House of the Day: 126 Pioneer Street

I saw it a month ago. Didn't even want to make an offer. The house is bright, but has a bit of unfortunate home-handyman work in it. In the end you're buying two small and plain floors with a very small rental (no basement - so house mechanicals are in the rental). The "two parking spots" are the rear 50% of your garden which is on two levels, and not required in the area anyway. There is also no front stoop/area to speak of, just flies and garbage bins. It might sell to someone at 999k, I guess. There isn't much of anything in red hook.

Ooh, love the cats in a couple of the photos! One is in the all-black kitchen (the Darth Vadar kitchen) and one is on the round dining table.

So ridiculous, three-stories my eye.
they have a one-story cemetery plot to sell as well.

if they said 3 floors would that make you happy?
I think we all know when said 3 story was garden level and parlor level and 1 floor above that.
What people what whine about.

There is always the one guy that thinks other posters are morons for pointing out that three stories means three stories not two stories and a basement.
Who is this guy? Mr Underground realtor?

I don't know where you see this information on property shark because I don't. If you go to NYC.gov website you will see that this place has been owned by the same person since 2000.

NYC.gov website shows that owner refinanced in 2005. If Property Shark shows otherwise then once again they are providing inaccurate information. Property Shark should really not be relied on for accurate information.

I logon to propshark and I see no sale in 2005. Last one was in 2000.
Don't know what 3:29 is talking about.
And would not necessarily blame propshark for bad info. Is same info you find from city - so that is why not always to be taken literally.
(as in date built, size of structure,etc)

Property Shark is also very bad with accurate square footage. They are off by 400 sq.ft. on my property.

"According to Property Shark, this looks like it was bought in Oct 2005 for about $400k. $1.1 million now? Hahahahah"

if this person DID buy it for $400K, i think the jokes on you, even if it sells for $.95-1.0M

Where is Pioneer Street?

That house was on the market for 400K
are you kidding me.I wouldn't live in that
thing if you gave it to me for free.

The house is quaint. There was a friendly dog and a TON of cats roaming around. The reno work was really home-made looking. There was one touch on the second floor where there was purposeful swiss cheese style holes in the sheetrock.

The yard is nice, and plenty big even when using the back for parking.

The basement an explosion of jerryrigged ikea cabinetry. It smelled like mold, cats and hospital cleaner.

We were still really thinking it was a cool place. But then we remembered they wanted over a million, and that you could get this kind of house in the south south slope (read gowanus or greenwood) for less and those houses have basements and better blocks and there are real subways that serve those areas.

The whole point of red hook was always that it's charm was based on also how cheap the place was. It was always a tradeoff/choice to live in an area with absolutely no infrastructure for the cheapness and that feeling that the turn of the century forgot about you. That house has less space than many cheaper condos or houses in much more desirable areas. The poster who predicted that the house will be worth 5Mill someday may be right. But other places will be worth more than 5mill when that happens. It's too bad. Why wouldn anyone want red hook to become overpriced anyway? It was such a nice place when it was quiet and cheap.