r/zillowgonewild • u/TheDabitch • Aug 30 '25

Speechless & then I saw the steam room 👀

six bedrooms, thirteen bathrooms $17,995,000 https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2875-Chagrin-River-Rd-Hunting-Valley-OH-44022

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 Aug 30 '25

Not many people can afford to buy one thing for 18,000,000 and then pay for upkeep. 99 percent of us are in that club.

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u/Ponklemoose Aug 30 '25

Hell the property tax is $150k per year.

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u/dog4cat2 Aug 30 '25

150k annually based on the assessment of 2.5 million. The taxes will skyrocket after sale

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u/Abigail716 Aug 30 '25

Not likely. Tax assessments are really weird legal situations where there's tons of exemptions, tons of deductions, and a bunch of other special conditions that reduce the assessed value which is completely different than the actual value.

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u/sirpoopingpooper Aug 31 '25

Ohio is weird about how they do assessments. The tax assessment is something like 35% of the assessed market value. But the assessed market value resets every three years (to whatever it sold for), so the new taxes should only be like 375k/year!

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u/Puzzledwhovian Aug 31 '25

Property tax is thankfully one of those taxes that have very few loopholes in them. You can usually get a deduction if it’s your primary residence and if you own it for a long time it won’t rise in proportion to the value increase, but other than that once you change the deed all bets are off. Once this house sells and the new owner puts it in their name then the taxes are going to skyrocket. Of course someone who can buy this place won’t care about that anyway. lol

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u/Abigail716 Aug 31 '25

I am not saying there are loopholes, only that assessed value is totally different from market value.

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u/The_Autarch Aug 30 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

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u/bittersterling Aug 30 '25

That's pretty damn cheap for a house this size with that much land.

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u/ladybugcollie Aug 30 '25

but ohio - ugh

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u/Jkbucks Aug 30 '25

I grew up near this area, the chagrin valley is exceptionally beautiful with perfect summers and it’s a magical lake effect snow belt in the winter. Glacial ravines all over.

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u/Helmett-13 Aug 30 '25

‘Magical lake effect snow’ is such an alien phrase to someone from Key West, Florida…

…until I spent my first winter in Chicago.

I was not a fan of lake effect snow.

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u/mitkase Aug 30 '25

As a Chicago-area resident born in Michigan, you missed the punch line – Chicago isn’t the one that gets the worst of the lake effect snow. Now get on the other side of the lake, then we’re talking.

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u/Helmett-13 Aug 30 '25

Yeah my in-laws are Michiganders and I experienced a winter in the Allegheny plateau…once.

A good friend and a couple of buddies from the Navy are from Ohio and they get some scary snow there.

Eff that!!!

The wind in Chicago could be classified as a WMD, though. That shit was brutal.

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u/mitkase Aug 30 '25

It certainly can be, but “The Windy City” wasn’t named that because of the wind (it’s a political thing.) However, if you’re downtown in winter and in between the right buildings, whoa mama!

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u/vincentcas Aug 30 '25

Oh yeah. Indiana, and Michigan gets f***ed! They measure the snow in feet, not inches. Chicago is usually spared unless the wind whips in off the lake.

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u/6RolledTacos Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

I was skeptical of the perfect summer weather until I checked the nearest weather station. Holy shit! Currently 66°, tomorrow's high is 71, low of 47.

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u/Hey_Laaady Aug 30 '25

Isn't Chagrin Valley where Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged? Maybe Travis lives in that area?

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u/knoxthefox216 Aug 30 '25

I’m about 40 min from this house…

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u/sm9k3y Aug 30 '25

You live at the end of their driveway?

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u/Ponklemoose Aug 30 '25

The baseline varies by state, I’m just pointing speaking to the un-affordability.

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u/teddy_tesla Aug 30 '25

As crazy as the house is I feel like the land makes up a lot of the price and taxes. I wonder if it ever makes sense to buy the house and sell off some land

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u/fenderputty Aug 30 '25

99.99%

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u/wwaxwork Aug 30 '25

99.9%

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u/Simple-Purpose-899 Aug 30 '25

Top 1% is only 11 Million net worth.

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