$550,000 Will Not Only Get You This Wonderful House in Lovely Detroit, But Also 2 Classic Cars To Go With It! UPDATE: News Article Added

"AkursedX" (akursedx) 03/18/2018 at 11:16 • Filed to: None

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One of my friends posted this rather........interesting house for sale in Detroit on his FB page this morning. I can’t say I’ve ever really seen anything quite like it.

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EDIT: The Detroit Free Press wrote up an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on this home since it became an internet-viral-hit. It was nice getting a bit of background on the house and the owner. While certainly you can question Mr. Nassar’s taste, you can’t question his automotive enthusiasm.

I did find this the least surprising bit of this article:

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I really urge you to click on the link and go through the full photo-set as it’s something that you really need a little bit of time to take it all in, but I’ll at least add a few photos here:

From the outside, it at least looks well kept. And yes, a bit gaudy, but it can’t possibly prepare you for whats coming when you open the door....

I don’t even.......

I can’t poop here with all the statues looking at me.....judging.

I’ve never seen one of these outside of a movie.

(Edit: The !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! showed me this incredible view:)

But like I said, it also comes with not one, but TWO cars that are really just as.....impressive as the rest of the house!

Dual air-horns on the hood of a ‘66 Cadillac Fleetwood........

The ‘74 Lincoln Mark IV Coupe doesn’t have the dual airhorn hood of the Cadillac, but still quite ‘unique’ in it’s own way.

I feel like this place needs to be converted into some kind of Museum.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 09:55

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*outside*hmmm... i could learn to like that

*inside*

Flavien Vidal > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 09:56

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You guys have a word for it in english: Gaudiness... Sadly, France has not reached such levels, so we have yet to invent a word that would properly translate into it :D

vondon302 > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 09:56

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Liberace is alive and living in Detroit!

Spanfeller is a twat > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 09:56

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Well, we finally know where the Ford Edsel’s chief designer, Roy Brown Jr., lived.

AkursedX > vondon302 03/16/2018 at 09:58

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One of my friends made the same comment and I think you guys are onto something.

AkursedX > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 09:59

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I don’t think ‘gaudy’ is a strong enough word for what this house is.....

Flavien Vidal > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 09:59

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Also, Donald Trump would most likely qualify this as “classy”....

Spanfeller is a twat > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:01

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I do believe the term “Gaudy” in Europe is simply anything related to Monaco or Geneva.

fintail > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:02

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After a quick look, the only things I wouldn’t gut are the bathrooms. The weird side by side wall ovens in the kitchen are something, too.

It’s a Lincoln...I’ll throw it in if you buy the house.

Ash78, voting early and often > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:04

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LMAO.

This house is so left-handed.

It’s downright sinister.

Your boy, BJR > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:04

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What is this? 90 year old mob boss chic? Classical pimp?

vondon302 > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:05

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How could you not. Just look at it. Hell it might be a little over the top for him even.

You just might come out ahead if you buy it and have a estate sale. There’s just so much going on in there.

Ash78, voting early and often > vondon302 03/16/2018 at 10:05

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Wow, that was my exact reaction.

AuthiCooper1300 > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:05

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But you do have the adjective, right?

Criard?

Voyant?

Figoni & Falaschi?

Saoutchik, at times?

Milky > Your boy, BJR 03/16/2018 at 10:10

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Gotta be pimp. Theres a strip club close by, def was a regular.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:12

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Wow, Detroit is cheap as hell

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:15

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From the listing:

“Unique barely begins to describe this one of a kind Grixdale Farms estate”

No shit. Also this strange bit:

“Only shown on sunny days”

Maybe the owner doesn’t want to sell to a vampire? That is a weird as hell stipulation

Spanfeller is a twat > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:15

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As classy as an affair with, ahem, Stormy Daniels.

At least now no one can deny the man can weather the storm...

Tekamul > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:17

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Clearly being offered fully furnished, with cars, because the previous owner has died

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by his own grateful hands.

Tekamul > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/16/2018 at 10:18

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Probably no current electric service

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Tekamul 03/16/2018 at 10:20

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oh. Yeah. OK, that makes sense.

I would never have thought about that. Houses up here sell within a week typically, we never get to that stage.

Flavien Vidal > AuthiCooper1300 03/16/2018 at 10:21

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Criard and voyant are close... but... I have a two tone first gen RX-7... It’s a bit criard.... Voyant for sure... But gaudy? I’m not sure... I hope not haha

Flavien Vidal > Spanfeller is a twat 03/16/2018 at 10:22

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Monaco more than Geneva... Geneva is pretty nice though, it has its “problems”. Then again, none of those two are anywhere close to what we are watching here :)

Sir Halffast > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:28

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It’s pure Versaillesian.

AuthiCooper1300 > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:29

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“Just” kitsch.

Spanfeller is a twat > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:31

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I mean, no... of course not... European Gaudy-ism is different...But Geneva has a good share of Gaudy stuff, specially some of the people living there!


But yeah, as far as I remember from living there, this is what many of it’s top class citizens call formal wear:

ivnic8 > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:32

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It’s like they found a PepBoys for house chotchkies and just couldn’t stop.

AuthiCooper1300 > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:34

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For quite a long time Japan’s auto industry had, shall we say, peculiar aesthetics. Which is interesting coming from a country with an amazingly delicate perception of beauty, as evidenced by their traditional woodcuts.

Probably the best way to define the property above is kitsch. The fact that kitsch comes from German may or may not be significant: ultimately no country has the monopoly of elegance (or tawdriness)

CalzoneGolem > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 10:37

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What the actual fuck? Scrolling through those pictures filled me with a deep seated dread.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Ash78, voting early and often 03/16/2018 at 10:38

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time to dust this one off:

Flavien Vidal > Spanfeller is a twat 03/16/2018 at 10:44

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Again, this is bad indeed... But gaudiness?? It’s still far from what we are looking at right here haha

Flavien Vidal > Sir Halffast 03/16/2018 at 10:45

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The problem is not Versailles... The problem is people who feel like their own house should look like it :)

Spanfeller is a twat > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 10:46

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yeah, it is a bit overwhelming

Flavien Vidal > AuthiCooper1300 03/16/2018 at 10:50

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Meh, Kitsch is still not there yet... my grand parents’ house was kitsch... it wasn’t gaudy though... Just old looking yet somewhat trying to not look that old...

(not the actual house lol... just whatI have in mind of for kitsch)

punkgoose17 > AkursedX 03/16/2018 at 11:00

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Wow, so much internal screaming. I looked at all 70 pictures.

I also looked at what nearby homes are worth. This is an almost $200k house filled with weird. How do you even sell all those statues?

Ash78, voting early and often > Sir Halffast 03/16/2018 at 11:01

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Sunkingian, even. Marie Antoinnuts!

For Sweden > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 11:39

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France has not reached such levels

My Face When you Suggest the French can’t do “Gaudy”

Flavien Vidal > For Sweden 03/16/2018 at 18:15

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Hey... What was acceptable 300 years ago :)

And in all fairness, we removed that smug look off his face pretty quickly...

For Sweden > Flavien Vidal 03/16/2018 at 18:18

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“It’s not gaudy, it’s classy! It says so right here in the book!”

jkm7680 > AkursedX 03/18/2018 at 11:21

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That house looks like a nightmare.

sdwarf36 > AkursedX 03/18/2018 at 17:43

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Notice the perfectly normal houses on either of this place. Imagine having to look at it everyday? I’m betting the place emptied out would be worth more.

Milky > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/18/2018 at 19:05

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The average price for that neighborhood is $30k, it’s insanely overpriced.