WHO: Alexis and Jim Bellino
WHAT: New house in Dana Point, CA
SIZE: 7,146 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms
PRICE: Unknown
YOUR
MAMAS NOTES: Listen here my little property-lovin' ponies. Iffin yer
too high fallutin' for or simply uninterested in the (sometimes
schadenfreude-ian) real estate doings of one or any of those boobtastic,
blinged-out beehawtchas from The Real Housewives of Orange County
then spare yourselves the agony of such quasi-celebrity real estate
drivel and git along little doggies. Your Mama will be back at y'all
with the real estate activities of someone y'all might deem more
deservedly famous soon enough.
Many of the
high-on-the-hog living housewives–and "housewives"–from Orange County
have suffered through very public real estate issues and woes. Bentley-
and Hummer-driving housewife Peggy Tanous, who will not return for the
7th season of the flash-and-trash must see reality program, reportedly stared into the gaping maw of foreclosure earlier this year; Tamara Barney and her tightly-wound ex-husband Simon had to short sell
their mock-Med mcmansion in some planned development in some planned
community in inland Orange County where all the houses look suspiciously
alike; Jewelry designing former housewife Lynn Curtin, the too tan wee lamb, has been evicted from not one but several rented homes in Orange County.
Like
many highly-leveraged real estate entrepreneurs in Orange County whose
new-found fortunes declined drastically and/or were entirely reversed
due to the existence and eventual meltdown of the sub-prime mortgage
market, man jewelry-wearing metrosexual Jim Bellino and his
sexy-dressing subordinate Christian real housewife Alexis Bellino found
themselves between a rock and a financial hard place too and, as a
result, dealt with their own very public real estate traumas and
melodramas. As with some of their cast mates in Orange County and
elsewhere, their (alleged) money troubles and ugly real estate matters
played out as part of her/their storyline on the sixth season of the
mega-hit show.
Deeds and documents Your Mama dug up out
of the interweb reveal that by the fall 2010 Mister and Missus Bellino
had failed to make the payments on a four and some million dollar
mortgage secured by their Newport Beach mansion. Their lender initiated
but did not complete foreclosure proceedings on a couple of occasions.
In early May, while the sixth season aired and they grappled with rampant rumors of their real estate demise, Missus Bellino told the peeps at Radar Online
that she and the Mister had identified but not yet secured their next
"dream home." She is quoted as saying, "We're going to be buying it" and
described it as "amazing" with "a huge long driveway," and "one of
those houses that I feel I will never grow out of."
During the June (2011) season 6 reunion show for The Real Housewives of Orange County
cross-eyed host Andy Cohen asked Missus Bellino about the rumored and
much reported foreclosure of her Newport Beach mansion and she was
(understandably) adamant about setting the record straight that she and
her man did not lose their home to foreclosure but unloaded it as a
short sale.
Missus Bellino later broke it all down for the fans (or whomever) on her blog on Bravo–and we paraphrase–that
she and the mister bought their big house in Newport Beach at the
tip-top of the recent real estate bubble and like so many others, due to
the crap economy, found themselves so significantly upside down on the
the value of their home they thought they'd never again see the day it
was worth what they paid for it. She goes on to explain they attempted
to get a loan modification but eventually sold it as a short sale. She
wrote, "we definitely lost a lot of money."
Sure enough, online documentation
shows the 6,400 square foot, gray-shingled pile had been sold in
mid-March (2011) for $3,000,000. To be honest puppies, we're not sure
exactly how much Mister and Missus Bellino shelled out for the house in
August 2007 but records do indicate they carried a $4,500,000-plus
mortgage on the property and online listing information from the time they sold it stated they had sunk a total of "more than $6 Million" into the property.
