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April 27, 2007

Highly Motivated? How About 'Highly Stupid'

We'd be "highly motivated" too if we owned a place like this and thought there was a chance in hell there was someone stupid enough out there to pay anywhere near $1.325 million for the privilege of taking it off our hands. What a joke.
$1325000 HIGHLY MOTIVATED SELLER [Craigslist]

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what is the location?

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 10:32 AM

Looks like Windsor Terrace to me, or nearby. WAAAAAY over priced. Get a clue Juan.

Posted by: Matilda at April 27, 2007 10:35 AM

Just a guess, it looks vaguely like the Bath Beach area. If so, crazy, just crazy price. Must be a really deep lot if that is a 3-fam with driveway good for 4 cars.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 10:38 AM

How can anybody comment on price, when the location is not revealed?

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 10:48 AM

Why is this more crazy than the multi-million dollar brownstones in Clinton Hill or Fort Greene that need renovations from soup to nuts and that come with tenants super-glued to their apartments?
This at least has parking and is in move-in condition. Negotiate it down to something reasonable and its a better deal than most I have seen featured here.

Posted by: Serge at April 27, 2007 10:53 AM

this is on 15th ave in the dyker/boro park area...if it's more towards boro park it might actually go for asking as a knockdown/rebuild.

however crazy the price is, it's just as crazy as prices in brownstone bklyn

Posted by: anon at April 27, 2007 11:12 AM

funny how mr. b is turning into a cl troll...

what do you do? troll cl and then bash whatever ad you find now?
and if he does sell at that price who is the dummy?

i'm really impressed with all this brooklyn rl journalisn

dont quit ur day job

Posted by: anon at April 27, 2007 11:28 AM

11:28 you are a jackass...and the troll.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 11:33 AM

Yeah, why should't an ugly concrete box with plastic windows in some distant armpit of south brooklyn not sell for the same price as a historic work of craftsmanship in an neighborhood that is 10 minutes from manhattan on every subway line in an area that is booming?

You people are totally right. Hold your breath. I can feel the bidding war coming on. I mean, who would pass up such a UNIQUE opportunity?

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 11:35 AM

it says it's 3900sf and a 3-family. where does that 3rd family live? in the cellar? talk about trolls!

Posted by: Jimmy Legs at April 27, 2007 11:38 AM

If it is Boro Park, then I understand why the price is so high. People pay big bucks to be near their synagogue in that nabe.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 11:41 AM

11:35...many would consider clinton hill and bed-stuy to be armpits, so i'd be careful throwing those words around. also not everyone needs to be close to manhatan...as 11:41 says, boro park residents pay BIG bucks to be near their synagogues and other neighborhood residents pay BIG bucks to be close to family, jobs, etc.

actually, you should walk down a major ave in boro park and you'd see BOOMING...by comparison clinton hill and bed-stuy are dead...but all of you wouldn't know that as to you brooklyn basically only consists of 5 neighborhoods...give me a break.

Posted by: anon at April 27, 2007 11:48 AM

it can't be in the armpit of Brooklyn...more like the lower skanky crab infested region of Brooklyn. 3 family in a 4 br house....who lives there, oompa loompas?

Posted by: aa at April 27, 2007 11:59 AM

very solid point 11:48. bed-stuy is the f***ing hood.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 12:00 PM

dyker heights is one of the safest wealthiest neighborhoods in brooklyn, and its also serviced by two subway lines....

house is probably 6 room apartment on the top floor (rent about 20000), over a 5 room apartment on the first floor (rent about 1800), with a 3 room walk in (rent about 1000)....nice rent roll...plus a driveway

Oh and for the poster above that refers to this as "some distant armpit of south brooklyn"....to a real brooklynite south brooklyn is carroll gardens/cobble hill/red hook...but you clearly wouldn't know that....

