Co-op of the Day: 806 Carroll Street

"we can probably all agree"

Lets see....

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:49 PM

Its a 1 bedroom

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:51 PM

It looks very nice. But a 1 bedroom in Park Slope for $1.199mm - complete joke. They will be lucky to get $1mm for it.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:51 PM

This apartment is my DREAM!

Nicest apartment I've seen in a while on here.

It'll sell for this price becuase it's pristine.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:52 PM

It's a 2 bedroom.

7 by 12 is small, but certainly enough room for a bedroom.

Either way, it's 1200 sf which is large and at just under 1000 psf about right for a perfectly renovated apartment in the most perfect part of Park Slope.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:56 PM

Yes.
The higher the price the more likely it will sell. Only a rich persn can afford this unit and rich people by and large are not the ones affected by the credit crunch or by the problems faced by more ordinary or older citizens. A young childless couple with a combined income of say 600,000 a year. What have they to worry about? This place would be cute for them. When they have kids they will buy a nice place in Greenwich or Scarsdale. No biggie.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 12:56 PM

You don't need 600K a year to buy a million dollar house.

More like 250K or 300k. Not really that big a deal. I was makin 150K right out of college.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:00 PM

How can the maintenance cost be zero percent deductible? Isn't the part that's the real estate tax deductible?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:00 PM

12:56 PM

I love the life you've planned for them.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:01 PM

God this place is stunning!

Lucky owner who snaps this one up!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:01 PM

"we can probably all agree to drool over.."

To quote Homey the Clown, "I don't think so!"

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:02 PM

A 7x12 bedroom is perfect for my midget friend.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:04 PM

I'm with you, 1:02. I love the pre-war look as much as most Brownstoner readers, but all I can say is meh. Brownstoner, you must hydrate a lot for all the drooling you do.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:04 PM

1:00

I can answer your question. Most likely there is no undelying mortgage on the building, hence no deducution. The RE tax isn't really deductible. I guess that is what accounts for the "low" maintenance. But if you ask me, $850/month maintenance, on a 1br apt that is over a million smackers isn't exactly cheap.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:06 PM

I think it's totally overpriced, but that's why I rent and the rest of you are laughing all the way to the bank. But can someone explain what's going on with that kitchen? It looks like the fridge doesn't back up against the wall but rather does some awkward thing like block an entranceway. Am I imagining that?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:07 PM

850 a month is INCREDIBLY cheap.

anything under a dollar a square foot is a bargain!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:08 PM

It's lovely. But I have three words of caution: four unit co-op.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:11 PM

No problem whatsoever with my 4 unit co-op around the corner from here.

Love it completely.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:13 PM

Looks like the fridge backs up against the little hallway that leads to the powder room and closet.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:13 PM

Yes, four-unit co-ops can be a problem, but this is a particularly nice unit. Not for me though, my wife would not let me buy it, she absolutely refuses to see anything that is a walkup, I think she grew up in a walkup. I grew up in the burbs so I don't mind. It's all in the head y'know?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:14 PM

IT'S A 1-BEDROOM!!!!! A 1-BEDROOM for over $1 million??? It's a 1-BEDROOM!!!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:15 PM

I prefer walk-ups to elevator buildings.

Nice to be able to just walk outside and not have to deal with neighbors when you don't want to.

I can see both sides, but I would never, ever want to live in an elevator building.

Not enough privacy for my taste.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:16 PM

Yep. Gotta walk all the way up to the parlor floor. Dude - you might consider a new wife.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:17 PM

1 bedroom plus den.

You morons really have no concept of how desirable Park Slope is, do you?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:17 PM

Seems kind of a hard sell to me, since the prime buyer for Park Slope is someone with a family hence someone looking for bedrooms. I've seen other lovely apartments take longer to sell for this reason - that lovely as they may be, they weren't family friendly. True, the detail is a big plus, but I'd rather have a 2 (or better yet a 3) bedroom with detail. Also, 2 baths would be much better than 1.5.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:17 PM

Small bedrooms are great - all space donated to living instead of wasted on sleeping. Little bedroom is perfect for first and office and then a baby/toddler. It's actually not that small - you could fit a queen size bed in there if you had two kids and wanted to put them in the bigger bedroom - of course wouldn't be long term solution, but fine for first years for a couple with plans to procreate.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:19 PM

24% of Park Slope's residents are families with children, 1:17.

Your idea of the demographic of Park Slope is not quite accurate.

The zip code where this apartment lies is made up of 52% singles.

The rest are couples or single parents.

Just because Gawker only seems to talk about strollers when referring to Park Slope, that does not mean it is fact.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:19 PM

This is a beautiful home but, face it, a $1.2 million one bedroom with a doorless home office. I love Brooklyn but were I childless with that kind of cash, I would be looking in Manhattan. And, yes, I'm not everyone. Still, I'll be surprised if it sells at this price.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:21 PM

In Manhattan if you were looking in this price point, you would find a studio at the Trump Tower Soho, or a 750 sf 1 bedroom in Chelsea or any other "hip" neighborhood downtown.

