Hammer Time Mansion (Fremont, California)

USA / California / Sunol / Fremont, California / Vista Del Sol, 44896
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MC Hammer made headlines when he built this home for $12 or $20 million in the hills of Fremont, CA. He couldn't afford to keep it when he declared bankruptcy a few years later.
The 40,000 sq ft house had Italian marble floors, a bowling alley, recording studio, 33-seat theater, 2 swimming pools, tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a 17 car garage.
Mountain mudslides threatened the house in the 1998 El Nino.
If you think it doesn't look all that big, consider that it's in a neighborhood of million dollar homes.. scroll to the left a bit and cross Mission Blvd. to compare to average sized houses.
The gates out front still say "Hammer Time". The house was allegedly the scene of many drunken drug orgies. The reformed Reverend Hammer now lives more modestly in a mere million-dollar house, about 20 miles east in Tracy, CA.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hammer
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Coordinates:   37°30'54"N   121°54'28"W

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  • According to Zillow.com this home is not 40,000 square feet, but only around 11,000.
  • The view from google maps looks as though this is a 40,000 sq. feet home - very doubtful is it only 11,000! I live in a 10,000 and his home is far larger than mine.
  • I guess Hammer learned his lesson after not investing his money wisely, building a huge home, and acting like an ATM card for a huge entourage of freeloaders.
  • M. C. Hammer, the financially strapped rapper who is attempting a comeback to the music scene, has sold his custom-made dream house in the hills of Fremont for $5.3 million. The energetic singer has moved with his wife and three children to a rental house in Tracy as he reorganizes his finances, according to his lawyer, Mike Cooper, and his real estate agent, Faye Carlson. "We'll be filing a plan of reorganization by the end of the month," Cooper said yesterday. The home buyer is Sterlingsat Television Ltd., a Singapore company whose California manager will move in with his family, Cooper said. The 12.5 acres surrounding the mansion includes two swimming pools with computer-controlled thermostats, a reflecting pool, a nine-car garage and, inside the house, four dishwashers, a media room, exercise room, recording studio and rehearsal hall. It has three master bedrooms. Sterlingsat got the house for considerably less than Hammer's $6.5 million asking price. The sale became final Tuesday. Carlson said Hammer and his family had begun moving out two weeks ago. The three-time Grammy winner told The Chronicle in an interview last month at the Fremont home that selling the house was the best thing to do to get "back in the black" financially. Hammer, whose five albums sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and who earned an estimated $33 million, filed for bankruptcy in April 1996. At the time, he said he had $10 million in debts that included a $500,000 loan from football-baseball star Deion Sanders, $500,000 to a lawyer and $100,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. Born Stanley Kirk Burrell and raised poor in Oakland, Hammer built his home during the peak of his music career in 1991.
  • Asking price for the six-bedroom, seven-bath estate is $6.5 million. It's been assessed at $9 million. To be sure, the home is unique. The 12.5-acre estate is located near Mission Peak. A steep winding road leads a guest to the center of a sprawling white, U-shaped home. The security gate reads "Hammertime."
  • I used to live two houses above his (if u scroll up). Not the house with the red roof the but one with the grey and it was about 11,000 sqft. Mc hammers old house was close to 40,000 sqft
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