Today is movie day, and Nene Leakes posted a vine about it on her website wearing her trademark white T-shirt. Brentt and her man-servant Gregg are seen hand carrying in some personal stuff as they arrive at the new home. The outside of the house is a bit deceiving of what lies inside.
I really like the wrought iron railings on the stairway. And the layout of the house. I hope that she posts more photos of the finished look. Who am I kidding, she will probably call People for a five page spread. I’m dying to know what Nene’s interior design choices will be. I’m envisioning a black and white theme but that just may be because of all the bare white walls and black ironwork.
The new property, which appears to belong exclusively to Linnethia Leakes is located in Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth. The purchase price was $2,075,000 and was purchased on February 27th. FYI, the “Zestimate” is $1,592,910.
The property is a new home that was built last year. The lot was originally $268,000 back in 2003 and was eventually unloaded in December of 2012 for $117,000. All gated communities in the Atlanta area took a HUGE hit in 2008-09, perhaps the largest hit in the country. Property in Atlanta has been steadily recovering but has still not reached 2008 value levels in many areas.
The Mediterranean two-story has a studio with a separate kitchen for Brentt or guests. The back of the house has tons of windows and glass door with views of the pool and covered porch area. The 6 bedroom 6.5 bath is 9,511 square feet and sits on a one acre lot. The kitchen is decked out with marble counter tops and Viking appliances as well as 10 foot kitchen cabinets (um how does that work?). The main level has travertine flooring.
Congrats to Nene on her very first house! It truly is lovely! And she seems SUPER excited to be moving in.
Nice house. Can’t wait to see how she fucks it up. What? If I gotta be nice when it comes to nene and her taste or lack thereof, I’m going to have to leave forever.
So, here, in my Neither-Yankee-Not-Redneck state, it doesn’t matter whose name the house is in. If it’s purchased during the marriage it’s community property and half of the equity belongs to each. My first house was actually just in my name because it was easier to only have to fill out one set of paperwork and have only one of us have to take off work for settlement it didn’t matter because it was community property and my assets and income alone were enough for the mortgage we were seeking. What’s the deal in Georgia? Does Gregg own half either way? Is not listing him just another way to show she keeps his balls under her wig? (Different than my case because no one ever cared to look at my home ownership records. She has to know that people will find that out and it will look bad for him.). Or maybe he just has credit issues and having his name on the deed created mortgage issues.
I don’t know. That’s an interesting point. But Nene’s financial past is just as checkered as Greg’s. Isn’t it?
Yes, but when you have the kind of money that Nene has, credit history is nothing more than a minor factor.
@pat BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Well that laugh woke me up.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Didn’t Greg for bankruptcy a few years back? That would be a problem, wouldn’t it?
Gregg has had multiple tax issues. He doesn’t like paying them.
Yeah, but I’m thinking she probably doesn’t have great credit either. But I guess at least she has a job sometimes.
Personally, neither do I but for some damn reason the IRS sees it differently!
I just don’t understand the fascination with this horrid woman Nene. She is loud, obnoxious, and alienates everyone she meets. Lastly, anyone who makes a public commitment to make a donation to any non-profit must follow up. Especially if she can turn around and buy a million dollar home. Based on her bad behavior karma will bite her bigtime… she will definitely lose this home, and end up homeless.
I love the openness of the house and all of the windows. Good for Nene. I can’t wait to see it all finished on RHOA next season!
That’s what I thought, too. Seems like the house has a lot of light. I like that.
I just can’t believe the real estate prices in Atlanta. Where I live we have some of the highest real estate prices in the world. Phaedra’s house cost about the same as my 2-bedroom 1100 sq foot 20 year old townhouse. And nothing has been renovated since construction. I get jealous every time I see her place. 🙁
You can always move, but I’m thinking that it won’t take long before you realize why you were willing to pay top dollar to be in a progressive area of the country.
What does that mean? A “progressive” area of the country? That sounds elitist and intolerant! Also insulting to everyone in the state of Georgia.
Oh look. It’s the thought police.
That is a fucking ugly “house.” Pukeworthy.
McMansion chic. No, I’m not jealous, just not my cup of tea.
Yeah, I’m with you Jarlath. It’s indistinguishable from a New Jersey Wife’s house. Blech! The only room that seems somewhat okay is the kitchen.
Minky, you should change your name to “little ray of sunshine” for all the delight you bring us all.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Awwwww. Thanks! :0)
I too really like the iron work and open floor plan. The interior has potential to be stunning. Love the front door design but would not be very practical for hiding from unwelcome company.
