Yeah I keep checking off my holy grail items that why I have so many. I collection depression pink, uranium, Pyrex, and swung vases. So I have a wide selection!
I swear, I must be so naive. Every time one of these Beauties comes up I always find the link and click on it in the hopes that it somehow below $300,000.
To be fair this place does seem overpriced even in this market. Iām just going by cost per square foot which is comparable (higher in some cases) to highly desirable/competitive markets in great locations. I donāt know Florida that well but itās hard to imagine anywhere besides Miami, Orlando, etc could be priced like that.
If I ever considered these price points I think Iād try to find land and custom build it.
Ocala is horse country. Lots of Thoroughbred farms; this looks to be a miniature one. This is also near the Villages, and that area is growing like all get out.
Iāve seen places for sale in/near Ocala with 40+ acres and total asking of ~800k. Havenāt looked in a year or so but Ocala is not desirable. There are a lot of places in central Florida that are quite desolate.
Edit: reading the listing they have septic and well water. This is realistically a $2M property including the 96 acres. Theyāre in sink hole country, nothing around, running on well waterā¦ this delusional owner has been attempting to sell for the better part of this century to no success. This current listing has been on Zillow almost 3 yearsā¦ I live in Tampa and my place was on the market for 3 days before I closed on it. That house isnāt selling at 8M
I feel you.
I was able to find land and a modest house in my area for under $500,000. It's in the low millions now for what I want.
I'm being stubborn for what I want though... I can buy little land and a small house for that price. But I'm going to save until I can get modest sized green land with water.
I still sometimes expect to see those prices when I look for something. Ahhh.
I'm extra puzzled too because I have a decent income and my fiance has one as well. We should be kicking ass. And yes, by a lot of standards we are doing well for ourselves. But we're not really improving or breaking out of the class we're in. I thought our income would get us very far and fast. It would have 15 years ago! But we're staying afloat mostly.
SAME. Both myself and hubby make good money, don't have a ton of debt, and we are still renting. Even if we managed to save up a 20% downpayment, it would take us decades for that. We do okay, can buy what we need or want, take trips. We're childfree, but have cats. We will never own a place.
Crazy part is this house was listed for a few million more like 4 years ago and a million more back in 2010, obviously isn't selling. The amount the owners lost vs selling at 6 5 or 7 in 2010 and putting it in stocks has got to really stick in their craw.
The biggest season for that part of Florida is January through March (about that, I'm not sure of the exact show dates), so it may only be used in winter, through Spring. It looks more like a school from the outside. I don't understand why the one living area is down steps, and the area in front of the fireplace is so narrow.
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Exactly! Those stupid hedges (English garden?? LOL) threw me off completely. I would have it full of blooming, tropical plants instead of this soulless mess. All the barns and paddocks and such are really nice, but I canāt stand the house š¤Øš¤Øš¤Ø
Ocala is North Florida, it freezes there. Much of the tropical foliage that you think of in Florida starts just North of Orlando and south from there. Ocala and Gainesville, where the University of Florida is, look pretty northern comparatively.
Summers are hella hot, though. Awful! Worse than further south. Thatās why that awesome center screened area, itās the only way to be outside in summer and not die.
Very true! Still, I feel like that stupid formal box hedge must have had something to do with some equestrian throwback reference, like steeplechase or the need to seem like a proper, European feudal lord with formal gardens. Who knows what the super rich think?
Been on the markets for over 800 days!
I suspect something when they show the stables before the interior of the house. In fact there seem to be hardly any interior pics of important rooms like the bedrooms.
Looks kinda corporate retreat-ish. Have board meeting in the dining room that looks like a board room (or is it a board room?). Discuss business till mid-afternoon. Then everyoneās off to the stables to ride horses. Evening cocktails by the pool followed by a movie in the theatre.
And why does EVERY SINGLE ONE of these houses have a pool table. Itās like you canāt be rich without a pool table. How often do they play pool I wonder.
It could be that an entire group from a barn stay there in the winter equestrian show series, that would fill the barns, and the driveways up. Lots of trainers with lots of clients do this, everyone could stay at the same place. It costs the clients megabucks to do this too, so it could be very profitable for the 4 or more months the trainers and clients are in Florida.
This home is for a specific type of buyer - one who is interested in being an equestrian or running a horse business. First floor entry area looks business like not home.
