Ira Rennert Mansion is Largest Home in the U.S.

78 Comments so far

1. rupa on September 30, 2009 3:21 pm

   FYI

2. rupa on September 30, 2009 3:22 pm

   WoW!!

3. PETER PARKER on September 30, 2009 3:25 pm

   THIS HOUSE IS LIKE A MONUMENT WOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

4. Portland Real Estate on September 30, 2009 3:27 pm

   Gross. Completely gross. What happened to all of the land that was underneath there? Why would someone create such a hideous monstrosity? Does he have 50 children and grandchildren that live with him? Is there really a point to having a massive house?

   -Tyler

5. Phillip on September 30, 2009 3:43 pm

   A POINT??? Good Lord, man, why would anyone need a point to buying something they want? Your personal taste extends exactly as far as your personal property, and no further. Ira has amassed wealth beyond our own means through hard work and dedication. You begrudge him spending his own money to make his retirement years exciting and fun? Amazing….

6. katy on September 30, 2009 4:07 pm

   …and I don’t see even a single solar panel.

   In response to Phillip, Yes, it’s an elaborate (some would argue) beautiful place, but here’s the problem: this man has amassed a $200million pad, no doubt as a monument to himself for all the money he’s managed to cull, but it’s reflective of a morally bankrupct perspective on life and self. It’s a self reflection that is dependent on the power staying on because if it ever goes out, that place’ll become more like a salt box mausoleum than a mansion.

7. wheba on September 30, 2009 4:23 pm

   That’s amazing…. and crazy as well

8. Justin Louie on September 30, 2009 4:32 pm

   “Excuse me? Oh heavens no, I’m not compensating. Yes, the bathroom is on the left, 23rd door past the pool-tennis-court-hybrid-helicopter-pad.”

9. Benjamin on September 30, 2009 5:11 pm

   This is what makes the US so great (and hopefully it stays this way!), it’s a meritocracy and if you work hard as Ira seems to have done, you become rich and you can do anything you want including building a big house for yourself! On another note, good luck when it comes time to sell… not many people can afford a 200M house.

10. Gainesville Real Estate on September 30, 2009 5:32 pm

    Probably too much walking in a house that large.

11. Free Loan Modification Kit on September 30, 2009 8:48 pm

    Wow at least its someone who actually earned it Good Job

12. jyenne on October 1, 2009 6:30 am

    Now, where did I leave those car keys???

13. Veronica on October 1, 2009 6:44 am

    Kick ass dude!!! I love it and I think its great!!! We waste so many tax dollars on trivial things and have nothing to show for it. He is smart to invest in something that will last forever. I hope I am related to him in some way. I would love to vacation there!!!

    Enjoy your life. I’m happy for him and am inspired to get out there and make more money so I can enjoy life to the fullest!!!

    Could of been spent on terrorism, topless bars, weaponry or an array of evil items to harm people. This is a HOME people. Be happy for the man. I am.

14. James Wagner on October 1, 2009 7:09 am

    Typical clueless (some) comments. Rennart’s companies have the WORST environmental records of any US companies. Does this matter to any of you? If his factories/plants were (not a chance) located in the Hamptons, he would be run out of town.

    This home is exactly what greed at ANY cost produces.

    Celebrate hard work? Yes…of course. Celebrate hard work that destroys OUR…yes, we the people of the USA…land, our water, our air? Are you plain stupid or do you just not give a damn about anything pertaining to Mother Earth?

    The man is an arrogant pig…period. NO ONE needs a home (if that is what one calls this monstrosity)
    anywhere close to this size.

    Ask Rennart what he has done to help those less fortunate…remember…we ARE our brother’s keepers.

    We are not to be judged by what THINGS we have, but by what we give of ourselves to others.

    Even in the over-the-top Hamptons, where I used to live, this house is in extremely poor taste.

    Who got paid off to allow this to happen??? hmmm?

