Fourteen months and counting (Updated)
/
The original listing for 897 Lake Avenue expired this morning but it was immediately relisted at the same failed price of $5.2 million. It started off in June 2024 at $5.995 million and has slowly drifted down, still with no success.
Not that it will matter to the owner, who doesn’t appear to live here. She’s a billionaire heiress to a Turkish family, and just for fun, I looked her up and found this quote:
Turkish businesswoman Dilek Sabancı has apologized after saying “Being happy with lower figures, not 50-100 million dollars, is a greater success as for some people one-two million dollars may be enough.” Sabancı said she mistakenly expressed dollar instead of lira.
When asked "How much money is needed for one person?”, Sabancı said in an interview with Radio Sputnik that “Being happy with lower figures, not 50-100 million dollars, is a greater success. Have a good job, a house, a car, money to go to the hospital when you get sick, a boat if you have a passion for the sea, what else would anyone want?”
“For some people, one-two million dollars may be enough,” the daughter of the business tycoon Sakıp Sabancı added.
Sabancı apologized on Jan. 7 after her remarks went viral on social media.
“My aim was to explain that one-two million liras would be enough for the needs of life. However, I mistakenly expressed it in another currency (dollar),” Sabancı said. “But I know that many people in Turkey do not earn these figures.”
(One-to-two million lira works out to between $603 and $1,206; she’s probably right about happiness not being entirely tied to a specific level of wealth, but that’s not much of a boating budget, even for an Italian boat; maybe a used paddleboard, without the paddle — Ed)
UPDATE: As I was saying about the cost of a decent boat …
