I hope his nailgun goes off next to his balls.

My uncle used to tour business men through the area when they'd come to Ohio and show them homes. None could believe that the homes here were $200-300K since they would easily be close to $2Mil or more in California. Trust me, Nick won't be suffering.

I am from Cincinnati, a $300,000 house is a nice house. Hell i saw some guy bought a piece of crap in random California for over $500,000, it was unlivable because of mold and tiny(like 900sqft). Besides just because he spent millions of dollars less than his mentally-handicapped ex doesnt make him pathetic just more of a NORMAL human being.

real estate outside of major metropolitan areas (like the whole of california and the tri state NY area) is really inexpensive. you should try looking outside of the box. you can get a really great place for 300K anywhere else in the country.

I was watching Flip that Dump or some shit on TLC a while ago, and some dumb broad bought an abandoned house that took 4 dumpsters of trash to clean up for 600k in California.

Up here in Toronto, you could own a damn mansion for that coin...

What the last three commenters said.

If *I* had $300,000 to spend on a house? Yeah, I'd be happy. Tickled freakin' pink. I'm not crying for Nick, and I don't think anyone I know would be, either. Personally, I'd rather have his house than Jessica's. Helloooooooooo taxes and upkeep. If you buy a $300,000 house, your odds of ever losing it if your career takes a dump are significantly less than if you have a $3,000,000 one. Always something to consider... especially when one is talent powerhouse *coughs* like Jessica Simpson.

My daughter and her husband just bought a $200,000 home in Colorado Springs. They lived in California, they had a very small house there. They are selling it for $270,000. If they can sell it. Right now no one is jumping at it. Because it isn't in a nice neighborhood. And it is over an hours drive to the city. It will sell, hopefully. But not anytime soon.
My daughter was checking to see how much that house would have gone for in Colorado. She said she could have sold it for between $45,000-$75,000 there. 3 years ago the bought it for $112,000. And that was the cheapest house they could find that the bank was willing to give a loan for.
Not a good market for selling houses here in California.
Donna A.

Let's see. The guy buys a normal house in a normal city with his seemingly normal father (unlike his unnormal ex father-in-law) and we're supposed to slam him because he didn't move in with Charlie Sheen and install stripper poles in his bathroom.

I don't know who wrote this article but you obviously have never been anywhere but California (Damn I feel sorry for you)! I don't know what rock you've been hiding under but you can buy a fine home for $300,000 in most suburbs in America. Just another reason I think Nick is a first-class guy because he WILL go out and buy a $300,000 home and not be ashamed of it..probably because he isn't some kind of idiot that believes he has to have a multi million dollar home to "be cool"-

Pretty much the same comment as everyone else here, but I'll say it anyway - in NY 300K will get you a studio with a bathtub in the kitchen and your crapper next to the bed, but in Cincinnati, I imagine you can get a pretty nice house. The only problem being, it's CINCINNATI.

Oh yeah, and Nick squats on plunger handles.

I agree with Rocknrope ... it's CINCINNATI. I'm from Long Island and you can't get anything decent for under $450,000. And by decent I mean something other then a cardboard box in a crappy neighborhood.

Maybe Nick is building a little drag nightclub with an apartment on top, kind of like in Birdcage. That way he can walk around and pose in all the highheels he stole from Jessica.

Agreed with everyone; I live in the Midwest and there is a very popular town near me - very high income population, public schools that rival any private school, little crime etc - you could get a very nice house for $300K. I know someone who paid about that for a spacious tri-level 5 bedroom home on a lake there.

This is to be expected tho, 'cause the cost of living and level of income is very low in the Midwest. Elsewhere the level of income is higher but so is the cost of living. I'd guess it's roughly equivalent everywhere.

So Nick and his dad buy a house outside of California, and plan to share the time together rennovating it, and you guys are snarky about it? I love this site, I really do -- it was one of my first celebrity blogs to visit -- but COME ON.

Maybe Nick's 15 minutes are up, but it looks like he's planting the seed to live a normal, probably happier, life afterwards.