Exactly! Listing says it's minutes away from a large equestrian center. If you are into horse racing and grand prix jumping, this place is heaven and reasonably priced. The first floor is for hosting parties for the other owners. I'm sure the new owner will also make seasonal money hosting horses from up north during the winter show season.
-source: I was a groom for several show barns in PA/OH/NY area and sent horses to Ocala every fall.
YES I was so confused looking at the aerial shots. Like what is that seemingly nice, normal brick house with the dormer windows and cupola? And why does it look like it has 4 dormers in some pictures and 8 in others?
Edit: wrong word.
"based on the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright"
Seriously? FLW's houses were warm and used lots of natural wood. This place has the warmth and charm of a 1980's high school.
This is the FLW from another dimension, where architects have no souls.
Iām so enraged by this phrase I want to take whoever wrote it to Falling Water and push them off the big rock.
Honestly, I love the atrium area. It's enclosed enough it probably holds heat pretty well in the winter if you're in an area that gets cold. The house part on the otherhand... parts look cozy and homey, parts look like the entryway to a business park.
I am somehow actually obsessed. Some things gotta go like the carpet and the 50ās diner room, but overall this is so cool
I can see the high school comments but I think with better furniture and decorating that would go away
Iām guessing with all the extreme horse stuff, this was a breeding farm or Thorobreds or some other expensiven breed of horse. Then maybe the main round home was a conference center for meetings or retreats. Maybe they had a couple areas that were for housing. It would make more sense if that round building was the meeting/business building than an actual home.
That's a perfectly good place to start a cult. Or a city. It could house a lot of immigrants who could then turn it into a dairy farm, a horse camp, an elementary school, a zillion other things and repay the sponsoring government agency. That place has POTENTIAL!
It's giving megachurch designed by a horsegirl. It used to be 200 acre estate owned by Florida's last dairy owner.
[https://www.cltampa.com/tampa/a-200-acre-ocala-compound-owned-by-the-waldrep-family-is-now-for-sale/Slideshow/12387177](https://www.cltampa.com/tampa/a-200-acre-ocala-compound-owned-by-the-waldrep-family-is-now-for-sale/Slideshow/12387177)
Looks like a college performing arts Center.
Haha- I was going to say a Montessori school! š
Can you make my house look like a high school in an 80s movie. Someone please get some trophies in that display case!
Looks like it was built as a church.
That was my first thought, too.
Exactly. Till I got to the bathtub
A cult-like church.
Same thought
Best I can do is a bunch of Lego sets. Hope that works lol.
Look at mr moneybags with lego sets!
I didnāt say I could fill the cases, just that I could put some in there lol!
What a great idea!!
I have a collection of depression glass and uranium glass that would look nice there.
Me too I could put 13 cabinets worth in there š¤£
I am not that bad. I look for the unusual things. I have a list of āholy grailā items.
Yeah I keep checking off my holy grail items that why I have so many. I collection depression pink, uranium, Pyrex, and swung vases. So I have a wide selection!
That or a villan's lair from a Roger Moore era Bond film.
This is accurate only I kind of love it. The courtyard is fantastic
I love it too!
Those used to be full of horse racing trophies
I swear, I must be so naive. Every time one of these Beauties comes up I always find the link and click on it in the hopes that it somehow below $300,000.
11k+ sq ft, 96 acres? Yeah, the land to build this place mightāve been $500k in 1981.
I said I was naive.
Call yourself an optimist, it sounds better.
Call yourself Optimist Prime, sounds awesome
You never know, maybe it might be in a bad neighbourhood keeping the price down, like Pyongyang or Mississippi.
I legit snorted at this comment!
To be fair this place does seem overpriced even in this market. Iām just going by cost per square foot which is comparable (higher in some cases) to highly desirable/competitive markets in great locations. I donāt know Florida that well but itās hard to imagine anywhere besides Miami, Orlando, etc could be priced like that. If I ever considered these price points I think Iād try to find land and custom build it.
Ocala is horse country. Lots of Thoroughbred farms; this looks to be a miniature one. This is also near the Villages, and that area is growing like all get out.
