{"id":1046,"date":"2022-08-10T23:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/bulging-at-the-seams-a-round-lakefront-house-in-south-carolina-is-a-local-mystery\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T23:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:05:45","slug":"bulging-at-the-seams-a-round-lakefront-house-in-south-carolina-is-a-local-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/bulging-at-the-seams-a-round-lakefront-house-in-south-carolina-is-a-local-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulging at the Seams: A Round Lakefront House in South Carolina Is a Local Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A rotund lakefront house<\/a> in Inman, SC<\/a>, appears as if it might have had too much to eat. Bulging at the bottom, the residence has gobbled up plenty of interest around the web.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of built a little bit like a hornet\u2019s nest. The second floor is actually bigger than the bottom floor, and the top floors are a bit smaller,\u201d explains listing agent Leslie Horne<\/strong>, with Leslie Horne & Associates. \u201cIt gets a lot of attention. It\u2019s been called everything from a pineapple to a Bikini Bottomite from \u2018Sponge Bob Square Pants.\u2019 We\u2019ve heard it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The home was built in 1977 and is currently available for $650,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a landmark. Everybody on Lake Bowen knows where the round house is,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t know who built it, but the guy who owns it now has owned it since the early 1990s. He started remodeling it, but never finished it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three-bedroom, 2.5-bath house apparently hasn\u2019t been lived in for decades. Only one bathroom is usable and one bedroom is framed.<\/p>\n

Some of the building materials remain and will be included in the sale, but there\u2019s a caveat.<\/p>\n

The owner \u201cbought the stuff years ago, and you need to keep in mind he was going to remodel it back in the \u201990s, so a lot of stuff is outdated now,\u201d Horne explains. He estimates it will probably take at least $100,000 to $150,000 to complete the interior work.<\/p>\n

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The only square element in the home is a column that runs from the bottom to the top of the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why they designed it like that. But you can go to the basement floor and go in a little door and climb a ladder up to each floor,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t know, maybe they wanted to put a little elevator in there. I don\u2019t know what that was in there for.\u201d<\/p>\n

The home has three levels, and the top floor is accessible only by a ladder.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou actually have a little hatch up there you can push open like on a ship or something. You can go up on the top of the house and walk around on a little platform up there,\u201d Horne says. \u201cI\u2019ve never been up there\u2014and I don\u2019t plan on going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pricing the house was a challenge, he says. There is nothing comparable in this area of the Palmetto State. But the 0.29-acre waterfront lot is valuable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lot is nice and level. If the house wasn\u2019t there, the lot would be worth $450,000 to $500,000,\u201d he says. \u201cIt goes gradually down to the water with deep-water access. The lot is worth a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the home\u2019s viral status, Horne says he doesn\u2019t know what to think of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a hard one to explain, it really is,\u201d he says. \u201cYou just have to look at it for yourself. I think somebody would buy it just to rent out or someone who likes unique stuff and wants something nobody else has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MLS \/ Realtor.com A rotund lakefront house in Inman, SC, appears as if it might have had too much to eat. Bulging at the bottom, the residence has gobbled up plenty of interest around the web. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of built a little bit like a hornet\u2019s nest. The second floor is actually bigger than the…Read More→<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}