Oh, sorry just reread post, the gated community part probably keeps away uninvited guests.
@Sammie – Yeah, I have double front doors with top to bottom glass panels, and I hate them. I had to install shades on them so no one can see if I’m home when I don’t want to answer the door.
Nice house. I wonder, did she buy it outright? I don’t know anything about owning property, but wouldn’t that be the smart thing to do? Especially if you don’t know if the money will last?
Somehow, I doubt it…
The mortgage tax deduction is why they do it, they can always sell the house if they can’t afford it anymore.
Congrats to Nene on the new house! Cant wait to see how she decorates it. I hope it has butler’s quarters for Gregg!
I hope she bought Greg a new Swiffer for all the hardwood floors. It’s a pretty house.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Swiffer. So fucking true! Greg’s gonna be one busy house-husband.
Lord??!!! Why don’t you leave that man alone lol!!he chooses to be whatever the heck he is to Nene! That was pretty funny though!
She has travertine floors 🙁
Ground floor, travertine. The second floor looked like hardwood. Anyway they are all bare and going to require a lot of Swiffering. Maybe NeNe will even buy him a Roomba.
Roomba! Sweet Mother of Pearl! That’s Nene’s version of hiring Greg an assistant.
Yeah, seriously, good for Nene. I don’t find the house very attractive, but it certainly is a house. Much better than no house. No?
I like the iron work and the spaciousness. I am waiting for the housewarming. Will NeNe throw out people if they don’t bring the right present?
I like the open spaces and that bridge on the second floor. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one in a house before.
I didn’t see a bridge, but I trust that there is one if you say so. I did walk across the bridge in Chateau Sheree though and all I could think about is WHAT A WASTE OF SPACE? Not even a loft? And OMG at the heating and cooling bills.
In Chateau Sheree there is the HUGE Foyer (waste square footage) and then the best room in the house, the great room with a giant fireplace and floor to ceiling windows. It is very dramatic and lovely even when only in early construction stages. There is a walkway across all of that, with the giant floor to ceiling two story foyer on the left and the great room with two story ceilings on the other side. AND ALL THE WINDOWS.
It’s not just a waste of the second floor square footage, but IT WILL BE THOUSANDS A MONTH to heat and cool alone. I’m not sure I posted about Sheree going to a kitchen cabinet store an buying the most expensive stuff they sell and then trying to sell them the shit she allegedly took from the house with Bob.
Sheree will lost that house three months after she moves in. Isn’t that about how long it take to get your power shut off?
The bridge was scary to walk across because there was just subflooring and no rails at the time. and the rooms on either side were either oddly round and/or very small I don’t know who designed the house but it is all kinds of fucked up with regard to using your square footage. The best thing and the center piece of Chateau Sheree is the great room.
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I don’t know if I’m referring to it correctly. There’s a picture showing it in that slide show you posted. It spans from side of the second floor to the other side of the house on the second floor. Looks like a hallway with no walls just wrought iron railings. It’s in the picture immediately following the kitchen picture in the slideshow.
Yeah that sounds like the Chateau Sheree concept. I read all my comments in email or I would never get through them all. I’m too tired to go look lol.
If I win 233 million in mega millions next week. I will not be buying a 10 thousand square foot house. I’ve bot 1,100 now and really if I just had a washer dryer and dishwasher capabilities (really it is not possible here) I’d be fine.
The main thing that would happen if I won 233 million dollars is I would live on an island and fly Banjo and I there on our private jet.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Good for them! Moving day is always exciting, but nothing beats moving into your first home.
To quote Jordan Peele in “A December to Remember”, fuck rich people.
Congratulations to the Leakes family! Beautiful house inside. I’m not into ironwork as a rule, but I love the spiral design shown here. Not much curb appeal for me, but once inside it looks great. Hope they are very happy there. (Maybe now that Nene has a demonstrable object of her “richness” she’ll chill a bit about broadcasting it all over the place at every opportunity…one can hope.)
I’m sure this is the first time she’s purchased a home with income she’s earned on her own-that’s exciting. I hope they’ll be happy. I’d love to live near the water-so peaceful.
If it is a gated community she will have crazy fees every year right? I hope she keeps working Bc I’m sick of watching these ladies get foreclosed on and crap.
I’d hate to pay the electric bills for that house.
Or heat and cool the house. If she has a heat pump to heat the house in the winter rather than a furnace (which is often the case in the south), her electric bills in the winter will be astronomical! SMH With the purchase of this McMansion, I have a feeling Ms. Leakes is “house poor”.
