less things and live a smaller existence’ owns a staggering FIVE mansions… including the nation’s most expensive home
Billionaire property investor Jeff Greene recently spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying he believes people in the United States need to stop aiming so high and start living with less.
‘America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,’ Greene, who ran for the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida in 2010, said in an interview.
‘We need to reinvent our whole system of life.’
The only issue Americans took with the 60-year-old’s opinions was, well, everything, given he owns a $195 million palace in Beverly Hills, which has 23 bathrooms and a rotating dance floor, as well as four other blue ribbon properties, and is famous for throwing wild parties on a 145-foot yacht, Yahoo! Homes reported.
Greene’s claim to real estate fame is the Palazzo di Amore, or Palace of Love, that sits on 25 acres in Beverly Hills and includes a vineyard that produces 400 to 500 cases of private label wine a year.
It became the most expensive home in the U.S. last year when Greene listed it for $195 million.
The main house is 35,000-square-feet, with 12 bedrooms, including a master suite measuring 5,000-square-feet.
There is a a 15,000-square-foot entertainment center with a bowling alley, 50-seat theater, a 10,000-bottle cellar and a kitchen with a walk-in fridge.
Greene paid $35 million for the property in 2007 when it was unfinished, and has since spent between $25 and $40 million completing it.
Greene’s estate. One of them.
When liberals say people need to start living with less, they mean YOU and not them. Which is why I loath liberals.
via Glenn
Tent cities are on the rise all across the US.
TV shows tout tiny houses, of as little as 165 square feet for TWO people!
Shipping containers are being turned into multiple-family dwellings!
Backyard sheds have been turned into dwellings in sober-living communities.
This guy screams hypocrite.
He hadn’t even tried to practice what he preached.
I have.
I recommend it as long as you are comfortable with it and are doing it willingly.
I lived 25 years in a beach house condo that was worth it for the view although it was a mere 610 square feet.
The money we sold it for bought us 10.8 acres and a larger, much larger home in Utah on the ”shoulder” of one of the Rocky Mountains!
Great retirement spot.
Room for a conservatory where I can ”winter” my plants before taking them outside for the spring, summer, fall.
Room for my sewing and craft work.
Hubby has room to do stuff with all his tools.
When a liberal breaks wind(farts) he/she can not smell it nor take responsibility for dropping the bomb, similar to the kiss up circle of the pres. The pres. has passed gas for six years and no one in the inner belt, the media or the liberal gas inhalers have even noticed his conduct.
One can pass gas-flatulence for only so long in public before nobody will get near them. All the butt kissers and fart lovers of the pres.’s gas will receive great retirements and move into the liberal democratic gas making machine. billy clinton, retired as a pedophile, sexual predator, and his closet lesbian wife wants to re-occupy the wipe house. Got to despise a nation’s leadership structured upon depravity.
Elitist feudalistic dreams. They languish in their ivory towers and tell the peasant’s that they need to learn how to live with less.