Kevin McCarthy's strange real estate saga: A luxury condo in D.C. and a tract house in California

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.salon.com/2021/05/17/kevin-mccarthys-strange-real-estate-saga-a-luxury-condo-in-dc-and-a-tract-house-in-california/


House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has evidently been living the high life when he's at work in Washington. But back in his home district in Bakersfield, California, McCarthy leads a far less glamorous existence, posing the question of how he affords his luxurious digs in the nation's capital.

McCarthy's home in Bakersfield home is a modest, middle-class residence, a 1,571-square-foot tract house built in 1987, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, that the congressman and his wife purchased in 1996. According to Zillow, the home has an estimated market value around $300,000, and according to McCarthy's 2019 financial disclosure he has a mortgage on the home of between $50,001 and $100,000. Salon is not publishing the precise address but has independently verified the location through public records.

An extensive search of media records suggests that McCarthy rarely or never conducts interviews or poses for photographs at his Bakersfield home. In 2014, when The Brody File sat down for an "at home" interview with McCarthy and his wife in Bakersfield, the conversation was actually filmed at McCarthy's mother's home a few miles away.

Photos that McCarthy has posted on social media, mostly focused on his dogs, suggest that his Bakersfield property is not in optimal condition, depicting chipped tiles, scuffed walls, dirty glass and matted or stained carpeting — the condition of many American homes, no doubt, but a world away from the luxury penthouse where McCarthy has been living in Washington.

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Most likely cause nobody lives there, he just owns it so he can be Congressman from there

TBH I can't blame anyone for not wanting to live in Bakersfield.

[2naSalit]

2. +1

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Fresno is similarly bad, but I do know one very cool area called Huntington Blvd Historical District

My cousin scored an awesome house there in 2009 I think it was ... got it for a song due to the market. She's since sold it and made a bundle. But I used to love going to that place just cause the neighborhood was amazing (esp. for Fresno) and the old house was super cool too.

You go like 1 block away though and it's pretty much a shitshow lol ...

http://historicfresno.org/districts/huntington/034.htm

[Champp]

4. more, more, more "strange" republiQon sleazeballery

Par for the course for a morally bankrupt party