Posted by: anonymous at April 27, 2007 12:12 PM

Right 12:12. Any REAL Brooklynite, even a long term immigrant from Queens, like me, knows the distinction between SOUTH Brooklyn and SOUTHERN Brooklyn--two VERY differwent places.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 27, 2007 12:47 PM

my neighborhood can beat up your neighborhood.

Posted by: Jimmy Legs at April 27, 2007 1:05 PM

re 12:12
what's a "3 room walk in"? a basement? or a converted garage? just curious -- i've never heard the term before...

on another note, all the bitchiness on this site's comments section has started, imo, to drag it down. actually, npr recently did a story about this general phenomenon:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9642178
worth hearing

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 1:10 PM

This place is probably in the Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst area. It just looks that way by the gratuitous plaster quoins and tacky brickworks accented by the classic 1970s aluminum siding.

Honestly though, Dyker Heights is a very nice neighbourhood with some very surprisingly nice older mansion-type homes, and while they aren't the 19th-century brownstones that no one reading this can really afford, they do have some architectural merit as well.

So "11:35AM," you may want to educate yourself on the tenets of what an "armpit" of Brooklyn looks like because Dyker Heights is not one of them. It might not be a ten minute subway ride from Manhattan, but it's safe, clean, family-friendly and generally has a long-standing generation of residents who continue to take pride in it.

Not that I'm condoning this type of "architecture," but Brownstoner's post had nothing to do with this place being in an "armpit," it was really more about it being overpriced.

You're probably just another typical Brooklyn transplant who jumps on the pretense-bandwagon as soon as they arrive and forgets that other people might actually enjoy living in the places you only think you're too good for.

Posted by: JCS at April 27, 2007 1:23 PM

Mr B: posts like this are not indicative of the type of content that I believe most of your readership cares about. We all know there's overpriced crap out there, what's the point of highlighting it and allowing people to talk trash about it?

I think this adds zero value to your site and if posts like this permeate it will significantly decrease the value.

Just one opinion.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 1:28 PM

1:10
A 3 room walk in usually either a ground floor apt,or in this case there appears to be a side door which would probabaly be the door to that apartment.Not a true basement, it would have windows.

The steps leading up to the front door make me think that theres somekind of walk in this house

Posted by: anonymous at April 27, 2007 1:29 PM

Actually, I thought it was Avenue P near Marine Park.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 1:52 PM

Nothing wrong with pointing out crazily overpriced POSs in our hoods. All part of the conversation/education on the market, no? By the way, whoever wrote that Clinton HIll feels dead (?) is talking out his ass. I think the nabe is vibrant--love it. Can't speak for the Stuy, though.

Posted by: bob999 at April 27, 2007 1:54 PM

i totally agree 1:28,

i came here originally for info on renovations, DIY etc, but now it really seems to be "reaching"

not sure what we readers are supposed to be "getting" from this "content"

Posted by: anon at April 27, 2007 3:05 PM

There are places like this all over my nabe. They looks small, but they're HUGE. Generally they are used as a 4 family with (2) 2br apts per floor. Someone probably combined 2 apts to convert to a 3 family, so they are all above grade.

Granted, the price is crazy (one across the street from me just went for $740k) but at a more reasonable price, these houses are a great way to break into the market.

Posted by: ImNotYourDaddy at April 28, 2007 10:21 AM

Went to a doctor recently in Dyker Heights. Was impressed by the quiet streets and feeling of long established homes and businesses. Seemed very grounded.
And if you are trying to sell your building - why not try to get a ridiculous amount - you might be lucky. And if not the market will inform you of where your price point is eventually.
Of course it is a hideously ugly house, but every pot has its top as they say.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 28, 2007 11:44 AM

to 3:08, what we are getting is some gratuitous entertainment to see what other properties are going for. Nothing wrong with that. Many people who visit brownstoner are obsessed real estate owners who like to compare their properties to what others are selling for in the nabe.

Posted by: joe at April 29, 2007 12:08 AM

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