"The only problem being, it's CINCINNATI." Jeez. Why don't we reserve the snide remarks for the celebrities, who deserve our rancor because of their big houses (Jessica), small worldviews (Heath) and low-quality porn tapes (insert fave here), not other cities and the people who call them home? I've lived in NYC, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Bucharest and even Cincinnati, and can understand why someone would prefer a 2,000-square-foot home to a 700-square-foot-apartment, even if it were in a town that did not have all the cosmopolitan oomph of a so-called world-class city.

All that aside, I just hope Nick doesn't ink a deal a la "The Adam Carolla Project." It would be nice if he'd just fade away into obscurity, perhaps taking a job at Willie's Sports Cafe across the river in Covington, Ky., singing at the Hyatt Regency's lounge downtown or shilling men's grooming products for Proctor & Gamble.

here is a home for sale in Cincinnati for just under 300,000 wow what a dump
http://www.coldwellbanker.com/imgs/property2002/237/8573606_0.jpg

this one too
http://www.coldwellbanker.com/imgs/property2002/304/8553860_0.jpg

Those business men must not have realized that the lack of an ocean, beautiful weather, and having everything from entertainment career opportunities, to being able to obtain your every whim accounts for something in Real Estate (location, location, location)! I can't image there are too many postcard greetings from the "alluring and enticing" Cincinnati, Ohio.

Have anyof thought about this...

Nick has been in the public eye for so long...him, his marriage, and his entire personal life has been on the cover of every rag mag for years. The Hollywood Glamour life turned his virginal, sweet, beautiful wife into a manipulative, slutty, moronic bitch with a fake tan and no curves. After having a life like that...I would be dying to live in a quite, low key, peaceful city like Cincinnati, Ohio.

Besides...some people just don't like that Hollywood BS lifestyle. And there isn't anything wrong with that. I PRAISE NICK FOR DOING THIS...shows he is actaully smart (yes I said it) and at least trying to be normal. GOOD FOR HIM!!!

For $300K you can get a really nice house in Cincinnati. Cities like NY, LA, and SF are ridiculous in regards to real estate. When you watch MTV Cribs, you see four-bedroom, five bath "mansions" that you know the stars paid millions for. But, where I live (the South) the same types of houses would probably not even near 1M. They might approach $500K and a bit more at most.

Have any of you thought about this...

Nick has been in the public eye for so long...him, his marriage, and his entire personal life have been on the cover of every rag mag for years. The Hollywood Glamour life turned his virginal, sweet, beautiful wife into a manipulative, slutty, moronic bitch with a fake tan and no curves. After having a life like that...I would be dying to live in a quite, low key, peaceful city like Cincinnati, Ohio.

Besides...some people just don't like that Hollywood BS lifestyle. And there isn't anything wrong with that. I PRAISE NICK FOR DOING THIS...shows he is actaully smart (yes I said it) and at least trying to be normal. GOOD FOR HIM!!!

He'd probably pay a lot more than $300,000 to get away from the madness if he had to.

I like how upset everybody is about realestate values and defending Nick, and essentially their own Hooverville shacks....the point is that Jessica's house is worth 10 times am much as his...and that's an investment in her future.

Also, who wan't to live in Ohio? gross

Okay, so I live outside of Cinci. It is not that bad. Of course we are not as "glamorous" as New York, or Los Angeles.

I find it really annoying that people who have never been to Cincinnati, have the nerve to trash it. It is one thing to have been here, and find out that you don't like it for whatever reason, but to simply say that we are the butthole of the universe, just because we are in the midwest is stupid.

There are many places in Cincinnati that are wonderful. Since Nick is from here, he came back here and bought a house. No big deal. I think it is awesome that he decided that he wanted to come back to where his family is. Good for him!

Just my two cents!

Suddenly I'm getting Loni Anderson flash-backs

'Never been to Cincinnati before, know nothing about it, and not a huge fan of Nick, but this seems like a down-to-earth, rational kind of thing to do

It'll be easy to resale a house in that range whenever he decides what he wants to do (if he doesn't just give it to his Dad)

"The lack of an ocean, beautiful weather, and having everything from entertainment career opportunities, to being able to obtain your every whim accounts for something in Real Estate (location, location, location)! I can't image there are too many postcard greetings from the "alluring and enticing" Cincinnati, Ohio."

"Also, who wan't to live in Ohio? gross"

EXACTLY my point.

