Real Housewife Lisa Wu Hartwell and her husband Edgerton Hartwell have moved to not-so-new digs in Gwinnett County after vacating their two-year-old, five-bedroom home in Duluth.
Ed Hartwell, who answered the door Tuesday evening, confirmed the sizable brick house in Hoschton is their primary residence. Hartwell said he purchased the property in 2005 when he first moved to Atlanta to play for the Falcons.
Although the house was listed in March by Hartwell and Associates Realtors, Inc. (the real estate company that is one of the Hartwells' many businesses), Hartwell said the $1.4 million home, advertised, as having six bedrooms and six bathrooms on about nine acres of land, is definitely not for sale. "We had planned to build on the property but decided not to," he said.
The new-old house with a somewhat sprawling lawn in front and private woods in back is a change from the ritzy subdivision they left behind. That home, featured on the first and current season of the Bravo show, was publicly auctioned on August 4. Bank of America - the same bank that served as lender of $2.9 million when the couple purchased the house in June 2007 - bought it back at $1.9 million.
According to county documents the home was built in 2006 and priced at $3.3 million. Public records show several homes in the subdivision have gone into foreclosure.
In an exclusive interview with the AJC, Lisa Wu Hartwell avoided using that f-word stating that she and her family had not been evicted from the pricey property. She said they were not ignorant of economic conditions and voluntarily left the house rather than throw away tens of thousands of dollars in payments.
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