15. Mike on October 1, 2009 7:25 am

    Good for Ira! It reminds me of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, which could easily be triple this size. In fact, I assume Biltmore was the largest home in the US, but since it now is a museum, it doesn’t count. This estate is beautiful and will make a wonderful museum to capitalism one day. Anyone who has an issue with it - oh well - go spend your money on some green solar shanty in the middle of some woods - OUTSIDE the US - we don’t want you here.

16. Bill on October 1, 2009 7:43 am

    Wow, some of the comments. Does anyone not realize he HAD to build a house this big, either that or let Uncle Sam take it in taxes. That would suit some of you as we are “our brothers keepers”. Don’t let me keep you, you won’t like the rules I impose to use my money to live your lifestyle. Maybe Al Gore, remember him he invented the internet, could help Ira with his “greeness” after all he lives in a wonderful house that has no “green” in it either. Class envy is a wonderful tool that politicians use to keep the masses at each others throats while they screw us without even saying thank you.
    Sorry, I gotta go with the yea crowd on this one. Nice house, hope one day I’m in a position to do the same. I’ll heat it with natural gas though, not much of that in the desert. We have plenty here!

17. AMERIKA ONE on October 1, 2009 8:31 am

    wow, just think of all the tradesman, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, landscapers and others employed in building such a home.

    i know they’d rather be at home collecting welfare.

18. Dudebuddy on October 1, 2009 9:23 am

    You can say what you like about this mans character for building such a large house. Call it a waste or whatever you like. But instead of letting his millions sit in a bank somewhere, he employeed countless numbers of workers for years and bought building materials from local businesses. I say if you got it spend it.

19. Steve on October 1, 2009 10:42 am

    Mike, you are spoken like a true arse. It’s people like you who give our country a bad name. I bet you drive around in some sort of giant SUV, angry at the world, thinking you own the road, while your kid is at home, being taken care of by some underpaid nanny. You my friend would make a great executive at a health insurance company or big tobacco!!

20. Hyderabad Real Estate on October 1, 2009 11:37 am

    That surely is a King’s home. Lucky Ira Rennert, you’ve got the luck on your side.

21. Solis on October 1, 2009 12:22 pm

    Lawd o Lawd. This is every chile’s dream … playing hide-n-seek can take weeks! Def’ntly ganna need my On-Star GPS Navigation System just to go to the bathroom!

22. Bud on October 1, 2009 1:16 pm

    The people of Sagaponack, NY, should be thrilled. Just think about how much property taxes he pays on the place! Now I would love to have that as an income.

23. Free Loan Modification Kit on October 1, 2009 4:46 pm

    Wow you would need walkie talkies just to communicate with someone in that house.

24. duane on October 1, 2009 8:08 pm

    well I surely wouldn’t buy it…it doesnt have a POOL..a house this size needs at least 6 of them…hey, if you have the cash, spend it; its not like you are taking it with you with you die. woo hoo…

25. Tia on October 1, 2009 9:55 pm

    LOL!!!!!!!!

26. Gennifer Sterling on October 1, 2009 9:56 pm

    It doesn’t even have stables or polo field. I would need to add them.

27. Kent on October 1, 2009 11:54 pm

    Wonder what the taxes are?

28. Greene Sux on October 2, 2009 2:26 am

    Can you believe it? This man is immoral! His huge house has displaced all the three-eyed, spotted geckos, and the sprawled eagle…and the cross-eyed cockroach. We should have an environmental study to determine the impact! Poo-o-o-r Mother Earth, and stuff. Mother Gia is dying!! Wha-a-a-a-a-a! Seriously, I’m very happy to see that SOMEONE is prospering in this crap economy. It gives me hope that, eventually, the tide will turn around. And no thanks to the communist greenies who would have us living in teepees and eating grass to survive. Capitalism R-O-C-K-S! Don’t you forget it! Note to green commies…please move to Venezuela. Your granola-eating, tofu-loving asses are no longer welcome here. Like, eff off, and stuff.

