Rumer Willis Buys Half of a House

A few days ago gossip queen Perez Hilton dropped a celebrity real estate tidbit about Tinseltown scion, former Golden Globe gurl, and way too big for her barely accomplished britches ack-truss Rumer Willis buying a house in Los Angeles, CA.

Property records do indeed show that in late October of 2009, Miss Willis paid $971,500 to purchase an 1,846 square foot, single story ranch style house in Los Angeles' legendary Laurel Canyon area. As far as Your Mama can tell, the property was never on the open market. A closer look at the property records reveals that Miss Willis owns only 50% of the gated and hedged 2 bedroom and 3 pooper property. The other half, the children may find inneresting to learn, is owned by her Twitter addict step-father, actor and prolific reality tee-vee producer Ashton Kutcher.

Until doing a wee bit o' research on the interweb, Your Mama had no idea that Miss Willis currently plays a teenage lesbian on the tragic redux of Beverly Hills 90210. But she does and, ironically, her new nearby neighbors include singing superstar and real life lesbian k.d. lang and ladee luvin' gym jock/reality tee-vee "star" Jackie Warner. Other neighbors include soo-blime actress Stockard Channing, and colossally compensated comedian Will Ferrell who now owns a compound he bought from yet another real life lesbian, Ellen Degeneres. Just in case Miss Willis goes to route of far too many spoiled offspring of Hollywood honchos, her new crib is conveniently located a quick car ride from the celeb-friendly Wonderland Treatment Center where SCRAM bracelet wearing Lindsay Lohan was once not so successfully treated for her (alleged) issues with the booze and dope.

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UPDATE: Mischa Barton

In early March of 2010, Your Mama revealed that down on her professional luck ack-tress/model/troubled starlet about town Mischa Barton (The OC, The Sixth Sense) listed the Beverly Hills, CA house she shares–or shared, we don't know–with her parents and equally troubled sister Whatsername. Our sources snitched–and we were able to confirm–that the property was being shopped off-market for $8,395,000.

Conventional real estate wisdom say that if a house does not sell at $8,395,000, it should probably undergo a price chop and not a price increase as was done with Miss Barton's Mediterranean manse this week when it was officially listed–with a different real estate agent, dontcha know–with a puzzlingly higher asking price of $8,695,000. It's also been put out for lease at $30,000 per month.

Miss Barton and her wealthy parents purchased the 7,607 square foot residence in July of 2005 for $6,400,000 according to property records and previous reports. The gated, three story mansion is located in the same gated enclave as filthy rich HSN-co-founder Bud Paxton and actor John Stamos who Your Mama thinks is a fine specimen of manhood despite his rather bizarre belly button situation.

Listing information indicates that in addition to the 8 bedrooms and 10 poopers, the Barton above has 6 fireplaces, a colossal eat-in kitchen with walk-in pantry, a library, fitness facilities, staff quarters, and guest quarters with separate entrances, private patios, and "hotel style amenities," whatever that is. There are, according to listing information, a seemingly unnecessary cacophony of of flooring materials including carpet, hardwood, marble, stone and tile. The hillside property has views of canyons and Catalina Island, a heated swimming pool and spa, expansive terraces, and meandering pathways that wind along the lower part of the property.

Miss Barton, who seems to have a penchant for bad boy boyfriends and fast living, has in the past expressed interest in living in New York or London but Your Mama hasn't an iota of where she currently resides or what her future real estate plans may be.

Mish Mash Monday

Let's begin the week with a few mish mash items cluttering up our desk top and taking up too much space in Your Mama's pea brain, shall we?

It's baaaa-uuuck. Oh, low-urhd, heaven help us all, it's bubbled back up to torture all us real estate watchers. That's right chickens, televisions freakiest and funniest house flipper Jeff Lewis is back at the real estate rodeo and has once again listed his white elephant in Los Angeles, CA with an asking price of $2,495,000.

Eagle eyed children and those who haven't completely wrecked their minds on the booze and dope may recall that the prickly and persnickety Miss Lewis last had his meticulously maintained residence in the Los Feliz area on the market in September of 2009 with an asking price of $2,295,000. It doesn't take any flip, flip, flipping of the well worn beads of our bejeweled abacus to see that's two hundred thousand clams less than its current price tag. Someone must be of the mindset that the market is on an upswing...

Let's quickly recap, shall we? Property records reveal that the large lipped and fastidious Mister Lewis snapped up the 3,024 square foot fixer upper in March of 2007 for $1,710,000. The hillside house, a 1960s post and beam number located at the tail end of a gated and quiet cul-de-sac in the star studded Oaks neighborhood, was given a full face lift and a new set of choppers. The arduous renovation was featured on Mister Lewis' boo-toob reality program Flipping Out. In April of 2008, the newly rehabbed 4 bedroom and 4 pooper property was flipped back on the market with a bloated and entirely unrealistic price tag of $3,195,000. By August of 2008, the asking price had been sliced and diced down to $2,595,000. By this point, at least one deal had failed to come to fruition. From August of 2008 to April of 2009 the pristine property was listed and delisted at least three times and from May to September of 2009 there were no fewer than 4 price chops before it was removed from the market.