Eh, who cares. He's from the area, I'm sure he has a lot of family and friends there. Regardless of where you live, unless you're from the rock ghetto it's always nice to go home, or at least have the opp. to.

TO ALL THE PEOPLE MAKING NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT OHIO...

...and where the hell do you live? I live in West Hollywood and have traveled all over...Big places like New York City and small podunk places like Ft. Meyers, Florida. I loved both...it's nice to have a place to go whenyou want to glam it up and live the big life...and it's nice to be able to go to small town and relax. Don't knock peoples choice of where they want to live...we don't knock you for living where you live...so can it.

I have traveled all over the country from San Francisco or San Diego to Beverly Hills to NY to Chicago to Boston to Florida, South Carolina, to Texas etc etc etc and to Europe over 15 times. I live in Cincinnati OHIO and am proud to call it home. WHO DEY!

for all of you are are complaining that OH is awful ect. it is true that it is not the greatest place on earth. But i'd so much rather live here than in california especially LA with all the pollution, and the fakeness (fake boobs, fake tans, fake people). By the way Cincinnati is home to quite a few large and powerful businesses : Procter and Gamble, GE, Kroger just to name a few clearly all those business men can't be wrong. Oh and gee everyone wants that oppurtunity to be in entertainment, no.

Remember, Ohio gave us DEVO. And if you don't "get" DEVO, then you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Duty now for the future, spuds!
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I've got a rhyme and it starts with a riddle:
What's round on the ends and high in the middle?
O-HI-O
Now they tell us that God made man
And He used the monkey to do it
Apes in the plan
And we're all here to prove it
I can walk like an ape, talk like an ape
Do what monkeys do
God made man
And the monkeys applied the glue

I live around 30 miles from raleigh nc so basically our whole area is a bedroom community for the Research Triangle Park of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. For 300k out here in a nice country setting but still close to alot of places, you could build 4-5 k sq ft home/mansion. A friend of mine moved down here with her parents from long island and they sold their tiny 3 bedroom house there and bought a 30 acre farm with a huge pond and built a 4000 sq ft house. property values in cities are INSANE!

I like that he's acknowledging his career is over by buying a home in Cinncinati. Not exactly a hotbed of entertainment opportunities.

My ears thank him.

Doesn't mean he's going to live in it.

Just an FYI for those who think Cincinnati is not a "hot bed of entertainment opportunities", there are quite a few celebrities have called Cincinnati home at some point in time.

Peter Frampton
George Clooney
Carmen Electra
Sarah Jessica Parker
Steven Spielberg
Ted Turner
Doris Day
Rosemary Clooney
Bootsy Collins
Jerry Springer (though I am not sure I want to claim him).
Amy Yasbeck
Roy Rogers
Ray Combs
Larry Flynt!!!!

Not to mention the numerous presidents, scientists, music groups, and assorted other well known people.

We may not have the ocean. We may not have the other things that huge cities such as L.A. and New York have, but we have other things.

We have an emmy winning playhouse. We have the Freedom Center. We are the home of the first major league baseball team (and yes I know they suck now). We have one of the top rated music schools in the country. We have one the best Childrens Hospitals in the country. We have fun things like Kings Island, and the museum center. We have top rated golf courses, and the tennis championship in the summer. We have Skyline Chili, Greaters Ice Cream, Montgomery Inn, and Jeff Ruby Steakhouses. We also had the longest running five star restaurant in the country--The Maisonette--but it just recently closed.

So you see we may not have what Hollywood has, but we do have some very interesting people and things that we claim with pride. We are nice too. We most likely won't tell you to go screw yourself if you ask us a question, like some people in other parts of this country would do.

And to echo TT---WHO DEY BABY!

:)

I think people in Cinci are finally realizing why much of the world don't like Yanks. 'Project your world view and then invade.' Purge the red states and the Space Cadets, and Long Live the New America !!

"Peter Frampton
George Clooney
Carmen Electra
Sarah Jessica Parker
Steven Spielberg
Ted Turner
Doris Day
Rosemary Clooney
Bootsy Collins
Jerry Springer (though I am not sure I want to claim him).
Amy Yasbeck
Roy Rogers
Ray Combs
Larry Flynt"

Yeah, but they all ditched Ohio to come out and buy mansions in my backyard: The Hamptons.

