Tuesday, September 8, 2009

T-Boz Lists Suburban Atlanta Crib

SELLER: Tionne Watkins, a.k.a. T-Boz
LOCATION: Malvern Hill Place, Duluth, GA
PRICE: $1,250,00
SIZE: 9,654 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Gorgeous hard coat stucco home with great street appeal, circular driveway, master on main level, gourmet kitchen, upstairs bedrooms with beautiful build outs, finished terrace level, with recreation area, full additional suite

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Alright babies, Your Mama is going to try to work through this nasty migraine that's been visited on us like a punishment and head on down to the subtropical suburban wilds of Duluth, GA where thanks to Barb Dwyer we've learned that R&B singer/songwriter Tionne Watkins has put her big house behind the gates of the unfortunately named Sugar Loaf Country Club on the market with an asking price of $1,250,000. Is it just Your Mama or do any of the children think that nothing which purports to be upscale should use the word, "loaf?"

Anyhoo, Tionne Watkins is, of course, better known by her stage name of T-Boz. Back in the early 1990s Miz T-Boz was one of a trio of gals known as TLC who had a number of hit songs including the sappy Waterfalls and the silly No Scrubs, which happens to have been written by none other than Kandi Burruss, the newest high drama behawtcha on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Over the years, Miz T-Boz has also collaborated with a number of other major recording artists including DaBrat, Keith Sweat and Paula Cole as well as recorded a bunch of solo songs, owned a childrens clothing store in Houston, TX (now closed), and was unceremoniously fired by Donald Trump on the most recent season of The Celebrity Apprentice.

Property records show Miz T-Boz bought her manse on Malvern Hill Place in July 2001 for $1,122,700 which is just a smidge over $100,000 less than the house is currently listed.

Listing information for the hard coat stucco and stone faced home, which sits on a .96 acre lot, indicates that there are 6 bedrooms and 6.5 poopers spread over three levels including a main floor master suite and a separate suite on the lower "terrace level." Other amenities, according to listing information, include a double height impress the guest style entrance hall, 10-foot ceilings, three fireplaces, a formal dining room that seats 12, a big circular drive, a 3 car garage for all Miz T-Boz's whips, an exercise room, media room, recreation room and a wet bar. What it does not have is a swimming pool.

In addition to Miz T-Boz, The Sugar Loaf Country Club is home to a number of well known musicians and athletes including former Brave turned Dodger Rafael Furcal, baseballer Andruw Jones, and gold medal winning Olympic sprinter Gail Devers. Picayune rapper Shad Moss–otherwise known as Lil' Bow Wow–recently took a loss on the Sugar Loaf Country Club mansion he bought in March of 2006 for $950,000 and sold in April of 2009 to professional pitcher Kenshin Kawakami for $850,000.

According to public property records Your Mama peeped into, Miz T-Boz owns another home in Jonesboro, GA which had a notice of default filed against it in June of 2009 and which may or may not be cleared up, and records also show the little lamb lost a home in Decatur, GA to foreclosure in August of 2008. Sounds like this ladee needs another damn hit song.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

is it just me, or does "hard-coat stucco" not sound like something you'd want to feature so prominently in a listing for an upscale property?

PoshLady said...

What a gorgeous house! It looks very English to me.

Anonymous said...

English? Are you sure, honey?

dolly said...

In Manchester, England, there is a "trendy" bar/restaurant called Loaf. However, the name "Sugar Loaf Country Club" just makes me want to vomit.

Anonymous said...

Mama,

Can you swear on a bible that you have never lip-synched to Waterfall? I can't beleive it.

Anonymous said...

Typical Atlanta McMansion. To her credit, she did not go dormer-portico-bay-window-happy. Good luck selling.

Anonymous said...

Methinks people fall in love with an image of themselves living in these places and forget about the ongoing stream of cash required for taxes, utilities, landscapers and other maintenance.

I've been spared from owning mulitple homes, but then my bank hasn't taken one away either.

StPaulSnowman said...

This is the absolute best!.......the fact that Mama made no pithy comments about this balsa wood palace speaks volumns.

Anonymous said...

A near-perfect example of a generic, tacky McMansion, in a place noone in their right mind would want to live...

NewYorkQueer said...

What a gastly house. I could drive five miles in any direction from where I am presently marooned in Toledo Ohio and pass several delveopements filled with that same house, all with matching for sales signs and none even approaching 1.2 millllllll!
I must say thank you Mama for sparing our poor eyes from being forced to view what we can be assured is an equally horrifing interior.
Am I being small here?

Anonymous said...

Sugar Loaf Country Club is also home to the "Mansion Madame" Lisa Ann Taylor, a former Penthouse model who ran a high-priced brothel in the neighborhood. What I would give to read Your Mama assessment of THAT decor.

Anonymous said...

yes, honey...I'm sure. It look's english!

Costa Rica Real Estate said...

Beautiful home, and to be honest the price is not that high at less than 1 and a half mill

Dick Splash said...

@ Posh Lady 9.52am.