Back
on the reunion show Missus Bellino went on to declare that her money
matters are no body's bizness–and, really, they aren't–but then none-the
less went on to make it our beeswax when she announced on national
television that she and the mister planned to pay cash–cash!–for their
next home. Now, children, how exactly it is that a person who
(allegedly) can not afford to keep one multi-million dollar
high-maintenance mansion and lose an ass-load of money–maybe even
millions–on the short sale of said multi-million dollar high-maintenance
mansion but still acquire their next home with cold hard cash is a
perplexing puzzle we do not even pretend to know how to begin to
comprehend.
As soon as Missus Bellino's meticulously
made-up mug was off the air, Your Mama promptly forgot all about her and
her husband Whatshisface who struts his stuff for the tee-vee cameras
like he thinks he's working with stuff to strut. Then, yesterday, we got
an unexpected email from a gal we'll call Layona Davenport, a tipster
with a proven track record for knowing a thing or two about the real
estate whereabouts of various Bravolebrities such as Missus Bellino.
Our
Miss Davenport whispered that Mister and Missus Bellino had recently
settled into a substantial mock-Med mansion with an ocean view in Dana
Point, CA. It does not, y'all will note, have a "huge long driveway"
and, according to Miss Davenport, the big-talking Bellinos have not
purchased the 7,146 square foot mansion but rather leased it for an
unknown amount of money for an an unspecified amount of time.
Interestingly, in a short profile in the November/December 2011 issue of Ocean Home Magazine
Missus Bellino, mother of three youngins who fancies herself a bit of a
clothing designer, was asked, "What drew you to buy a house on the
beach?" Miss Bellino went on about ocean breezes and blah blah blah. She
did not speak to or clarify if she actually bought the house or not.
Ultimately,
we freely admit, we don't know for sure whether she and the mister
bought or leased the big house in Dana Point. What we do know is that
property records available online–which may or may not be fully
updated–show the property in question, located in the ritzy, guard-gated
Ritz Cove enclave, last changed hands in April of 2009 for
$4,650,000 when it was snatched up by an obviously very successful
Orange County-based gynecologist.
Whether they bought
it or leased it, there isn't much question that Mister and Missus
Bellino and their three baby Bellinos occupy the Dana Point mansion in
question. Not only does the Ocean Home Magazine include a photo of the
Pacific taken from one of the upper level balconies, Missus Bellino's own Facebook page includes a photograph of one of her children snapped in the master bathroom of the mansion in question.
We
did not readily find any evidence online that the house was on the
rental market–which isn't that surprising since many high-end rental
properties never appear in online listings–but we did turn up a number
of sales listings that show the three story, 5 bedroom and 5.5 bathroom
mansion listed with asking prices as high as $5,400,000 and as low as
$4,999,000.
Listing information and various photographs
from the various (expired) listings depict a rotunda entrance hall,
formal living area plus an open plan living/family/dining area with
fireplace and French doors to ocean view terrace. The adjacent eat-in
kitchen sports a Suburu-sized center island, granite counter tops,
custom cabinetry, walk-in pantry, high-grade stainless steel appliances
and a breakfast nook tucked into an ocean view bay. The kitchen
installation probably cost far more than Your Mama earns in a whole year
but it looks like about a zillion other expensively equipped but oddly
generic kitchens in newly built mock-Med mcmansions all across the good
ol' U.S. of A.
Other living and entertaining areas
include a wood-paneled library with fireplace, and and office with built
in desk and book cases. On the full finished lower level there's a
windowless media room with rounded wall and a massive subterranean
parking garage capable of holding 8 or more cars. An elevator serves all
three levels of the house, a luxury Your Mama often finds a little
unnerving a private home–is it really such a physical burden to haul
one's fat ass up a flight or two of stairs every now and then?–but makes
our rough-talking and stair-hating house gurl Svetlana purr with desire
and envy.
There are, as per listing information we
espied, dual master suites including one that offers home owners (or
tenants) a private ocean view balcony with stone balustrade and a
walk-in closet with simple, built-in shelves and hanging racks. A large
but very beige attached master bathroom has a separate all-glass shower
stall and jetted tub that juts out like a peninsula between the his and
her sinks and vanities.
