Flip-o-rama! The seller of 481 4th Street in Park Slope paid $1,865,000 for the four-story house back in September. He wasted no time doing a top-to-bottom renovation and now would like to get paid a million bucks for his troubles. (Asking price is $2,950,000.) While a lot of care was clearly put into preserving the wonderful woodwork, we wish that the walls had retained some signs of their age. For some reason, perfectly straight sheetrock is bit too charmless for us; we prefer to see some imperfections and archaeological record of the house’s history: some imperfect plaster, a molding with a few coats of paint on it, that kind of thing. Then again, there are plenty of people who don’t want to deal with that and want everything to be as good as new. Maybe they will be willing to pay $2,950,000 for this place. What do you think?
481 4th Street [Betancourt] GMAP P*Shark