Storyline:
"Every winter, Michael J. O'Connor, the second richest man in the world, vacates his 5th Avenue mansion for his winter home in warmer climes. Every winter, Aloysius T. McKeever, a homeless man, and his dog moves into vacated mansions. This particular winter, McKeever meets Jim Bullock, an army veteran who has recently been evicted from his apartment and offers to share the mansion with him. It's not long before the mansion has a few more guests, including two of Jim's army buddies and their wives and children; runaway heiress Trudy Connor; her mother and even Michael J. O'Connor, himself. —L. Hamre"
Mansions are NOT HOUSING. They are status symbols and trophies (alongside expensive cars and trophy wives) for Hollywood and assorted LA industries.
Typically, they are acquired when someone wants to show they have "made it" -- they were cast in a big movie, promoted to Partner at their firm, etc. etc. etc.
But then, they realize the tax bill and upkeep on those mansions is HUGE. So it goes back up on the market for the next victim, errr... buyer.
@gooba42 **ps don't feel sorry for the trophy wives. Was once sitting at a Starbucks working in an expensive neighborhood, and had an attractive young woman complain to her friends "I'm going to have to get married again, the alimony from my past two marriages isn't supporting my desired lifestyle..." (this was before one of her male friends launched into an anti-semitic and anti-immigrant, anti-muslim rant about murdering people)
@gooba42@ai6yr there's a townhouse unit next to us in this complex that has sat empty the entire year and a half we've rented here. I joke that the vampires live there since there are automated lights that come on at night. Insane amounts of California real estate sits empty or gets rented out as Air BnBs or vacation rentals. Owners are often in China or Indonesia and buy them as investments or while their kids go to school here. It's nuts.
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