If you are a fan of financial guru Warren Buffett and you want to live next door to him, here is your chance. You can buy a house just a hundred feet away from Buffett's home.
See the Omaha house here as featured on Live Next to Warren Buffet website.
From the listing, the house is described as a three-story home with French tile roof, that contains five bedrooms and 5.5 baths. The interior of the house showcases quarter saw oak wooden flooring and mahogany woodwork furnishing, notes the site. The website also features a map showing how really close it is to Warren Buffett's house.
The house listed on sale is actually owned by Phil Huston for two decades now, reports WOWT.com. Huston's asking price is reportedly 10 shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock, which WOWT says is equivalent to almost two million dollars! The Berkshire Hathaway is a corporation whose President, Chaiman and CEO is Warren Buffett himself.
However, the assessed value of Hudson's home is even lower than $700K, notes WOWT. Even with more that $1.3M difference, Huston is positive that it is a good buy. He told WOWT 6 News, "You're one hundred feet away from the strongest financial karma in the entire universe. Location location location."
He may actually be right, because even the richest man on Earth this year, according to Forbes, is heeding his advice. Yes, Bill Gates, who has a $79.7B net worth, listens to his dear friend, Buffett who is actually on the 3rd spot this year with $59B.
Gates, together with his wife, put up the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and when it started, they made Warren Buffett their trustee, reports Daily Mail. The site notes that Buffett gave the husband and wife this advice: "Don't just go for the safe projects; take on the really tough problems."
They share the famous philanthropist Andrew Carnegie motto, "to die rich is to die disgraced". Thus, the Gates and Buffett worked together and set up The Giving Pledge, wherein some of the world's wealthiest people pledges to give "the majority" or more than half of their wealth, to charitable causes, notes the site.
"Bill and I want every dollar in the foundation to be given away within 20 years of the last of us to die. We feel like we can solve some of the problems society is facing today and that we have resources to pump into that. We don't have a crystal ball to predict 100 years from now, but I feel there will be another group of philanthropists who will come together after us and continue what we've started," Melinda told Daily Mail.