Mister Lewis is, apparently, ready to pack his bags and load his sassy house woman Zoila up into his Mercedes SUV and head off to greener, or at least newer, real estate pastures. Your Mama expects that the all the dormant house flippers in Los Angeles will be eagerly and anxiously awaiting Mister Lewis' success or failure with regards to unloading his house.

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West coast based Funnyman Will Ferrell finally closed on his Manhattan loft-condo, paying $4,200,000 for a 2,699 square foot crib with 2-3 bedrooms and 2 poopers on West 13th Street in the far West Village. The property was never on the open market according to the folks at Curbed, but public records show the seller, hedge hog Joseph Lanasa the third, paid $4,400,000 for the condo in 2006.

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In other New York City celebrity real estate news, former first lady and (alleged) closet cigarette smoker Laura Bush and her Yale educated daughter Barbara were spotting house hunting in the West Village where the younger Miss Bush currently occupies a rental apartment. According to the Curbed kids, Miss and Missus Bush were eyeballed at 2 Jane Street where the only apartment currently on the open market is a 6th floor walk-up with 700 square feet, 1 bedroom, 1 pooper, a sprawling 1,500 square foot roof terrace, and an asking price of $975,000.

While it's not strange that young Miss Bush might be ready to settle down into a pre-marriage nest, Your Mama does find it odd and even a wee bit suspicious that a pampered princess like Miss Bush–or rather Mommy and Daddy Bush–would consider coughing up nearly a million dollars for digs that require schlepping 6 flights of stairs every damn day but, than again, what do we know about anything?

According to two of Your Mama's informants, Miss Bush currently resides in a 1 bedroom apartment at the back of a very lovely townhouse just off lower Fifth Avenue in a building recently sold by Luke Janklow, the tall and sexy literary agent who brokered a million dollar book deal for Anderson Cooper and who also recently sold the West Village townhouse he owed and occupied with his former wife Julie.

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We will probably be smote down dead by the angry hands of the celebrity real estate gods for discussing this matter and believe Your Mama when we tell the children that we are deeply troubled that we can't keep ourselves away from this bit of "celebrity" real estate bizness, but here we go anyway. Brace yourselves buckaroos because Your Mama is all kinds of bent out of shape about this and we're feeling particularly sharp tongued.

Reality tee-vee "star" and plastic surgery addict Heidi Montag wants the world to know that she and her huzband–the ludicrously and stoopidly volatile buffoon Spencer Pratt–are getting a dee-vorce and that she's done moved herself and her many plastic body parts out of their unkempt crib in Pacific Palisades and into a fancy, new house in Malee-boo.

According to all the too many reports on the matter, Miss Montag and her quadruple double D's have leased a 5 bedroom and 6 pooper contemporary on the land side of the Pacific Coast Highway near Point Dume. Listing information for Heidi's new house shows the recently renovated residence sits on 1.17 landscaped acres, measures 6,636 square feet and, among other luxuries, includes a master suite with vaulted ceilings, double-sided fireplace, dangerous looking sunken soaking tub, a television in the shower–which is stoopid–two walk-in closets, a wet bar and a wall of windows that open to the back yard where a long lap pool runs alongside the hous and overlooks the lovely and lush grounds..

Property records show Heidi's new (rented) house was purchased by it's current, non-celebrity owner(s) in May of 2009 for $4,750,000. The house was flipped back on the market less than six months later and, as best as Your Mama can surmise, was last offered for sale at $5,500,000 and for lease with an asking price of $19,000 per month. It bedevils, betwixts and baffles Your Mama that a seemingly talent-free gal like Miss Montag can parlay her faux fame into a fortune that allows her the financial wherewithal to alter her body and face beyond recognition and to have enough cheddar left over to live up in a multi-million dollar dwelling in Malee-boo. Life ain't fair is it poodles? Listen, Your Mama don't begrudge a person their fame or wealth. We just prefer they to actually do something besides pout, whine and have plastic surgery to get it. But we digress to the point of needing a damn nerve pill.

According to some reports, Miss Montag and her behemoth bazooms plan to live and film a reality program in the house with a couple of other vacuous windbags who, like their friend Heidi, probably don't have much more to offer than large breasts and an embarrassing ambition to be famous. Word to the wise dollies, fame is fleeting and Your Mama recommends you squirrel a few pennies away each month because 5 years from now it's quite possible you'll be living up in some tawdry apartment complex in Pacoima–or maybe Van Nuys, if you're lucky–desperately trying to sell semi-nude photos of yourself over the interweb. Uucchh. Gawd. Pleeze. As far as Your Mama is concerned–and we're utterly ashamed to be concerned at all–the Montag/Pratt dee-vorce drama is just an ugly and (barely disguised) ploy to procure free publicity to promote her new reality tee-vee program, because, you know, that's how Heidi and Spencer roll. Anything for fame. Eh-nee-thing. Your Mama may have stooped so damn low as to write about the real estate "news" of these two, but we can assure the children, there isn't a torture invented that could get us to sit through even 2 minutes of whatever insipid reality program that will come slithering out of this house in Malee-boo.