The value still remains...EVEN in Park Slope when comparing to Manhattan.

You can not replicate this apartment in Manhattan for less than 1.5 - 1.8 million dollars.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:24 PM

"Small bedrooms are great"

No, they aren't. Mine is tiny and it is not great in any way, shape or form.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:29 PM

My bedroom is small and I love it!

So comfy and organized. A little nest.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:33 PM

The only thing worse than a small bedroom is a small imaginary bedroom.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:34 PM

I love how each post eventually turns into:

1) a great rant by The What
2) Dissing Park Slope
3) a dis on the "stroller mafia"
4) all out hostility on a piece of real estate.
5) Dissing of hipsters and their rich parents
6) Scarano Bashing

I'm fully entertained by this.

I'm also tired of these Scarano Apartments!!!!!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:35 PM

Park Slope - UWS it is all the same

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:35 PM

Upper West Side is great.

Just announced that they are getting an Apple Store!

Some amazing new restaurants too. You should check out Dovetail!

Last I checked, 15 Central Park West was the most lucrative Real Estate deal in New York City history.

I'll take the UWS comparison any day.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:37 PM

"7 by 12 is small, but certainly enough room for a bedroom."

Naw. I have my queen bed in a room with those dimensions and it does not qualify as a whole bedroom. Call it a half.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:37 PM

All I need is a full size bed and a wall-mounted flat screen tv, some grey paint and white moldings.

It's a haven for sleeping.

You people are prisses.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:39 PM

Jesus. Some of you are just a bunch of whiny fucktards who can't stop drinking your mocha lattes to save enough for a down payment. Enough already about how expensive everything is and how it's not worth it. Yes, prices in Brooklyn are high, but that's what the market has determined they're worth. The people who own around here are happy to see these prices and hope they keep going up. Stop being bitter about renting; we'll still have you come over for barbecues on our roof decks and patios. We'll even understand if you don't bring any beer. After all, you need to save up for that one bedroom. Oh, wait, that'll be a studio now.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:41 PM

why would a childless couple or a single want to live in Park Slope. maybe if you just got a divorce or something and want to live near your kids? soooo boring there. snore. and have fun with your 50 minute commute to midtown.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:46 PM

I think 1:41 is now exemplifying the phenomenon of "strange bedfellows" by co-opting the language of the The What - wasn't he the one who coined "fucktards"? The bitterness quotient is about the same on both sides: doom and gloom (the What) and polyanna (1:41). I think the truth lies somewhere in between - well-priced, rare, quality properties will stay fairly strong, overpriced/fringe properties will struggle/languish/suffer price cuts...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:48 PM

i commute to the uws every day and it takes 40 minutes door to door.

you clearly don't know park slope at all.

ever been to union hall or southpaw?

filled with hot, young men and women.

filled.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:50 PM

I'd put my MBR where LR is now and have my 2.5 kids in the current bedroom (or vice versa). LR where DR is and eat in the EIK.

Meanwhile, I dont' want to live here so...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:56 PM

1:46 = please see 1:19

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 1:56 PM

1:46 - lives in Fort Lee.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:05 PM

1:50--what kind of job do you have on the UWS? I'd love to find work in that neighborhood.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:05 PM

since when are real estate taxs not deductible?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:09 PM

2:05

i teach at a music conservatory on the upper west side and perform as a musician.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:12 PM

1:35 - these posts only descend into dissing park slope in reaction to hysterical Park Slope pumping, a la 1:17: "You morons really have no concept of how desirable Park Slope is, do you?"

OR - someone dares suggest that Park Slope is far from Manhattan, OR that singles might prefer Manhattan to Park Slope. Then there is a defensive torrent from the park slopers, which provokes a torrent of insults from everyone else.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:34 PM

It IS a one-bedroom, the floor-plan maker's suggestion that you could partition off the living room notwithstanding. (And you couldn't do it without coop approval anyway.)

Refrigerator thing is a bit awkward, I agree. But many of the single-family brownstones that have been cut up into apartments have some awkwardness. It seems that the larger brownstones, as you get closer to the park, with the most beautiful original built-ins, are the ones that have the most awkward layouts - as people pay attention to keeping the charm of the original and not practical layouts (not saying they shouldn't do that - I like large brownstone charm - but it is just a fact about the layouts.)

The biggest awkwardness here is that the one full bathroom is accessed only from the bedroom. You want to have houseguests not not have to traipse through your bedroom to shower or bathe. (Kids, we know, already are always traipsing through your bedroom. But remember, this is only a one-bedroom anyway.)

I lived on this block of Carroll - it is a really great location. I also looked at 2 other apartments in this building when I was looking to buy. They were beautiful, but the awkward layouts stopped me.

Then (mid-90's), the apartments in this building were priced like others of their size - so this would have been priced like a really nice large one-bedroom with a dining room - as it should be now. This one isn't priced that way, and so is overpriced, however nice it is.

