It’s always interesting when movie real estate goes up for sale. From the often-sold Amityville Horror house to Cameron’s house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when a movie house gets sold I get interested. However, when it’s property from a movie I like? I’m even more interested. Unfortunately, I don’t have a few million dollars at my disposal to pick up this next piece of property, nor do I have the rug needed to tie the room together. The abode of The Dude from the Coen Brothers’ classic The Big Lebowski is up for sale.
The Dude’s apartment can be yours, man. You can live where El Duderino lived! Just don’t expect it to have a realistic layer of grime and sleaze anymore; the movie’s success took care of that.
“It’s a gorgeous little compound. Some of the tenants are decorators, so on the inside, the units just look primo,” said realtor Winston Cenac. However, don’t expect The Dude to be able to afford it: “In the movie the whole compound is very rundown. The people who bought it upgraded it, so unfortunately not.”
The six-unit apartment complex is for sale for $2.3 million dollars. Each unit is a single bedroom, and all units face the gated, landscaped central courtyard. Bulldog Realtors, the company behind the sale, have invited Jeff Bridges to show up and say hi (and put in a bid to buy the place, no doubt). The showing will be today from 11 AM to 2 PM, and only those with serious interest are invited to check it out. The bums will always lose!
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