29. Bill on October 2, 2009 5:17 am

    Ref Greene Sux

    We need the commies here, who else is going to pay for the undocumented workers healthcare. They don’t want to make to much and are good contributing members of the “great society”?Where would we go to get the tax dollars to fund all of that?

    We greedy capitilist pigs aren’t going to own up to all of our money that we have stashed in secret bank accounts! Besides that, taxes are for the ignorant masses that cannot figure out how to divert income to offset them. Just ask my accountant! LOL

30. martin margiela on October 2, 2009 11:04 am

    I love this house, it is absolutely fabulous!!!! The haters here are obviously jealous.

    I am as liberal as they come but I still think it’s beautiful and I would build something along the lines of this is I amassed at least a billion in wealth (and a 30,000 sq ft massive condo in Manhattan too).

    I would love to live in this home. To the fool who said you don’t “NEED” a house like this, you don’t NEED clothing either. You don’t NEED a car either. You can use a bus. There is a difference between NEEDING and WANTING something, and Ira WANTED this house because he can afford it!

31. martin margiela on October 2, 2009 11:05 am

    Oh, and it does have a pool, stable, tennis court, etc you fools. Here is another picture”

    http://hamptons.curbed.com/uploads/2009_10_rennert.jpg

32. Ivana Katchokakoff on October 2, 2009 11:33 am

    This property probably has it’s own Mayor, zip code, fire station, grocery store and gas station. … I got to thinking about the poor kid who has to deliver the newspaper every morning … that’s one mighty long driveway …

33. Bruce on October 2, 2009 11:42 am

    Ivana, that’s not a driveway … it’s a landing strip, silly!

34. David S. on October 2, 2009 12:50 pm

    I’m going to pass on the moral question of building a house this large and focus on one thing…I do not think this is the largest house in the country.
    I used to live in Los Angeles and remember when TV mogul Aaron Spelling built his house in Holmby Hills. That house maxed out at 100,000 square feet. Even though the lot was smaller, I believe that is the largest occupied home in America. By occupied, I am leaving out homes like Biltmore in Asheville, NC and Heart Castle, also in California.

35. David Welch on October 2, 2009 12:53 pm

    Location, location, location.

36. oldcheme on October 2, 2009 1:49 pm

    This is totally gross when compared to the Biltmore,
    the 63 acres is meaningless, one acre is 43,560 sq ft, so even if you use the 100,000 sq ft figure, the house is NOT 63 acres. The Biltmore House itself is 4 acres and the Estate was originally 125,000 acres. SEE THE DIFFERENCE!

37. gazdo on October 2, 2009 3:15 pm

    Typical American Bast taste. BIG and UGLY.

38. Roshawn on October 2, 2009 3:20 pm

    Ok people if you were worth a Billion what would you build? I can say this for the man AT LEAST HE BUILT IT IN THE U.S. Did you forget that there are a lot of rich people that buy or build outside the U.S. He is employing a ton of people with the house. Another thing is he probally has his own little power plant on site cause if by chance the electric co has problems I dont think he wats to sit around in a house that big with the lights off. This house is huge but like someone else said is not the biggest really. its the most expensive house at 202 million but biggest house is the one made by spelling at 56,500 sq. ft. His widow was selling it for 150 million. Now that house is over 10,000 sq. ft bigger. His widow is down sizing to a 16,000 sq.ft. condo. Now that crazy 16,000 sq. ft. condo i said, not a house!! the biggest house I fell in love with is only about 7000 sq ft and that was huge to me. The house if for him and his family. I’m thinking all his family and they probably have their own rooms that’s why the place is huge. I mean come on people with big families know what its like to meet up for xmas. He wants to enjoy what time he has left and why not with as any people as he can and under one roof!!

