The Home Alone House: What the McCallister Mansion Is Really Worth Today | Christmas Special

It’s a Christmas episode of The Rent-ish Podcast 🎄🏠

In this holiday special of Real Estate Reel, we break down the iconic Home Alone house, aka the McCallister Mansion, and what it would really be worth in today’s real estate market.

We cover:

• Where the real Home Alone house is located
• The current value of the McCallister house
• What could it rent for today
• Whether the family could realistically afford it in 1990
• How movie fame impacts home values

Blending Christmas nostalgia, real estate insights, and pop culture, this episode is perfect for fans of holiday movies, iconic homes, and property value breakdowns. Article to read more on this: HERE

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SPEAKER_03 0:03

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to season two of the Rent-Ish Podcast. I'm Zach here with my co-host Patrick.

SPEAKER_04 0:09

We're two rookies chasing the dream of real estate investing. In this podcast, we'll talk about property management, wild stories, and everything in between. We don't know it all yet.

SPEAKER_03 0:17

But that's the point. We're learning as we go, just like you. We'll bring in the experts to educate and inform us and we'll figure it out together. So let's laugh, learn, and dive into real estate side by side. Cue the jingle bell sound effect and snow sounds. I'm just imagining all the different sound effects outside of like an old poet's house in the middle, like Charles Dickens, you know, in the middle of winter in uh wherever he lived. I'm sure in London. Yeah. Charles Dickens from London. It's our holiday episode. You're listening to this gathered around the fire. You got you got your family all around the maybe the tree or the dining room table, whatever you're doing for the holidays, and you're like, family, we're gonna gather around clothes and listen to this week's episode of the Rentich Podcast. Families all over the country doing it. Well, yeah, so remember, follow the show at the Rentish Pod on social media, questions at the rentish pod dot com. You can email us with your questions, ideas, topic suggestions. If you're out there and you're a real estate professional or someone famous and you want to be on the show, email them questions at the rentish pod.com. Only famous people. Only famous people, email us. No, no, no. If you're a normal person, you can email us too. And also, if you're listening to this on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast, give us a like, give us a follow, give us a subscribe, and leave us a comment. Tell your friends about the show while you're hanging out at the Yule Tide Ball this this holiday season. Let everyone know about the Rentish Pod. Patrick, are you having uh are you having a good holiday season?

SPEAKER_04 1:50

Yeah, I feel like I really haven't done much in the way of festivities. Watch Scrooged the other night. I think that's really the Bill Murray one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the Christmas Carol. Yeah, I think that's the only like holiday movie I've I've watched this year. Um, I hate Christmas music, honestly. What? Dude, like there's like what's your problem with Christmas music? It's okay, when people say like, oh, that song's overplayed, you know, it's always a Christmas song. No, no, no, it just in general. Like, for like, I don't know, let's bring up like don't stop believing or something. Like, oh, I don't like that song, it's overplayed. If you're talking about overplayed songs, jingle bell rock, winter wonderland, like the songs that you sure, you know, especially having worked at JCPenney and also doing Christmas in July, also, I'm I'm so What Christmas in July? Yeah, it's like a JCPenney sale thing. It's like a way for them to like Yeah. Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

But the Christmas music only happens once a year. It's like for a few weeks around the end of November, into December, and then it's like gone for another year.

SPEAKER_04 2:48

If you're dating my girlfriend, like and right after Halloween. No, one of those.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

Yikes. I love so here's the thing a lot of those Christmas the Christmas songs that you you mentioned, Jingle Bell Rock, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, whatever, like Winter Wonderland, All I Want for Christmas is you. Those songs, yes, overplayed. I love like classic Crooner Christmas. Like one of my favorite albums to put on in the holiday season while I'm cooking dinner, decorating the tree, is like the Frank Sinatra Christmas album or Bing Crosby. It's like I'm dreaming of what all those songs. It's like, those are awesome.

