Bulletproof Home up for Sale in Ohio: ‘Indestructible’

A three-bedroom home in Maumee, Ohio—about 113 miles away from Cleveland and 136 miles from Columbus—has been listed for sale on Realtor.com as an “indestructible,” bulletproof property.

Real estate broker Jon Modene, who’s managing the sale, wrote that the home at 1360 Old Trail Road in Maumee has “the strangest and greatest potential I have ever seen.” That’s because the house’s interiors are completely shielded with panels of Lexan—a brand name for polycarbonate sheeting, a transparent plastic which is considered bullet resistant when it’s over 1 inches thick.

The 3,355 square feet, one-story property sits on a five-acre lot, according to the listing. It is fenced with $100,000 of fencing and is made with over $300,000 worth of concrete.

“Two wonderful outbuildings, including a huge gym. All on Silver Lake, bordered by a Metropark,” the listing reads. “What’s strange? EVERY surface is covered with expensive bulletproof Lexan—and I mean every. Tear down? Renovate? Absolutely worth a look – be prepared to dream.”

The home is listed on Zillow with the same description. Newsweek contacted the Jon Modene team for comment by email on Wednesday morning.

Photos of the property on the listings show all the rooms in the house—including three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a huge closet, a kitchen, and a gym—glimmering with the same white glow of the Lexan panels which cover every wall. They give the house an extremely clean, almost clinic-like look.

The home was built in 1953 and had not been put up for sale in the past 71 years, until it was listed on Realtor.com on July 12. The asking price is $399,900, $119 per square foot.

It’s more than the national median sale price of a property in Ohio, which was $262,900 in June, according to Redfin’s latest data, and up 5.7 percent compared to a year earlier. And it’s more than the median sale price of a home in Maumee, which was $294,950 in June, up 34.0 percent year-over-year.

Maumee’s housing market has become increasingly competitive, as the recent surge in prices show, and the area where the bulletproof home is located is reportedly a “hot one,” according to Realtor.com. Other homes for sale in the neighborhood are selling for similar prices, as listed on Realtor.com, and are above both the state’s and the city’s median sale prices.

According to reports, the home has previously been occupied by Trudy Stranahan of the Champion Spark Plug Company’s founding family. Hanna Modene, a realtor with the Modene’s team, told the Toledo Blade that Stranahan was “just a unique person.”

“I don’t think she liked not having security,” she said of the previous owner. Stranahan passed away a more than a year ago.

The listing caught the attention of the Facebook page “Zillow Gone Wild,” which shares curious listings on the real estate platform, and of Reddit users, which appeared quite confused about the design of the house.

“I’m uncomfortable just looking at it, I can’t imagine living there,” wrote one user on Facebook, which several users described the house as something “a first-time Sims player” would build. One user described the home as having “a prison-esque feel,” while others said it had a “Dexter vibe” and it was perfect for a “doomsday prepper.”