The Bin Laden Mansion Sits Empty In Central Florida For Twenty Years - Rumors On Future Of Property
What does the future of this property hold ? Im curious to see how it all plays out over time and would love to get a tour of the inside with permission if it ends up not being torn down . Just went around outside for now.
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today's adventure brings me to Colonial
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Drive Highway 50 in Oakland Florida
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where a home right across
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the street from this very busy
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thoroughfare
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sits empty for just about two decades a
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little over two decades
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I believe after the very famous
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residents moved out
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well I don't want to use the word famous
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maybe infamous
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residents moved out even though they
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really weren't just relations to someone
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who was
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moved out in September
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of the year 2001 so it's been 20
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one and a half if my math is correct
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since they lived in there and I believe
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someone else took over the property and
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from what I can tell now nothing is
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happening back in there
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and I've driven past this many many
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times and I'm noticing it's completely
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accessible so I'm gonna just walk over
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there and see if I can just take a peek
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what lies
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behind that wall welcome everyone
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out of the woo here as the recording of
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this Sunday January 8
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2023.
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you can see this pretty much just walk
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right up here too there's no fence here
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there's a little fence over here but
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there's no fence here I'm just gonna
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walk along
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The Edge and just see what I can see
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one sign which is just a
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construction crew sign it's probably for
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down the down the ways
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a little bit but I'm not seeing any
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signage rumor was this place was for
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sale for a long time but I'm not seeing
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any for sale signs I'm not seeing any
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keep out signs I'm not saying stay off
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the premises signs obviously there's
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nothing saying come on in
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there's also nothing out here deterring
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anyone
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from walking in
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with all of my Adventures I'm inviting
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you
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that want to check out for a long time
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and I'm just gonna do it I'm gonna do it
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but I also want to show the condition of
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the front here and then also just kind
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of see if there's anything inside
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peeking in that alerts that it's still
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for sale or it's going to be bulldozed
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rumor was a couple years ago as I was
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saying join me shall you
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this is the condition of the front right
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now there's a tire down here
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not only the tire but you can see
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that it is looks like a truck
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just kind of plowed this down just
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bulldozed this down in every way shape
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or form you see some cinder blocks over
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here evidently a car veered off plowed
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this down or they just took it down on
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their own accord you see there used to
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be some sort of like a gate hinge there
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leading on to the property that's
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looking at some satellite views
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and I thought that there was a pathway
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that went here through the woods but oh
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here it is so this is the turn off here
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that basically just goes through the
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shrubs
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and the Ant beds now a little backstory
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on this
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the family of the bin Laden's lived here
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not the bin Laden you were thinking of
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his brother I guess he had a
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incredible amount
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of siblings brothers and sisters and one
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of them lived here with his family up
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until the events
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obviously of 2001.
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September of that year and
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you know fearing for his safety
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hightailed it out of here
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left the country
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because you know people will probably
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react to him as if they were reacting to
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his brother
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the black sheep of the family obviously
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in more ways than one
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evil man
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foreign
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all right I don't really know where I'm
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going
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in all honesty
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this is completely grown over wow
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I guess I'm gonna go this way
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no one has been on this property in a
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while look at us
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so there's the other side of the fence
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right over there
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anyone could just stroll through there
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and looks like gosh I'm not the only one
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here look at this pathway it's been worn
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out
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a lot of people have walked down this
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I'm just pretty much doing this to
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just cause out of curiosity but I also
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want to document this I guess you could
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say for posterity because what will
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happen is
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as I said the
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there's a lot of rumors around town and
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people have different opinions the
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locals whether they want an apartment
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complex to go in here now it is said
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that they want to build a
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multi-apartment complex possibly high
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rises but definitely hundreds if not
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countless hundreds of Apartments
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scattered all through here
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and the locals don't want that but the
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person who did possibly own this it's
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been it's gone through so many different
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owners hands I don't even know who owns
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this now
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but if Apartments end up here
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everything that's back here will be torn
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down completely bulldozed and I want to
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see if the house is even salvageable
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even in a condition of what it looks
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like so I'm going to check that out also
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kind of been filming all this on the way
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in
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I'm not really seeing any signs any for
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sale signs or any other signs
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Sam what's going on with this place
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this is the this is the driveway
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evidently they owned a lot of horses my
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feet are crackling underneath these
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acorns that are down here
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I had a lot of horses out here there's a
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boat that's
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seen better days and deteriorating
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I haven't done a video like this in a
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long time this isn't usually my forte
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anymore
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but there's a lot of history here and
