OT - Hoke's House For Sale
Brady Hoke's house now up for sale.
Looks fancy. More pictures available here.
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Agree. If you look closely you'll see all lights are affixed with "The Clapper".
That treadmill looks a little lonely.
Well, damn. I didn't picture Brady's having a super fancy home like that.
That treadmill has to be mint.
I mean, the way it's (almost) alone in that glass-walled room, I have to assume it's strictly for display purposes.
I hear the family dog works out a lot on it.
nothing like I thought it would.
I always imagined he'd live in something more like this....
the interwebs today.
Yeah me either. Hoke struck me as a guy would be content in a generic 2500 sq ft house. Even as a HC. But you have a wife to consider...
Though some live like they're middle class and you never realize they're rich!
I used to bike up on Whitmore Lake road road all of the time when I lived in AA and I'd run on Stein/Maple/Barton Hills. Nice area of Ann Arbor with lots of expensive houses, not surprised he lived up there.
It's right by Stonebridge Golf Course / Travis Pointe CC. I'm actually surprised he was on the Stonebridge side and NOT in Travis Pointe.
Can we start a Kickstarter to buy this so we can turn it into the MGoHouse?
What a great mind you have.
to be live in caretaker of the MGoEstate.
And give up your "exile" status?
Dibs on the wet bar.
Ummmmm....let's purchase it for an MGoHangOut!?!?!?
I'm in the market for a house in the Ann Arbor / Saline area. I'll have to see if he'll take my bid of $300k.
I'm assuming the house didn't execute, with the execption of a certain Saturday in November when it does its job with more intensity than it has all year.
Monday through Friday the house was great and it performed execeptionally well. It was just those unforeseen probelms on Saturdays when the gas pilot wouldn't light, the lights would occasionally flicker, and the air conditioner was overloaded and caused a penalty on the circuit breaker panel that caused the house to be sub-optimal.
There were no such problems, as far as he was aware.
He obviously did not check Angie's List when hiring his "handymen" I believe his electrician Al had problems getting power to the appliances.
House looked great during the week though
It's a bargain at just under $3 million. I'm always amazed at how inexpensive Michigan real estate is. That home would be north of $15 million where I am, without the land because 34 acres is impossible to find here.
That same house in/around the Houston, Texas area would probably be closer to 1.7 million.
I couldn't believe the housing there. I bought a house in the North-East (Humble) area for $280,000 that would have been a $360,000 home easily in the East Lansing/Okemos area here in Michigan.
I was offered a job in Dallas that paid 60% more than I'm making in Michigan.
I passed.
Now you know why I'm back in Michigan, living in my tiny house in my tiny neighborhood, and MUCH happier.
From another member of the tiny house club.
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Yeah, good observation.
Let's start a saying:
"Location, Loaction, Condition of the property and all the appliances the convey."
Needs work.
Despite knowing that the service for that house was once a topic of discussion in this office, I never really bothered to think about where that address was until just now actually. It's about a mile and some change from the subdivision I grew up in, or at least grew up in from about age 12 onwards. Nice house indeed though - the person here who had the job was not kidding in the least.
I now have an even harder time feeling sorry for the guy.
Could Dave Brandon's greatest crime have been criminally overpaying Brady Hoke?
I never got the "I fell sorry for Hoke" theory under "he failed at the job he dreamed of." The reality is very few in life even GET THE CHANCE to do the job they dream of. So that alone puts him in a very small company among people on earth. The fact he was compensated at a rate that set his family up for generations is just icing on the cake.
I feel sorry for the people who have to work 2-3 jobs and come from very difficult backgrounds and are doing work they hate just to live. Not guys like Hoke.
And yes there was no big demand for Hoke. Brandon made the market. But he is used to being in a public company and valuations must have seemed "cheap" compared to the salaries he was used to seeing for leaders. Still made zero sense for a guy who is supposed to be so business savvy - Hoke could have been had for $2M-$2.5M. And he'd walk here...
To be fair, he did have to work for DB for four years. Four years of micromanaging and having to be the "fall guy" for your boss's mistakes on one of the largest stages in the world: he earned every penny.
Not calling you out, but are you covering up Hoke's ineptitude with DB's micro-managing?
Hoke was not a "fall guy" in any sense of the manner. Hoke's ups and downs are all on Hoke, and he was rightly/justifiably fired. "earning every penny" is up to debate.
Someone could just as easily say "I don't get why people would feel sorry for anyone who is working hard at 2-3 jobs in America, even if they're barely hanging on, after all they could be picking through a trash pile in Bangladesh for food."
There are levels of sympathy, but there is no absolute floor or ceiling. I can feel REALLY sorry for Ethiopian children who are starving, very sorry for my upper-middle class neighbor who is having marriage problems, and kind of sorry for Brady Hoke for having attained his dream job and then failing to make it work. You're allowed to have a part of you that feels bad for the guy, regardless of his lot in life otherwise.
I feel bad for anyone who is a good, likeable person who shoots for the top and fails publicly. Whether or not they struggle financially is of no consequence. It's not like there is a finite amount of sympathy in the world and for every ounce you "waste" on Brady Hoke a child in the Congo goes without.
Perfectly articulated. Thank you.
ehtiopian?
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