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My fav part is on the plane when Kevin’s dad guesses that the issue is he left the garage door open… and is completely unbothered by it. This sort of thing would have ruined my dad’s entire vacation.
Aside from the house, who the hell is going to pay the electric bill.
Does every damn light in the place need to be on?And this is pre-LED bulb days. They didn’t even have compact florescents. Imagine the power bill from incandescent bulbs running for several days.
Jesus. This house has nothing in common with Home Alone anymore. I bet they would bank more on keeping it as close to original as possible, or in other words - do nothing and win.
“who would need a vacation to Paris when you have this” under a pic of the blandest, whitest, most boring bedroom I’ve ever seen.
It feels like a disjointed bizarro dream version. Imagine living there and constantly feeling like you’re having deja vu about home alone
They somehow made it look bland as hell. They added a fucking basketball court? Are they targeting Chicago Bulls players?
I’m having this argument with my realtor right now. She wants me to paint the entire house a boring white color, destroying all of its character; even ruin the wood cabinets by painting them too. I think she’s crazy but the wife is siding with her so I don’t know what the fuck to do. I don’t want to ruin my beautiful stained wood with ugly, white paint. I find it hard to believe that this is what actually sells.
- Take photos.
- Get an AI to paint the cabinets white.
- Do some AB testing.
Bruh, 2 things.
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its not going to be your house anymore.
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Either you trust the realtor or you dont.
Despite sincerely understanding the parent comment’s POV, yours is the correct degree of detachment for such a crucial, life-altering (I assume) set of financial decisions.
Expanding cuz I’m apparently chatty tonight - if you trust your realtor, because your realtor can demonstrate doing their job well (both with your current experience and from prior ones with others), and you the seller lack such expertise, get out of the way and let the professional work (I’m on the clueless client end of the spectrum, to be clear).
If you do not trust your realtor, identify why and fix that immediately, this is WAY too big for well-founded misgivings. That fix ranges from fixing one’s own internal POV to firing the realtor, entirely situational (I’ve done both), but 100% critical before taking further steps. Slowing down is usually better than moving forward badly, too.
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The old home I grew up in still had original wood trim complete with years of partial diy restorations that gave it an incredible visual depth. It was such a highlight of my time there because everyone else’s in town was covered in the same white paint. The only story it could tell was how good/shit the previous owner was at painting
We are getting ready to sell our house and the realtor wants us to paint everything boring colors and it’s killing me. She mentioned white was a good choice lol.
I can’t wait to get in my new place and paint it so I can feel normal again. Who wants to be surrounded by boring white walls all day
Same. Been arguing with the realtor and wife over the same issue. I mean, who the fuck wants painted white cabinets over a nice stained wood? Whoever buys the house is going to have a hell of a time sanding it off.
I went through this last year and was pretty gutted by the process… at first.
When the final bill came in for all the renovations and prep for sale, we just added it to the list price. Our realtor’s thinking was that we could entice buyers with something that is turn-key, rather than just doing the bare minimum. It was boring looking, but you wouldn’t have to change anything because it was perfectly inoffensive, if not without flair. And the buyer gets to finance un-doing our to-taste changes along with the house. Win-win.
The key here was that our realtor had the float to finance the renovations, a crew that could do the work for a steal, and felt our home was a sure bet. YMMV.
Now, my new place… yeah. Still saving up to un-fuckulate what the last guy did.
It makes sense. You want a blank canvas.
Fuck that, let the new owners change it around. Let them build in material costs to their mortgage if they need to. Welcome to home ownership!
We sold our first house as is for 10k over asking, and it was flipped in two years. The new owners did a lot of reno on the place even though it didn’t need much. They replaced carpet and painted cabinets and natural woodwork and that’s it.
Had I put in the work of renovating before selling it would not have made a difference.
Originality is scary to the vast majority of people. And because billionaires need you to do what they want, conforming and following pays off in the short term and can even feel good, and most people are selfish, stupid, cowardly, and irresponsible.
Why do renovations always mean “make it look like a lab, not a home?” Someone get Kevin’s aunt and uncle in New York on the phone before it’s too late for them.
The ideal clients are obviously people who cook meth for a living.
250k was still a shit ton of money back then, not a round trip to the grocery store like now.
Assuming they purchased that home in 1980 at 250k that would be valued just under 1 million today after inflation.
That house would easily be selling for 2 to 3 million now
So I mean after all the damage that Kevin and the wet bandits did to the house of course they needed to have renovations done.
Keep the wet bandits name out of your lying mouth. It was all Kevin. The wet bandits are the real victims here.
Truly! Boobytraps are illegal as hell. Kevin would be having multiple attempted murder charges.
That value may be inflated due to the film.
I’d like to see comparative properties in the same area
Zillow estimates 5.7 mil.
Yeah but also it was like a 9b/6.5br house with bonkers common space
and that trump was in one of them being a creep
once you stop taking politics seriously it’s fucking hilarious that the americans elected a president who felt the need to be in a fucking Home Alone movie because he is that egotistical.
you probably have to do a ton of weed or randomly dissociate after coming home from the grocery store where you spent your life savings, but man once you get there
I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that
The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up
Hell, there’s a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in
the crazy part is that Murdoch and Co.'s grip on america is so strong that he has half the country dancing to his tune, through a combination of stupidity and greed (fox/WSJ/majority of “independent” radio stations etc.)
Well, that parts not crazy, it’s just really depressing.