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something you just kind of want to see
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wanted to see always want to see this
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with my own eyes
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fascinating property beautiful trees
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I hope the apartments do come into here
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they don't tear all these trees out
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here's the lake over here
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lakefront property
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yeah safe to say no one's driven down
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this in ages you see they've already
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torn something down here
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wow this is really something
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the downed limbs but this is beautiful
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I had no idea
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Scenic Beauty through here
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I could see how someone would want this
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it was on the market a few times
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back when it was on the market seemed
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like it was a pretty good deal obviously
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out of my price range but a pretty good
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deal for someone who had
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the money with the lake view
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Scenic driveway
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Sirens going by
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thank you
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this has been a place I've always wanted
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to see for a long time
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and never really never really checked it
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until now
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once I caught wind of the
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the possible fact
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that it was all going to be bulldoze you
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know it's just rumor and speculation
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just wanted to see what was left over
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here
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I think a lot of people probably feel
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that way too
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classic textbook
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beautiful well I don't think I'm using
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that terminology correctly but great
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lakefront property here of course
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there's a fence around the pool here but
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you know the gate over here is open to
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the fence
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with a good view of the pool
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you know this would be something if it's
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for sale
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someone could buy this this isn't pretty
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this is in better shape than I expected
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it to be obviously the grounds need a
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little TLC
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a little bit of
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a
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green algae there
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this is a sweet spot for a house
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just take it imagine taking a dip in
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this pool I mean obviously let's clean
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it up but look at the water over there
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look at the lake people out there
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fishing
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I live here
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100 would live here
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well I haven't really peeked inside yet
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so I don't know what's the condition
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inside is but
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I just love this pool right here along
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the water
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right here on the lakefront
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the name of the lake directly behind
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where I'm standing is John's Lake
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front property a lot of acreage this
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property is pretty expensive
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so I could see how a developer would
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want to buy
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from whoever owns the power maybe the
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city owns it now maybe the town owns it
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Prime real estate
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when you get out of shallow end tables
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I've had a deep end then a shallow end
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it's like a little stage here you do
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like a little Barbecue Pit area there
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you can have some live music out here
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you set up a little canopy
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enjoy the day up the staircase even like
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a barbecue grills over here
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for a big barbecue grill
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you can really have a real party out
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nice
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this is quite the compound
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it's in good shape all right now that
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I'm looking at this
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I really hope they do not tear this down
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that's just my opinion this this needs
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to be bought by someone
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I mean if the price was right
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I'm not really in the market for a house
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but
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yeah this is like a lot of property
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fenced off
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well moderately was fenced off
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now anybody could just kind of walk up
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in here but
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once some residents moved in they could
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fix it all up
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really turn this into quite the
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quite the little compound
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broken out window
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not going to classify this for window
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shopping for a new home by any means but
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the wheels are turning in my head I'm
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kind of daydreaming because I would live
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here I would totally live in this house
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you could have
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you had this quite the little
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little soirees out here you could even
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have you could rent this house as a
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separate apartment you got a three-car
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garage over here
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you got the little Lanai well that's
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like a little walkway to Shield yourself
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from the elements of the Florida rain
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going from the garage or the studio up
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top where you can do creative Endeavors
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in there walking back to the main house
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amazing I've heard always heard about
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this place but I never knew how really
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beautiful it really is
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as run down as it is there's Beauty in
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that this thing was brought back up to
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form
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it'd be very beautiful
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almost sounds like kind of like a
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I don't say like old Hollywood vibe to
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it but it kind of reminds me of like old
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Hollywood
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where you'd see like something in like
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that area
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of course you got a lot more land here
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than he would out in L.A and with the
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horse farm and
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in front of the Horse farm but the horse
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area and all that you can almost have
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like a little mini Florida Graceland of
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sorts
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yeah look at this
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hello
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look at that I'm not gonna go inside I
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could I could hop in the window but
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I'm not gonna go in there
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got the Stables over there for Stables
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small little pump house or some kind of
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horse stable here
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and if you kind of pan back
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hope it doesn't get leveled I really do
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and again this place is set up for like
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two decades
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that's not looking good
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that interesting railing over here
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up top almost like there was a balcony
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but there's not it's like no floor to it
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fast forward 20 years wow 15 years
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how will I be in 20 years I'm 48 now 68.
