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- What was originally intended to be a luxury property for a high-flying developer in Minneapolis became an eyesore when he divorced and later jailed for tax fraud.
- A local restaurateur has decided to complete the project with an eight-car garage, which you will drive to through a tunnel with a built-in car wash (unfortunately not shown).
- An outdoor pool, a private cinema and a sauna as well as five bedrooms and nine bathrooms ensure that you get your money’s worth here.
Fifteen million dollars can buy you a ton of homes almost anywhere, but Minnesota is the only place where you can get a home on a private island with an eight-car garage and a hidden access tunnel with a car wash.
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The colorful house on Lake Minnetonka was created in 2003 as an idea by the developer at the time, Jeffrey Wirth. Wirth called it the “Isle of Windemere” after Ernest Hemingway’s childhood summer home, but it was a case of having and not having the developer who stopped construction in 2006, also because he was going through divorce proceedings. The New York Post said the property was “half-finished and overtaken by weeds while the price fell to $ 4 million” when Wirth came into conflict with the law and those issues escalated in 2010. In 2012 Wirth was sentenced to four and a half years and half years in prison for tax evasion. Prosecutors said Wirth and his wife paid just $ 7,567 in federal taxes between 2003 and 2005, despite an income of nearly $ 28 million.
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Since Wirth was not in the picture, the unfinished Windemere Castle was bought in 2013 by local restaurateur Kam Talebi for USD 1,875,000. The Post says he then spent around $ 5 million to complete the project and make it look mostly like Wirth originally planned. The builder Wirth originally worked with, David Erotas, came on board to help Talebi complete the construction. Erotas told Artful Living Magazine in 2013 that Talebi plans to “downsize the interiors – which, while pretty over the top, have many of the unusual features that he will maintain”.
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Talebi has now decided to sell the manor house. So, if you want the idea of ​​approaching your garage through an underground tunnel with the aforementioned car wash, you might also love the glass elevator and chandeliers, marble countertops and lots of picture windows that you can find yourself in to confirm that the The sun also rises over the surrounding lake. There’s an outdoor pool, small movie theater, and bar, plus a weight room and sauna, plus five bedrooms and nine bathrooms. All of this for $ 15 million plus annual property taxes of just over $ 71,000.
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It’s not that guests are forced to walk across the river and into the trees to visit, but they don’t have to use the car wash tunnel either. There is a bridge to a terraced car park, says the post, where you can get into the garage from the side. Erotas told the local council in 2014 that by forcing entry into the garage, the owner had the ability to “screen the entrance to adjacent properties … another consideration was security”. Because you never know who will come over to grab a free car wash.
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