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BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: beardedbruce Date: 08 Oct 10 - 02:22 PM I never sleep during Getaways- it's just a place to store my stuff. And I can't afford $50K, even over several years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: VirginiaTam Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:51 PM that's 10 people per apartment Bruce... raised eyebrows |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: beardedbruce Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:41 PM so, 140 of us at $5K each? Can we set up a time payment??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: VirginiaTam Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:37 PM Wow! Would I love to get in on a Mudcat housing association apartment in Luray Virginia. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:32 PM You mean, like fill the pool with jello? Or breaking out a wall here and there to make more open space? Or bringing in large, ungainly critters just so we could get a good look at them? And lots of other things? We wouldn't do that. Of course not. For one thing we haven't found a couple of convenient credit cards that their owner(s) encouraged us to use- or they certainly would have, had they known of our grand vision. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: frogprince Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:06 PM Weeklong mudcat party? That might turn out to much like the party at Amos house in his absence; might not want to do that in a place you owned yourself : ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting Date: 08 Oct 10 - 12:31 PM Wow! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Oct 10 - 11:34 AM Yeah, it would be a perfect spot for a weeklong after-Getaway party every year. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 08 Oct 10 - 07:48 AM Actually, the Laurancde Hotel could go back to being 14 apartments with a nice common area for evening jam sessions and/or sing arounds... Like Eb said, "Buy it, Rapaire"... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:07 AM Buy it, Rapaire- and then sell shares. I for one will buy in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Oct 10 - 11:09 PM Luray is one of the prettiest places I've seen in Virginia. You may fall in love with it, Rapaire. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:52 PM 185 pounds when I started 4 years ago v. 166 now... Yeah, kat, lotta work... Throw in this farm/gardens an... ...I have just figured out the P-Vine's strategy to get me to move to NC...lol... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Rapparee Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:50 PM My wife and her mother may swing by Luray tomorrow, Bobert. I told her to look the place over. Can't afford to buy it, but what the heck.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: katlaughing Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:39 PM That is a TON of work, Bobert. I am impressed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 10 - 06:42 PM Well, I quit at 5 every day leaving me evenings... Actually, I had to stop working on it about 3 months ago so been Farmer Bobert since then... Working on barns and getting the house ready to sell, etc... But, yeah, I am kinda a workaholic... Always been like that... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: open mike Date: 07 Oct 10 - 12:55 PM is there a secret entrance to the caverns from the cellar? it is a wonder you have had time to post here at all... with all the work you have done on that place... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:35 AM Well, gn-ze... There is a reason for that... It's called an occupancy permit... Actually, seein' as I have been about the only investor to invest on West Main Street over the last 5 years I shouldn't have to pay any taxes on a building that has no income... I have done the country and the Town of Luray a big favor in renovating a building that is not only historic but also been vacant for going back 20 years... As fir Swaz, ya'll... He has sever mental problems and just wants attention... Ignore him... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: gnu Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:18 AM Total Taxes: $1,346 I pay $2000 on my bungalow! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Sawzaw Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:16 AM Is Ebbie a shill too? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 10 - 10:02 AM Me thinks that Betty Ford needs to add a strand of barbed wire over the 7 foot chainlink fence... BTW, ya'll... I wired it up so that all the heat pumps can be mounted on a conctrete slab out back... Each unit has it's own #10 wires from the panel... Plus phone and cable wires are wired in each unit, as well... BTW, Part B... The reason that I have to sell the building is because the bank that promised to be with tyhe project until completion decided it didn't want to make loans to small businesses anymore... Sound familiar??? Plus, this price comes with a developable lot a block away that I bought to meet parking ordinances... But only 2/3's of the 1/3 acre is needed for parking so that frees up 73 feet of road frontage right on Main Street and 70 feet deep... Room for 3 town homes (3 story w/parking underneath)... