Romneys to Sell Two of Four Homes

[swag]

Source: Fox News

BOSTON -- Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is selling two of his homes.

A spokesman for the former Massachusetts governor says Romney and his wife, Ann, have put their 9,500-square-foot Deer Valley, Utah ski lodge on the market for $5.25 million, and are also selling the suburban Boston home where they raised their five sons. The 6,400-square-foot Colonial on 2.5 acres in Belmont is expected to fetch about $3 million.

Spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said the Romneys are "downsizing and simplifying."

The Romneys still own a $10 million home on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H. and a $12 million beachfront compound in La Jolla, Calif.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/17/romneys-sell-homes/

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You know it's getting ugly out there when the Romneys have to simpify and downsize to a $10 million home and a $12 million home.

[Lebam in LA]

1. Good luck trying to sell anything in this market

[notesdev]

9. It's a better market

than we'll have in two years from now. We're just seeing the beginning of this. If you aren't going to be holding onto a property for the long term, better to sell it now than to wait until prices really bottom out.

[ellenfl]

10. there are still a few gazillionaires out there who can buy. eom

[tekisui]

2. Pre-empting his elite image for 2012.

[rolltideroll]

5. Romney Speech

Here let me write that Romney stump speech for 2012....
"Barack Obama so wrecked the economy a month in, I was forced to sell 2 of my mansions. Vote for me, working people, I have experienced losing a house, 2 times. I have made cuts, I am down to only 3 yeti steaks a month. I can only afford to skeet shoot with the poor 2 days a week. Now, vote for me, the white guy with hair like a robot, so I can get back behind the curtain and continue to plan how I can screw you over."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. That's pretty much it. "Seven house" McCain

really hurt the GOP in 2008 and Mitt has learned that lesson.

I am looking forward to the Mitt/Huck/Palin deathmatches in 2012. :popcorn:

[happygoluckytoyou]

22. Could we call it a tie if all 3 died ? Im voting for the Joe-Joe-Joe ticket---->

Joe Lieberman..... Joe The Plumber..... Joe Mama.....

[Bake]

18. Bingo. It's politics, not the economy.

Mittster saw how well McLame's nine homes (was that the number?) worked out for his image. He's just getting ready for another run.

Bake

[asjr]

3. Well, shit happens.

[AB_Positive]

4. Lemme call the WAHmbulance...

Although hey, I hear there's going to be a fire at the Romney's place in Wolfeboro.... *grins*

(just kidding, sad as it may be I don't even *know* where Wolfeboro is)


Ugh... this is the one politician I wish would just go away. As if we need an even more religious nutjob anywhere near the Presidency. *sigh*

[rolltideroll]

25. Conservatives won't accept Mitt becuase he is mormon.

No joke they actually consider Mormonism a cult, and won;t vote for him. If he was smart he would be running with the Rockefeller republicans, not the evangelical christian vote. On further though, the main strength of our party ( I am assuming we have a lot of democrats on the board, call it a hunch)
We have southern democrats (myself) socialists, LBGT party members,Muslims, and are majority minority. Lots of different viewpoints, lots of exposure to other people. They are so insular that a little thing like disagreement about where Jesus went after he died, which has n9thing to do with policy, would let them exclude an intelligent person. Democrats rarely do this.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

26. Yeah if Mittens actually wanted to accomplish something, he could renounce the fundie part of the

coalition and resurrect Rockefeller Republicanism and eschew the knuckle draggism of the current GOP.

But the man has no courage. He'll just go along with the current stupidity, and he is naive enough to think that American fundie Christians will see him as just another one of them.

[marylanddem]

6. Lake Winnipesaukee

was the vacation site of Bill Murray's psychiatrist, played by Richard Dreyfuss, in "What About Bob?"
the funniest Bill Murray movie ever.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. " Bob never goes away"

I see that one at least once a year.
right up there with Young Frankenstein.

[underpants]

17. but it was filmed at Smith Mountain Lake in Va.

Man made


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneta,_Virginia

[Magleetis]

11. Rich, privileged, elitist

assholes. $5.25 Million Utah ski lodge? Give me a F'n break. They have no idea what it is like to live in real America.

[HopeHoops]

12. Oh the poor baby. I hope his hair didn't take too much damage from the stress!

[Bake]

19. Nothing his colorist and some Freeze & Shine won't fix.

:hi:

Bake

[CountAllVotes]

23. what hair?

that shake and bake hairdo of his has got to go (house goes with it!)! }(

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

:dem:

[Tesha]

13. Maybe he can make some travelling bags from the Belmont carpets?

And even as the carpetbagger leaves, his
higher-than-everything Mormon temple steeple
will remain, an eyesore forever.

[treestar]

14. Aw, gee, next thing you know, the McCains will have to sell

one of theirs! :nopity:

[No Elephants]

15. Hey, Mitt. Massachusetts called. It said, "Thanks for the budget deficit you racked up during

the good economic times, you junior turdblossom."

[Ian David]

16. Lake Winnipesaukee whale-watching tours are a rip-off. n/t

[sofa king]

20. They're teetering on the brink of second homelessness.

Quick! Someone cut their capital gains taxes before they become peons!

[happygoluckytoyou]

21. MITT ROMNEY.... soon to buy a pick-up truck and start clearing brush ! ! ! WHATTA PHONEY ! ! !

hey hunny we gotta sell the two smaller 10 million dollar mansions so we look poor.... put a couple of those plastic pink flamingos up in front of the big place so it looks tacky... i cant be president if they SEE the money

[Doremus]

24. Let's hope the poor dog doesn't have to move out of one of those homes.

Poor thing's never been right since the last car trip. If he's still alive at all.