SPEAKER_04 3:24

Like I love the vibe that those put. I like the the nutcracker. Talk about old school, the nutcracker soundtrack. Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah, it might be. I was going dun do. Oh, and then there's also we're a couple A-grade musicians on this podcast, man.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

I'll tell you what. But yeah, we're doing a holiday episode, which means we get to just have a little bit of fun. Uh, we've we've done a lot of great episodes recently. Shout out to the producers of the Rentis show, Mousse, you included, Charlene, Elliot, you guys listening and editing. You guys have been doing a great job of getting our guests to. So we've had a lot of great episodes recently uh where we've interviewed some awesome people in real estate that have been able to kind of educate and inform us. You learned a new LP. You learned LP what to tell the people Limited Partnership.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

Yeah. As opposed to an uh an unlimited partnership.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Yeah, we're we're really learning over here. And I hope you guys are learning out there too. Christmas movies. Uh I haven't watched many yet this year either, but I always find up wound wind up watching uh The Muppets Christmas Carol and uh National Lampoon at some point.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

I'm I'm I'm itching to watch National Lampoon this year.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

It'll happen. Um what about you? Well, so well I was gonna kind of use that into a transition, but what what do you got over there? What do you what are you what are you watching around the Christmas time?

SPEAKER_00 4:48

It's just because there's something, there's a kid in all of us, you know what I mean, that wants to rebel and just wants to fight off and fight for your family, man. And so that's why.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Well, speaking of speaking, you brought up Home Alone. We are gonna talk about Home Alone because uh, you know, we're we're gonna do the prop, uh, what is it called? Movie, movie real? What is it?

SPEAKER_04 5:08

Real reality. Real movies, real real estate. Real estate real, right? Real estate real. What's it called? R-E-E-L, right? Real, real estate R-E-E-L. But yeah, the first real is R-E-A-L. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Yeah, yeah. Hence the pun. Pretty funny. Two versions of the word real. One affords to movies, one to the real estate.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

It's funny, Patrick.

SPEAKER_04 5:29

Actually, where is it?

SPEAKER_00 5:30

It's in the dock.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

It's like the first sentence.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Welcome back to real estate real. Whoops. Yeah, we're gonna talk about the Home Alone House. I did have a very spirited argument with my friend one year about if Home Alone is a Christmas movie or not.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

So that's when people because it is. I think most people agree it is, but like my argument, because when people say diehard isn't a Christmas movie, my argument is if Home Alone is a Christmas movie, then so is Die Hard.

SPEAKER_03 5:54

I agree with that.

SPEAKER_04 5:54

So um I agree with that. So like, yeah, if if you're saying Die Hard isn't, that's fine. Home Alone also isn't.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Wait, why are why is Home Alone even being questioned? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

Because it's not about Christmas. It's like every Christmas a Christmas movie to me is something where it like directly involves like the holidays. The only thing uh or like some kind of message of the spirit of the season or something like that. But it's so it's like elf Christmas movies, Santa's elves, all that stuff, Christmas time. Home alone, it just so happens that that story happens around Christmas. The family leaves to go on vacation, he's home alone. But it's not about Christmas, it's about him stopping the wet bandits.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

I'm gonna drop this on y'all. And if you respond, I'm meeting your mics. Um so look, every time Christmas morning, uh Kevin ends up there, it ends up being like a redeeming part of it, like where they're all like together, he's remembering the people, and I feel like that's kind of showing the Christmas spirit. Diehard is just like it's during Christmas time. Yeah, but he gets it. It's a Christmas movie, I think. It is diehard is, yeah, but I feel like there shouldn't be any question on Kevin McCastor. Speaking on muting the podcast just goes silent and the episode ends.

unknown 7:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:09

No, I agree with him. I agree. I mean, like, unless you're if you're saying like the a Christmas movie directly has to be like have Santa in it or revolve around, I don't know, like the birth of Jesus Christ, those are really the only thing. Because otherwise, like if a movie takes place on Christmas, has Christmas music in it, has like Christmas aesthetic as a major part of the movie, which Home Alone does, and Die Hard also does, and Christmas Vacation also does. I think that counts, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 7:35

Sure. I think it's all semantics because it's still Home Alone is a movie that makes you think of the holidays. Yeah. And of the winter and all that stuff. As a kid, I was a bit a bigger fan of Home Alone 2, Lost in the US.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

That's that's okay. Really? Because I I actually don't like that movie. Really? Yeah, still to this day. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

When was the last time you tried to watch it?