In addition to the private
balcony off the master suite, there are several additional balconies and
patios plus a sizable roof terrace with stone balustrade and ocean
views over the mostly tiled roof tops of the neighboring mansions. A
broad, tiled terrace extends off the rear main living level and provides
plenty of room for grillin' and chillin' by the built-in circular fire
pit but nary a patch of grass or safe spot for a swing set. Residents of
Ritz Cove whose cheek-to-jowl mansion do not sit directly above
and have direct access to the (public) beach below can easily reach the
beach by a private walk way and locked gate that opens on to the
(public) pathway that runs along the beach.
listing photos: Ivy Realty Company via Movoto
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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38 comments:
Is this any more shocking than Rhianna being able to do a short sale?
Oh Dear! I believe Alexis opened her mouth and will have the FEDs all over their arse. This seems so wrong after what went down on their previous house!
House: Tragic Mess just like the owners.
Sunday please repent of your sins!
"Mock-Med" is a good description and has the tone of contempt required.. That's a keeper to apply to a large number of So. Cal houses.
hello miss bellino you r rich and somebody famous there 4 i luv u
r u somebody? ok i luv u
ru interesting? it doesn't matter u r on tv there 4 i luv u
i dont think u exist for any other purpose but to be someone with a house, u could be a fat housewive, very stupid like anyone but u r on tv there 4 u r "interesting"
u tube facebook my space! Hey!
I am stupid, but now "interesting"
You know what else, the 730 Park Avenue apartment which formerly belonged to former Yugoslavia and the residence of the UN ambassador. It's now a hot topic between the countries which were formed after Yugoslavia fell apart.
This Looks very wanna be cheap. No Class. It is sad in most enclaves people don'e create more authentic period "Mediterranean" Homes but do these stucco mc mansions that scream of cheap moldings and dry wall instead of aged woods and muted plaster.
However, the View is divine!
There is NO way duck-lipped Ms. Bellino and her porn-producer-looking hubby sunk $6 million into their Newport Beach home. They would have had to put in gold and diamond faucets to spend that kind of money.
I went to an open house, and if anything the place needed work.
As for their latest place, 99.99% sure they are leasing. Let's hope the owner was smart enough to get a good security deposit.
Such a sad, depressing edifice. Just who would ever avail themselves of the landward-side balconies to enact their Evita fetish just steps away from an empty street?
In this age of reality TV, Facebook, Twitter, etc., I'm sure no one ever realized just how prophetic Andy Warhol was with his oft-quoited "...15 minutes of fame.."
But it is astonishing to see the lengths some people have gone to (not to mention the mountain of debt they've incurred) in order to either achieve, or extend, those fifteen minutes. No wonder there is such a morbid fascination with these folks and their shenanigans.
One could weep for the children of these people who, no doubt when they reach the age of majority, will go through the tortures of the damned to distance themselves from the multiple humiliations that their parents have left behind for them on the internet; it's no too far a leap to conceive of the day when the ultimate status will be having no hits when one's name is Googled.
How the hell do people like them go broke and lose one mansion and then miraculously come up with the money for another one?
And how the hell does a gyno make enough money to afford an almost $5 million house? They must have some really funky math in California because the gynos in my area make $300,000 maybe $400,000 max and that sure as hell is not enough money to pay for a home like that. Hell even the Interventional Cardiologists, Cardiac surgeons and other specialists rarely max out over $2 million on a home.
My uncle is an Orthopedic surgeon and his wife a physician in California and their house is about $2 million which is right for their income.
Something extremely fish about California and their real estate.
The front and entry are really pretty. but I doubt they are paying cash.
ok, so,
1) I google Mr. Bellino, haven't never seen him before, and he's definitely much less than all that.
and
2)There's a magazine out there called "Ocean Home Magazine"??
They're at 78 ritz cove dr. You can look it up on zillow.com. They are renting it
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