Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah has left the building.
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The failed 2012 presidential candidate is selling his multimillion-dollar San Diego megamansion after years of controversies involving his neighbors.
The $23.5M beachfront property was the central focus of a fight between Romney and his neighbors after the Utah Senator infamously bought the property in 2012 and tore down the original building.
Romney replaced it with a much bigger megamansion.
The project drew the ire of his neighbors, whose complaints over the years were well-documented.
Now, Romney is selling the home and leaving town — for a nice and tidy profit.
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But a source who spoke to the The New York Post, says that the backlash from residents had little to do with the reconstruction of the mansion itself.
It was about the beach.
“Not all of the neighbors had issues with the Romneys’ project,” Ciani said, “but others, including me, disputed their claim to own the sandy beach west of the historic property line which could interfere with the historical public use of the beach, and because that uses that additional area of land to build a larger house than would otherwise comply with the development regulations.”
So the much larger home had infringed on an area of the beach allotted for public use.
Based on reported property details, he and his wife bought the mansion for $12M in 2008.
By the time reconstruction was finished, NYPost is reporting that Romney made an immediate move to sell it — which suggests he may have just been aiming to take advantage of his political celebrity at the time in order to make money off the home.
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And it seems he will have achieved this, selling the home for $23.5M
“He could have bought other nearby houses that were bigger and for less, and for less trouble sooner, and he didn’t do that,” Ciani, his former neighbor, said to the San Diego Tribune in 2015.
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