And proof that money can't buy taste. If you're gonna build a house like this pay for the interior designer to put it together & not your Aunt Martha who is good at decorating.
I don't even hate the purple, but for that much money I better not be surround by other lesser McMansions.
I really loved the 90s pleather couch room. The stand up fan and then the space heater being where you’d expect the TV to be based on the seating orientation was just 😘🤌
Also based on that room and just… everything, you know they just hired DR Horton or some other tract home builder who had no clue how to design for that size so there are probably many more rooms where the HVAC just doesn’t work.
It's the *only* explanation. Because for me personally the *biggest* crime here is having $11M to spend on a house and still deciding to live in Texas.
You know you *could* google a heatmap of Megachurch concentrations, stay on topic, and see that these sorts of things are indeed concentrated more in some states than others.
But I guess you decided that being an asshole, ironically with a generalization of your own, would be more fun.
you know the person didn't say shit about megachurches and instead lumped an entire state with a population bigger than two of most states combined which is what I was responding to (nothing to do with megachurches) but instead you decided to be a pedantic asshole.
I'm sure you feel like a super badass now though. So congrats on that
Hmmm...their comment is deleted now, but I'm pretty sure it was *myself* who first made the broad, derogatory, but not entirely baseless disparagement of the state of Texas.
It's no excuse but it is indeed a favorite past-time of many of us Coloradans, partly fueled by an influx of "visitors" from the lone star state escaping up here only to loudly and constantly tell everyone how awesome Texas is.
Texas is tacky as hell for houses it seems. I see instagram reels all the time for houses there and it’s all white/black/grey, looks fancy but probably cheap, placed on a barren tract of land with no trees and lots of neighbors.
Okay, in fairness, some parts of Texas *don't* have many trees. The plains aren't known for forests.
That said, the general rule for modern housing developments seems to be "bulldoze all the trees down, then build." Especially sad in east Texas, where some of those trees are naturally growing pecans. Free snacks for you and the wildlife in the fall, never mind the shade. ☹️
To be fair to homebuilders you can always plant new trees but a layout is really important to get right the first time. So many tacky McMansion neighborhoods in Texas are nestled into a beautiful lush forest scape nowadays since the trees have grown in since the 1980s or 1990s when the homes were originally built. And these are usually small lot, ugly McMansions too but the foliage is beautiful and it grew in great at least 🤷♂️
Yeah true but at least they grow in eventually. Also it depends on the neighborhood. Some neighborhoods have the architecture to pull off being treeless for a decade. Others are god awful and really need to be hidden by trees from day one
> Texas is tacky as hell for houses it seems
I mean if you're subscribed to this sub and/or something like r/mcmansionhell then of course you're going to think that. The white/black/grey combo is a virus that's hit plenty of other places as well, you just might see it more in Texas because there are more houses being built here than any other state.
Idk, I’m from Texas and this is not “Texas nuoveau riche” in my opinion (though I did upvote your comment). It does look like the inside of a mega church, though.
ah yes, a very modest home for a man of god
nothing says observing the *holy spirit* like a principal suite with a mezzanine overlooking the bed, equipped with a couple chase lounges.
Gotta love the Gospel of Prosperity. Love the verse that tells people that getting rich means that God loves them best. Being a sinner will mean you're *poor*. Do better!
It’s like they watched The Righteous Gemstones and thought they were watching HGTV.
Also, you can probably get purple felt for a pool table just about anywhere.
Nah, most every time you have to move a pool table you should disassemble it to move safely, which necessitates refelting it. When getting new felt, they give you a bunch of colors to choose from.
Source: have a pool table
I am suddenly reminded of the guy on hoarders who moved an entire gaming arcade fixture by himself because he was pissy at the cleaner wanting to do things the proper way. I wonder about his back when I remember him.
Right by Hooks Airport, and pretty close to my parents house. Never knew this house was in this area.
But of course a pastor has a big house, the taxes the church doesn't have to pay gets put in his pockets.
Probably requires a donation via collection box for “the Church” just to be able to ring the doorbell.