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bill D Date: 07 Oct 10 - 09:53 AM Better yet, come to a Getaway and look into Bobert's...or someone elses... eyes and make remarks like that. Now, back to our regularly scheduled tour of 'restored heritge' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting Date: 07 Oct 10 - 09:39 AM Sawsaw, look in the mirror. Now look into your eyes. Ask those eyes if they belong to someone who has an unhealthy obsession. If those eyes blink, get thee to a therapist. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Sawzaw Date: 07 Oct 10 - 09:19 AM "Thanks, Amos, fir the assist" Thanks for shilling my real estate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 10 - 08:23 AM Make that "county"... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 10 - 08:22 AM The foundation is solid stone (mortored) and is around 18 inched thick... It also has some basement that you can stand up in in the oldest portion... That's where the original kitchen was and there was a big fireplace down there... The fireplace is still there tho the chimney was removed in 1888 when it was rebuilt into the Hotel Lauranace (after "Laura")... The rest of the building is crawl-space which I know better than I'd like to... lol... No, not so lol... BTW, I failed to mention taht all the common areas (halls and common restrooms (ADA complient) are drywalled and painted... Four apartments are also drywalled and painted... Kitchen cabinets that were in there have been freshened up and installed... I am trying to get the "couty" to buy the building because the one they are in is now only old but condemned and dangerous... It is the fiscally responsible thing for them to do but they are Repubs so that means they are trying to find a way out of not doing it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting Date: 07 Oct 10 - 01:18 AM You mentioned a foundation, Bobert. Is there foundation all around? It does look lovely; I am so sorry the money dried up. Although I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the significance of the little room holding nothing but a vacuum cleaner and a toilet. Is that the seance room? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Bobert Date: 06 Oct 10 - 07:39 PM Thanks, Amos, fir the assist... Yeah, folks... Just check out those great pics... Actually, the original house was built between 1815 and 1930... Then in 1888 a hotel was built around the original house... I have spent 4 years on it and the list is almost endless of what has been accomplished but here are some of the biggies: 1. 35 tons of plaster, lathe and debris removed... 2. All 62 windown removed, reglazed, repainted, glass replaced where necessary and restrung with weights so that each opens like they did way back then... 3. All structural issues repaired from foundation up... 4. Handicapped assessible bathroom, entarnce and 1st floor... 5. Each unit has it's own electric meter and circuit panel... 6. 2 miles of new wiring (all to code and inspected) 7. 3000 feet of new plumbing pipe run to date including all new sewage and water supply lines... 8. Original 1890's teracota sewaer pipe found and boxed... 9. New water supply line into building... 10. All asbestos dealt with... Pipes wrapped with insulation, then plastic and then taped... Floors covered with glued and screwed subflooring... 11. New paint. new roof paint... and... 12. Pigeons evicted!!! Bring all serious offers!!! B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: katlaughing Date: 06 Oct 10 - 07:32 PM OH what a beautiful old building and it looks like you have done so much to it; I remember reading about some of your *travails.* I agree re' the haunts...spices it up and adds value!**bg** Are there 800 of us? And, could we all lay our hands on $1K? Wouldn't that be a dream! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Amos Date: 06 Oct 10 - 07:02 PM Pictures here |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: beardedbruce Date: 06 Oct 10 - 06:27 PM OK, If 800 of us kick in $1K each, we can get it as a Mudcat Rest Home, Alternate Getaway site, and general funhouse. It's almost as big as my schoolhouse! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Rapparee Date: 06 Oct 10 - 06:26 PM Click on the listing number for the pictures...it should be in blue. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Rapparee Date: 06 Oct 10 - 06:25 PM Is it haunted? Haunts, the bloodier the better, provide value-added services. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: open mike Date: 06 Oct 10 - 06:22 PM no pix on that site...maybe the link goes there.. please describe all the improvements you did and how much better the place is since your loving care... |
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Subject: BS: Welcome to the Hotel Bobert, Luray From: Amos Date: 06 Oct 10 - 05:58 PM Big Bibert has his loverly hotel on the block, and for the right Mudcatter it could be a helluva deal. Here's the listing with pix "Seize this unique opportunity to own a piece of history and generate income with one of Luray's most historic properties dating back to the 1830's. This 11,000+ sq.ft. property can easily function as apartments, offices,shops, galleries or a quaint inn as it did nearly 200 years ago. With all new electric, plumbing and individual separate metering, the Laurance awaits your creative direction." Now THAT is what Mudcatters are best at--creative direction!! Let's see some offers!! (Other than Joe). A |