There goes the neighborhood!
I find this to be beautiful.kitchen Esp. the wrought iron. Further, I enjoy the kitchen…I could totally find myself at home cooking in a kitchen like that
It’s a bigger McHouse than I could live in, and less ugly than some in New Jersey.
Her first house? Even the original one when she started the show was rented? I wish her all the best but it seems like overkill! So it’s valued at less than what she paid for it? Did I read that correctly?
Right…wtf? Someone got almost 1/2 mil profit?
I guess when you have money to burn lol!
I know. It makes no sense. So they didn’t actually own their last home??? Who are these people who act rich but live on the rental edge.
Zestimants are notoriously off. The company pulls no comps, they just guess. If you own a home, go check yours and you’ll see. The home isn’t my style, but I can appreciate the beauty.
Ok good to know!
Tamara, I’m a little worried about you. You might have overdone it on the happy pills. 😉
How disrespectful.
teecee, your criticism has been noted but I reserve the right to tease my friends. >
That was just a cute joke not a mean comment. I don’t see the disrespect.
Ok. Sorry. Nevermind. I over reacted.
No problem on my side. I always enjoy your comments. One of my favorite discussions was the time a commenter thought you and TT were the same person. Classic.
TT has always been very supportive of Nene when nene deserves support. If you think there is anything off about this blog post or what she has said in the past day or so, you really need to read the rules. This is not nor has it ever been a “hate blog”.
So if you don’t like Nene and say nice things about her you are on a “hate blog?” The thought police are out in full force! I don’t care for Nene! She is mean, vulgar & shallow IMO. Gregg makes my skin crawl. A real hanger-on who has no self-respect!.
Fascinating. Tell us more
I will never understand why people spend $2 mil on a house so close to their neighbors houses they can hear each other fart.
I know she “IS the Jones’, but Nene’s not a people person, has no small children, doesn’t cook and doesn’t appear to have any domestic skills, so what does she need with a huge gourmet kitchen and 6 bedrooms???? Furnishing and maintaining that monstrosity is going to cost a fortune. It ind of resembles Chateau Sheree.
Its all about appearances for NeNe, everyone should know that by now!!!
@Drinkthediamondwater – I know a guy who lives in a two-story house with 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It’s just him and his wife, so WTF do they need with a house that size? When I asked him who cleans it, he said, “We don’t use all of it”, so why have it?
Exactly
Because they can….
Does Mohammed (Yo’s ex) “need” 35,000 sq. feet for himself & whatever fiance he currently has?
Laughably hideous outside. Not my taste. Could I be jealous since I live in a tiny apartment in Seattle? On second thought, no, it really is laughably hideous.
I’d take a tiny apartment in Seattle over that house any day.
Not me. I have never lived in an apartment and wouldn’t want to.
I must say I love the inside.
As long as its complete and not in a state of perpetual work, good for her. Houses are good investments 🙂
Does it have a skating rink for the children?
I want to know if it has a lieberry.
A first home should be celebrated. Nene does work, her money to spend as she sees fit. Kudos TT for the exclusive photos
Slow clap. Just another materialistic item for this chick to believe she’s better than the next person. It’s hard to extend congrats when you know Nene’s motives & how she moves.
I agree. I totally wanted to support her as I originally found her to be kind of an underdog who has worked hard to get where she is. The problem is that she is so insecure she needs to tell everyone about her successes and it makes it hard to have any positive feelings for her. I find her sad.
Rolly you are absolutely right. Its hard to celebrate her success. I will not be shock if this house becomes the major topic in her conversation next season demanding if the other ladies have enough money to own a house. Nene is good example of what the french call “nouveau riche” (new rich), lacks grace or mannerism in her new acquired wealth. Nene is a hard working woman that her success could be admired but she makes it hard to notice.
Completely agree. She’s just so unlikeable. It’s hard to have any positive thoughts for her. The inside of the house is lovely. The outside is hideous. They need to put in some big old trees to soften up the front of the house.
How did she qualify for a mortgage? I wonder f the developer financed the house.
I wonder how long it will be before she falls behind on the payments.,
Well I say good for her if she can afford it. Like others here have said she’s so hateful and obnoxious that its hard to offer congrats to her but its her money and she earned it so I guess she can spend it however she likes. I spend too much of mine on fast food and beer so I’m not one to judge although I don’t understand paying almost a half million more than it’s valued at, especially since she keeps saying what a smart businesswoman she is. I wonder if buying that large a house in the Atlanta area means she’s accepted that she’ll never have a real hollywood career? I mean, why lay out that kind of cash for that big of a house if you think you’re going to be spending most or your time working in Los Angeles or New York?
