{"id":9101,"date":"2015-11-12T22:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=9101"},"modified":"2015-11-12T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T05:32:47","slug":"fixer-upper-nope-a-tearer-downer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/11\/fixer-upper-nope-a-tearer-downer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixer-upper? Nope, a tearer-downer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9102\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-9102 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slumming-it-771x513.jpg\" alt=\"Slum\" width=\"771\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slumming-it.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slumming-it-336x224.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Realtor.com<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slumming it, Montana style.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve come to: supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.com\/news\/unique-homes\/montana-most-expensive-house\/\">the most expensive house <\/a>currently on the market in Montana is priced at $20 million\u2014and the agent listing it says it will probably be torn down to make room for a bigger house.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Agent Pat Donovan told realtor.com that the main\u00a0attraction is the 35-acre property on Whitefish Lake where the house sits. The house itself is merely a &#8220;log home&#8221; of 5,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, it&#8217;s not exactly the gulag: &#8220;The home\u2019s bedrooms and bathrooms are spacious and bright, and they manage to avoid the grimness often associated with lodge-style living.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the grimness of your run-of-the-mill,\u00a05,000-square-foot\u00a0lodge-style structure!<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the clincher: &#8220;As for who will spend $20 million on a home for the privilege to build an even bigger home? Donovan laughs and says, &#8216;It probably won\u2019t be someone from Montana.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s probably got that right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve come to: supposedly the most expensive house currently on the market in Montana is priced at $20 million\u2014and the agent listing it says it will probably be torn down to make room for a bigger house. Why? Agent Pat Donovan told realtor.com that the main\u00a0attraction is the 35-acre property on Whitefish Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3381,3380],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-realtor-com","tag-whitefish-lake","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}