This has cult written all over it but whomever staged it for sale, amazing vacuum cleaner lines on the carpet.
Love it when houses are big as hell but also have such poorly considered floorplans that you end up with rooms that have absolutely no purpose ans look like a dentist’s waiting area.
The bishop IV Hilliard! We did rigging and lighting work for his church in the 2000s. Nice people, dope helicopters and Bentley's driving them around. Not sure how that ever squares with his congregation but not my business I suppose... Did we ever get paid for that gig?
It’s prosperity gospel, they tell their congregants if they just give them enough money that god will bless them like they’ve been blessed. They’re too fucking stupid to understand they’re just giving their own money away to people who are selling them false hope. Same as a casino; “How did the casino afford all this luxury? Guess it’s a mystery, time to go win me some money! HURD DUH DURRRRR!!!”
I know Christians are supposed to follow God's example, but maybe this pastor is taking John 14:2-3 a little too literally:
> *My Father’s house has many rooms*; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
It actually says “31 baths & 5 half.” Which is the most irritating thing about the whole listing if you ask me. 😂. I’ve never heard it said like that before.
The plastic tables upstairs really pull it together.
https://photos.harstatic.com/279930409/hr/img-28.jpeg?ts=2024-06-26T09:12:53.677
PUT. THE TV. ON THE CABINET... looks all naked there with an air purifier on it.
$63k a month?!
I know this isn't the norm for all preachers but who the fuck needs that much space?
I used to work at a company that is still currently owned by a billionaire and I thought his $25k a month Beverly Hills apartment was too much.
The owner had jerseys signed by Kobe and the Lakers, glasses that belonged to Elvis, and letters signed by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson on his walls.
What a fucking shame for the Christian community.
Also that fucking stupid giant lawn is such a waste of water.
I was raised Pentecostal though haven't been to church in 15 years and I really hope that if there is a Hell that there will be a special place for these type of grifters.
Every day of service they will ask for tithes or donations to the church.
It's so bad that even if they fully funded a help kitchen for hundreds of people daily and thousands on the weekend
they are still getting too much money.
Stall fed stations is what my dad used to call the Catholic priests. Idk if this is Catholic priests or women pastors but either way Jesus would HATE this. Jesus loves the poor & lived in rags alone side them. 2024 and it’s mega churches with mega mansions. Disgusting.
Catholic priests pretty much always live in little buildings attached to a church.
This is mega church pastor type of stuff: “New Light Christian Center Church.”
This is absolutely not the work of Catholics. This is mega pastor nonsense. Catholic priests don't live this way; they're attached to parishes/churches and cannot claim church income for themselves.
Definitely disgusting.
Right by Hooks Airport, and pretty close to my parents house. Never knew this house was in this area.
But of course a pastor has a big house, the taxes the church doesn't have to pay gets put in his pockets.
The lighting is vomit inducing. And the entire property looks like it was printed on a roll out rug for a preschool or kindergarten.
How do you have that much money, and still use white lit cans?! Accent lighting people. Cans are like sticking cheap flashlights in the ceiling. Gross. I fuck with the purple carpet, it’s getting done dirty by the rest of the house. Which can go away.
What happed to the vow of poverty or is that a priest thing? I’m sure the congregation loved being reminded to tithe every week even when they could barely afford to eat, and being preached to by a person living in a 40,000 sqft house, probably wearing designer clothes that cost more then some of them make a yr.
Which one of y'all left this review 23 his ago?
"I'm not usually a fan of churches this size, but I guess that's why they have multiple locations, to keep them from getting too big. My favorite location is the more private one on Spring Cypress. The decor is really original, and it looks like they put more time, money, and effort into this location than any other."
🤣🤣🤣
For extra entertainment, read the one star reviews.
Right by Hooks Airport, and pretty close to my parents house. Never knew this house was in this area.
But of course a pastor has a big house, the taxes the church doesn't have to pay gets put in his pockets.
Doesn't get any more Texas nouveau riche than that.
And proof that money can't buy taste. If you're gonna build a house like this pay for the interior designer to put it together & not your Aunt Martha who is good at decorating. I don't even hate the purple, but for that much money I better not be surround by other lesser McMansions.
