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by gyomu 280 days ago
> Truly a peaceful property

What you don’t realize if you’ve never spent time around those ridiculous properties is the amount of upkeep everything takes if you don’t want the indoors to become gross and dusty and the outdoors a wild jungle.

When you have that kind of surface area, you’re not taking care of all the cleaning and maintenance yourself in a few hours once a week. There are countless gardeners/cleaners/repair workers/etc on the property. Nothing peaceful about it.

And you have to also be okay with the labor dynamics of employing such an army of personnel which in LA is… interesting.

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Does it not come with an army of weirdly mundane hopeful monsters who will reveal themselves to you one by one if you buy it?
The lady in the radiator is anything but mundane. :)
I have 2000sqm of land and I feel like 1. the CEO of garden operations, 2. a sitting duck in terms of money and invoicing.
> Too much land to manually manicure a lawn on top of > too little land for john deere to be of any practical help I feel you.
That's why you have multiple properties and household manager.

Most of the maintenance is done when the owners is not in residence”.