Propaganda works, and we really should have written a few more laws to protect independent media before everything calcified into place
we did have some media-ownership limits couple decades back…
Bush and Clinton got rid of those
hence why people say both parties are the same…neolibs and republicans have always had the same end-goal
Oh… Wow, I really don’t hate Clinton enough, he really just cut all the straps holding the country together, huh?
He had to be in it because they filmed in his hotel. Imagine Paris Hilton wanting to be in a film because part of the movie is shot in a Hilton. It wasn’t enough that everything in that hotel is labeled “Trump”, he had to show up and have a speaking role because otherwise you might forget who the hotel belongs to.
Nah it was the Plaza Hotel, so it’s very understabable he wanted to make it clear in whose hotel Kevin is
bro looked a lot less orange
also why does everything turn to politics???
I was on a post about beans and people were arguing about politics in the comments
please stop
I don’t have enough depression medicine for this right now
You’re in a post about the housing situation in the US, what were you expecting?
It’s not really that surprising that Trump would request a cameo considering they used one of his hotels for filming.
The thing that I have never been able to get over is how the guy who live in a luxurious penthouse suite and shits on a gilded toilet, that has built his entire brand identity about being a rich douchebag somehow convinced people that he was a champion of the common man, as if he has literally anything in common with the average American whatsoever. I still burn even today when I think about how stupid people are to have fallen for it in the first place.
Now any criticism of him is automatically political, because he got elected to the most important job in the nation. Even criticism of him before he became a politician is being reframed as just disgruntled Democrats trying to tear down Trump.
I hate him. So much.
you know that old joke about how every american is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
or carlin’s old joke about how US politicians don’t just come out of the ether, they’re born and raised in shitty little greedy communities just like themselves
america is finally getting what it deserves, there’s some fantastic little irony in it being almost entirely self-delivered. insofar as if the US-elite werent so short-sighted and greedy, they would have easily been able to stop Murdoch and other propagandists (some russian, some chinese) from tearing the country apart. but they didn’t because the american elite largely don’t care about the US either, they’re just pissed that somebody else has outdone then in squeezing their own.
I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…
It’s always been a joke.
don’t think there’s a point to attribute morality or judgment from a cameo from a then tv celebrity.
he is one of the worst people who ever lived. but i doubt that cameo had anything to do with it.
It’s an easy way to get your name out there. Look at Zelenskyy, dude played a fictional president before being elected. That’s like electing Kevin Spacey for being in House of Cards.
Just imagine Kevin Spacey as a president. Noone would vote for a known pedo and a sex offender, right?
Zelinski, the auto parts King!
there’s precedent for electing pedo felons.
what
Had so many kids that they forgot one for the longest time. TBH they were fine without him too.
And he was a messy little fucker, anyway
are you going to blame the child for developing coping mechanisms for the intense neglect he grew up with?
happy ending of home alone, CPS intervenes at the end
CPS intervenes and allows the horribly mistreated bandits a new home, and a new chance at happiness🐕
That would be at least $350k in today’s money.
And a person who made 250k in a decade then, would make 275k now.
That’s a 500k house easily
oh shit today’s my cakeday let’s goooo
Happy cake day, I think that house will be in the millions. That’s basically a mansion in a Chicago suburb, a relatively nice neighborhood, and in walking distance of a big park.
Edit: fix my terrible spelling of millions, and also judging by other comments, yes it’s an expensive house.
I’d guess 2 to 3 million.
If you put that home in a lower cost of living area sure it could be 500,000 but not in the area the movie takes place
It’d probably be worth way more than 500k. I meant what they paid for it back then would only be like 350k today, despite the house being worth millions.
post: about home alone house
people in comments: politics
me: jumps off of bridge
with bungee cords
That makes it seem like the post is about the house itself and not about limited access to resources. I’m glad you went bungee jumping but this is exactly the type of post it should be.
oh ok
politics totally have everything to do with the cost of the house
Affordability is a hoax, eh? I see what you are getting at.
Yes!
Woosh!
From Google AI:
In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
From Google AI:
So it’s unsourced and likely inaccurate.
There’s a good chance that google’s source for this is just a unsourced, unverified, random reddit comment
So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the house including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.
Read it again more closely. In 1990 in order for them to afford an $875,000 house, they would have needed an annual household income of $305,000 which is the 2025 equivalent of $665,000.
Yeah, I know. I’m saying the new price is unaffordable for the new salary. Even for high salaries, the houses have out paced them.
Brave posting Ai content. Surprised you have more upvotes than downvotes with this crowd.
I’m happy to see things summarised by LLMs, so thanks for the details.
summarized
Oh, then surely the Google AI can tell us exactly what it summarized so we can confirm accuracy, right?
If you’re not happy to see it then move along. Why you feel the need to comment on things you don’t like.
I’m happy to see so I’ll stay and engage.
I’m just questioning the use of “summarizing” here.
Ah by bad.
Is it wrong to use that word in the context I did?
Summarise: verb
give a brief statement of the main points of (something)
I’m not sure, that’s why I was asking about the source of what it’s allegedly summarizing.
That’s a problem with Google AI, you can’t be sure if it’s pulling the data from somewhere or just making it up whole cloth
Ah i see. I guess I dont care (not in a negative way to you) for something like this where it means nothing to me if these figures are made up as I’ll never think of it again and it satiates the curiosity still.
I will say only really trust LLMs with my field of expertise as I can be confident I know when it’s talking shite.
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
Must be the time of day, as I’ve disclosed before and been downvoted to oblivion. This place is exhausting at times.
To think I found people more cynical than me, now that’s impressive.
I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right…
Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.
I’ve got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).
While I think having a clean and clear codebase should have been their priority, patching it over with an AI teacher is far from the worst solution.