SPEAKER_04 7:54

I I rewatched, because I rewatched both of them back to back. I I do really like the first one, but the second one, I just for me, the funniest thing about the first one is Harry and Marv, like the wet bandits. Yes. And I just think they're two over the tops, like in the second. Like I just the the funniness of them, like they're just too stupid and not like actually funny. I don't know. It's just it ruined it a little bit for me.

SPEAKER_03 8:17

Man, I gotta I love the ordinarily I would hate something like that. Like you have this really simple story in Home Alone One, and then the second one is like, okay, well, what if the kids lost in the biggest city in the United States? And what if he has to defend this giant apartment building against the wet bandits? Like that would be like ratchet it up in a way that I think would be normally bad, but it's so comically violent. Kevin McAllister brutalizes those men. He electrocutes Mars.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Okay, I will give you that.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

That's so funny. It's it's also the one where he uh he's like throwing bricks, right? On the top of the building. Yeah, it pops him in the head. I'm like, those men are dead. They are dead.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

What's he blew up his head or like he put fire on his head? Oh, yeah. He blew, yeah, he straight up.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Catches him on fire. The yeah, he gets like tarred and feathered too, or something like that. I think the first one, though. Is that the first one? Okay. Well, either way.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

Onto real estate real.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

Yeah, real estate real. Everyone's having fun. Again, the family's all gathered around. They're having a good time.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

An annual part of your Christmas season. It's the Rentish part. Make the Rentish part of your holiday season.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

I remember it's like that's on the podcast art. Yeah. All right. Real estate real. We're gonna explore iconic homes, hotels, apartments, and hideouts from film and TV, break down their real-world value, quirks, and cultural impact. And today we're heading to one of the most beloved Christmas movie homes of all time, the McAllister House from Home Alone, a sprawling, warm-lit Chicago mansion where Kevin outsmarts burglars with paint cans, micro machines, and enough traps to qualify for a mechanical engineering degree. It's cozy, classic, surprisingly luxurious, and it's become the holiday movie house. So, Patrick, we've talked a lot about Home Alone. Yeah. Obviously, the house is pretty iconic for what it is now. I mean, what what are your thoughts right off the bat? What do you got for me? On the house itself.

SPEAKER_04 10:06

The house itself. Oh, okay. It's big. It's big. I think if my memory serves me correctly, it's made out of bricks.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

Yeah, it's got that like classic old world aesthetic.

SPEAKER_04 10:15

Yeah. I just in terms of the interior, I remember there's like the staircase that goes right up. Right down the side of the yeah, with the front door there because he slides down it.

SPEAKER_03 10:24

Yep. It always just struck me how like big it was as a kid. Like watching that, I was like, oh man, it's like it's like a mansion, and they have all these kids and they're living in it. There's all these different rooms, and Kevin's got his like secret upstairs, like like his bedroom. I always thought was like the coolest thing.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

The little like hideaway bedroom that he has. Very cool. But the real home is located at 671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois. So I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Winnetka. Looks how it's pretty cool. Looks like it, but uh, yeah, it's just as gorgeous in person. Filming used the actual interior and exterior for many scenes with a gymnasium nearby converted into a sound stage for more complex shots. Okay. Uh Winnetka is con consistently ranked among the wealthiest suburbs in the US. No shock there. Yeah, that checks out. Uh because that house would cost well, we'll get into the costs. Okay. We'll we'll talk about that. Many homes in the neighborhood were built in the early 1900s with that kind of classic brick facade and spacious layout. Uh, and I've got some fun facts for you, Pat. You ready? Okay. Yeah. The home alone house last sold for 1.5 million in 2012. But today it's estimated between 2.5 and 3.5 million.

SPEAKER_04 11:33

Wow. Okay. See, that's I honestly like the two to three million range is kind of what I expected. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Um, but yeah, a lot of money. Lots of money, lots of money. Um, and we're gonna talk about the the what I want you to do while I'm reading the next fun facts. Google what the McAllister house looks like now. Because I feel like this is an important thing for us to talk about. McAllister because I think it's gonna it's gonna more fun facts. Oh, wait, so you want me to say anything yet? Don't nope. Be quiet. Oh, I'm just kidding. Uh just yeah, find the if you can go to like Google, you can find it. Okay, cool. So hold on. Winnetka's median home value is around 1.2 million, and the McAllister house is well above average. And after the film's release, the home became a tourist hotspot, so much so that the village had to install no stopping signs next to the house.

