Have you heard that the Playboy Mansion is for sale but Heff wants to live there until he dies?

At the insistence of a powerful local community group, a Baseline Hillside Mansionization Ordinance was passed severely restricting what you could build on a hillside which mean't we could not then get a building permit and explained why they dragged their feet for over a year delaying our permit process. 

The 40/40/40 rule (work 40 hours for 40 years and retire on 40% of your income).Mostly people dream of owning a $1m+ mansion.

The mini mansion inventory is not there.

If it's new construction, you will have to have a beautiful mansion.

Comps will always be comps - if you stuck a 10,000 sqft mansion in the middle of Detroit, you aren't going to get near the value for it as you would in a metropolitan neighborhood with a bunch of other 10K sqft homes.

I've bought anything from a $400 mobile home to a $20 million dollar mansion to an 18,000 acre ranch and everything in between!

She is number one agent for high end in DPX.. seller was basketball star who fell on some financial woes during the dot.com bust.. so he could not finish his mansion off.. this agent double ended it..

There was also a trend a while back to chop up old mansions into multi-family properties.

So before taking that leap and buying that mansion think about it economically and live within your means both in mortgage terms as well as monthly bills for the long stretch.