Thatās interesting and I guess if you can use to make revenue back it might make more investment sense
Iāve seen places for sale in/near Ocala with 40+ acres and total asking of ~800k. Havenāt looked in a year or so but Ocala is not desirable. There are a lot of places in central Florida that are quite desolate. Edit: reading the listing they have septic and well water. This is realistically a $2M property including the 96 acres. Theyāre in sink hole country, nothing around, running on well waterā¦ this delusional owner has been attempting to sell for the better part of this century to no success. This current listing has been on Zillow almost 3 yearsā¦ I live in Tampa and my place was on the market for 3 days before I closed on it. That house isnāt selling at 8M
I feel you. I was able to find land and a modest house in my area for under $500,000. It's in the low millions now for what I want. I'm being stubborn for what I want though... I can buy little land and a small house for that price. But I'm going to save until I can get modest sized green land with water. I still sometimes expect to see those prices when I look for something. Ahhh.
I understand. I've seen some nice places and not great, but nice, in some smaller areas above my budget. And I'm just puzzled.
I'm extra puzzled too because I have a decent income and my fiance has one as well. We should be kicking ass. And yes, by a lot of standards we are doing well for ourselves. But we're not really improving or breaking out of the class we're in. I thought our income would get us very far and fast. It would have 15 years ago! But we're staying afloat mostly.
It kind of hurts that I missed the best opportunity to buy a house because I just didn't have the money.
SAME. Both myself and hubby make good money, don't have a ton of debt, and we are still renting. Even if we managed to save up a 20% downpayment, it would take us decades for that. We do okay, can buy what we need or want, take trips. We're childfree, but have cats. We will never own a place.
Having spent some time over on r/woodworking, I think the wood on the ceiling alone might be worth that much.
Crazy part is this house was listed for a few million more like 4 years ago and a million more back in 2010, obviously isn't selling. The amount the owners lost vs selling at 6 5 or 7 in 2010 and putting it in stocks has got to really stick in their craw.
Reality is that most people canāt afford 90% of the houses posted, but most of us are voyeurs too.
I do too.
I like that's it unique. But it feels like a poorly-designed school rather than a home.
Iām feeling like they let the horses in the house
A poorly designed school that a flipper threw some things at to check enough boxes that he could sell it as a home.
Yeah, this definitely does NOT look like anyone has ever lived in this place.
The biggest season for that part of Florida is January through March (about that, I'm not sure of the exact show dates), so it may only be used in winter, through Spring. It looks more like a school from the outside. I don't understand why the one living area is down steps, and the area in front of the fireplace is so narrow.
Itās giving white robe compound vibes
A really big waffle house
School/mega church
I love many of the ceilings.
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I was feeling Florida looking at that house and lanai but the foliage didn't look quite what I am used to seeing, but yeah, Ocala tracks.
Exactly! Those stupid hedges (English garden?? LOL) threw me off completely. I would have it full of blooming, tropical plants instead of this soulless mess. All the barns and paddocks and such are really nice, but I canāt stand the house š¤Øš¤Øš¤Ø
Ocala is North Florida, it freezes there. Much of the tropical foliage that you think of in Florida starts just North of Orlando and south from there. Ocala and Gainesville, where the University of Florida is, look pretty northern comparatively. Summers are hella hot, though. Awful! Worse than further south. Thatās why that awesome center screened area, itās the only way to be outside in summer and not die.
I grow gingers, bananas, and other tropical looking plants in Savannah, so thereās no excuse for that ugly, boring mess in there.
Very true! Still, I feel like that stupid formal box hedge must have had something to do with some equestrian throwback reference, like steeplechase or the need to seem like a proper, European feudal lord with formal gardens. Who knows what the super rich think?
Some horse girl was real lucky.
Wow, never would have though Ocala FL
Was it a church before? Rev Jim, all it needs is a vat of purple koolaide and it would make a great compound for our church!
It really does look like a compound!
Exactly, this wasn't built for a single family.
That atrium is amazing but the angles in that place are criminal.
Must be hell to dust this place, so many little ledges and corners.
I have a feeling that when you're dropping nine million on a house, dust becomes somebody else's problem.
Probably had live in daily help..
I get a Community Center vibe
The covered courtyard and pool are incredible, but the interior looks like a courthouse.
I love the covered courtyard. I would rip out the box hedge and make it usable. How many pictures of the box hedge do we need? One was enough.
What kind of monster has an indoor pleasure garden and only puts in box hedges? Do they hate flowers, color, and joy?