SPEAKER_04 12:21

Yeah, I can see that being annoying for like the neighbors and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

This is a problem that I think is so funny in Hollywood, where it's like, or just any like any TV production or movie production that uses a singular location, like a like a residential location, though, and makes it a big deal. Like the uh the the White House comes to mind from from Breaking Bad. People go to that house like it's a like a pilgrimage in Albuquerque, New Mexico to see Walter White's house. And like they had to they had to put up like gates around the entire house because people kept trying to throw like pizzas on the roof, trying to replicate the scene in Breaking Bad. But it's like, yeah, of course, you have this big beautiful house in this wealthy suburb in Chicago. It's like people probably that are huge home alone fans drove to see the house, and it's like that's a disruption for the neighbors and stuff like that. It's just it's just really funny that that keeps happening until the painted ladies in San Francisco for uh uh full house, like that the houses in the in full house or whatever. You can go to those in San Francisco and people just like congregate there in front of these houses that are owned by people and that make it hard to like back out of their driveways. But um what'd you find? Well, tell me what you found on your on your Google searching.

SPEAKER_04 13:32

So it looks like they redid it, and it's like looks like it's kind of like a disgusting like white now, like what just like white and black interior, like very like a kind of characterless hypermodern. Yep. I don't know if that's yeah, I I think it's a downgrade personally, but um yeah, is that what you wanted me?

SPEAKER_03 13:49

That was what I was gonna say. Is like I encourage people to go out there and check out like what they did to the McAllister house because yeah, what you know, hey, everyone's style is their own to each their own per personal taste and stuff like that. Patrick, I think you and I have talked on this show about being kind of like not necessarily lined in, like I call it the millennial gray. Yeah like that aesthetic is kind of what they've turned the McAllister house into.

SPEAKER_04 14:11

Yeah, that's a that's probably a good word. Yeah, I'm not I'm not a fan of the style personally. Sure. I also the fact that it's it's not just like a big, nice, it's like the McAllister house. Like I feel like there's a sort of history to that house and the interior of the house. Yep. Like that just like that's like extra what's what's the word? What word am I looking for, Zach?

SPEAKER_03 14:30

I can't tell you, man.

SPEAKER_04 14:32

Whatever. The the the five the they know.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

Well, it's like moving away from what made the house historically important. Like I think it just changes the visual style in a way where it's like it loses the character.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's you know, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

That's just my personal opinion out there. Go Google what the McAllister House looks like now, and if you have an opinion on it, I would we'd love to hear. If you want to email questions at the rentishpod.com, we'd love to hear what you have to say about that. But so yeah, in the story, or or the film rather, the house is portrayed as the large traditional colonial style home. It's got the big grand foyer and the it's foyer, right? Isn't that how you pronounce it? Foyer. I've I've heard foyer, and I've also heard foyer. Foyer. I feel like foyer might be me trying to be like Ross Geller with karate. Karate. But I'm not I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 15:16

I think it's either or.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Either or? You can use either or.

SPEAKER_04 15:19

It's telling me foyer. Really?

SPEAKER_03 15:21

F-O-F-O-Y-U-R. Foyer. Yeah. Okay. But yeah, it's got a big formal dining room, a large eat-in kitchen, the finished attic, which is Kevin's exile room. I like exile room. I think that's funny. A spacious basement, multiple bedroom and baths, a large fenced backyard, and a classic brick facade with symmetrical windows and shutters. Uh, it looks warm, lived in, and importantly, big enough to lose a child. Yeah. So that's the main plot. I mean, we gotta talk about the plot of Home Alone. Can it happen in 2025? Patrick.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

I think the way they did it with how it happened, like the one neighbor kid was there and they counted him and thought that he was him. Like, I think that was actually a very clever way to kickstart the plot. And if they're in a rush too, they might not notice.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

Waking up late, the power outage. Yeah. Yeah. It it is ultimately though, I think like this kind of thing just would not happen this these days. Like, yeah. I just don't think so. It's like if you practically have your kids like microchipped at this point, it's like doesn't every kid have an air tag now? I feel like that's like a common thing to like have like a tracking device or something like that to like, especially for youngsters. Yeah. But they are in their own home. I would just be curious if they ever tried to reboot Home Alone, which they will. 100%. They will. It'll happen. They're gonna do it. They're just gonna reboot everything. But when they do eventually try and make a remake of this movie, how they kind of frame it in a modern capacity. Or do they do a uh like a period piece and like set it in the 90s? Why would they do that?