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what if I was living here in 20 years
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yeah I don't know if I may end up in
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Florida either
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man who knows
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just thinking out loud
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and I'd imagine their property line
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would stretch all the way out here to
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this little
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this little point
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which is great
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I even had an area over here there's the
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there's the boat dock there see some
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fishermen
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out there
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I thought I heard a noise
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like this could have been the old boat
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dock here with these
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metal stanchions in the ground
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give a little Concrete where the water
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is some shells
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down there
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and then a little vestibule
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remnants of a vestibule over there I
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really don't want to step on a snake
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through here
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the fact that there is absolutely no one
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living in the house the shape it's in
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the condition of the yard and there are
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no realtor signs anywhere
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kind of leads me to believe that
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possibly
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the rumors are true that maybe this
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won't exist in the future just putting
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two and two together could be wrong
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but really no signage anywhere of any
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sort
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it's kind of strange
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you know I was talking about how it
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reminds me kind of a la or whatnot hey
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just picture Lieutenant Colombo pulling
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up right here
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this is like he watches Columbo episodes
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I've seen all of them and he would pull
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up to places like this to ask someone
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who was you know well to do someone well
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off who committed a crime
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and he'll pull up right here and get out
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Snoop around ask some questions he had
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his way of Terror interrogating people
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I don't know what word I was just trying
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to say there
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but I could just say Peter Falk walking
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around here
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obviously I didn't film any
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Colombo episodes in Florida but it gives
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me that vibe
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one more question ma'am just one more
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question
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is this place for sale
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or is it going to be bull dust I want to
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know
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I think a lot go Wanna Know
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all right I'm glad I checked it out
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again not the type of stuff not the type
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of content I normally do really anymore
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it's really a few and far between I do
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stuff like this this is way too
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interesting way too local
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and way too relevant relevant relevant
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relevant with the possibility of it not
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existing anymore I just had to
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there's another garage up here
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I get back to my car I'm gonna do a
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little more research online
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see if I can find
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if this place was on the market if
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someone owns it
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and maybe a little more a little more
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info than just walking around
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if there is any ah so where this leads
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is from that guest house over there
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where sounded like
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some squatting in there
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into the garages here
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more garages for Stuff
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a lot of places for vehicles
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for boats
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walk over the horse pen too the reason
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it kind of gave me the you know
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Graceland in Florida vibes
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is because Elvis
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in Memphis you know he would have
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property like this he'd ride his horses
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around and then wear the the main wall
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was back when he was alive he would ride
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his horses down take his go-karts and go
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down go down to the wall
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and talk to people that wanted to meet
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him and say hi to him
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and it just kind of reminds me
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kind of reminds me of that this big open
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pasture here on the front and in the
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house
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about the same distance off the road
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even got a basketball hoop up here
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there's the horse stalls on this side
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there's four horse stalls family living
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peacefully here
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enjoying the Florida
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you know
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attractions weather
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tropical climate and all of a sudden
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our brother did my brother did what
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let's get out of here now
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for good reason probably wise on their
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account
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probably wise see
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they just uprooted immediately got out
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of here I don't know if it was that day
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but pretty quickly
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and lots of country leaving all this
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empty
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and I stayed I was reading some stuff
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online
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not that didn't go too deep down the
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rabbit hole on it
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but did say that
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someone else moved in after the fact for
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a short time but obviously looking at it
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now
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no one has lived here for a long time
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I would love to get inside the house you
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know obviously if someone does own it
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would like to look around in there with
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permission
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but if not if no one does own it and the
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city now owns this
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and it's leveled I'm gonna be very
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thankful
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that I documented all this
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because who knows in just a couple years
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you know even
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next year five years ten years
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this could just be all condos and
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apartments through here and everything I
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just showed could be erased
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from existence
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back out the way I came in
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through the former driveway that's all
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grown over with foliage
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fallen leaves ant beds and acorns
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look at all these cars going by
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how many people I'm gonna say a day but
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have people a week inquire what this is
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park across the street like I did
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and Peru's around in there
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I'm gonna say quite a few I found this
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article from a local paper from back
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from 2011.
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kind of stating some info about it it
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was a five bedroom
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obviously I just looked at it but it's
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five bedroom Mediterranean style mansion
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once owned by Kali
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that was the that was his brother's name
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does it have a price on here 1.6 million
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1.8 million okay now Khali purchased it
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for 1.6 million their owners back in
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2011
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were asking just under 2 million but
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that's been 12 years ago and another
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newspaper article here undated photo
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shows a five bedroom and a ready to stop
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mansion
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owned by Khali this article's out of
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Saint Pete but it does say the home is
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located in Oakland Florida a quiet small
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town 20 miles west of Orlando there's a
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pool horse stable and a four-car
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detached garage fallen into disrepair
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because of vandals in Florida weather
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can easily be restored to his previous
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grander goes over a decade ago asking
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price just shy of two mil and then in
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May of 11 2011.
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another Mansion I guess there's one
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that someone else in the family had in
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LA
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this residence look at this this
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residence has been named by Forbes as
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one of the quote creepiest abandoned
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mansions in the I didn't find anything
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really creepy about it but yeah
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okay this is a lot 54 siblings goodness
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54 siblings that's all I have now
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sitting right here on this very very
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very busy thoroughfare Highway 50
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Colonial right over there
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just just sitting over there
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piece of History it's rotting away
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that's gonna do it for today I'll see in
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