RE RE: Romano’s Pad
This Romano prattle is really getting to me — how can you diss a home you have only seen virtually? That’s like having a long-distance shrink, which “Mama” obvi needs:
”However Mister Romano and his family sleep well on Strait Lane secure in the knowledge their neighbors possess similar sized bank accounts including billionaire Kenny Troutt (Excel Communications), former loud-mouthed billionaire politico Ross Perot, and Ralph and Cathy Oats, who made boo-coo bucks selling water filters and Ephedra based weight loss supplements and currently live in a house that looks like a scaled down model of the damn White House. Now that’s klassy.”
The Romanos do not live on Strait Lane. They bought and remodeled this house and then decided not to move in. Who knows why…. maybe it was a difference between the Mister and Missus, or maybe the home is some kind of weird investment that helps them not pay taxes, I don’t know, but it’s their bidness. Erin Mathews and David Nichols had the listing before Doris — that’s when I wrote about it as a Hot Prop in D Home — and actually I thought someone put a contract on it. (Anyone know anything ’bout that?) And yes, some might call Ross a loud-mouthed billionaire politico who gave us 8 years of Bill Clinton but whatever. What goes around comes around. Now re: the Oats: wonder why that house looks like a scaled down model of the White House? Because Mama, DUH, it is. History: a home was purchased by Troy Post on that very same property in the late, great 1980’s…. remember those years? The home was torn down by the buyer because (a) it had structural difficulties or (b) the new trophy wife did not like the lay-out. Then — this is my favorite part — the owner went belly-up and the property went into foreclosure. (Wonder what happened to the trophy wife?) The home that was then built on the property was a replica of the White House, only done up in red brick — red brick, the White House is white, hence the name, I never did comprehend that. I will do some searchin’ on our web site and bring you the stories. I do recall the owner prior to the Oats was a piece of work. She actually kicked me out of a charity event at her home because I brought my “child” (who was 20 years old at the time, home from college) and made the charity drag an oriental rug to the dumpster because a guest had dribbled a bit of iced tea on it.
So now you have it.
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