The perks of being a Realtor

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Over the weekend I went into the Kildare mansion...this time, with a camera. Andy and I were lucky enough to go inside once when Cedric was trying to sell some of his dad's classical records. Since it was his private residence at the time, we didn't get to linger for too long. However, now that it is unoccupied, we perused the house from top to

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[inparenthesis]

for some reason i think my mom was in this house recently. she has some clients who buy and restore homes and i think this is one that they may have been interested in. either that, or it was another huge house. it's so pretty! where is it?

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it's off of oakwood, on kildare. first house on the left. back in the day, it used to be on 150 acres...imagine.

[yuriozaki]

I'm so jearous that you got to go inside? I always thought that house is so tacky, it's almost cool.
I didn't know the inside is clean. That's a surprise.
But yeah, I don't like the neighborhood. Chris doesn't even like it when I go to the Kroger in the night. My former landroad's sister got attacked at the parking lot. Now, if you go there in the night, security gard will escort you. Chris's friend has a bar in the neighborhood and is having a headache by his customers.

Also, I feel some curse or something about the house. Like, the person who built the house bankrupted and had to leave the house and move back to Nashville(?). Since then nobody had it for long time. If my memory is correct.

[yuriozaki]

I meant the Kroger on Oak wood. And the sister had pepper spray, so she protected herself.

And I think "Bankrupcy" isn't correct. It was some kind of financial probelem or so. I think.....

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yeah, we had friends that actually used to live on kildare, and they said there were a lot of break ins and crazy people.

[monkeyswitch]

jesus, what is that house going for?

It's my future home!

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only $369,900. and seriously, for that house, not so bad. if this house was downtown, it would easily be $1.5 million.

[seamusmoon]

I have always loved that house. Thanks for all the pics of the interior - the wallpaper is awesome!

I have also heard that Huntsville's first head shop was located there.

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you're welcome!

yes, i fell in love with the wallpaper. especially in that master bathroom. i think it's cause i'm trying to pick a print for our master and there are just way too many patterns i've fallen in love with that are historic and not in print.

that's a very interesting fact, i did not know that!

[babyfevertime]

Where is it? I am trying to find it on Google maps.

Crazy price for such a huge place!!!

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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2001+kildare,+huntsville+alabama&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.038806,56.601563&ie=UTF8&ll=34.749758,-86.584711&spn=0,359.978027&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=34.749675,-86.58471&panoid=Yf4VRYgMwHkddhfrNZYVog&cbp=12,294.8743532277638,,0,5

It's in Huntsville, Alabama. It used to have acres and acres surrounding it, but now it's in a less desirable area of town. Since this post, it has been bought and unfortunately the owners stripped it down and sold most of the detailing to a local restoration place. The historic district tried to save it, but it was too late to enact any laws or anything. :/

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thanks! i REALLY wish i had had my dslr at this point, but ah well...