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Prestigious Club Forced to Sell Land for Debt

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-New clubhouse became too expensive, so Hunt Club in Bloomfield Hills has to sell a third of its property to cover the expansion.

By Robert Carr | Updated on November 20, 2000

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-A member of the Bloomfield Open Hunt Club has said officers running the club were incompetent in the handling of finances after a loan was taken out for an expansion in 1997, forcing the businesses to put 26 of its 75 acres up for sale to pay the balance of the debt.

The Bloomfield Hills club, on Long Lake and Kensington roads, has many three and four-figure salary members. They enjoy the club’s swimming, racquetball, dining, tennis and recreational offerings. The group developed a new clubhouse for $6 million in 1997, but didn’t take into account the amount of the loan interest, James Elsman tells GlobeSt.com. He’s a tennis member of the club, and a senior partner in the law firm Elsman and Associates in Birmingham.

“They didn’t figure in the amount of the debt,” he reports. “If you take out a $7 million loan, and have 10% interest per year, you’re going to have to come up with another $700,000.”

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