39. Eugene on October 2, 2009 8:36 pm

    If I’m rich and want to live in a 5 star hotel, I’ll rent a suite on the top floor, not buy the hotel.

    That reminds me of friends sitting on their fat you-know-what’s for hours on end in front of a massive Mitsubishi wide-screen TV in a massive tract mansion filled with rooms they never even use. Can anyone spell vulgar?

    There’s a pathology I can’t exactly put my finger on behind people who waste precious resources on pointless extravagances they will never fully use. Even Bill and Melinda Gates aren’t that vulgar, opting instead of use the money for charitable foundations, educational endeavors, and other enduring investments in humanity. Their names will live long after Ira Rennert’s corpse has decayed in his Egyptian Pharaoh sized tomb… unless of course they plasticize his body displayed in a coffin with a crystal window. (I can picture his wife saying “Stop giving Ira ideas.”)

    Mr. Rennert, if you’re reading this (yea, right?) then my advice to you is get Bill Gates Sr.’s book Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime. Perhaps you’ll turn the house into the headquarters of a world rescue mission you will establish, and move into a more, shall we dare say modest 10,000 square foot residence?

40. Adam on October 3, 2009 1:30 am

    I would like to know when exactly it became WRONG to accumulate wealth and reward one’s self. I am sick of people of this hate-the-rich generation. If half these people put a fraction of the energy that they use loathing those with bigger bank accounts into bettering themselves. If you you think you have a better way to live life, by all means then live it! And don’t judge others by the way the live theirs. Be the open-minded person you claim to be!

41. SUSIEQ on October 3, 2009 5:39 am

    WHAT IF IRA WERE YOUR COUSIN AND YOU GREW UP WITH HIM…WHAT IF HIS DAD ENCOURAGED YOUR DAD (HIS NEPHEW) INTO BUSINESS AND LOST ALL YOUR DAD’S MONEY FROM WHICH YOUR FAMILY NEVER RECOVERED? WHAT IF IRA STOPPED HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE FAMILY AFTER HE BECAME RICH? WHAT IF YOU WERE ANGRY AND ASHAMED OF YOUR COUSIN SINCE YOU DID TONS OF RESEARCH AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TEACHER ABOUT HIS MONEY MAKING ABILITIES…WHAT IF, AFTER PAYING CLOSER ATTENTION TO ‘POLITICS IN AMERICA’, YOU REALIZED THAT YOU ARE NOW MOSTLY PROUD OF YOUR COUSIN WHO HAS BEEN VERY GENEROUS IN SOME QUARTERS AND HAS COME FROM NOTHING TO MASTER THE ‘AMEICAN CHESS GAME’ AND NOW PLAYS AMONG THE RICH AND FAMOUS? WHAT IF? ASK ME AND I WILL TELL YOU AND I HAVE TO WRITE THAT BOOK SINCE I KNOW MORE THAN MICHAEL MOORE - WHO ASKED ME AND ONE CRAIG CHEATHAM WHOSE BOOK HAS NOT SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY AS YET - AND MAKES ME WONDER!

42. Deb D. on October 3, 2009 9:05 am

    I do not begrudge anyone “the good life” when hard work and honesty produces success and wealth. Ira spent many many years working extremely hard, that is obvious. He has every right to be comfortable, even flaunt a little. But the enormous consumption of resources for 27 toilets, yards and yards of marble floors and counters, tons of lumber and concrete etc. just makes no sense. Think of the massive amounts of fresh water needed just to clean this enormous structure - when literally millions of people around the world, for lack of just $500 to construct a well, drink out of putrid disease and fecal infested water.

    Yes, this man employed hundreds of people. Duh. I would like to see hundreds of people re-building New Orleans. The pro Ira people need to research who is taking over that land, and from whom. (hint - owners of undamaged homes, current on payments at the time of Katrina, have not been allowed back).

    I would like to see hundreds of people building and improving the tens of thousands of schools around the country so every kid could get an education and have a more equal chance to achieve as Ira did.

