Laura Bush | $430k | Midland, Texas

Before hiring a moving company to live in the White House in 2001, Laura Bush lived in this modest three-bedroom ranch. The former first lady once described the small Midland city as “a place of ice cream sundaes and morning pony rides.” It sold for over $100,000 less than the original asking price of $425,000 in 2017.

Bush graduated from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Soon afterward, she began a career as a grade-school teacher and `was then employed as a librarian in Houston. She met her husband, George W. Bush, in July 1977 when their mutual friends Joe and Jan O’Neill invited them to a backyard barbecue at their house. Bush popped the question in September, and they tied the knot on November 5th of that same year. They welcomed their twin daughters in 1981, Barbara and Jenna.

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