I really loved the 90s pleather couch room. The stand up fan and then the space heater being where you’d expect the TV to be based on the seating orientation was just 😘🤌 Also based on that room and just… everything, you know they just hired DR Horton or some other tract home builder who had no clue how to design for that size so there are probably many more rooms where the HVAC just doesn’t work.
I'd also hire an actual architect, and not someone's cousin who has an old version of CAD.
It's the *only* explanation. Because for me personally the *biggest* crime here is having $11M to spend on a house and still deciding to live in Texas.
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Far from being the only place but certainly among the top 5 if not top of the list entirely.
unlike other places that are filled with lovely people that make broad, naive, shitty generalizations such as yourself. 😄
You know you *could* google a heatmap of Megachurch concentrations, stay on topic, and see that these sorts of things are indeed concentrated more in some states than others. But I guess you decided that being an asshole, ironically with a generalization of your own, would be more fun.
you know the person didn't say shit about megachurches and instead lumped an entire state with a population bigger than two of most states combined which is what I was responding to (nothing to do with megachurches) but instead you decided to be a pedantic asshole. I'm sure you feel like a super badass now though. So congrats on that
Hmmm...their comment is deleted now, but I'm pretty sure it was *myself* who first made the broad, derogatory, but not entirely baseless disparagement of the state of Texas. It's no excuse but it is indeed a favorite past-time of many of us Coloradans, partly fueled by an influx of "visitors" from the lone star state escaping up here only to loudly and constantly tell everyone how awesome Texas is.
She's a goddamn hero and a credit to our State! Do you want her? 'Cause I'm sure we could work something out.
Ahh, I never get tired of libs such as yourself spewing this kind of shit as though you have it all figured out. Best of luck to you.
Reminds me of [Dr. Phil's mansion](https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048406/dr-phil-house-for-sale-los-angeles) but less guns.
How fitting. Rorschach stair railings, chandelier, and other accessories. With guns. 🤢🤮
I legit had to read to figure out what was going on with that staircase. Of all the ways to convey trees/nature... Why that?
Texas is tacky as hell for houses it seems. I see instagram reels all the time for houses there and it’s all white/black/grey, looks fancy but probably cheap, placed on a barren tract of land with no trees and lots of neighbors.
Okay, in fairness, some parts of Texas *don't* have many trees. The plains aren't known for forests. That said, the general rule for modern housing developments seems to be "bulldoze all the trees down, then build." Especially sad in east Texas, where some of those trees are naturally growing pecans. Free snacks for you and the wildlife in the fall, never mind the shade. ☹️
To be fair to homebuilders you can always plant new trees but a layout is really important to get right the first time. So many tacky McMansion neighborhoods in Texas are nestled into a beautiful lush forest scape nowadays since the trees have grown in since the 1980s or 1990s when the homes were originally built. And these are usually small lot, ugly McMansions too but the foliage is beautiful and it grew in great at least 🤷♂️
Sure, but it'll still look like a hot mess for at least a decade. I ain't saying they should never bulldoze *any* tree, but damn.
Yeah true but at least they grow in eventually. Also it depends on the neighborhood. Some neighborhoods have the architecture to pull off being treeless for a decade. Others are god awful and really need to be hidden by trees from day one
My neighborhood used to be a literal forest, and all of us have the standard little tree in the middle of the yard and one on the curb. So sad.
One of the MAIN THINGS I absolutely detest about new developments is the loss of perfectly good trees etc.
> Texas is tacky as hell for houses it seems I mean if you're subscribed to this sub and/or something like r/mcmansionhell then of course you're going to think that. The white/black/grey combo is a virus that's hit plenty of other places as well, you just might see it more in Texas because there are more houses being built here than any other state.
Idk, I’m from Texas and this is not “Texas nuoveau riche” in my opinion (though I did upvote your comment). It does look like the inside of a mega church, though.
ah yes, a very modest home for a man of god nothing says observing the *holy spirit* like a principal suite with a mezzanine overlooking the bed, equipped with a couple chase lounges.
