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Walter White’s house from Breaking Bad was listed for  million amid non-stop fans visiting

The home of Walter White, known from the series breaking Badis on the market now, people can confirm that.

The four-bedroom, one-bathroom, 1,910-square-foot home in Albuquerque, New Mexico was just listed with a hefty price tag of $4 million. According to Zillow, the suburban ranch-style home’s estimated market value is $343,100.

David Christensen and Sonya Avila of Christensen Group | eXp Realty Luxury and Ryan Johnston of InterPhase Entertainment currently hold the listing.

According to local news outlet KOB 4 Eyewitness News, the iconic residence has been attracting tourists from around the world since the hit drama series starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul ended in 2013. Fans reportedly take photos outside the property day and night, but no one is ever allowed inside, the outlet reports.

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However, one of the current owners, Joanne Quintana, who grew up in the house with her siblings, recently invited KOB 4 cameras into the house for the first time.

According to Quintana, her late parents, Fran and Louis Padilla, bought the house back in 1973. A chance knock on the door in 2006 led to their house becoming part of television history.

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“My mom never answers the door, and she has,” Quintana told the outlet. “They introduced themselves, handed her a card and said, ‘We’d like to use your house as a pilot.'” After the family confirmed the project was real, they gave permission and filming began started two weeks later.

According to KOB 4, the family only received an unspecified fee per shoot and will not receive any remaining money from the show.

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Walter White’s house in Breaking Bad.

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“We, like everyone else, thought it was a once in a lifetime thing. You got to know the actors, the actresses, you got to see how they set up the equipment and everything that goes into it,” Quintana said.

The family also has many memories of some of the talent, particularly Cranston, who plays White. Fran often provided cookies to the cast and crew, but Cranston never really got to enjoy them, for good reason.

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“The funny thing was that Bryan Cranston couldn’t eat a single cookie,” Quintana remembers. “Because on the show he had cancer and was losing weight. So he would pass, but everyone, all the directors, all the writers, would eat the cookies.” On the last day of filming, he finally treated himself to it, she says, and even took a photo “in which he was holding my mother’s biscotti in his hand held”.

breaking Bad With five seasons and a total of 62 episodes, the series became an Emmy Award-winning sensation and garnered unexpected attention on the quiet street.

“The fans started coming. “We went there, my mom and I, and we took pictures with them,” Quintana said of the show’s early days of notoriety.

However, the constant attention soon became overwhelming for the family, and some fans took jokes related to the show too far.

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Quintana remembers: “Around 4:30 in the morning the doorbell rang, my mother got up and opened the door, and there was a package,” addressed to Walter White. The family called authorities, which resulted in a bomb squad being sent to the house.

Soon they had to beef up security around the house, including a fence and motion sensor cameras. “My brothers said that’s it, we’re done, the fence is going up. “The front door is too close for comfort,” Quintana said.

A nighttime exterior shot of Walter White’s house in “Breaking Bad.”

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Quintana told the outlet that an average of 300 cars per day drive past the property. At some point, caring for her aging parents, who were later placed in hospice care, became too much for her.

While she doesn’t give a reason for the sale, the family’s relationship with the series’ enthusiastic fan base was undoubtedly a factor.

“This has been our family home since 1973, for almost 52 years. So we’re just going to come away with our memories,” Quintana told the outlet. “It’s time to move on. We’re done. There is no reason to fight anymore.”

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