    Americans just cannot continue to gobble up resources at the rate we do. We drive six thousand pound vehicles two blocks to our super duper grocery stores where we have dozens of choices of everything! Except in the inner cities of places such as Los Angeles, where not a decent grocery store stocking fruits and vegetables is availble to the people who need it most. Only in America do we have fat and obese people who are at the same time malnourished.

    Ira could be a hero, while at the same time living lavishly himself. Just downsize, and direct those resources for the good of the many, not just the few.

    When I look around, in a home improvement store, or clothing store or a home accessories shop, or even while driving - I am acutely aware that absolutely everything I see will eventually end up in a land fill if not recycled. Since nothing lasts forever, every square foot of carpet, every door knob, every cup, plate, fork, every fence picket, every movie theater seat, will some day be thrown away. If we are to have 10 billion people on this planet in the next few short years, where will all the garbage go?

    Please don’t call me names. I am not a green commie, whatever the hell that means. I live in a nice house, we even have a ski boat we enjoy. But I recycle every scrap of paper, every plastic bag, every can and bottle. I gather the cardboard boxes sitting on the curb in my neighborhood on trash day. I abhor bottled water. I turn off the water when I brush my teeth. I use one paper towel in a public restroom, not a handful. I take my own plastic containers to restaurants for leftovers instead of using their foam containers which will sit in a landfill for eternity, and of course I use cloth shoppping bags. And guess what, I do not suffer, not the least little bit.

    And I fully understand the place of my birth, and the way I was raised, has almost everything to do with who I am today.

    It is my belief one person can make a difference. It is up to that person what kind of difference that will be.

43. Taboozwa on October 3, 2009 12:16 pm

    For the Ira haters . . . get a life. You have to be self made to understand. Americans should not be punished or feel guilty about being successful nor is it the responsibility of those that have acquired wealth to solve the ills of the world. To each his own.

44. Richie Rich on October 3, 2009 1:11 pm

    When all is said and done, it’s his house, he built it w/his own money, to his own taste and specifications, w/his own plans in mind on how to use all those rooms and space, and he’ll live there w/whomever he wants to, family or friends, throw great parties, have wonderful family gatherings, and enjoy HIS life as HE sees fit…get over it!

45. bassmaster on October 3, 2009 1:50 pm

    NOthing wrong with spending the money thats yours …
    Did he make his money honestly or with some inside dealing paying off politicians etc …

46. LA on October 3, 2009 3:47 pm

    A waste of land - how can they find each other in that compound?

47. Jay on October 3, 2009 4:46 pm

    This home can suck my ass. They are building a house larger than this, right here in Central Florida.

    http://www.playground-magazine.com/2009/03/queen-of-versailles/

48. Leksi Wit on October 3, 2009 9:29 pm

    Meanwhile, children and families go to bed on empty stomachs, the lucky ones anyone. Many don’t have homes. Our homeless, huddle beside buildings. How did Ira make his money? Off of those less fortunate. There is no law that says you have to give back to society beyond paying your taxes, including property taxes. Yet, does that make someone who owns a 40,000+ sq ft mansion with 20+ bathrooms, appear as anything but selfish?

49. mike on October 4, 2009 3:30 pm

    BLAH BLAH BLAH Mother Earth BLAH BLAH. I’m happy for the guy. I’m just 30 years old and my wife is 25. We have been saving for a house since we got married in 2005 and now thanks the real-estate crash we are able to buy a 4000 sq foot house on a 10,000 sq ft lot!

    While our house is only 1/10th the size of Ira’s house I feel no ill will towards him!! I’m happy for him and I’m happy that he created an empire that employs so many people in the United States! Were it not for wealth creators like Ira, people like myself and my wife would not have decent jobs that would allow us to live the life we want to live.

