Imagine An Open House With 6000 Visitors A Day! A 55,000 Square Foot Home!

     Living in a home with 147 windows to wash, 8 staircases, 3 elevators, 18 acres of high security fencing and the world's best video and secuity guards. Three kitchens too, one for family, one for diets, one main facility. Five full time chefs and ability to serve 140 guests or hors d'oeuvres to more than 1,000. At the end of a hard day, enjoy your own tennis court, jogging track, movie theatre, bowling lane and billiard room.  Over 200 years old, needing 570 gallons of exterior paint, with running water added and the first bathroom in 1833, gas lighting in 1848, efficient central heating in 1853. Electric lights came on in 1891. Formal gardens added and the land drained to get rid of a mosquito problem. Two century old stone walls and pillars still remain. By now you have figured out this blog is about YOUR house...The White House.  We sell, market, promote the good features of real estate and this is the grandest house of all owned by every tax payer or renter or voter in the greatest nation on earth. Veterans have fought to keep in the land of the free. Can you imagine doing a video tour on this 132 room national treasure? Or down playing the heating bill and staff size? John Adams was the first "tenant" adding a vegetable garden back in 1800. Thomas Jefferson crafted a stone wall and planted many trees over his 1802 to 1806 term. After the British burned the property during the War Of 1812, in 1814, history shows another President, James Monroe steps up the tree planting regiment. John Quincy Adams plants even more trees and establishes the first flower gardens.  Andrew Jackson adds an early greenhouse for new fruit trees to be planted in and guides expansion of the flowers and even more new trees. President Ulysses S Grant added a billiard room and built round pools on the North and South lawns. Bachelor Grover Cleveland was the only president coming into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue single but married within a year to Frances Folsom in the Blue Room.   Like the American flag honored at every local, state and national sporting event, the White House is the most famous residence of all in the United States and one all of us hold a fierce pride, respect and sense of awe about. It is the nerve center for the most powerful country in the world holding so much of the history that shaped this country.