When you realize The Righteous Gemstones didn't go far enough.
Set designers, take note!
> man of god \**woman* of god and, yeah... this is impossible to justify
This was her dad's "house"
i have no doubts you'll find that according to the property tax roll, this entire property was 100% church functions and not owing of any taxes.
Oh yeah definitely
Her “father’s” house…where no one weeps and everyone is wealthy, but you must pay your tithes!
ohhhh okay :)
All tax free
Woman. But yes, indeed. So holy either way. Remember everyone, never stop tithing! Your pastor needs a private plane for that 200k sqft garage!
Gotta love the Gospel of Prosperity. Love the verse that tells people that getting rich means that God loves them best. Being a sinner will mean you're *poor*. Do better!
Calvinism rears its smug head again.
No, no. His helicopter's name isn't Holy Spirit. It's Angel of Faith. Get your facts straight.
Where else is Jesus gonna watch you?
All that land, next to zero landscaping.
Everyone knows you don't have to Landscape with a fancy roond a boot
What are you taking about? Didn’t you notice those fake trees in the… *sitting* room???
The interior is the exact same. Huge rooms with bare minimum interior design with cheapest furnishings and fixtures.
Even the fake interior plants are dying
It’s like they watched The Righteous Gemstones and thought they were watching HGTV. Also, you can probably get purple felt for a pool table just about anywhere.
i believe the felt color has something to do with the size of the table.
Nah, most every time you have to move a pool table you should disassemble it to move safely, which necessitates refelting it. When getting new felt, they give you a bunch of colors to choose from. Source: have a pool table
I am suddenly reminded of the guy on hoarders who moved an entire gaming arcade fixture by himself because he was pissy at the cleaner wanting to do things the proper way. I wonder about his back when I remember him.
Disgusting use of resources and of course it was built by a pastor. 36 fucking toilets, Jesus Christ.
this is a preview of what hell looks like
I'm glad I'm an atheist. I'll just rot in the ground instead of purple hell
Fun fact: People think hell is lit by fire, but no no, it's actually can lights, thousands and thousands of can lights.
Who told you that?
Mods, can we please host a week of megachurch pastors??? 90% of them have atrocious homes just like this :-)
 It’s giving Gemstones.
.... They got rid of their floor plan section, the basterds.
The roundabout is a great feature. I would hate to have to back up or do a 3 point turn like a peasant.
Right by Hooks Airport, and pretty close to my parents house. Never knew this house was in this area. But of course a pastor has a big house, the taxes the church doesn't have to pay gets put in his pockets.
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While there may be some tax fraud going on, that’s not how taxes work.
"Single Family"
Wait, YOU don't have 20 bedrooms in YOUR single family home???????
Probably requires a donation via collection box for “the Church” just to be able to ring the doorbell. This has cult written all over it but whomever staged it for sale, amazing vacuum cleaner lines on the carpet.
Love it when houses are big as hell but also have such poorly considered floorplans that you end up with rooms that have absolutely no purpose ans look like a dentist’s waiting area.
More cents than sense.
Why they selling? Too small ? Not enough bedrooms? No storage? 🙄
Govt asset liquidation... ?
Breaking sex scandal probably
If this was a resort for having gay orgies it would be fantastic.
Um I'm gay. I would run so fast if I walked into the sea of wall to wall purple
Fair enough but now I'm imagining someone walking into a big complex-wide orgy and going "Yikes I'm outta here, but only because of the decor" 💀
God. Awful. Wait. Y'all. THERE'S A HAIR SALON???
He's got to get his poofy hair done somewhere.
It’s so mid, bland.
It's giving Mary Cosby from RHOSLC combined with Righteous Gemstones
My favorite part of the bible is when it said you must build a 40k sq ft mcmansion one of my favorite verses
The bishop IV Hilliard! We did rigging and lighting work for his church in the 2000s. Nice people, dope helicopters and Bentley's driving them around. Not sure how that ever squares with his congregation but not my business I suppose... Did we ever get paid for that gig?
The fact that they have helicopters and Bentley's is so fucking infuriating.