    A lot of life’s losers and people who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth, are overly concerned with the trivial things like the environment, endangered smelts, or how many rooms a person has in their house. While I agree that no one wants to live in a world where we can’t breathe the air, the reality is that we’ve done so much to clean things up that there really isn’t much left that we can do without causing millions of Americans to lose their jobs and livelihood.

    This article isn’t about Ira’s company or its environmental record, its not about how many solar panels or wind turbines he has in his back yard. It’s about a rich guy who wanted to build an opulent house to enjoy is final years. More Power to you IRA! I hope that your children and children’s children continue to use the wealth that you created to provide jobs for Americans! I want you to have the freedom to live in a house as big as you can afford just like I want the freedom to live in a house as big as I can afford.

50. malibugirl on October 4, 2009 4:30 pm

    this is not a home, this is a hotel!!! Who wants to live in something like that???? Not me….. you could be married and never see your spouse or your kids for that matter.

51. Ryan on October 4, 2009 6:05 pm

    That guy has an EPIC fail, pointless house, it will mean nothing when your dead…Yeah its big, but the Lord is the granter of all wealth…

52. Paul on October 4, 2009 7:15 pm

    NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!! The Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C. has 175,000 s.f., & 250 rooms. It was built by & for George Vanderbilt, and was the first house to be fully electrified and plumbed.

53. Jesse on October 4, 2009 7:52 pm

    Taxes are $420,528 per year. No thanks!

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55. mike on October 5, 2009 10:03 am

    Hard work and honesty my A$$. Read this guy’s bio. He is a shrewd, greedy Jew. His Renco Group is 10th in the nations largest polluters list. He owns a lead smelting factory in Peru where 97% of the area children have mental and physical disabilities due to the exposure to toxic substances. Of course, no one reading this cares because it’s Peru, and they don’t count.

56. Wombat on October 5, 2009 1:42 pm

    That house does not show wealth - it shows sickness. And this polluting dirtbag didn’t work any harder than 95% of the rest of us Americans - he just figured out who to cheat and who to grease. This person and some of the commenters on here are symbolic of what is wrong with America - materialistic airheads who think money entitles them to ruin the world for everyone else.

    And to the poster above me who called the environment “trivial:” I hope your future grandchildren punch you in the nose one day for contributing to their screwed-up future.

57. Bob on October 5, 2009 4:02 pm

    Men buy large trucks, houses, etc to compensate for small appendages. This man must be inverted. It’s sad really. I don’t envy people like him, I pity him for he must be a lonely, lost soul who believes wealth and material things can bring happiness. However, I do support is right as an obvious hard working American to spend his money how he wishes.
    It’s too bad though, he could have helped a lot of hard working needy people with the same money. Guess that’s why in the good book we read about the camel and the eye of the needle thing.

58. La-a (aka LaDasha) on October 5, 2009 5:11 pm

    This estate is slightly larger than the private college I attended in Denver … and it had 2,500 full time students! And, no … we didn’t have squash courts or bowling alleys.

59. Pete on October 5, 2009 7:48 pm

    A massive disgrace, for reasons others have pointed out above. Oh, and it’s FUGLY. What a waste.

60. Mickey Sorensen on October 5, 2009 7:53 pm

    SO BE IT…AS GOD SAID,’IN MY HOUSE THERE ARE MANY MANSIONS’
    CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY PEOPLE HE KEPT EMPLOYED? HE REALLY DIDN’T DO THIS FOR HIMSELF, BUT FOR OTHERS.
    AFTER ALL, WE ARE ALL JUST CARETAKERS.

61. Brian on October 6, 2009 4:24 am

    I like reading the comments from all the hippies who think this guy should live in a cardboard box.

    I never realized hippies can be so hateful!! Seriously - I thought it was all about love.

    You can’t hate the guy just because he’s made something of his life!!

    Nice house. Good for him and his family.

62. Dan on October 6, 2009 8:21 am

    For the record, Ira, who I know but not well, is one of the most charitable men in the world, good for him that he built this house and many others.

