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Posted by: BeenThereDunnThatExMo ( )
Date: July 13, 2020 07:50PM

You tell me if YOU think it's worth it...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/911-E-Osmond-Ln-Provo-UT-84604/2080141274_zpid/

Or so it seems to me...

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Posted by: tumwater ( )
Date: July 13, 2020 08:24PM

Looks like a good buy compared to some of the higher class houses in the Seattle area.

My guess that house in Seattle would go for twice the price.

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Posted by: summer ( )
Date: July 13, 2020 08:24PM

The religious art is creepy. I see that the bishop/SP is all ready for his interviews with the office right off the main hallway, and the requisite Jesus art up on the wall.

Apart from that, it's not how I would have used that amount of space. I dislike big houses that are right on top of each other. And the home theater is a joke. But someone with a big family will love it.

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Posted by: nancyanne ( )
Date: July 13, 2020 08:35PM

Was there a wine cellar? Did I miss sit?

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Posted by: CrispingPin ( )
Date: July 14, 2020 07:45PM

I actually had the exact same thought.

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 13, 2020 08:39PM

Should I get a Utah real estate license?

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Posted by: Shinehah ( )
Date: July 13, 2020 11:57PM

Not worth it to me but then I probably couldn't pass the worthiness interview to live in such a rarefied Provo neighborhood.

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Posted by: Imelda Marcos ( )
Date: July 14, 2020 12:36AM


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Posted by: holycarp ( )
Date: July 14, 2020 07:40PM

Looks like a McTemple - what is with the Stake Pres office? ;-) Does one have to hold a recommend to live there? Some of the furniture and lighting looks like it could be the 'celestial room'.

The drinking fountain, screening room for the temple movie, baptismal font (pool) and the painted mural! This place had to be built by ChurchCo.

Back yard is nice but the front of the house and interior are just creepy.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2020 07:56PM by holycarp.

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Posted by: wondering ( )
Date: July 14, 2020 10:27PM

Does your name have to be Osmond to buy it?

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Posted by: jojo ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 11:04AM

Didn’t the Osmonds build their houses there and all lived as one happy family until they decided it was a bad idea to live under your siblings and left? I was told they lived on Osmond Lane.

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Posted by: csuprovograd ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 03:52PM

The City should condemn it and procure it through eminent domain and make it “City Hall North”. It looks like a city building and the address is 911!

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 04:32PM

Looks like Mormonism to me. It is a Second Anointing house. Boring, stuffy, and pretentious.

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Posted by: Soft Machine ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 05:12PM


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Posted by: Kathleen ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 06:08PM

To me, some rooms look eerie, as in pics 24 and 49.

If your children grow up in that home, they'll feel right at home in the temple.

I would opt for a lesser house on a larger (not pie-shaped) parcel.

Indoor swimming pool is nice.

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 09:23PM

kathleen Wrote:
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> I would opt for a lesser house on a larger (not
> pie-shaped) parcel.

That's a lot of house for a very small plot. No room for kids to run around and play.
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> Indoor swimming pool is nice.

I'd sound proof it and make it double as a pistol range.

That SubZero freezer would be perfect to stockpile my Jeni ice cream when I hunker down to weather out the next virus crisis. The master bedroom is larger than my living room! (Can we say "master" bedroom anymore?)

I wouldn't want to live there. But I wouldn't mind the income that could afford it!



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Posted by: notmonotloggein ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 10:32PM

In any case, how does someone manage to build such a seemingly lavish house and still have it look so tacky inside?

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 11:12PM

notmonotloggein Wrote:
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> ...such a seemingly lavish house and still have it look so
> tacky inside?

The exterior is tacky also. Those fat, fluted ionic columns? Gross!

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Posted by: Kathleen ( )
Date: July 15, 2020 11:20PM

BeenThereDoneThat,

After all the comments, what is your thinking on the home?

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Posted by: BeenThereDunnThatExMo ( )
Date: July 17, 2020 02:46PM

I'm with you Kathleen...I'd take a comfy manageable sized home on the biggest chunk of land we could handle.

After all...when you close your eyes at night to sleep all that extra room doesn't really matter does it?

& we certainly wouldn't want it right smack dab in the middle of Mormon-ville!!!

Or so it seems to me...

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Posted by: Tyson Dunn ( )
Date: July 16, 2020 09:47AM

I took a gander at what houses larger than 7500 sq ft that are on the market in my area have for lot sizes. There's a lot of variation, but generally, it's about 1/3 of an acre for every additional 1000 sq ft of house. 9000 sq ft averages about 3 acres of land.

The smallest acreage for any of the houses I looked at was .75 acres for a house in the 8000-9000 sq ft range.

Nothing was as small as a half-acre for houses this size. The Utah houses are too close together.

Tyson

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Posted by: summer ( )
Date: July 17, 2020 05:38PM

It seems to be a trend, but I would never consider buying a detached home that is so close to neighboring homes.

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Posted by: Lulu not logged on ( )
Date: July 16, 2020 10:07AM

Why no green algae in the lake?

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Posted by: britintexas ( )
Date: July 16, 2020 10:30AM

I used to live on Windsor Dr,, right up the street, same ward as the Osmonds. If i remember right that used to be Merrill's house about 1985, he sold it to a Dr moody for around $275,000.
At he time I lived there, Alan and Wayne lived next door to each other at the end of the cul de sac. Donny had moved to another street not far down the road, and Robert Redford lived right by there on Redford Drive . Also up the street on my road was the guy who played "Grizzly Adams" can't remember his name, he was one of a few non members in the neighborhood.
Also on my street 3 doors down Jimmy used to live. And 5 days down lived some guy who i don't remember his name but Brian Blossil lived there too for a while , Maries ex husband.
Houses in that neighborhood sold for around average then in the mid 80's for $250,000.

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Posted by: Chicken N. Backpacks ( )
Date: July 16, 2020 11:50AM

Ostentatious, yes. And I don't see a good room for a model railroad. And where am I supposed to park the tractors, and my old pickup?...

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: July 16, 2020 01:26PM

Chicken N. Backpacks Wrote:
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> Ostentatious, yes. And I don't see a good room
> for a model railroad.

You just saved DavetheAtheist some time and bother.

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