Brady Bunch house sold to fan calls it 'worst investment ever'
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The lovely new owner of the iconic house from The Brady Bunch was a fan of the show but the house is a bit of a different story.
Tina Trahan thinks the former owner, HGTV, paid too much money in 2018 because it lacked modern niceties a home like that should have.
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“No one is going in there to make pork chops and applesauce in that kitchen,” Trahan told the Wall Street Journal.
“Anything you might do to make the house livable would take away from what I consider artwork.”
The property was put up for sale in May, with an initial price tag of (US)$5.5 million.
Trahan, who lives in Bel Air with former HBO chief executive husband Chris Albrecht, paid (US)$3.2 million for the house located in Studio City.
She admitted the purchase was “the worst investment ever” and said she plans to use the property for fundraising and charitable events.
“Nobody is going to live in it,” she told the publication. “It’s almost like a life-size dollhouse.”
In 2018, the network doled out $3.5 million — almost the double the listing price — to use the dwelling for the series A Very Brady Renovation.
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While the exterior of the home was used in the classic series, the interior was filmed in studio so the series recreated the interior to match what was seen on TV, complete with its famous orange and green kitchen.
Now a fully functioning five-bedroom, five-bathroom home, listing agent Danny Brown of Compass told the Wall Street Journal the property was difficult to price.
HGTV reportedly debated listing the property between $3 million and $10 million, but he said it was far too much considering it lacked modern appliances or conveniences.
“There’s no normal average family that could move in there and live in it, so it was almost like you were selling a fixer,” Brown said.
“What am I going to compare it to, the Freddy Krueger house on Elm Street or the Home Alone house?”
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