SPEAKER_04 16:48

Because money, yeah. Duh.

SPEAKER_03 16:52

Like it's a 90s throwback movie. It's like, yeah, you already made it. It's called Home Alone. We love that movie. Okay, so real life stats for the house: 5,400 square foot of living space, six bedrooms, three and a half baths, set on half an acre, which is large for the area. So not only did they pick a really nice house, but they also picked probably an outlier for the neighborhood. Probably not a lot of places that have that much property exactly.

SPEAKER_04 17:18

I mean, I don't remember there being like a ton, a ton of like the yard not being super big.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

They have a big well, it's like a big front yard for like a residential neighborhood house. And then yeah, they'll they show shots of the backyard too, I think, right?

SPEAKER_04 17:29

I know I he cuts down the Christmas or the a pine tree in the backyard, right? That's kind of all I remember from.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

I think so. Yep. So cost to rent. If it were a luxury rental, let's just do some hypotheticals here. A home this size in prestige in Winetka could fetch $12,000 to $18,000 per month as a long-term rental. That's a bill. That's quite the bill. Uh, and then as a short-term rental, we were looking at probably like $1,200 to $2,000 per night as a short-term rental. Of course, this would not actually be a real thing. Like if they were gonna rent out the home alone house as an Airbnb, they would probably be able to charge way more than $2,000 a night.

SPEAKER_04 18:07

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 18:08

Opinion, just opinion.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

But I mean, it's also one of those things, like, I don't think these numbers are. I mean, are these numbers counting the fact that it's the home alone house and people would pay extra for that? I think so.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

I think you're paying for the prestige of it being like, I'm getting to stay in Kevin's house.

SPEAKER_04 18:24

Yeah, right, right. Because to me, that's so comps. It's like when you look at comps, which is like properties of similar size, similar. I I would be curious, is this like kind of like the general comp or is this taking into account?

SPEAKER_03 18:36

I don't know. We'd have to look up the rest of the neighborhood probably to kind of see who the vibe would be. But uh something I I was thinking about too is that like if this were a short-term rental, if people were allowing, like you get to you could pay to stay in the home alone house, how strict do you think the rules and guidelines are because of how many people would want to like throw paint cans down the stairs or something? Like tie paint cans to the ceiling and try and swing them down the big staircase or whatever. They're like, under no circumstances are you to reenact the scenes from home alone in this house, please, dear God. So the cost to buy. We talked about it a little bit earlier, but the estimated value right now, if it went up for sales, anywhere between two and a half mil to three and a half mil. It kind of just depends on the market conditions. And high-end renovations could push it further. I am curious now that they've completely changed what the McAllister house looks like on the inside, the next time it goes for sale. I I will have to keep tabs on this stat just to see where it where it ends up. Cost to maintain. This is a this is a funny one too. Because you don't you think about like the cost of owning the house or renting the house, but then you don't think of like it's a big home, it's an old home. Yeah, and that comes with more costs as well. So property taxes in Winnetta often $30,000 per year or more. That's insane. That's disgusting. That is a crazy number. Heating a 5,000 square foot Chicago home in the winter, very costly as well. We don't have a number on that one.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Just very costly.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

It just says very costly.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

I mean, I I haven't met that number yet.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

It's a bajillion dollars. Uh pretty, doing some research. Insurance premiums also higher due to the age of the of the house, the size of the house, and maintenance on the on the home on historic homes like that can be of like one to three percent of the home value annually. Yeah. Real estate fun facts. In 1990s dollars, this house was still likely one million dollars, making the McAllister very wealthy by pretty much any standard. Which is funny. I mean, like you have that many kids in that big of a house. What what did the parents do for work?

SPEAKER_04 20:37

I don't know that we ever I don't think we ever told that.

