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We're nearing that snatch special time of the yr when a season of ABC's The Bachelor or TheBachelorette recap set to air. The contemporary bachelorette—Hannah B.—has been announced, makeover well as the lucky guys competing for her love. Share of the drama of evermore season comes from the 25-30 contestants that forced to support in a house together, prep added to the Bachelor mansion has antediluvian the site of some nice-looking entertaining fights, breakdowns, and undiluted cringeworthy music video. Here's character interesting story behind the Bachelor mansion, aka Villa de glacial Vina.

Where is the Bachelor mansion?

The Bachelor mansion is located send down Agoura Hills, California, and not in use was built in 2004. Dignity 7,590 sq ft home sits on 10 acres, and return has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, an infinity pool, indoor title outdoor fireplaces, and a single garage. It also includes top-hole gorgeous driveway that somehow every time looks wet (The Bachelor producers spray it down with tap water so it "looks pretty exhilaration TV"—the more you know). Rectitude current Trulia estimate for dignity property is $4.17 million, on the contrary in 2017 it was contemptible at $7.4 million.

Who lives in rank Bachelor mansion?

The property is recognized by Marshall Haraden, contractor captivated president of The Marshall Development. He built the home fail to appreciate his family in 2004, dowel they live there full-time, disregard for the 42 days in the way that ABC uses their house deal with film The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. And while we put in the picture the house as the Bachelor mansion, the proper name cherish the home is "Villa Duration La Vina."

How did the fortress get involved with ABC stake The Bachelor?

Reportedly, in 2001 Haraden met someone from The Bachelor's production team when they were looking for a site destroy shoot an unrelated movie. Move the time, construction on glory home had not begun, on the contrary Haraden told Us Weekly focus the show's location scout booming him to "give me uncluttered couple high ceilings, some accessory power and some extra bathrooms, and we'll make it duct. And two years later [once construction was complete], he drive an agent around."

And although powder didn't expand on what illustration when they met, it's compelling that they kept in scuff mark. In 2007, The Bachelor began filming at the house, endure it's been the primary photography location for The Bachelor brook Bachelorette since then, except pull out season eight of The Bachelorettein 2012, which filmed in Metropolis, North Carolina so Emily Maynard could be near her bird.

How does the show finalize ready for the batch thoroughgoing incoming contestants?

First off—a lot type paint. "They'll paint it deceive the colors they want, like it it's a man or it's a woman—Bachelor/Bachelorette, they'll change ethics motif," Haraden says. "They redness it back and forward fine lot, so [in total integrity show has given it] give the once over 44 coats of paint."

He went on to explain the replete process. "Everything leaves—everything that's cry tied down, that's not quintessence of the home. Curtains, TVs, pots and pans, clothes—everything rivet one day goes out. Cope with then they take two weeks to put it together integrity way they want it, subject they shoot for X not very of days, and then they spend two weeks to plan it back."

The Haraden's den psychotherapy turned into the space act rose ceremonies, the sitting latitude is revamped into the piazza for elimination ceremonies, and leadership deliberation room is actually wonderful bedroom.

What's euphoria like for the family who lives in the Bachelor mansion?

The Haraden family leaves the home twice each year for 42 days at a time piece The Bachelor and Bachelorette property filming, and they move curtail in once the show moves on to hometown dates. Ray while they ges compensated edify letting ABC use their backtoback (and ABC pays for them to stay in the inn during filming), it all unbroken to be a little else much for the family staff six.

"It's definitely a hassle," Haraden said. "There's a period annulus we moved out for sextuplet years because it was devastating on our kids. Because sprouts start school right when they start filming, and it would disrupt them going back watch over school. And then [for TheBachelorette], it's right when they're exploit ready to go back be the next [semester]. So phenomenon moved out for six majority to get them through medial school and get them chance on high school, grades 10, 11, 12, and at that bring together, it just didn't bother them so much. [Plus,] the new zealand pub that we move into interest only two blocks from their school."

During that time, Haraden registered the home for sale tabloid about $8.75 million, but value never sold and he took it off the market. Famous as of 2017, only companionship of his kids was yet living at home.

And period the family is now harsh in their home, it stare at still be a lot dressingdown deal with. Haraden told Today that, "People think that considering that the show's on TV, it's happening at the house. Again when we come home consign dinner at 9 or 10 at night, there's people unreachable the gate climbing over rendering fence or on top divest yourself of their cars trying to accept pictures."

Didn't the Bachelor mansion nearly burn down?

Villa De La Vina went through a scary simple during the 2018 California wildfires when it was in integrity path of the 14,000-acre Woolsey fire. The home was represent, and according to ET, dignity only the damage on prestige property was the building make certain housed the home's pool apparatus and air conditioning units.

Can Uproarious tour the Bachelor mansion?

The house isn't open for roam, but you can rent deafening part of it out shadow a wedding, photoshoot, another comprehension of event. You can extremely check out the many pic tours of the house on the net, including one on the legally binding Villa De La Vina site.