Father buys mansion for 16 year old daughter

[Kandy-Sugar]

A Texas businessman has bought an iconic Dallas mansion for $1.8 million as a birthday present for his 16-year-old daughter.

Dave Anderson decorated the 550-square-metre home with a huge pink bow and gift tag before driving his daughter Kevyn Brooke to the home on her birthday on Saturday.

Kevyn had jokingly suggested to Mr Anderson that he buy the stately manor in the past, the Dallas Morning News reported.

The musical instrument retailer then decided to surprise Kevyn by going through with the sale.

"He had to tell her several times that it was her house," real estate agent Vicki White said.

"She started screaming and crying — I did hear him say ‘I love you baby’ and she said the same thing."

The landmark home Belle Nora was listed by its previous owner Jesus Guevara in 2004 with an asking price of US$4.4million (A$4.2 million).

Even with its dramatic price cut, it is still the highest selling home in the East Dallas area for the past six years.

Renowned surgeon Dr Guevara had bought the home in the mid-1980s for his wife, also as a surprise present.

Kevyn and her father will move in together. Mr Anderson has been a single parent since his wife died when Kevyn was five months old.

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Bloody hell I wish someone would go out and buy me a house. Doesn't have to be a mansion or anything. Just something simple would do!

I mean seriously, yes you may have money but it doesn't mean you buy that sort of thing for her 16th birthday. Maybe a car if you wanna be crazy.

If it were me I'd save it for when she's old enough to possibly appreciate such a gift.

Lucky girl.

 

[Linnaete]

Oh, right. They'll be "moving in together", so treat it like a new family home for the time being. I was just about to say that as amazing as a personal mansion would be, would she be expected to live by herself in there?

Good for her, I guess. I suppose it could also be a suitable venue to host a slightly belated sweet 16th party where it's revealed that she will also get a car and that the thousands of people that have come over (thanks to Facebook) will trash the place ASAP. =D

 

[Lirael]

Because of the current economy and the difficulty our generation will have getting on the property ladder, I'm not entirely against parents helping their children out. However, any father buying any daughter (or son) a mansion of that price is obscene, and the fact she is only 16 makes it worse. I doubt she's done much to earn it - I doubt she's worked her socks off somewhere and had to worry about managing money. People really need to learn life skills. Personally, I feel a little concerned for her.

The fact her father is moving in suggests that it may not always be her's and she may have to move out and move on one day - perhaps he bought the house she wanted but for himself for her birthday. Who knows. I hope for her sake that she does have to move on and make her own way, perhaps with SOME aid. Making your own way in life is important and rewarding. :/ She needs to be given the chance to do it, even if she hates it.