SPEAKER_03 20:39

Yeah. I don't think we are. I wonder if anyone ever asked like John Hughes that question. Like, what did these parents do for a living? How are they able to afford such a house? I don't remember them ever saying what they did for work.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Anyway, I found it it could be roughly 300 to 600 per month in the winter. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

That seems low. Yeah. My heating bill is like 150 bucks, and I'm it's I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, heating like a one two-bedroom house. I bet you it's way more. Yeah. But that's just a thought.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

And also, Kevin's dad was a businessman.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

That's my career. My name is Mr. McAllister.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

I'm a bit and his mom is like a fashion designer.

SPEAKER_03 21:28

Fashion designer. Interesting. I don't really remember them bringing that up, but maybe I'll have to rewatch and pick closer to the case. It's on Wiki. On Wiki. The film never explicitly describes Peter McAllister's jobs, but fans have theories ranging from crime syndicate money to very successful business exactly.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

Where did you find that?

SPEAKER_03 21:49

The next line on the script.

SPEAKER_04 21:52

So the businessman thing is just a ploy.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Yeah, it might be involved in the mock. But yeah, could the McAllisters actually afford it? It's not a middle-class home. It's upper class suburban Chicago wealth. You know, the job stuff, the number of kids, international Christmas vacation apply. But it's like high corporate income, old family money, maybe a combination of both. That seems to be like the only way that this family of this size could afford doing this. And they're taking the whole family to Hawaii, right? Where are they going? Florida? Paris. Paris. That's right. Parrots. Did that hold did that add an extra special place in your heart when you're a kid?

SPEAKER_04 22:30

Paris isn't really an integral part of that. I do know. Uh, because there's one of, I think his brother Buzz says, like, French girls don't shave their pits or something. Yeah. And I remember like one of my friends like asking when I was like younger, dude, is that true? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Uh but yeah, so in today's market, to comfortably afford a $3 million home in Winneka, a buyer would typically need a household income of $550k plus, $600k down payment, and excellent credit. So if you don't check those boxes, you might not be able to afford the McAllister house. Um what else? What else? What else? Some more fun facts, I guess, and we can kind of wind this bad boy down. Fans estimate that the McAllister's Paris vacation, 12 people, Christmas season alone, would be 40k.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

Yeah. Flying to Paris, not cheap. It's expensive, yeah. I'm trying to get my flight situated for 2026. Yeah, it's not cheap.

SPEAKER_03 23:33

Not looking good. Doesn't Cincinnati offer a direct character flight now, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

And we we found we actually found one for a specific week in March. It's like $600 a ticket, which is not bad, honestly. It's still expensive, but like, yeah, I mean, it's been pretty much a thousand dollars. Cool.

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So the McAllister House isn't just a filming location, it's a character in its own right. From its warm colonial architecture to its grandfamily layout, it's the perfect cinematic setting for childhood adventure, Christmas chaos, and a surprisingly elaborate home security showdown. Uh in the world of real estate, it represents classic suburban luxury, high-value Chicago area property, and a home elevated to legendary status by film. So uh, like the Overlook Hotel, Jerry's apartment or the White Lotus Villas, the McAllister House invites us to imagine what it would feel like to live there, just hopefully without burglars, flying paint cans, or tar-covered staircases. Anything else to say about Home Alone? Any other hot takes that we need to air out? Right into questions at the Rentige Pod with your favorite Home Alone, or if you like Home Alone in general, or if there's a property that you want to hear us cover on Real Estate Real, feel free to send it over there and make sure to follow us on socials at The Rentich Pod. Like us, subscribe, give us a comment. If you're on a podcast service that allows you to rate it or review it, please do so. It would help the show out immensely if you would do that. And tell a friend while you're hanging out this holiday season or toasting to the new year, maybe let them know the rentich is the place they need to be for the holidays. Yeah, trying to make it nice and sweet. Like can you add a producers add a crackling fire over all of what I've just a real wet crackling fire. Sounded like dripping. Uh yeah, it's been it's been a good time. It's been a fun episode, Patrick. Are you are you effectively in the holiday spirit? Uh yeah. Okay, well I got Zach. He's been Patrick. That's Musa, and we'll see you guys next time. The Rentage Podcast is recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio, hosted by Patrick Giro and me, Zach Rotello. Produced by Mousse Gebermescal and Charlene Mulcindani. Edited by Elliot Mongenis. Theme song by me, Zach Rotello.