Getaway Driveway

You never know what types of activities people are involved in (both work related and personal).

"Paranoid" infers that he has no reason to worry...maybe he does.

Probably a suitcase of foreign currency and gold bars somewhere on that estate!

I don't ask questions about his business. The less I know, the better off I am.

As far as gold bars and foreign currency, I'd be more inclined to believe it from the previous owner of the property. The whole family fled the country after an "incident" occurred.

Did I mention our client has a tunnel between his garage and house? Big enough to drive a golf cart through. This is so he can get to his safe room faster should someone be shooting at him. His words, not mine.....

His body type is more of the "ride the golf cart through the tunnel" rather that physically run through the tunnel.

Those that know him that I have talked to think he is crazy and say he has no reason to be paranoid.

I think I might be paranoid to work for him

Back in the late '70s and early '80s the civil firm I worked for was entrenched in a high dollar development here that surrounded a golf course (they played the PGA finals there in '86). I had never seen multi-million dollar homes in my life until then. I saw a bathroom under construction that was bigger than my first house, had 14' ceilings and Italian marble on the walls...we had the task of staking a lot of these structures. It was very interesting.

One fella, an owner of a national trucking company, had purchased two lots; fronting on different streets but sharing a rear property line. One lot was a good 15' higher than the other. He built huge houses on both lots and the higher one had a 10x8 rcb leaving the basement and running some 300' to the garage of the lower one. It was wide enough to drive a golf-cart through. I always imagined it was an escape route in case some "business associate" from el cartel en Bogota came to collect a debt....

I think your client has an overactive imagination. If he really needed escape routes he wouldn't be telling everyone around about them.

ropestretcher, post: 366716, member: 2059 wrote: I don't ask questions about his business. The less I know, the better off I am.

family fled the country after an "incident" occurred.

His body type is more of the "ride the golf cart through the tunnel" rather that physically run through the tunnel.

Aha! So I guess Tony Soprano escaped the diner afterall!!!

ropestretcher, post: 366687, member: 2059 wrote: "You know me, I'm kinda crazy. You never know when I might need a another way to escape from here!"

Should have suggested the old adage: "You can run, but you can't hide" 😉

I would assume that the client does not want their security arrangements aired out on an open forum.

Before I went back to school to become a surveyor, I spent 21 years building custom cabinetry and woodwork in Arkansas. We have built walk through cabinets, sliding panels into secret rooms with escape hatches, the whole nine yards. I guess a lot of people have active imaginations, and some of them can afford to act upon it. Interesting.

Timberwolf, post: 366824, member: 10599 wrote: Before I went back to school to become a surveyor, I spent 21 years building custom cabinetry and woodwork in Arkansas. We have built walk through cabinets, sliding panels into secret rooms with escape hatches, the whole nine yards. I guess a lot of people have active imaginations, and some of them can afford to act upon it. Interesting.

Some friends built a house almost twenty years ago (when he was making big bucks). His "man cave" has a beautiful built in gun cabinet that conceals an entrance to an above ground "safe room", literally built like a bank vault. This was actually BEFORE we all realized that a Zombie Apocalypse was a possibility. They rarely use the room, except in case of a tornado.

Last I heard it looked vaguely like most of the rest of us mere mortal's garages inside...

I'm pretty sure that I'm not important enough to need any secret doors or passages in my home. But I've always wanted one, just because they seem cool. It would be great to have a passage made so that if I had guests over, I could walk out of the front room down the hallway, as if I'm going to the bathroom. Then, I could go through the secret passage and come back to the front room from a completely different direction.

What can I say, simple things amuse me.

Everywhere I have lived there was always a sacrificial hedge or other plant that blocked the view and gaveway when run over.

I once worked on a house owned by a famous author. The builder explained that all the glass on the back side of the house facing the river was bulletproof. The owner was afraid that an assassin floating in a boat on the river would take a shot at her. The river was about 1000 feet away and 100 feet lower than the house.

I actually have a secret entry to my house that no one has ever been able to identify. I disguised it as a door...

I loved reading mysteries when I was a kid. About half of the stories involved an old house with some kind of secret room or passage or stairs from one floor to another. Should I ever decide to build my dream house, something of that type must be included.

My dream house will have a slide. And a hot tub. Inside the house!

The most common hidden room is under the stairs.

skwyd, post: 367266, member: 6874 wrote: My dream house will have a slide. And a hot tub. Inside the house!

You would really enjoy a family stay at the Wolf Lodge.......

Recently we did a survey on a lot and was told to be there at 9 am by the realtor. I showed up at 8:50 and rang the bell at the gate. A man answered and let us in, and then met us in the drive way. Small talk proceeded until the realtor showed up when we were promptly asked, "Since is 9 am ten minutes early. Do you know who this guy is? You either leave here in a body bag or an ambulance. Thank you for being on time." Talk about needing a place to escape.