henderson mansion available for rent -- for the price of a car each month

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Henderson mansion available for rent -- for the price of a car each month Built on a hillside, the Henderson mansion has marble flooring, a movie theater, an elevator and a wine cellar, along with replica sections of the Sistine Chapel's paintings on the walls. If it were for sale, the three-story estate would cost millions. But the owners aren't hunting for buyers. They are, however, trying to rent it out -- for $18,000 a month. The recently listed house at 1703 Tangiers Drive in MacDonald Highlands appears to be the most expensive rental on the market in Southern Nevada. There are plenty of luxury homes for sale here at eye-popping prices, but how many people are willing to pay the cost of a car each month just to rent a place? More than you may think. "Oddly enough, it happens," RE/MAX Advantage agent Diane Hawley said. The pool of potential renters is small and certainly not typical. They include corporate big shots in town for a months-long assignment or other pooh-bahs new to the valley who need a place to stay while their custom home is being built.

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Henderson mansion available for rent -- for the price of a careach month

Built on a hillside, the Henderson mansion has marble flooring, a movie theater, an elevator and awine cellar, along with replica sections of the Sistine Chapel's paintings on the walls.

If it were for sale, the three-story estate would cost millions. But the owners aren't hunting forbuyers.

They are, however, trying to rent it out -- for $18,000 a month.

The recently listed house at 1703 Tangiers Drive in MacDonald Highlands appears to be the mostexpensive rental on the market in Southern Nevada. There are plenty of luxury homes for sale hereat eye-popping prices, but how many people are willing to pay the cost of a car each month just torent a place?

More than you may think.

"Oddly enough, it happens," RE/MAX Advantage agent Diane Hawley said.

The pool of potential renters is small and certainly not typical. They include corporate big shots intown for a months-long assignment or other pooh-bahs new to the valley who need a place to staywhile their custom home is being built.

Their landlords, meanwhile, hop between homes in different cities, if not different countries.

There are at least six homes in the valley whose owners want at least $10,000 per month in rent,listings show. Five are stand-alone mansions and one is in Sky Las Vegas, a 45-story luxury condotower on the north Strip.

The seven-bedroom, 12,205-square-foot home on Tangiers has been on the rental market for aboutthree weeks, listing broker Cheryl Davis said. She got an offer from someone who was willing to pay$25,000 a month if the house were furnished, but the owners may balk at that, as it may cost$100,000 to fill it with furniture.

"It's a pretty big house," said Davis, of brokerage firm Engel Völkers.

So is 1581 Villa Rica Drive, in the Seven Hills area of Henderson. The 7,177-square-foot home,available for move-in no sooner than August at $12,500 per month, is currently being rented for thatprice by a couple who needed the house for two months. They're building one from scratch nearby.

They paid all the rent and a $12,500 security deposit upfront -- $37,500 total.

The furnished, six-bedroom mansion has a billiards room, sits on a golf course, and has laundryrooms upstairs and down.

"The laundry room downstairs is as big as some condos I've seen," said Hawley, the listing agent.

Davis rents out homes for at least $5,000 a month three to five times a year. Despite the big prices,Las Vegas mega-mansion rental rates are a steal compared with those in, say, Southern California,San Francisco or New York, she said.

There are 59 homes in Beverly Hills, Calif., listed on Zillow for at least $10,000 a month in rent,including a 15,000-square-foot house for $120,000 per month.

If the home on Tangiers were in California, Davis said, it would cost "$60,000 a month, I guaranteeyou."

"That's how crazy it is over there," she said of the Golden State. "So $18,000 a month is chumpchange."

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