Stephen Rotella, who was president and chief operating officer of Washington Mutual when it failed last month after being battered by mortgage losses, has listed his house on Capitol Hill for $6.25 million.
Rotella, who was president and chief operating officer, is entitled under his current employment agreement to a cash severance of $12.7 million if he is terminated or quits with "good reason."
He and his wife Esther bought the house for $3.78 million a few months after Rotella arrived in Seattle, from KING-TV newscaster Jean Enerson, in June 2005. It's a 7,430-square-foot house and has five bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a wine cellar and a fountain in the yard. It's located on almost an acre of land on the top of Capitol Hill, right behind Lake View Cemetery, where Bruce Lee is buried. Quiet neighbors.
For the first time in it's ten year history, the annual Treehouse Conference will be held in Fall City, WA (25 miles east of Seattle), at Treehouse Point on October 10th, an events facility owned by Pete and Judy Nelson, the folks who own Tree House Workshop. (Peter Nelson is the author of a series of great Tree House books.)
Treehouse Workshop offers full design and build services for your treehouse project, but they also help you if you want to design and build it yourself.
Their workshops will equip a homeowner with the skills needed to design and build your own treehouse, and they cover how to select a tree and evaluate its health, basic tree-climbing, tool safety, design, construction of your platform, and how to build and finish your structure.
Tree House Workshop is also a licensed and bonded contractor in Washington State, so if you don't want to build your own, they can build it for you. Peter's book is a fabulous peek at treehouses he's designed and others have built around the world.
Seattle's Floating Homes Association biennial houseboat tour will be Sunday, September 7, 2008 from noon to 5:00 p.m. This year's tour will feature 12 floating homes, 9 on the east side of Lake Union and 3 in Portage Bay. A mix of quaint and eclectic cottages and larger, more modern as well as historic homes with a variety of decor have been specially chosen to give viewers a chance to look at this unique water-oriented community and lifestyle.
Seattle Guide to Homes. Vintage, Luxury, Modern or Unusual Homes in the Pacific Northwest.
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