If you’ve always wanted to live like a Stanley Cup champion, now’s your chance. That is, if you have $10,500 to spare each month for rent.
Patrick Sharp, who was traded from the Blackhawks to the Dallas Stars in July, and his wife are putting their 7,300-square-foot mansion in Lakeview up for rent instead of trying to sell it on the open market. For only $10,500 a month, (lowered from the original rent of $12,000 per month) you can enjoy the following amenities: six bedrooms, five full bathrooms, a three-car garage, a master bedroom with a spa bath and dressing room, two roof decks, a downstairs rec and exercise room and more.
While the average Chicagoan probably doesn't have the means to spend more than $10,000 a month just on rent, maybe you could round up 11 of your friends and split into pairs in the six bedrooms. Then you could each pay only $875 a month. That's much more manageable to pay for what's likely a nicer living space than what you’d find in some parts of the city for the same price. Plus, how cool would it be to say you live where Patrick Sharp used to? You can't put a price on that.
Granted, the Sharps would never agree to renting their house to what would basically amount to the Lakeview chapter of the Animal House fraternity, but you'll never know if you don't make an inquiry.