All I am saying is that Cincinnati is not that bad.

BTW, Peter Frampton still lives in Cinci, actually a very wealthy suburb. But you get my meaning.

I am not trying to be an ass, just making a point that those of us who happen to live here, generally like it.

Of course there are things here that we dislike, but then again, nobody is happy 100% of the time with anything!

Have a nice evening!

KT - John Lennon was shot dead in the street when he decided to move to NY. Deal with it honey...

"KT - John Lennon was shot dead in the street when he decided to move to NY. Deal with it honey..."

He moved to the city... who would want to live in there? ew.

Oh sorry - thought it was the same barn there 4 a sec

O Nick! That is SO sweet! Who knows? You'll probably turn it into a TLC house makeover show and earn tons of money. Just keep your ditsy ex away, she might nail your tool to the wall. The value of the house is SO beside the point. A deck of cards, after all, can easily replace an X-Box if played with someone you want to spend time with (wipes tear from eye). What's pathetic is the $3M house! Isn't that her net worth?

"Oh sorry - thought it was the same barn there 4 a sec"

It's ok. It's probably hard for you to tell our mansions apart.

Go Nick!!! And if you need help to hold your tool.....belt, I'd happily oblige *sigh*

LOL at all of the folks furiously defending their personal choice of cities and housing. Lest we all forget folks, the website is called "TheSuperficial" and we are goofing on Nick Lachey here...not you or your mother!! Geez...

Take a step outside your city
Then you turn around
Take a look at what you are
It's revolting
You're really nowhere
You're so wasteful
So foolish
All big talk
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Once again, the five spudboys from Akron bring in their rooter and clear out the gunk and grime so the huboons can see where they really stand. We're in the same boat, folks. Love your city, love your neighbor; disparage what you don't know or understand. Wear gaudy colors or avoid display. Be different or not. It's all the same.

Freaky I just bought a 300 g house and am fixing it up with my dad. Of course I plan to pack it full of immigrants and single-mothers, charging them outlandish rental rates and basically behaving in a slumlordy manner. I'm guessing Nick doesn't have the balls to go the slumlord route. pussy.

I want to get excited about Nick...really, I do.

I doubt he will be there that much anyways. I mean his 15 minutes might be extended to 30.
That being said,is there a rule that says he has to live in California?

Okay, this is for all you "city folk" who are used to outlandish real estate prices. Houses should not cost as much as you are ripped off for. No, really. Move to a suburban or rural area and you'll see what I mean. I could only dream of having a house that costs $300k, which in Georgia real estate means at least a 4,000 square foot house. Quit bashing Nick, at least he's not with that grain-of-sand-sized-brain Jessica. Damn that girl's stupid.

i bet he gets beat up in cincinatti

I'm sure that after being hooked into that freakshow that he had as in-laws Nick would live in the fridge box to not have to suffer through another Simpson Christmas.

Don't defend Cincinatti, or any place else that the CA/NY crowd thinks is unlivable. If they realize the truth then they will soon be driving up our cost of living. If asked about the living conditions outside of NY/CA, "indoor plumbing?" is the correct response.

I'm not sure why people are arguing about who lived in Crapville,OH.Good god! He was banging one of the "HOTTEST PIECES OF ASS".The Dumb Ass deserves to go away.

Whoever wrote this article is disgustingly jealous! Nick has accomplished more in his career than most in a lifetime!!!!!!!!!! I would like to see you dish out 300,000.00!!! We love you Nick!!!

Man if you spend $250,000 on a used refrigerator than you must be a dumb idiot!! Up here in Canada a $300,000 house it a nice house we are talking 4-5br, 4b and maybe a pool. You should do some research before blating Nick who I admire for not spending more than he needs. He doesn't care that his dumb ex is showing the money and that makes him a normal person. Is that bad?

I think we should all be happy that not every celeberty is so damn full of themselves that he can live in a 300k house, which is upper middle class in the midwest. Nick is one of the only celeberties worth respecting because of how grounded and un-hollywood he is. People from cali (although its beautiful there) should pull their heads out of their asses and take a look at reality. If the entire country was like LA we would be screwed, not to mention communist.