Things Ex's Do

[ABM]

Just wow.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-...wife-bulldozes-12-million-home-232405259.html

There are times when divorce forces people to do strange things. Burn sheets. Throw out clothes. Toss rings into the ocean. But when you get $100 million in your divorce, you can trump just about anything and that's what happened with Tiger Woods' ex-wife when she bought a $12 million home and bulldozed the whole thing.

Yes, according to TMZ, Elin Nordegren bought a $12 million home in North Palm Beach, Fla., but didn't like it, and has plowed the whole thing.

The house, which had six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is now just rubble, with no word yet on what is going to replace the beautiful building you see above, but I guess when you have nine figures in the bank, it doesn't really matter what you want.

I guess we can all applaud Elin on not rolling over after all this happened and continuing on with her life. But I think we can all agree on one thing: Why in the world is she still in Florida? Wouldn't you want to move back home for good?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

shes going to build a biosphere and lock herself inside

 

[Mediocre Man]

I would do the same thing if I had the money. Looks like beach front property. Build something you want

 

[Ed O]

I wonder how much the land is worth relative to what the building was.

Ed O.

 

[ABM]

To be honest, when I first read the story, I thought it was a home that her and Tiger had owned together.....and it was potentially a spite move. But, nooo. Entirely purchased on her own. Crazy stuff.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

you could probably build that same house for less than a million, so the land must be worth 11 million at least

 

[PapaG]

I'm starting to see Tiger's side here for the first time...

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

It bugs me that stuff like this is "news". Who cares! She can do what she wants with her money. When she's caught sunbathing naked, let me know! That will be newsworthy!

 

[Ed O]

you could probably build that same house for less than a million, so the land must be worth 11 million at least

If that's the case then it makes perfect sense. If the location is great but the house is not so great AND the land is such a high value relative to the house... get rid of the house.

Ed O.

 

[huevonkiller]

South Florida is great, can't blame her for wanting to stay around here.

Her new home might also be better prepared for hurricanes. At least that is what I would do.

 

[ABM]

South Florida is great, can't blame her for wanting to stay around here.

Her new home might also be better prepared for hurricanes. At least that is what I would do.

Word has it, it was warmer yesterday in Billings, MT than it was in Miami.

Go figure.

 

[jlprk]

I'm starting to see Tiger's side here for the first time...

This tells me that he put up with a crazy wife for years.

 

[Natebishop3]

It bugs me that stuff like this is "news". Who cares! She can do what she wants with her money. When she's caught sunbathing naked, let me know! That will be newsworthy!

Buying a 12 million home and dozing it is pretty interesting... I don't care who it is.

 

[magnifier661]

There was three houses right next to each other bought by someone in Malibu by some star. It was beach front property. Basically, this star demolished all three houses, so they could build a massive house of their dreams. Actually, this stuff happens all the time. The property is worth more than the house.

 

[ABM]

Turned out to be termites.

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story...uild-mansion-with-same-look-as-old-one-010912

 

[Mediocre Man]

Turned out to be termites.

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story...uild-mansion-with-same-look-as-old-one-010912

Equally important it was not up to hurricane code.

 

[PapaG]

Turned out to be termites.

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story...uild-mansion-with-same-look-as-old-one-010912

By demolishing the house and rebuilding, she'll have created more private sector jobs with private sector money than all of DC combined!

 

[jlprk]

This is an indicator of what's wrong with the American economy. Some people just have too much money. They think of a nice house as a commodity that they can just throw into the garbage.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-malibu-demolition-20120129,0,5858066.story

 

[magnifier661]

This is an indicator of what's wrong with the American economy. Some people just have too much money. They think of a nice house as a commodity that they can just throw into the garbage.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-malibu-demolition-20120129,0,5858066.story

So you think she should just pay 50% in taxes to support welfare?

 

[jlprk]

Turned out to be termites.

As for the house demolished by Tiger Woods' ex-wife--During demolition, contractors found some termites, so she answered the negative publicity with the termite excuse. That's what later articles said. The house could have easily been repaired, but the wealthy bum wanted to waste her ill-begotten money.

 

[jlprk]

So you think she should just pay 50% in taxes to support welfare?

She IS on welfare, a rich person's form of welfare. And most rich people pay a lot less than 15% tax of their total income, like Romney. Name me one person who paid 50% of his income last year.

 

[ABM]

....the wealthy bum wanted to waste her ill-begotten money.

...to the tunes of millions to help support the local building profession economy?

 

[jlprk]

...to the tunes of millions to help support the local building profession economy?

You can justify any waste of money that way. Even interest on national debt goes to banks, which loan it to businesses. So we don't have enough national debt.

Having a lot of litigation is good, because all that money going to lawyers to sue each other is spent on secretaries and pilots flying the lawyers on Hawaii vacations. So this country doesn't have enough lawsuits.

 

[ABM]

You can justify any waste of money that way.

Me thinks that's a tad bit arrogant of you to criticize someone else as to how they should use their hardly-earned money.

 

[magnifier661]

She IS on welfare, a rich person's form of welfare. And most rich people pay a lot less than 15% tax of their total income, like Romney. Name me one person who paid 50% of his income last year.

My mother. She pay's 45%. I am at 42%. And there is no hiding a 45% max; unless you have some outlet to hide your taxes. That's against the law though. So there is a risk there.

Myself; I get pissed paying the tax; but would rather do it than go to prison of get a hefty tax penalty.

 

[jlprk]

My mother. She pay's 45%. I am at 42%. And there is no hiding a 45% max; unless you have some outlet to hide your taxes. That's against the law though. So there is a risk there.

Myself; I get pissed paying the tax; but would rather do it than go to prison of get a hefty tax penalty.

Your mother paid 45% of all her income to taxes last year? Or she paid 45% of some small portion of her income? I don't believe it until I hear the exact details.

 

[magnifier661]

Your mother paid 45% of all her income to taxes last year? Or she paid 45% of some small portion of her income? I don't believe it until I hear the exact details.

She paid 45% of her total income. Are you talking about deductions? Well yeah everyone has deductions like mortgage interest, church tithe, or others like that. But after it was all said and done, she paid 45%. She doesn't invest in stocks so those aren't the 15% you are thinking about. Also all that money she deducted wasn't hers. She didn't get anything in return.

As for me, I can't even get credit for my children because I make too much money. All I can do is write off my mortgage, property tax, alimony, and church tithe.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Because my wife is a writer, she pays 40% tax on her $12-15,000 per year earnings.

It's criminal.

 

[jlprk]

There are almost always ways to avoid paying that rate. The high rate exists to give you an incentive to invest the money in certain ways--to avoid the high rate.

It's like jail. The system has jail not because they want you to be there--it's because they want you to do what it takes to avoid it.

 

[magnifier661]

There are almost always ways to avoid paying that rate. The high rate exists to give you an incentive to invest the money in certain ways--to avoid the high rate.

It's like jail. The system has jail not because they want you to be there--it's because they want you to do what it takes to avoid it.

Yeah the investments thing is a bit scary for me. I lost over 80k when the stocks took a shit. Yeah it was a write off; but it still stung like a mother. My mother doesn't trust any of that stuff. She just pays it and moves on. But even still, she can only make more money with a smaller capital gain. She still has to pay the taxes on the other amount that she made already in her businesses.