Slog - Comments on Linkage

Comment by yucca flower

yucca flower — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:12:36 -0800

So that's where all of WaMu's money went!

Comment by PC

PC — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:23:13 -0800

thanks, notice how they don't show the street side. what's the address? I'd like to do a drive by.

Comment by there goes the neighborhood

there goes the neighborhood — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:25:38 -0800

anybody else think the picture on the wall in the first photo on the second line looks a little bit like our presidential hopeful mr. obama?

Comment by WonderingWilla

WonderingWilla — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:37:05 -0800

The interior design is kind of tacky.

Comment by bob

bob — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:07:00 -0800

It has moorage, odd for Cap Hill, what on the reservoir in the middle of Volunteer Park?

Comment by Brian

Brian — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:15:34 -0800

Too bad it'll cost someone another $4Mil to renovate the fugliness.

Comment by tomasyalba

tomasyalba — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:26:27 -0800

OMG that is so funny. Clicking on the Windermere "map this" button leads you to a map that clearly shows it midblock on the east side of Federal north of E. Garfield. A quick trip to the King County Parcel website mapping system shows it's 1642 Federal Ave. E, parcel 1130000025, and that Rotellas bought it in 2005 from... famous non-shoplifter "Jean Enersen" Skinner! If Rotella were to get his asking of 6.25 mil, that would be quite an appreciation, no? (Looks like National City was involved in his mortgage on this - I hear National City is widely expected to fail, as it's all but insolvent on bum loan exposure.)

P.S. Google Earth shows clearly how the house backs up to Lakeview Cemetery, which a friend suggested would make it perfect for Halloween TP-ing over the back fence by anybody facing a WAMU option-ARM reset this winter, or a shareholder, or whatever. I'm just sayin'.

Comment by Jerkwater

Jerkwater — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:26:57 -0800

From the listing map, it looks like it's on Federal Ave E between Garfield and Blain. So, moorage at the cemetery, I guess?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:47:03 -0800

Moorage is presumably at a lake marina.

I can remember a time when rich people in Seattle (and elsewhere) had good taste, and hired skilled architects and designers, and had interesting modern-looking houses. Now everything looks like fucking Pottery Barn.

Comment by sllypst

sllypst — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:16:01 -0800

Its probably a picture of himself on the wall.

Comment by mcFly

mcFly — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:53:52 -0800

that picture is totally him

here is an actual photo of the man that destroyed Washington Mutual.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2005/04/19/2002246460.jpg

Comment by blackhook

blackhook — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:27:21 -0800

Agreed, the interiors look tacky, and not even in the Vegas style of so-tacky-it's-almost-not-tacky-anymore either.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:04:22 -0800

And now the grifters at AIG are using bailout money for hunting trips to Englan. But I suppose in George Bush land this is acceptable. Greed and ignorance are killing America.

Comment by rob

rob — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:51:27 -0800

Isn't "rotella" a toilet-bowl cleaner? ...or a kind of pasta, or something?

Comment by Matt from Denver

Matt from Denver — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:24:56 -0800

McFly, it was Killenger who destroyed WaMu. This guy was hired to be his eventual replacement and no doubt played his role, but Killenger was CEO up until his very sudden retirement 3 weeks before the FDIC seized it.

Good job on figuring out the picture, though.

Comment by Matt from Denver

Matt from Denver — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:26:01 -0800

Whoops, that's Killinger, not Killenger.