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During the 2020 presidential primary campaign season, the worldly possessions of Democratic U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders became a subject of interest, especially among those who labeled him a socialist. One item of particular scrutiny was the notion that Sanders owned three homes, one of which, according to a popular meme, was an opulent mansion with panoramic views of Vermont's Green Mountains: Sanders does indeed own three properties, but none of them is the stately manor pictured above. The senator's main residence in Vermont is a colonial four-bedroom house in Burlington, which he purchased in 2009 for a reported $405,000. He also owns a one-bedroom 1890 row house in Washington, D.C., just a few blocks from the Capitol, which he bought for a reported $489,000. As well, he owns a lakefront cabin in North Hero, Vermont, purchased for a reported $575,000 in 2016. Those dwellings are pictured in the following Facebook post: The residence pictured in the Hey morons meme, however, is a completely unrelated 15,460-square-foot estate in Stowe, Vermont, which was built in 2001 and boasts four bedrooms and nine bathrooms on 15 acres: This residence was last sold in August 2017 for just under $3 million, an amount much greater than Sanders' estimated net worth.
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