The US$2 million, mock Tudor-style family home in Queens, where the New York tycoon turned Republican Commander-in-Chief lived for the first four years of his life is being rented out at US$725 a night on Airbnb. The US$2 million, mock Tudor-style family home in Queens, where the New York tycoon turned Republican Commander-in-Chief lived for the first four years of his life, sleeps up to 20 people in five bedrooms. “We decided to put it on Airbnb to share the house with the world,” said Michael Davis, the real-estate developer who bought the home last year, sold it for profit and now leases it back at US$4,000 a month.
“There’s been a lot of activity,” Davis said, with the first guests expected to stay this weekend.
The listing shows several dates blocked off in August but currently has no reviews. It claims little has changed since the Trumps’ time, boasting an original kitchen and “opulent furnishings.”
Built by father Fred in 1940 in the up market enclave of Jamaica Estates, the president lived in the home until the family moved into a colonnaded mansion that Trump senior built nearby in 1951. The two-storey home embellished with red brick sold at auction in January for 54 per cent more than the US$1.39 million the investor paid for last year. The US$2.14 million deal closed in March.
Listing pictures show photographs of the President and quotations sprinkled around the property. Trump’s best-selling business tome “The Art of the Deal” is in the house library, the only book in the house.
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