<p id=”par-1_70″>ABC’s<em> <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/the-bachelorette/?swcfpc=1″>The Golden Bachelorette</a> </em>showed <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/3-the-golden-bachelorette-contestants-appear-to-have-found-romance-before-the-shows-finale.html/”>Joan Vassos falling in love</a> after the death of her husband, John. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/joan-vassos-picks-next-golden-bachelor.html/”>Joan connected with multiple men</a> and brought two of them — Chock Chapple and Guy Gansert — to the finale. Whether Joan chooses Guy or Chock, she has a difficult decision to make regarding where to live after the show ends. Here’s what to know about Joan’s $1 million townhouse in Maryland.</p>
<p id=”par-2_8″><strong>[Spoiler alert: <em>The Golden Bachelorette</em> finale spoilers ahead.]</strong></p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-golden-bachelorette-star-joan-vassos-has-a-1-million-townhouse-in-maryland”>‘The Golden Bachelorette’ star Joan Vassos has a $1 million townhouse in Maryland</h2>
<p id=”par-3_51″><em>The Golden Bachelorette </em><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-golden-bachelorette-ep-joan-vassos-tapped-lead-series.html/”>star Joan Vassos</a> lives in Rockville, Maryland. She was born and raised in the East Coast state, and she graduated from the University of Maryland with a computer science degree in 1985. Joan currently works at Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, and has never appeared interested in moving elsewhere.</p>
<p id=”par-4_64″>Joan has a beautiful townhome in Maryland, too. She purchased the over 3,000-square-foot property for $830,000 in April 2022 — a year after her husband died. The townhouse is in a community with over 130 other townhomes. Now, the home is estimated to be worth around $944,000. A court filing shows she took out a 30-year loan of $664,000 to buy the property. </p>
<p id=”par-5_48″>According to the real estate listing obtained by <a href=”https://www.the-sun.com/tv/12839668/golden-bachelorette-joan-vassos-massive-1m-maryland-townhouse-pics/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Sun</a>, Joan’s place boasts four levels, four bedrooms, and three-and-a-half bathrooms. She also has a two-car garage, which can be accessed through the lower-level family room. This room has a fireplace and additional access to a lower-level deck. </p>
<p id=”par-6_32″>Joan uses her kitchen on the main floor of the townhouse, which comes complete with granite countertops and new appliances. She also uses her main living and dining room on this floor.</p>
<p id=”par-7_43″>The third floor of the home has the largest bedroom with a primary bathroom. The bathroom has heated floors and a towel rack, a marble-tiled shower, and a large bathtub. Another bathroom, two more bedrooms, and a laundry room exist on this floor.</p>
<p id=”par-8_17″>The fourth floor of the townhome contains the fourth bedroom, additional storage, and a walk-in closet. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-joan-vassos-does-not-want-to-move-for-love”>Joan Vassos does not want to move for love</h2>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Joan-Vassos-The-Golden-Bachelorette-1.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”‘The Golden Bachelorette’ lead Joan Vassos posing outdoors in a sleeveless pink dress. She looks pensive. ” class=”wp-image-3741002″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>‘The Golden Bachelorette’ lead Joan Vassos | Disney/Gilles Mingasson</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-9_28″><em>The Golden Bachelorette </em>star Joan Vassos wants to find the man to spend the rest of her life with. However, she’s not willing to relocate from Maryland. </p>
<p id=”par-10_57″>“That was actually the first question that Gary [Turner] asked me,” Joan told <a href=”https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/entertainment/golden-bachelorette-joan-vassos/index.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>CNN</a>. “We sat down for the first time together and he said, ‘You live in Maryland, I live in Indiana. How do you see something like this working?’ … My answer to him was — and it still is my answer — I think you almost have to live a dual life.”</p>
<p id=”par-11_56″>Joan added that she’ll “never leave” her family behind for love. “They are the most important people in the world to me obviously, and I would expect that to be the same for the person that I end up with because family is so important to me, that would have to be a key part of their personality.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_66″>So, how does she plan on making a romance work? “You have to be willing to … travel and be with that person and maybe spend a couple of months or a couple of weeks at a time … and then maybe eventually, you figure out a destination that would work for you and your families or have another house where everybody gets together,” she answered.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-said-she-assumed-she-wouldn-t-have-many-golden-bachelorette-contestants-from-maryland”>She said she ‘assumed’ she wouldn’t have many ‘Golden Bachelorette’ contestants from Maryland</h2>
<p id=”par-13_29″>While Joan Vassos doesn’t want to move away from Maryland, she entered <em>The Golden Bachelorette</em> knowing that she was unlikely to fall for a man geographically close to her.</p>
<p id=”par-14_29″>“Going into this journey, I assumed that I was not going to have anybody from Maryland or not many people that were geographically really desirable,” she told <a href=”https://people.com/golden-bachelorette-joan-vassos-reveals-why-getting-engaged-wasnt-a-need-exclusive-8710502″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-15_53″>Even knowing this, she felt confident that she could make a romance work while not leaving her family behind. “But in the immediate present, I’m not leaving my kids,” she continued. “I don’t expect anybody to leave their families. You figure it out. You put the burden on yourself, not in your families.”</p>
<p id=”par-16_15″><em>The Golden Bachelorette</em> finale airs on ABC on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. ET.</p>