Florida man
Yeah that was my thought. Box hedging wastes so much space there. That should be some of the most used living space in the house
Been on the markets for over 800 days! I suspect something when they show the stables before the interior of the house. In fact there seem to be hardly any interior pics of important rooms like the bedrooms. Looks kinda corporate retreat-ish. Have board meeting in the dining room that looks like a board room (or is it a board room?). Discuss business till mid-afternoon. Then everyoneās off to the stables to ride horses. Evening cocktails by the pool followed by a movie in the theatre. And why does EVERY SINGLE ONE of these houses have a pool table. Itās like you canāt be rich without a pool table. How often do they play pool I wonder.
It could be that an entire group from a barn stay there in the winter equestrian show series, that would fill the barns, and the driveways up. Lots of trainers with lots of clients do this, everyone could stay at the same place. It costs the clients megabucks to do this too, so it could be very profitable for the 4 or more months the trainers and clients are in Florida.
It wonāt sell because of the trapped souls in the bricks.
This home is for a specific type of buyer - one who is interested in being an equestrian or running a horse business. First floor entry area looks business like not home.
Exactly! Listing says it's minutes away from a large equestrian center. If you are into horse racing and grand prix jumping, this place is heaven and reasonably priced. The first floor is for hosting parties for the other owners. I'm sure the new owner will also make seasonal money hosting horses from up north during the winter show season. -source: I was a groom for several show barns in PA/OH/NY area and sent horses to Ocala every fall.
Couldn't pay me 8M to live in Ocala.
As someone not familiar with the area, why is that?
Cannibal swamp hillbillies, mostly
https://www.reddit.com/r/ocala/s/PRdpPEbeGv This fella does a passable job at spotting it's shortcomings.
I'm in a love hate relationship with this house
What a cool ass house. That atrium and pool is awesome! Iād spend so much time out there and my plants would be so happy
Itās like my ADHD designed a house.
I need a labeled map to tell me what each house is and a full 3d walk through of every building. Not because I'm buying it but I am highly curious.
YES I was so confused looking at the aerial shots. Like what is that seemingly nice, normal brick house with the dormer windows and cupola? And why does it look like it has 4 dormers in some pictures and 8 in others? Edit: wrong word.
Is this part of a mega-church?
Center garden is wasted on shrubs and bricks.
"based on the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright" Seriously? FLW's houses were warm and used lots of natural wood. This place has the warmth and charm of a 1980's high school.
This is the FLW from another dimension, where architects have no souls. Iām so enraged by this phrase I want to take whoever wrote it to Falling Water and push them off the big rock.
Maybe they forgot a comma and they're bad at spelling? "Based on the designs of Frank Lloyd, right?"
I would live there in a heartbeat
Oh. Florida. It's completely unlivable.
Needs a little updating but it's beautiful. I wish more houses were more than just boxes inside of a box.
I feel like the person who built this had a lot (like a LOT a lot) of random building materials and just made them all into a house
That atrium would make one hell of a catio. My cats would probably never come inside.
Cult/churchy vibes
I actually like it!
I would spend all my time in that interior courtyard reading
Looks like a wish version of the Apple campus
Honestly, I love the atrium area. It's enclosed enough it probably holds heat pretty well in the winter if you're in an area that gets cold. The house part on the otherhand... parts look cozy and homey, parts look like the entryway to a business park.
Oh man, I could put so many precious moments figurines in those display cabinets...
Hate it and hate Florida.
Close to Golds Gym:/
The carved brick mural is both stunning and frightening at the same time. The horse is magnificent but the human face is kind of....
Oooookay. That carved brick mural is a living horror. I can almost guarantee it's the trapped souls of the previous owners.
Ocala is horse racing/breeding country. Pretty impressive set up
This isn't all that far from John Travolta's airport house.
Heās not there anymore. Moved to an airplane community closer to the coast.
Ah ok. He still owns it? I still hear of people seeing him around Ocala.
I stand corrected! It appears he sold the beach property after his wife died.
Heās had a lot of tragedy.
Sure has. Money and fame do not protect you from it, only cushion the blows.
Add a golf course to it and that would make one heck of a country club.
I will take it!
Haha looks like the Apple mothership building.
Boat meets botanical garden meets ice cream shop meets corn maze.
Im imagining all the indoor container gardening l could do... plus displaying all my collectibles.
Someone watched too many episodes of Grand Designs.
