The credit for this one goes to Mama at the Real Estalker. One of my favorite websites! SELLER: Donn and Vicki Gunvalson
LOCATION: Altimira, Coto De Caza
PRICE: $1,780,000
SIZE: 4,000 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Truly unique one of a kind custom estate on a one-third acre lot with a spectacular view of Saddleback Mountain and the golf course! Walk to the clubhouse thru your own gate. Every detail is handcrafted with old world charm, yet modern convenience. 2 masters–one down! Media room. Secluded end of cul de sac location. In the process of being upgraded, new paint, carpet, stone floors, slate bathrooms.
By far my favorite reality television train wrecks is the gloriously disturbing show The Real Housewives of Orange County. Maybe you've tuned in to The Bravo to see this stunner of a program on which a handful of rich, tan, highlighted, rebuilt and Botoxed women in suburban Orange County, CA, open the doors of their banal suburban mini mansions and let us all peer inside their embarrassing lives behind the gates of Coto de Caza. In the Season 3 opener last week we learned that hardworking, successful and obsessive control freak Vicki Gunvalson and her husband Donn had purchased another banal mini mansion in Coto de Caza, the upscale guard gated community in South Orange County. Empty nesting Vicki and Donn had already purchased the house and hired a decorator named Frankie to decorate the place in a faux "Tuscan" style, A suit of arms? (OK, I won't digress about the decorating) Anywho, Vickie was having some remorse about downsizing from a 5,000 square foot house into an only slightly less ostentatious 4,000 square foot house. Over dinner with Donn one evening, she fretted about how living in a smaller house and installing a new $250,000+ backyard swimming pool extravaganza might compromise her feelings of success and empire building despite the notion that they would be able to pay for the new house with the equity of the old house, thus being wonderfully free from a large mortgage payment each month. But alas...Thanks to an OC tipster we'll call Penny Lane, we've learned that Vicki and Donn have put the new and smaller house back on the market just 6 months after purchasing the 5 bedroom and 6 bathroom property for $1,650,000. Naturally it's listed with Jeana Keogh (my favorite Housewife) and the Gunvalsons are asking $1,780,000, a $130,00 gain that should just about cover the real estate fees and the truckload of furniture from the Broyhill Furniture showroom. Although listing for the house indicates the house measures 4,000 square feet, property records actually show that house at 3,055 square feet. The bougainvillea covered house is well located for privacy at the end of a cul de sac and overlooks the Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club. The house currently does not have a swimming pool, but there is a shabby looking sport court that Vicki and Donn planned on ripping out and replacing with one of those uniquely American backyard swimming pool complexes with a grotto, slide, bbq center and whatever other new-fangled swimming pool accoutrement that the designer mentioned. Vickie seems like a really nice lady. I hope she doesn't take a bath on this one.
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I see the pictures and it is a nice one . I see all the things are well maintain and it is a lot space so it is a great things.
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All the access is controlled by the tollbooth as well as full-time security staff. If you require extra security, then you can even opt for “double gated” houses. In this, people have to pass through another gate which is also equipped with security staffs. welcome to visit Coto de Caza realtors.
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