As a regular reader from the UK, that house is SOOO not anywhere near anything you would find in the UK.

Well said Anon 10.11am.

Not even in the suburbs surrounding Manchester, such as Wilmslow or Alderley Edge, where it really is wall-to-wall Porsche 911s, and you are literally nose-to-nipple in footballers' thighs.......

I think the Beckhams have a pad in Alderley Edge.............I digress.!!!!

As fer Dolly, 11.28am, I have not heard of that club...........

As someone who was confused over Mama's use of "Chopper Doctor" the other day, when referring to Sandra Bullock's hubby, I am even more bo-jangled now with "Sugar Loaf", or maybe just "loaf". I really don't know.

In a British sitcom called "Gimme Gimme Gimme" someone makes reference to "Sugar Walls" which I guess is kind of rude, (clips will be available on YouTube I am sure), but this "loaf" thing is a new one on me.

Can someone perlease enlighten. Bueller?

Many thanks.

Anonymous said...

anon 9.22 - hard coat stucco is a very desirable finish in GA - basically CONCRETE!

Anonymous said...

Listing says "street appeal" ? Is that a cross between street cred and curb appeal?

JLo said...

Definitely not English. Unlike myself.
Then again I've never considered Bingo to be posh so what do I know?

Anonymous said...

It's so loverly to know that some of these people are having difficulty making ends meet. I saw William Baldwin's bankruptcy filing in the news: assets a bit over one million; debts a bit over two million. Has he ever gone downhill! Down to his last disappearing million. Oh, if it could only happen to so many more in Hollywood.

Anonymous said...

September 9, 2009 11:23 PM

I think you have the Baldwin brothers mixed up. You're thinking about Stephen Baldwin. You know, the one who never had a career in Hollywood in the first place.

Anonymous said...

Since I live in Duluth, GA myself I feel I can say this with authority. It isn't supposed to be "Sugar Loaf," two words. It's supposed to be "Sugarloaf," one word. Definitely would be tacky as two. There are a good many things & places around here with sugar as part of the name. There's a story that says a train lost some freight around here & some of it was sugar. There's a city called Sugar Hill which is where it's supposed to have happened. Don't know where the sugarloaf came from though.

Juicy said...

Her appearance on Celebrity Apprentice makes sense now...it was all about the appearance fees.

What's next? Joan Rivers really was swindled by Madoff?

Nancy/PA said...

I think "street appeal" is code for "no front yard, sits on the street". But actually, I think this house is pretty (sorry!). Then again, I always liked "Waterfalls" and cried at the video every darn time.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful home!!!

OnTheSceneTV said...

Mama,
I "did my time in Atlanta"-10 years of it. I describe it like a jail sentence. The ATL people are SO busy concerning themselves with the Joneses and trying to keep up with what those pesky, I mean their friends the Joneses are doing to renovate their homes, buy new toys, etc, that they all live paycheck to paycheck like the rest of us. (Yes, they have friends they don't like just so they can say they know them and socialize with them) I had inside access because I was a housekeeper for those 10 years and I saw my share of the vomit inducing activity of these people. I always had 20 or so clients at a time (I was not a one household live-in) One lady whom I chose not to work for actually scoffed at my fee (which would have equaled to $15/hr.) She said "Who do you think you are to make more than $10/hr.?! You're not the president of IBM! No ma'am. The president of IBM makes more than I would ever hope to BUT I am a US citizen and I speak English. I can be trusted with a key to your home. I will show up when I am scheduled and give 110% for my fee and I bring my own vacuum & supplies. If I break something I will replace it or give you the value with my hard earned money but... no thank-ya I don't need your $$. The people of ATL are fakers and do their darn best to appear that they have more $$ than they do.
I now live in Southeast Florida in a house bigger & nicer than most that I cleaned. How's that for justice?! I am a real-life Cinderella and I am living happily ever after. I clean my own house unlike the ladies who were just too darn busy playing tennis & going to Bible study to clean theirs. I find that my neighbors ARE wealthy and it is refreshing to not see people trying to copy/outdo the others. They have the confidence the ATL people lack. They aren't afraid of being caught without as much $$ as they appear to have and they are confident just being themselves. MANY of them look like regular folks sitting at the bar next to you. Most of them LOOK like they have LESS $$ than they do!! I have ended up sitting next to former CEO's and founders/family of BIG companies as well as "celebrities" at a particular restaurant bar and they just look "average".
As for the T-Boz house--ALL the $1 million dollar homes in the ATL suburbs look just like it. VERY cookie cutter. VERY boring...yawn. There has been a stucco issue there with builders using a cheap crappy version, so I guess hard-coat must be the "good stuff". Did I mention the TRAFFIC in ATL???? Nightmare of nightmares! Have mercy!
I stumbled onto your blog today after searching Michael & Judy Ovitz online. I am reading the nanny tell-all book featuring them. Wonder to self... do I have enough stories to write a tell-all housekeeper book? Maybe enough for a blog. Who knows?! Your blog has entertained me tremendously! Thank-you!!