    He is a good man

63. jeff on October 6, 2009 9:36 am

    This isn’t about someone NOT able to spend his money any way he pleases. The criticism stems from the fact that no matter what way you spin this place, the waste, overdone nature of this (humans are only so big), etc. are just so huge.

    Personal possessions (car, bicycle, clothing) are chosen reflections of a person. He’s chosen this building for himself.

    Personally I think it’s tacky, but that’s my personal taste. I would be embarrassed to own that thing. It’s akin to something Saddam Hussein or some of the Arab sheiks might build: huge monuments that celebrate themselves in the most obvious, corny ways. But this last part is purely personal.

    It seems like a classic example of someone having no sense of what money can/does mean - even though he’s amassed so much of it. No one is saying he shouldn’t be able to do that, just simply asking the question ‘why would he choose to’

64. Loan Modification on October 6, 2009 9:41 am

    WOW this place is amazing!!

65. Mark on October 6, 2009 10:05 am

    Jeff, I agree. You think of people like Warren Buffet and his modest sized home in Omaha (although he does own a $4M house in Laguna Beach). He might very well be remembered for being one of wealthiest men in the country with the smallest house. I would venture to guess that he might be remembered for his philosophy on wealth and his philanthropy … just my guess …

66. Charles on October 6, 2009 12:42 pm

    That’s alot to dust! lol

    Since the house is located on the dunes, a hurricane will eventually solve the issue.

67. Larry on October 6, 2009 2:08 pm

    Beautiful Mall, Sad…. Example of the 1% having more than 95% (Very sad). The game is rigged people. I can’t wait for the a$$holes that are screaming how wonderful it is. When they lose their wealth from some health issue or a scam..etc.etc (or are born in wealth)
    One a$$hole gave it up with a laugh. On how the rich hire high powered tax guys to cleverly get out of paying their share of taxes. A$$holes we all don’t start on the same playing field. Some of you have a silver spoons stuck so far up your A$$ you can’t see what’s going on. So your not equal….Money doesn’t make you smarta I love America… To bad people don’t care about others…..ME me me me me me me

68. Jonathan Greene on October 6, 2009 3:05 pm

    The folks condemning this man for using his earned money in whatever manner he saw fit bring one question to my mind: Who are you to judge? What gives anyone the right to say Mr. Rennert is morally bankrupt for his choices? All you Christians judging his moral fiber ought not judge, lest ye be judged. And all you commie tree-huggers remember that tofu rots your brain and you can’t be taken seriously anyway. I just hope someday I have a degree of wealth that allows me to decide whether or not I want to erect a home like no other. I don’t know what I’ll decide, but I know it’s no ones business but my own.

69. J on October 7, 2009 8:56 am

    Jonathan Greene, since I never poisoned a Peruvian village and it’s children with my poison factory I am judging Ira. Tofu doesn’t rot your brain, but lead, arsenic and cadium poison your body. *spoiler alert* you will never be rich. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/12/environment.pollution

70. Quick on October 7, 2009 11:32 am

    The Rennart Mansion and outbuildings appears to be as large or larger than the Biltmore Mansion and out buildings. The Builtmoore claims 4 acres (174 square feet) under principally one roof — a 5-story building (including the 3 main floors, the servants’ quarters in the roof floor, and the basement (with the main kitchen, laundry, swimming pool and recreation areas, and other support facilities in it). The Rennart property shows only two floors (don’t know about the basements); however, it has four large buildings in the main house complex, two of which appear to be as long as or close to length of the Biltmoore, THEN there are the two quadrangles inner courtyards, with large, long two-story buildings on three sides of each of those courtyards, plus a “smaller” two-story building within the four-building complex. Then there is a separate large building for the tennis courts, a separate house for the two pools, and what appears to be a maintenance/garage complex across the main drive from the tennis courts. The Biltmore only has the attached stables (now a restaurant-shop complex) and the plant conservatory as outbuildings. While the Rennart may not have as much square feet vertically, it appears to have as much or more horizontally — particularly if the basements have also been built out.