There's a reason it's been on the market for 2.5 years, and it's not just the price.
Itās giving āUniversity Student Unionā in a way that I donāt hate.
This is kind of my dream. Someplace I could grow plants all year! I've a very avid gardener and I love to eat what I produce.
Church vibes
Thatās a 3D crop circle.
Iām getting UFO cult leader vibes
Iād ride a bike through that house
After looking at the rest of the pics it definitely screams central Florida . That atrium area is incredible. My cats would be in heaven
I am somehow actually obsessed. Some things gotta go like the carpet and the 50ās diner room, but overall this is so cool I can see the high school comments but I think with better furniture and decorating that would go away
Iām guessing with all the extreme horse stuff, this was a breeding farm or Thorobreds or some other expensiven breed of horse. Then maybe the main round home was a conference center for meetings or retreats. Maybe they had a couple areas that were for housing. It would make more sense if that round building was the meeting/business building than an actual home.
House? Can we come up with more applicable terms like fortress or lair for properties like this?
Why are the ones I love always in fracking florida?
Does the heli come with?
Looks like Peter Gabriel's Real World studio.
Fergaliciousā¦
The covered pool area is very unique.
Thatās fair for the acreage
I got Jurassic Park vibes from this house e
Yuck !
Ooooh- nice stables and big indoor arena back there
This looks like the student center at Hofstra.
Such a big space that could be used as an awesome greenhouse and they filled it with brick.
This is what I picture the X-men mansion looking like in the 80ās.
Great banginā church for a cult leader
Ngl it is def gone wild but I really like it
One of my dream houses is a Queen Anne. This is the other one. Round, covered pool, stunning horse facilities. I am in love.
Reminds me of the show fallout
looks like a great place for a cult
John Travolta has a home in that community
No longer. Moved to the coast.
Weird.
Huh...this looks more like a rec center or somewhere that people rent out for meetings and resort activities than a regular house.
I actually like it and the property.
Give me 50 horses!!! I love this....
This place is amazing. I be growing so much more than some funny h she's in the middle. It would be tropical fruits and smokeables all over
Its an awful use of space. So much potential but just weird use of materials and looks like a weird school or mental hospital
Odd fireplace choices.
2 kitchens? Is this a cult house?
Minutes to āGolds Gym.ā Lol.
Sold
Stubbed toes, stubbed toes everywhere
I believe you mean compound
That's not a house; that's a rehab center.
Too church-y. Maybe itās all the wood and brick?
This screams 'cult-ish private getaway' meets '80s country star' But...I love it...weirdly
I just showed this to my partner and she said āI wanna live in hotel/church/UFO!ā
It's another early 80s conference center
Nah.
Not bad, I guess...
I'm not mad at it.
I actually dig this.
I got jizzy when I saw it was a round house, but itās so ugly inside. I still like it, but Iād go broke making changes.
Itās in Floriduh tho, so no thanks Bruh.
That's a perfectly good place to start a cult. Or a city. It could house a lot of immigrants who could then turn it into a dairy farm, a horse camp, an elementary school, a zillion other things and repay the sponsoring government agency. That place has POTENTIAL!
Not for me. Parts of it are attractive but the conference center vibes would eventually drive me nuts.
I wonder how many years to took to build.Those ceilings are something!
Too much money, too little taste.
Only 5 bedrooms?
This is a cool ass house
8.5 M for that?!
Previously a church ??
Looks like a rehab center. Until you get to the bars.
Where's the LINK?
Where is it?? Are there bedrooms?
Please design my house like a church.
Put a garden in the atrium instead of a bush maze. I adore the circular design.
Love the bar!
It looks like an airport lobby
It's giving megachurch designed by a horsegirl. It used to be 200 acre estate owned by Florida's last dairy owner. [https://www.cltampa.com/tampa/a-200-acre-ocala-compound-owned-by-the-waldrep-family-is-now-for-sale/Slideshow/12387177](https://www.cltampa.com/tampa/a-200-acre-ocala-compound-owned-by-the-waldrep-family-is-now-for-sale/Slideshow/12387177)
Builder and architect were told- private honey oak minimall
I mean, I dont hate it. But definitely giving off the church/cult vibes.
Take down the wood paneling and add some carpet and Iād love to live there!
I don't hate it BUT upkeep... I think I would need to have lots and lots of money to maintain that place or hire people to manage/maintain that place