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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2016, 10:20:06 AM »
Did he move right next to Michael Moore in a gated community?

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2016, 10:21:50 AM »
After losing to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is back to his day job as a US Senator for Vermont.

Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take corporations and rich people down a peg or two.

VIDEO: SANDERS WINS VERMONT, BUT HITS SUPER TUESDAY BUMPS
But now that his campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad.


According to Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake house.

The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.

Sanders’ new waterfront crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.

“We’ve traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips,” Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, told Seven Days in a written statement. “We’ve been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner. St. Anne’s Shrine in Isle La Motte is my favorite church and it is nearby.”
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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2016, 10:42:53 AM »
Lol, 600K isn't anything to sneeze at, but it's pretty well down to earth.

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2016, 06:24:21 PM »
Lol, 600K isn't anything to sneeze at, but it's pretty well down to earth.
Yea but it's a summer home, not a primary residence. A $600K home is an expensive ass house for most Americans let alone a second or third home.


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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2016, 07:32:52 PM »
Yea but it's a summer home, not a primary residence. A $600K home is an expensive ass house for most Americans let alone a second or third home.



Not really.  Unless you are buying in middle/south GA, Alabama, KY, SC, or other rural areas.  $600K here in a decent neighborhood will net you a condo approximately 700 square feet.

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2016, 08:49:48 PM »
Not really.  Unless you are buying in middle/south GA, Alabama, KY, SC, or other rural areas.  $600K here in a decent neighborhood will net you a condo approximately 700 square feet.
Again to most people...in Jan 2016 the median for the US it was $189K and the vast majority of those numbers are primary residences not vacation homes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/median-home-price-2014_n_4957604.html

many areas in the US $600K is the entry fee for a home but that's not the average. Here in Houston in town you're going to be lucky to find an actual home (not a townhome) in a good part of town that was built within the last 20 years for less than $500k and if you want a yard good fucking luck.

If you're all about the little guy you shouldn't be spending $600K on your second home

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2016, 10:06:18 PM »
Again to most people...in Jan 2016 the median for the US it was $189K and the vast majority of those numbers are primary residences not vacation homes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/median-home-price-2014_n_4957604.html

many areas in the US $600K is the entry fee for a home but that's not the average. Here in Houston in town you're going to be lucky to find an actual home (not a townhome) in a good part of town that was built within the last 20 years for less than $500k and if you want a yard good fucking luck.

If you're all about the little guy you shouldn't be spending $600K on your second home

I thought I read that it was his 3rd home. I could be mistaken

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2016, 05:15:41 AM »
He's about 75 and has a large family, too, don't forget.  But good points all around.

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2016, 05:53:03 AM »
I thought I read that it was his 3rd home. I could be mistaken

It is his third house. apparently very down to earth though
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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2016, 05:56:28 AM »
That's good.  I hope he enjoys his summer home and that his kids and grandkids appreciate the work he's done.

When you compare him to these other assholes, he has led a very reserved life and he should see some benefit from it before he dies.  I don't have a problem with it.

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« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2016, 06:02:11 AM »
However, the original Seven Days report included information on how the Sanders' afforded the summer home. O'Meara Sanders said that she had inherited a vacation home in Maine, but the family was unable to make use of it due to its distance from their primary residence in Vermont, so she sold it and used the proceeds to finance the purchase of a more suitable vacation home in North Hero:
     “My family had a lake home in Maine since 1900, but we hadn’t had the time to go there in recent years — especially since my parents passed away,” she said. “We finally let go of it and that enabled us to buy a place in the islands — something I’ve always hoped for.”




http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/10/bernie-sanders-buys-summer-home/

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Re: Bernie Sanders buys 600k summer home? LMFAO is true.
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2016, 06:08:48 AM »
^  Interesting.  Thank you.

So they didn't sell favors, and they didn't order any killings, and they didn't skim from drug-selling operations, but they managed to buy themselves a quiet place to enjoy in their final years.  Sounds good.

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« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2016, 03:05:02 PM »
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