Comments on: More Vo Real Estate for Sale: Memorial Mansion with Multiples

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:26:00 +0000

I used to live in the Rivercrest area and would go by this pile. I took the HAR video tour. This wreck of a house needs to be knocked down. The asking price will drop further. I would tear it down and build post-modern. And rip out most of the driveways. Its horrendous and ghastly.And 23000sq.ft is too much house.The property taxes,insurance and electric bills are unjustifiable. Ask the owners of the 23000 sq.ft+ home on Arrowood Circle in 77024 ZIP Code.They’re dropped their asking price from 16.9mil to about 12mil or its for lease.Thank Goodness for smaller homes.Ostentatious consumption is over.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:23:04 +0000

Usually hidden in the master bed and off the kitchen or the theatre with 6 flat screen tv’s on one wall.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:21:22 +0000

Oops. I meant 5 staircases. Of course who knows. There may actually be 8. The other 3 may be hidden away somewhere.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:17:42 +0000

There are a couple of these “incomplete” superswankiendas listed as “pocket listings” as in “not on MLS” in Los Angeles. Many listed for close to lot value at this point. And they are sitting there. It’s not that they’re not a good buy it’s that you’d have to spend a fortune completing the house and part of the fortune you would spend completing the house would be correcting the disaster of an owner who decided to play architect/interior designer. And who wants to bother?

Many sellers in Houston are discovering what Candy Spelling and Suzanne Saperstein are discovering in Los Angeles. Not everyone wants a superswankienda that reminds everyone of a hotel or a museum.

Personally I think there’s something “pathological” about eight staircases. But then I think there’s something “pathological” about Hubert Vo.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:54:53 +0000

I had to do a house like this recently.. It was so mindless and I never want to do it again!!

By: C Nguyen

C Nguyen — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:44:52 +0000

@H Nguyen

I completely agree. It would have no doubt been filled with overly designed and ridiculously priced furniture from *shudder* Cantoni and equivalent. I’m uncertain as to why, to some, having money means spending as much of it as possible (usually tastelessly) and making sure people are aware that you can.

By: H Nguyen

H Nguyen — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:33:43 +0000

Why do people from the homeland have to be so ostentatious. This looks worse than a Kim Son Palace. Just goes to show that moeny doesn’t buy class.

By: K

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:48:49 +0000

“Tacky” doesn’t even begin to address this house… Oh, my.

By: BenH

BenH — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:38:21 +0000

The funny thing about that house is that another one of equal size is going up right across the street.

By: jgriff

jgriff — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:37:03 +0000

I drive by this eyesore all the time. I never new it belonged to Hubert Vo. I wish I could see him in person to laugh in his face at his terrible taste and judgement in building this thing.

It looks like an apartment complex from the street. Maybe he should move the occupants of one of his complexes into this thing.

By: Lab Rat

Lab Rat — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:26:54 +0000

This is just a typical politician; no class, full of lies, and terrible taste. The man should be ejected from office, just for being the slumlord that he is. He made no effort to fix the problems with his apartments, until the press made an issue of it, and exposed him. He’d fit right in with Mayor White and City Council.