In Hard Times, White House Replica Goes Up for Sale

[lanlady]

Source: International Herald Tribune

In hard times, White House replica goes up for sale
By Robbie Brown
Thursday, January 8, 2009

ATLANTA: The replica of George W. Bush's desk still sits in the Oval Office beneath the Iranian and American flags. The seal of the president of the United States still adorns the floor mats across the hall from the zebra-skin rug. And the porch overlooking the 75-car parking lot is still called the Truman Balcony.

But soon enough, change is coming to Fred Milani's replica of the White House, an outsized casualty of the national housing crisis.

For the last seven years, almost as long as President George W. Bush has been in Washington, Milani, an Iranian-American home developer, has lived in a scaled-down version of the presidential mansion in Atlanta. A private Xanadu for Milani, a headache for neighbors and a destination for camera-wielding gawkers, the 16,500-square-foot home has become a kooky symbol of this boom-boom city's ever-growing residential skyline.

But now, like the current occupant of the real White House, Milani is planning to leave his home.

"I still do not want to sell," he said. "But I will."

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/08/america/08atlanta.php

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Be sure to check out the slideshow of this monstrosity... he even built himself an Oval Office with presidential seal on the wall. This guy's got issues!

[grannie4peace]

1. i wouldn't buy it!!

[rsmith6621]

2. So He Voted Twice.....

....for Bush......I learned my lesson after the firstime.

[truthisfreedom]

Twice ?!?

A man's only got two feet.

[lanlady]

3. I just noticed something else

Look at the photo of the hedges on his front lawn. They spell out God :loveya: You.

[onehandle]

4. I live within walking distance of this place.

A friend of mine is buying one of his normal houses. He says he's a pretty nice guy.

That's all I got.

[Solly Mack]

5. tacky

[Glorfindel]

6. Agreed...gloriously tacky!

Almost, but not quite, "trash with class."

[fjc]

7. The owner is the "developer" responsible for all those McMansions..

in the Atlanta area. They're the SUV's of the housing industry.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I like that phrase.