Have you ever looked outside your window at your next-door neighbor’s home and thought: “You know what would be better than owning this house? Owning that one next door, too!” Maybe you haven’t, since owning two homes, let alone two right next to each other, seems like you’d have to put down a good chunk of change.
Bob Stoops pays $2.5M to become Bob Stoops’ neighbor
At this rate, Bob Stoops will eventually own all of Chicago.
To be able to do this, maybe becoming a Power 5 head football coach, like say Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops, would be key. According to the Chicago Tribune, Stoops just paid $2.5 million to buy a Chicago home that’s literally next door to one he already owns. Stoops and his wife bought the first home for $2.2 million back in 2006. According to the article, the new home was rebuilt in 2008:
Built in 1886, the mansion has a greystone facade, 5½ baths, an elevator, a sunroom, a fourth-floor media room, a south-facing wall of windows, two fireplaces, stone baths and an au pair space on the lower level.
If I had as much money as Bob Stoops, who makes over $5 million a year as OU’s head coach, I would try and buy as many neighboring houses as I could.
I’ve come up with a number of reasons why buying homes next to each other is a great idea.
- If I have that much money, I want to be able to tell my friends at my lavish dinner parties: “Yeah, the one $2 million home was nice, but we just had to have the one next door!” [takes a long swig out of a fancy cocktail]
- Having that much capital would inspire me to buy houses like I was actually in the game Monopoly, in which you can purchase up to four homes. Stoops is almost there!
- If you don’t like your next-door neighbors, you can eliminate the problem by just paying millions of dollars to buy their house.
- Think of all the space for activities you can have with not just one, but two houses!
- You can do aerobics in there — and step class.
- A second house used entirely for housing dogs!
- Did I mention having one for dogs is a good idea?
- Winning constantly at hide-and-seek.
- Throwing a party at one house but sleeping at the clean house next door
There was also a rumor that made the rounds this week that Oklahoma could potentially be eyeing the Big Ten (along with every other conference, pretty much) after its Big 12 deal expires in 2025.
If OU leaves, “don’t sleep on the Big Ten,” writes local columnist Berry Tramel. A lot to offer: money; academic whatever; money; a reunion with rival Nebraska; way more money; accompaniment by some combination of Texas, Kansas, or an East Coast school; so much more money; bigger-name opponents; cash paper; an even less numerically accurate conference name; and buckets of money. Might be harder to recruit Texas, but at least there’s money.
The Big Ten’s headquarters in Rosemont, Ill. is just 17 miles northwest of Chicago, just as a general FYI. We’ll see if Stoops’ Chicago real estate ventures will continue after this latest purchase.
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