i came back to this site to make one more comment. it concerns what looks to be a neighboring house if you look closely through the trees in the backyard shot that has the white bench in it. i swear i can see the side of a house there. if this is so, who wants a neighbor so close? forgot to mention that our place, the one with horse facilities and acreage here in the south, is like a forested island. we have forest behind us that's behind the large long dirt horse paddock, forest on the right side of us which we own and has a wet weather stream in it plus grass for the horses, forest on the left side of us, and the front is where the large open grass pasture is. nothing better than looking out your front windows and seeing horses running or grazing in my opinon, it sure beats a bland flat lake. at the end of this, there's trees that line the long road and neighbors are still pretty far off. the left side has a grass area and riding ring, must mention this also. the road runs along the right forested side and the front of our land but it's far enough away that people can't be nosey and snoop on us. not that we're doing anything wrong but i hate having neighbor's real close...noise factor comes in here then too. it looks to me like that 7 million dollar dump has a very close neighbor and you could hit them if you tossed an unused very light tea bag at 'em i bet. we lived near lake superior, not real close but spent summers there swimming in it's icy cold waters when we lived there as kids. winter at the lake was bitter cold and snow is constant for months on end. hubby grew up right near houghton lake (lower peninsula) and family moved further north due to grandparents living there. i was an army brat, mom's dad lived in that godforsaken cold place too so this is why we spent time there. i hate the cold, i hate the snow, and that entire area and the chicago area has no tall mountains, just a few small bumps if any that qualify as that actually. oh, the other poster's were right about the cheap furnishings in that house, ikea does come to mind, and i swear they moved the same tall tree to different rooms because they only own one of them. hah. as for that big vacant office, i hated it. we turned one of our bedrooms into an office and have real oak file cabinets, real huge oak computer desk with lower drawers and upper shelves for my printer and fax machine...plus enough room for a second computer that's sitting alongside the one i'm using right now. my chair is leather, unlike the junky cheap one that's that house's office has. plus, i have a very big oak rolltop desk in this room along with another oak table that another laser printer can sit on with shelves under it for other stuff. this room also has a double french door in it, huge wide double window, and full carpeting. i saw too much wood flooring in that multimillion dollar house too...get it wet, even water drops, and it's ruined. our kitchen, foyer, sunroom, and double hallways have large ceramic tile flooring, this office and two bedrooms have carpeting, and the living room, dining room, and one bedroom have pergo vinyl slat flooring that looks exactly like wood. bathrooms have vinyl tile flooring with toss carpets. the flooring in this place is easy to clean, keep clean, and holds up to whatever type of traffic that walks, runs, or plays on it. i forgot to mention that our two hallways have oak wainscoating and the sunroom has the most beautiful stained and sealed wood walls that we put up ourselves. there are actually 4 sets of double french doors and one solid glass door with a wood frame inside this house. we had put a 5th set of french doors in years ago but tore them out, took them to the landfill, and just put solid oak up in the opening where the door frame was. it then opened up two rooms and made it into one huge room which is used as the living room and an extra sunroom for all of my big tropical trees that i take in for three months during winter. actually, this house may be alot smaller than that albatros house in chicago but this place has personality that we built into it along with warmth nonstop in every room. i really think they need me to decorate that chicago place to get it sold. it's too open and empty, sparce, and i bet there's an echo when you talk. well, i'd best get some sleep, my day starts around noonm it's almost 5 am now. eeks. i've never gone to a site like this one here and i doubt i will again because these multimillion dollar houses just aren't what they're cranked up to be.

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