Jake Butcher Mansion: Is the Address 182 Whirlwind Lane or Not?

Is the Butcher Mansion address 182 Whirlwind Lane or not?

It seems like a straight forward question, right? Unfortunately, it isn't. It appears no one really knows what the address is.

When the Butcher's lived in Whirlwind the address was on Old Emory Road. But when the developer came in and subdivided the land and hacked the mansion into 5 tacky condominiums everything changed.

Commercial Bank in Tennessee has the property listed on their website as 182 Whirlwind Lane Clinton TN.

The Realtor has the property listed on her site as 180 Whirlwind.

The Property Assessor's office has the parcel identified as 123 Whirlwind Point.

The CRS (courthouse retrieval system) the Realtor uses has the property listed as separate units: 123 Whirlwind Point, 182 Whirlwind Point, 186 Whirlwind Point and no number Whirlwind Point. There's a condo missing in there somewhere. And wouldn't it make it easier to just have one correct address listing units 1-5 or A-E so people can figure out what's what and who's who? Is that so hard?

The deeds all use legal addresses that start with "Beginning at a point on the West edge of Wing Wall and Whirlwind Point Road running South 45 deg. 45 min. West, 112.64 feet to a point; Thence on a curve having a radius of 400 Feet, and arc length of 266.21 feet, a chord bearing and distance of South 26 deg..." Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!! Just tell me the frickin address!!! The legal description goes on for three quarters of a page and never gives a street address.

Also, did you notice how the legal description identifies Whirlwind Point ROAD? You won't find a Whirlwind Point ROAD in any other documentation.

Isn't that nice?

The Trustee's office has the Butcher mansion address as 123 Whirlwind Point not to be confused with 123 Whirlwind Point LANE which is a totally separate parcel with a completely different owner.

The copy of the utilities I have in my possession identify the property as 182 Whirlwind Point Lane.

Zillow identifies the property being just off Whirlwind Drive but there is no other record that identifies any street named Whirlwind Drive in that area. Google maps has it listed being just off Whirlwind Point Lane.

At one point, the Realtor told me the bank representative had his attorneys working on turning the condos back into a single family residence because the Home Owner's Association was charging the bank for 5 separate units.

Well, if anyone made a few clicks on their computer they would have learned that the property was converted back to a single family residence in January 2007 - that's over 5 years ago, people. 5 years.

And the Trustee's office - the one who bills taxes every year - has the Butcher mansion listed as a single family residence. The property taxes for a single family residence in Anderson County are based on 25% of the total property value. A commercial property, which a condominium unit would be, is based on 40% of the total property value. The Butcher mansion total property value is multiplied by 25%, which makes it a single family residence, and then that figure is taxed 2.532%.

Do you know how I found that out? I made a few clicks on my handy dandy computer and then I made a phone call to the Trustee's office. I had all that information in about 5 minutes. I wonder how much Commercial Bank is paying those attorneys since they were supposedly working on that for weeks?

FYI: the Trustee's office has the total property value of the Butcher Mansion listed at $1,711,400 which is waaaay too high for the condition of the property. Makes you wonder if anyone actually went out to the property or if they just based it on previous records?

So, Commercial Bank is paying attorneys to do work that's already been done. They're being billed Homeowner Association Fees 5 times what they should be paying. However, the bank representative told me he refuses to pay the association fees so I guess it doesn't really matter, does it?  Oh, but it will. But that's a whole 'nother topic. The appraisal the Trustee's office is using puts the taxes at $10,833. Commercial Bank must continue to pay those taxes or risk losing the property to Anderson County. If only Commercial Bank could figure out what they're paying taxes on.