Not a bad group of homes ...

"Bill Gates
Medina, Wash.
Rank: 1
Net Worth: $46.6 billion
Bill Gates has gone underground. The high-tech billionaire's home is built into a hillside on the edge of Lake Washington, near Seattle. The 66,000-square-foot compound includes a 60-foot-long swimming pool with an underwater music system, a domed library with two "secret" bookcase doors and a 1,000-square-foot dining room. The family quarters, however, are said to be modest. The estate includes 11 surrounding properties that Gates bought, which goes some way toward explaining his local taxes. The properties are valued at nearly $140 million, and this year's bill came to $1.1 million, according to the King County Journal."


"Warren Buffett
Omaha, Nebr.
Rank: 2
Net Worth: $44 billion
The "Oracle of Omaha" lives in mighty modest digs, given the size of his fortune. He still resides in the gray stucco home he bought in 1958 for $31,500. Totaling about 6,000 square feet, in 2003 the Happy Hollow house was assessed at just $700,000 (though the value investor thought it was really worth about $500,000). Buffett sold one of his two properties in Laguna Beach, Calif., but retained one valued at about $4 million. That's still less than one hundredth of a percent of his estimated net worth."




"Steve Jobs
Woodside, Calif.
Rank: 194
Net Worth: $3 billion
Some people fantasize about living in a 17,000-square-foot mansion built in 1926. But Steve Jobs thinks different. The brain behind Apple wants to demolish the white elephant he bought in 1983 and build a smaller house on a different part of the six-acre lot. Preservationists have objected to the destruction of the home, which was designed by Santa Barbara architect George Washington Smith. The Woodside town council has made Jobs a deal; He has a year to find someone who is willing to cart the mansion away. If he can't find a taker, he gets to tear it down."


http://www.forbes.com/feeds/2005/03/10/cx_sc_bill05_0310home.html?partner=rss

Jobs doesn't actually live in that house. He did at one time, but right now it sits vacant. He wants to tear it down, saying windows are broken, doors un-hinged, and plants are growing inside. Critics say that he intentionally neglected the house so he would have an excuse to tear it down and rebuild.