I say good luck..



Lewis Bruggeman (pictured), owner of the priciest home in the complex, a $15.9 million, four-bedroom behemoth, said: 'The house is fine, it's not threatened and it will not be red-tagged'




Multimillion-dollar homes teetering on the edge of cliffside in Southern California have been deemed safe to live in, despite a landslide knocking out mud and debris along the structure.

Historic storms that inundated the Golden State earlier this month caused a landslide that put three mansions in Dana Point at risk of falling into the Pacific Ocean.

A huge portion of cliff fell at the foot of the priciest home in the complex, a $15.9 million, four-bedroom behemoth registered to a local radiologist, 82-year-old Lewis Bruggeman, records show.

'The house is fine, it's not threatened and it will not be red-tagged,' Bruggeman told KCAL. 'The city agrees that there's no major structural issue with the house.'

Dana Point City Manager Mike Killebrew said, 'Currently the city has confirmed that there is no imminent threat to that home.'









'The city's geotechnical engineer and a building sector went out to the site to assess the situation, as well as talk with the homeowner who owns the residence and slope where the failure occurred.'

California has been experiencing one of its wettest Februarys on record as flood, mudslides and storm warnings battered the state.

While officials said the Dana Point cliffside properties are safe to live in, some experts feel lots of work will need to be done to keep them safe from future storms.

'That's going to need major, major work to stabilize that property,' Kyle Tourjé, executive vice president of Alpha Structural, a Los Angeles engineering firm, told The Washington Post.

'We’re seeing more damage, and I think we will continue to see more significant damage. Between back-to-back years of heavy saturation, these houses, these properties … they just can’t take this kind of beating.'

Bruggeman's residence is part of a trio of homes on the cliff in the affluent region. All three remain in their precarious place next to the Ocean Institute - another popular tourist attraction.

The missing cliff's face slipped next to a $12.8 million residence, one owned by 66-year-old contracting mogul Guy Yocom, that is set on a slightly lower perch and luckily stayed in place.

A third home, valued at $13million and belonging to local producer Marketta Karsikko-Gassel, 80, looked to be in better sorts, though at just a few feet away - and a few hundred feet above the sea - is still on unstable ground.

The Dana Point collapse is merely the latest in a series of incidents that have besieged SoCal in recent weeks.


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It's unfortunate that he is stupid and owns a house right next to a cliff.

I remember when they built that place. They might have retained some of the original home so it could be considered a remodel rather than a new build. But I’d guess it’s less than 20 years old.

A restful nights sleep place? No Way for me.

This is America.
Flag off the beach below.. if the man wants to ride his house into the sea, so be it.

I bet he could pee down on beach folk.

But would he get knocked out if he did choose to?

I saw this thread and then watched Last Action Hero and the villain’s mansion on the cliff made me LOL. There is no way a competent engineer would call that hillside solid ground

Four bedrooms?

It's possibly probably sort of mostly ok, for now, anyway.

Dude. If you can get $15.9 million for that right now, take the money and run.

They just need the foundation guys to come pump some foam under that bad boy and it will be good as new

beach folk gonna beat him down for it?

asking for a friend.

Soon.....

I'm not an expert but I kind of suspect that the activities of the property owners may have hastened erosion on that part of the bluff.  Like maybe watering shrubbery - Heading off to Historic Aerials....

If they do, I hope there’s an MS paint of the pee coming down from the patio and then a guy doing an epic hill climb up the landslide to throw the first punch he’s thrown in a decade, and it’s a first shot KO

He should probably put a railing up but otherwise ?????

It ain't worth $16m anymore

bad ass. If rambo had an E-tool in his EDC kit, he could finish the job under that balcony while he was up there

Depends if he winds up for the first time in a decade or just grazes him.

It will be just fine, until it's not.

I should have been a radiologist.

Username?

I agree that it's perfectly fine right now.

Until it's not.

I ain’t trusting some govt paid Geotech to tell me that the ground is stable…

The Nope Motel.

The front may be fine, but the back will fall off soon.

You can view the property on Historic Aerials  by searching for Dana Point, CA.  Scroll to the west until you see the distinctive small harbor.  To the west of that is a high headland that is mostly nature preserve, except for a roughly square area that is grandfathered private property.  It's three or so parcels.

Go back to the 1952 aerial, and there is a modest house on that particular parcel.  The owners kept building up, until recently.  It was pretty cool while it lasted.

City engineer says it is. Don’t forget to pay your property taxes lol.

Yep, he's 82 so he only has so long to go anyway. Better way to go than self-immolation.

what I want to know, HTF does a radiologist afford a 15 million dollar home?????

A city employee told him it was safe.  

I'd hire my own engineer.

By buying the property decades before it was worth anywhere near 15 million dollars.

Being old helps, but it sucks too.

Bought it 50 years ago?

Or inherited.  Here are a couple of historic images of the property.  One is from 2020, the other from 1946.

Gravity is a beotch.  His house needs condemning.

i understood that reference

It will be a hell of a ride when that pile slides into the ocean.

I worked in the Bay Area for 5 years.  During that time I watched homes built on the sides of the Oakland hills, some on stilts, burn up during the dry season and wash down the hillside during the rainy season.

These people would rebuild every time

Looks fine to me
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Grew up on a cliff in Palos Verdes.. this was always a worry.

Someone else problem now though!

Something tells me this isn't going to work out the way he thinks it is.  Just a vibe I get.

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Those cliffs are unstable and not on solid ground. There were preventive measures he could of used. Ground squirrels are another huge problem.

That land cost nothing back in the day. My grandfather built his house on the beach in Santa Monica near the pier for 16K. He then added a second story for $600. It was undesirable back then.