It’s prosperity gospel, they tell their congregants if they just give them enough money that god will bless them like they’ve been blessed. They’re too fucking stupid to understand they’re just giving their own money away to people who are selling them false hope. Same as a casino; “How did the casino afford all this luxury? Guess it’s a mystery, time to go win me some money! HURD DUH DURRRRR!!!”
I know, prosperity gospel is fucking horrible.
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It's his house. She's his daughter. My confusion
This house was posted here a couple months ago.
Parts of this house look like a porn set…
There's nothing to say it isn't.
I know Christians are supposed to follow God's example, but maybe this pastor is taking John 14:2-3 a little too literally: > *My Father’s house has many rooms*; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
Good one!
31 baths and that cock sucker can still eat shit.
This is exactly how I picture a ridiculous Texas megachurch pastor’s house to look.
31 Full & 5 Half Baths is insane. I can’t figure out if I’m jealous or horrified. And that carpeting looks familiar.
It actually says “31 baths & 5 half.” Which is the most irritating thing about the whole listing if you ask me. 😂. I’ve never heard it said like that before.
Using that amount of local water resources should come at a premium. Triple premium at the very least.
The plastic tables upstairs really pull it together. https://photos.harstatic.com/279930409/hr/img-28.jpeg?ts=2024-06-26T09:12:53.677 PUT. THE TV. ON THE CABINET... looks all naked there with an air purifier on it.
With that TV hung in the corner, it looks like a waiting room at a clinic
If a religious person has a compound.....it's a cult! NO RELIGION SHOULD HAVE A COMPOUND!! Also, that is NOT living humbly.
All of the daylight bulbs make me want to cry 😭
These people are the scum of the Earth.
Weird.. the price is up to $13.8 million now. They probably saw a lot of traffic from Reddit and thought this was it
Why do they never have trees? What did trees ever do to these people?
Seriously. Tax the churches.
$63k a month?! I know this isn't the norm for all preachers but who the fuck needs that much space? I used to work at a company that is still currently owned by a billionaire and I thought his $25k a month Beverly Hills apartment was too much. The owner had jerseys signed by Kobe and the Lakers, glasses that belonged to Elvis, and letters signed by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson on his walls. What a fucking shame for the Christian community. Also that fucking stupid giant lawn is such a waste of water. I was raised Pentecostal though haven't been to church in 15 years and I really hope that if there is a Hell that there will be a special place for these type of grifters. Every day of service they will ask for tithes or donations to the church. It's so bad that even if they fully funded a help kitchen for hundreds of people daily and thousands on the weekend they are still getting too much money.
\*cough\* Parable of the rich man and Lazarus \*cough\*
I'm so glad to know this was the holding area for the money people were giving to the Lord.
Stall fed stations is what my dad used to call the Catholic priests. Idk if this is Catholic priests or women pastors but either way Jesus would HATE this. Jesus loves the poor & lived in rags alone side them. 2024 and it’s mega churches with mega mansions. Disgusting.
Catholic priests pretty much always live in little buildings attached to a church. This is mega church pastor type of stuff: “New Light Christian Center Church.”
This is absolutely not the work of Catholics. This is mega pastor nonsense. Catholic priests don't live this way; they're attached to parishes/churches and cannot claim church income for themselves. Definitely disgusting.
This is 100% protestant, not Catholic.
Yes, Catholics have taste.
He explicitly sent his best buds out to spread the word with nothing. No money, no food, no spare clothes. This ain’t it.
Baffled by the fact that they have all those sitting areas and living rooms with all that opulence and the TVs are tiny.
This is why I don’t give money to churches
You weren't kidding this really is a *good* one.
It’s giving cult.
 It’s giving Gemstones
Carpet as purple as the robes of our Heavenly Savior.
Perfect for a good old fashioned cult.
Shit like this makes me wish there was a god so I knew they’d get theirs in the afterlife.
looks like a Marriott inside
Don't insult Marriott like that!
Please present your proof that you can't buy everything. Ah, yes, taste. All the money in the world and zero taste. Thank you for showing your work.
Looks like a funeral parlor
Too depressing for a funeral parlor.