71. tony on October 8, 2009 2:19 am

    Rennert and his wife Ingeborg have made many charitable donations to various organizations. They donated $5 million to establish the Wiesel Center at Boston University and $250,000 to the Lincoln Center. They also gave over $1 million to the World Trade Center Memorial and established the Rennert Entrepreneurial Institute of Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. They have endowed chairs at several different universities, including a chair in Jewish studies at Barnard College, a Chair in Aging Research at Albert Einstein College School of Medicine, a Chair in Stem Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College School of Medicine, and the Ira Rennert Professorship of Business at Columbia University. They also established the Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at New York University and founded the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University. The Rennerts also helped to fund the restoration of the Western Heritage Wall in Jerusalem (the visitor’s center is called The Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Hall of Light). They also donated about 160 Torah scrolls to communities in Israel.

72. tony on October 8, 2009 2:22 am

    Its property taxes in 2007 were $397,559.00. Based on these taxes, the home is currently valued at $170 million making it the most valuable home in the Hamptons.

73. Kikehater on October 22, 2009 10:33 pm

    Too bad the stupid kike who built this thing hadn’t been born 10 years earlier in Germany. then he would have gotten grilled in the chamber like all of his jew relatives.

74. Cherry Creek Realty Services on November 11, 2009 12:41 pm

    Why on earth would anyone need that large of space? The monthly payment is 4 times the amount of what many people purchase one house for!

75. msouth on November 14, 2009 8:12 am

    For all you people talking about people starving–cancel your cable or satellite television and pay that much each month to feed the poor.

    Sell your house, move into something half the size, and give the money to the poor.

    Why aren’t you doing that instead of criticizing someone who very likely has given more to charitable causes than you will ever make in your lifetime?

    You call it a waste of resources, but you have a ski boat–is that a _need_? Is that something that you should have bought, instead of feeding the poor with that money? You have a luxury you can afford. Hopefully you also help people out to the amount that you can afford. He has a luxury he can afford. Hopefully he helps people out to the amount that he can afford. You have no idea how much he has done to help people. You see this one thing and jump all over it with no idea what this person may have done to help people throughout his life.

    If you want to improve things, the power is in your hands. There are many, many, many more people like you and me than there are like him. If we all decided right now to spend as much on helping people as we do on entertainment, we could probably completely eliminate hunger in our respective countries. If every person in America that had an extra room used it to house a homeless person, we could probably house the homeless of not only America but but several other countries as well. Until you’re contributing at that level, I don’t want to hear any more from you.

    I’d like to see ONE PERSON who has made a negative comment here tell me that they are contributing at that level.

76. Larry on November 14, 2009 8:31 am

    MSOUTH, I own a painting company and I donate money, time and anything I can to help others. You just don’t get it. When you have that much it becomes ridicules. Did you read the articule about just one of his plants in PERU is doing to the people down there. Take a read, before you make a comment like that.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/12/environment.pollution
    People are up in arms about the way this man made his wealth, by harming others. Maybe if he built a $202,000,000 health project to help others after he destroyed the landscape in other countries, Maybe I would have some respect for him. Precentage wise, I probably gave more than he ever did. If he didn’t give the small amount he has given, then the tax man would have taken it. Believe me..I will bet everything I have (Not much) that his CPA had to tell him he had to give something back and it pissed him off.

77. houses for sale tn on November 16, 2009 1:32 am

    This is indeed a spectacular kind of infrastructure for a single family only. On the bases of its history, this is an old house. Maybe this man can offer some spaces for less fortunate since his dwellings can accommodate almost an entire community.

78. Barry Lynn Miller -REMAX on November 19, 2009 5:28 pm

    How many bathrooms can you use at one time. Owner must be on blood pressure medicine has to pp every 10 steps