I have not been a fan of Nene’s for quite some time. I have even made comments on her being “rich bitch” and said she was an idiot for leasing expensive cars and using permanent markers on Birkin bags rather than buying a home for her family. So now I will say CONGRATS Nene on the purchase of your 1st home. I mean that’s pretty cool for everybody. I don’t know what changed her mind but it certainly makes more sense. With a lot of luck and hard work, she can build equity and may eventually own her home. Her taste in the style of home may not be the same as mine or any other commenter in here but she is the one who will live there. I personally like the ironwork. Either way kudos Nene on your new home. And yes that was much harder than my usual snark lol.
Not my style but a definite congrats for a new homeowner!
I don’t see any 10-foot cabinets in that kitchen unless it’s that thing along the wall on the left side of the photo.
Beautiful house. However, Nene needs intensive mental health counseling much more than she needs a new house. That is one miserable, nasty, hateful, delusional woman. And, because she has cruelly mocked other people’s painful emotions for years she needs her behind kicked for becoming overwhelmed by her own emotions on national tv. I’m a sympathetic person by nature, but my sympathy button seems to turn itself off automatically when it comes to Nene.
You really don’t seem like a sympathetic at all. You can’t be a cunt and then claim that you are sympathetic. If you want to be a cunt own it. Don’t be a cunt and then end it with, I’m normally such a lovely person.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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It’s hard to be happy for someone who rubs their success in your nose. I’m not a Ne-Ne fan, but let the countdown start for her loud mouth bragging and display of wealth to everyone…something I never see Kandi do who has more…
I wonder if NeNe will name her new mansion “The Chateau NeNe” hahahahaha
See…this is the problem with Bravo fans…how in the hell are we supposed to be so happy for a broke housewife who happened to be on the show? All this fronting all these years…i mean i actually feel duped that we have been watching. Real Broke Housewives for the past few years…talking about Phaedra and her non-existent income too..i am not celebrating no one who finally got a house for cutting the negroid fool when so many others had to work for it. Good for Nene hell…
I really like her house. It reminds me of the McMansions here in Maryland. I do hope she gets some nice landscaping though. I also am curious to see it once decorated. At least her house was purchased and is now occupied unlike her former cast mates home.
Congrats 2 Ms. Leakes & family. God is gud @ all times.
The house looks lovely.
Eve nif I dont like a lot of what nene does, Im not going to be a hater and find something negative to say, It sure is 100 times better than my place right now.
Who cares about past money issues, when you get your finances back straight and can afford purchases like this, youll be laughing all the way to the bank, literally.
I thought Nene is supposed to write a 20,000 check to Detroit schools?
Good for Nene but I wonder is she took into account property upkeep and utilities for home that size. Gated communities don’t play about the appearance of your home…you must keep it tight at ALL times or deal with the consequences. As we’ve seen Mrs. Leakes is very “ignant” at times and can’t deal with anyone telling her what to do.
.RHOA fans have short memory losses and cant remember that donation that Nene refuse to give to the kids and have the nerve to drag God in it. A new house does not erase characters. I wonder if the fans werent so gullible would Andy have casted actual housewives like he did for all his white only franchises. Oh shhhhhh..im “hating”…the old ghetto slang for blacks who acquire wealth thru questionable actions and means…whatever….and the house is ugly minus the iron-wrought rails…that is all
Where on earth did anyone say that buying a house erases character flaws? This is not a post about Nene’s character or lack there of. It’s a post about her buying a house.
It is interesting that so many people can’t comment on that topic without listing all the numerous and valid reasons they hate her and reminding us all about her lack of character as if we have somehow forgotten all of her transgressions.
Most of us have expressed our opinions of Nene here numerous times. I am just perplexed about the people who have to continuously remind us all how they feel about someone ten, twenty times a day.
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Ok..let me break it down. ..all these years i heard her bark..”i keep it real”..but she didnt even own a house? I want all my time back that I wasted looking at RHOA thinking that this bitch was rich…some people are busier then others…..and the house is ugly…
I’ve posted about Nene’s financial problems since 2011. She and Greg were on the local news for ripping people off before SEASON ONE aired. They are grifters. They were never rich. Nene’s car was (allegedly) repoed in a Wal Mart parking lot. And Sheree’s was seized by the court to pay her debts (allegedly) she still parks her porshe in a Storage Shed each night. The only RHOA that ever had her own money was Kandi.
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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The house is beautiful.