I’m from Spring! We have some pretty horrible McMansions there.
You couldn’t pay me
Looks very burnable. Just an observation.
Absolute utter bullshit that these people don’t pay taxes.
Right by Hooks Airport, and pretty close to my parents house. Never knew this house was in this area. But of course a pastor has a big house, the taxes the church doesn't have to pay gets put in his pockets.
I was very confused for a second because my hometown is called hilliard and we definitely don't have that lol
That's a lot of tithing...
Where can I get an eagle statue for my foyer?
Whole property is just bleh
This is straight out of the movie Honk for Jesus. A jewel of a film, by the way.
My hometown! Left in 2008 and never looked back.
They raised the price to 13.8M!
Isn’t it interesting how all these pastors doing “god’s work” are really doing work for themselves.
12 million go basic builder tacky? Leona Helmsley and Ivana Trump are rolling in their graves over this atrocity.
First in-home hair salon I've seen.
20 bedrooms and 31 baths. Does this pastor have the congregation living with him?
And mix with the plebs? Are you *insane?*
I feel as tho I've seen this 💩 house before😵💫
single family?
I feel like if you have a $12M house you can find someone to custom felt your pool table.
They want to go to heaven because they live in hell.
It’s so boring. There’s like nothing interesting in the whole house.
The fuck is a roond a boot? The circle driveway?
It's called a round a bout. I was being silly
I got your Canajan pronunciation XD
The lighting is vomit inducing. And the entire property looks like it was printed on a roll out rug for a preschool or kindergarten. How do you have that much money, and still use white lit cans?! Accent lighting people. Cans are like sticking cheap flashlights in the ceiling. Gross. I fuck with the purple carpet, it’s getting done dirty by the rest of the house. Which can go away.
I bet the line "Purple is the color of royalty" has been uttered in those sacred halls.
Looks like she built the house and then ran out of money to do any interior decorating
Odds of finding a sex dungeon with child-sized equipment?
Single family home and it could help house a whole bunch of her less fortunate in the congregation. What a shame
His, that’s not the pastor in the pic.
so many modern large homes are complete wastes of space. this place just looks ridiculous on all accounts. I guess it’s fitting for Texas however.
/texas everything is bigger and dumber in numbers
What!? Only one kitchen?
Photo #8 - dentist waiting room vibes.
Whatever you do don’t look at OPs post history
How does one amass a house like that as a Pastor legally?
And an entire prole colony of mini-McMansions just behind you, watching you. It's just stupid, and you wonder how anybody maintains their religion.
It’s actually pretty ugly, and that purple…
Yeah, but that purple carpet is my kinda color.
Yeah...the daughters and sons were another thing altogether
Omg the purple carpet 🤮
Lol. Of course it’s in Spring.
I have a feeling we'll be hearing about this place again.
I wouldn’t know what to do with all that room
A debacle.
the interior is hideous and I love purple!
Mega church pastor, the original crypto rug pull?
What happed to the vow of poverty or is that a priest thing? I’m sure the congregation loved being reminded to tithe every week even when they could barely afford to eat, and being preached to by a person living in a 40,000 sqft house, probably wearing designer clothes that cost more then some of them make a yr.
All the more reason to tax Megachurches
Which one of y'all left this review 23 his ago? "I'm not usually a fan of churches this size, but I guess that's why they have multiple locations, to keep them from getting too big. My favorite location is the more private one on Spring Cypress. The decor is really original, and it looks like they put more time, money, and effort into this location than any other." 🤣🤣🤣 For extra entertainment, read the one star reviews.
He needs to liquidate before the pedo charges surface
Auto-upvote for annotations, but even without, this is a true gem of hideous waste.
I think we have a winner.
Great! It’s all here. Sleep in a different bed every night. Now you’ll never have to see anyone else but your family!
Right by Hooks Airport, and pretty close to my parents house. Never knew this house was in this area. But of course a pastor has a big house, the taxes the church doesn't have to pay gets put in his pockets.
Ghetto Fabulous
I'm gonna be real, I actually dig the idea of dueling chaise lounges