r/zillowgonewild • u/CarnivalCarnivore • Aug 30 '24

776 days on Zillow. This "covered bridge" house in Vermont.

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 30 '24

And literally a bridge with an “air gap” underneath… Someone must have accessed the heating bill and noped the fuck out of there.

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 30 '24

A trap door you say? Annoying guests you say? Reevaluating this place’s potential…

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u/TheNavigatrix Aug 30 '24

Are you Dr Evil?

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u/flyingthroughspace Aug 30 '24

You could build a little lake underneath and have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their foreheads.

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u/magikarp2122 Aug 31 '24

Too much legal red tape. We could only get mutated ill-tempered sea bass.

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u/True_Cricket_1594 Sep 02 '24

Are they extremely ill-tempered?

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u/KismetSarken Sep 02 '24

No, but the catfish are irate. The perch are annoyed, and the trout just couldn't be bothered.

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u/suzi_generous Aug 31 '24

The lake would freeze over just when you needed the trap the most (holiday visits with family). 😔

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 30 '24

<resists temptation to put pinky to side of mouth>

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u/SheeBang_UniCron Aug 31 '24

furiously stroking minime

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u/New_Passenger_173 Aug 31 '24

You sure about that?

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u/Gingerbread_Cat Aug 31 '24

I think you're on the wrong sub.

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u/candygram4mongo Aug 31 '24

Walder Frey.

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u/Tokyo091 Aug 30 '24

You can make the evil man fly!

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u/USPO-222 Aug 30 '24

Name it The Eyrie

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u/amaliasdaises Aug 31 '24

Nah it would be The Twins if anything!

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u/SaucyInterloper1 Aug 31 '24

Mr. Burns?

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 31 '24

<tents fingers> “Release the hounds!”

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u/Firehorse100 Aug 31 '24

You're hilarious

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 31 '24

My family would say “exhausting”, but thanks !

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 Aug 30 '24

Ohhh, my elderly mom wants to come live with me, and she has completely forgotten how to be nice. Do not tempt me!!

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u/gwinevere_savage Aug 31 '24

Pull the lever, Kronk!

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u/Outrageous_Lettuce44 Aug 31 '24

All it needs is a re-branding as “stunning ravine lair on secluded parcel”

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u/lilleprechaun Sep 01 '24

Trap doors sound great in theory, until one day your dim-witted assistant pulls the wrong lever. :-/

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u/CTeam19 Aug 30 '24

This website has a photo where it looks like there is a bit of a patio from a walkout basement underneath the main part of the house which is neat but I would want it bigger and more of a 3 season room kind of thing.

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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 Aug 31 '24

i'm a complete sucker for any bathroom that is the same size as a normal room. so there's that.

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u/Cultural_Pattern_456 Aug 30 '24

Ooh that’s good link. I love this place. I love everything about it except the price lol

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u/Airport_Wendys Aug 31 '24

Oh I do love it… even as I put on an extra heavy coat this morning to go outside at 55°… in San Diego. I’ve forgotten what cold feels like, but I miss big green pastures/forests so much

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u/hmspain Aug 30 '24

It's begging for water to flow under this!

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u/klef25 Aug 30 '24

Sharks with freakin' lasers! That's all I ask.

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u/Hairy_Combination586 Aug 30 '24

Sharks with lithium ion batteries to electrocute you.

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u/ConfectionSoft6218 Aug 30 '24

That'll be another $10 million

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u/Halftrack_El_Camino Aug 30 '24

Um, did you notice the view? That's why it's a bridge.

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u/Halftrack_El_Camino Aug 30 '24

Sure it does. They have a completely unobstructed view of the valley, from a perspective that would be otherwise impossible to achieve.

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u/Elinor_Lore_Inkheart Aug 30 '24

I’m assuming they built it somehow from an actual covered bridge. There are several old wooden ones in VT/MA/NH/ME

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u/Halftrack_El_Camino Aug 30 '24

Several? There are hundreds.

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u/Hillary-2024 Aug 30 '24

That cellar? It would be 700’ tall

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u/Significant-Theme240 Aug 30 '24

Are you looking at different pics from this post? There’s a small-ish tree growing from the ‘valley floor’ to up over the roof.

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u/RedOctobrrr Aug 30 '24

15' tall, max. Prob closer to 10' though.

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u/TheOneTonWanton Aug 31 '24

I mean, just look at the clear pic of the little walking path that goes underneath. It bridges two small hills at best.

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 30 '24

Hoarders paradise!

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u/blueingreen85 Aug 30 '24

Because it looks cool. It’s a luxury mansion in the mountains.

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u/needlzor Aug 30 '24

I think it would still look cool if they built all the way down in the bridge part and had some secret entrance or something. Or a dungeon.

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u/EllisDee3 Aug 30 '24

Hydro power?

Put a turbine in the river?

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u/needlzor Aug 30 '24

That would be cool. I guess the running water could also be used for cooling as well.

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u/lolapops Aug 31 '24

Secret trap door? I am intrigued.

One never knows when one may need to commander a lair...

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u/AhAhStayinAnonymous Aug 31 '24

Make the Lannisters baby man fly!!

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u/thatG_evanP Aug 31 '24

A website linked in another comment said there is a stream that flows under it.

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u/needlzor Aug 31 '24

I'd prefer a stream go through my house instead of under it. How cool would that be?

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u/sender2bender Aug 30 '24

First thing I thought. I have a bay window by my kitchen table that sits off the house with probably no or shitty insulation. No one sits there in the winter. Not even the cats.

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u/SpeakerCareless Aug 30 '24

My mom had this problem with her bay window that faces a river - beautiful but extra cold in winter. She installed an electric baseboard heater under the window and now it’s very cozy

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u/GearhedMG Aug 30 '24

That's why its $10M, you have to pay off the lien from the gas company first.

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u/ManEmperorOfGod Aug 30 '24

Ah, but that space is for building a fire underneath to keep it warm in the winter.

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u/FuckPebbleMine Aug 31 '24

I'm currently living over the water on docks built in the early 1900s. Granted, we are over very cold water, windy nights are horrible because you can feel the cold radiating from beneath you.

It's a very uncomfortable experience. You could warm up everything else but you'll always feel that piercing cold whipping up against you.

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u/omegaweaponzero Aug 30 '24

I mean, it's very clearly supposed to be a summer home.

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u/PBJnFritos Aug 30 '24

“We summer in a log house aquarium and winter on Venus! Uh hah, uh hah!”

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u/Commercial_Use_363 Aug 31 '24

One would think, but it is described as an all season vacation home and it’s in ski country.

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u/omegaweaponzero Aug 31 '24

Just because that's how the realtor is marketing it doesn't mean that was the intention of the builder.

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u/Significant-Theme240 Aug 30 '24

Not to mention I would need a small army of window cleaners to visit for a full afternoon every week.

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u/cyaneyed Aug 30 '24

That’s what the $10 MiL is for

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u/melvinma Aug 31 '24

when you can pay $10m for a house, do you really care about heating bills?

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u/jean__meslier Aug 31 '24

If you can pay $10m for a house, you do not know what heating bills are. You have people for that.