And thanks to whoever pointed out that only a small percentage fits the demographic that everyone thinks lives in the slope - and in NY. Singles and childless couples are not only 20-somethings waiting to marry and start procreating (and even some who originally want that never do it), as many who write on this board seem to believe. Repeat after me: Everybody is not just like you.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:46 PM

i like your style, 2:46.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:48 PM

I wonder if this building ever had a stoop. If it did, they did a pretty wonderful job recreating the window in the "office" off to the side of the LR.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:56 PM

1:00 (2), you might have made 150K right out of college, but I'm willing to bet that you are one in about 500,000 college graduates. No-one really makes that kind of money right out unless they are doing something highly extraordinary or are working for themselves. Now if you are talking about Grad school that is a different story.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:03 PM

Putting in that second tiny bedroom would ruin the beauty of the front room. The price on this one-bedroom walk up seems exorbitant. On the other hand, it is in perfect, move-in condition and is in a good location.
I would advise someone interested in this to cool off a bit and rent for awhile. These prices are simple unsustainable. For this price one-bedroom, I would want at least an elevator and a doorman.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:07 PM

3:03 - I agree - who are these assholes who think making 150k right out of college is no big deal. I can assure you that to most Americans, that would be considered a VERY big deal. And most will never come close to that in their lifetimes.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:10 PM

A walk-up is a walk-up wheher you have to go up one floor or four. Its a pain in the ass.
Although it is convenient to prevent elderly or disabled relatives from visiting.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:10 PM

every person i know who graduated from yale and moved to nyc at the age of 22 or 23 (i could name 15 people off the top of my head) started out making 150K.

my friend's first job at deloitte landed her a 250K salary her first year. another was making 250K at a hedge fund and then got a 400K bonus his first year.

the former now owns a 2 bedroom apt. on jane street and is not even 30.

it happens more often than you think.

i've since gone on to grad school and still make under 200K though because i'm in the arts.

and i love park slope. imagine that?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:10 PM

"you have to go up one floor or four. Its a pain in the ass."

What about a 10 million dollar duplex? You still have to go up a flight of stairs. Does that suck too? Or how about the 80% of u.s. 2 story colonials where one must walk up stairs? Are you really that Ignorant??

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:12 PM

Only on Brownstoner would people complain about going up a flight of stairs!

As 3:12 said...ALMOST EVERYONE IN THE BURBS LIVES IN A 2 STORY HOUSE!!!!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:15 PM

3:12
Listen fucktard.
It is very different to go up and down stairs when you are already in your home than to do so lugging groceries, lugging a stroller, lugging little kids, lugging your bicylcle, lugging luggage, etc. etc. Grow up.
walk ups are for college students.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:18 PM

I'm single and hot and in good enough shape to walk up a flight of stairs. The stroller mafia doesn't bother me one bit--in fact, I bet there are a lot of cool single moms (or soon-to-be divorced moms) who would love to have a new bachelor in the hood. This apartment is perfect so I'm going to put in a bid for $1M.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:23 PM

thank you 3:23 - that was perfect

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:35 PM

"Original parlor floor detail throughout including the original operable shutters, 3 spectacular mantels one of which is wood burning."

Gee, just what I've always wanted: a wood-burning mantle!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:42 PM

3:10 PM .
Every word of your post wreaks of insecurity.
Or was I jaust taken by a troll?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:42 PM

The person who says you have more privacy in a walk-up is nuts. Owning in a four-unit coop was like owning a building with 3 crazy stangers. No privacy there - you spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with your neighbors just to maintain the building in a self-managed (which most, if not all, 4-units are) coop.

Living in an elevator building now is great - people say high in the elevator and comment on the weather, and leave each other alone.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 3:50 PM

3:18 - Do we know you from Biggest Loser?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:02 PM

I don't drool brownstoner.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:08 PM

3:10 Making $150k a year means you make more than 92.5% of all HOUSEHOLDS in this country. Good for you, but that does make you and your friends extraordinarily fortunate. Upper class twit.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:20 PM

just cause you didn't figure out how to make 150k does not make someone who did a twit.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:28 PM

i went to harvard, but was actually making $250K when i graduated kindergarten. I can name 5 classmates who were making $400k right out of the womb. sometimes we go to park slope to beat up the eli alums and take their bonuses.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:31 PM

Is this across the street from 799 Carroll, former HOTD?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:31 PM

Umm, $1.2M for a 1br? Even in Park Slope, even with some mantels and moldings, that's a bit ridiculous. (Mantels and moldings CAN be put in after the fact, and it doesn't cost THAT much money to do so.)

Plus, that maintenance issue worries me. First of all, I'd call it low-ish, not "quite low." Yes, under $1/sf is pretty good... in Brooklyn it's what I'd look for as a cutoff. But there are plenty of co-ops in this area with maintenance around $0.50/sf. So this maintenance isn't bad, but it's not really great either.

More importantly, how on earth can it be 0% deductible? One of the main reasons maintenance is as high as $1/sf is that it covers an underlying balloon mortgage and gobs of RE taxes. If this maintenance doesn't cover those things, what exactly are you paying for? It's a brownstone conversion, so there's no doorman, no super, no elevator, etc. $850 maintenance with none going to taxes or underlying mortgage makes me very worried about how this building's finances are managed...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:32 PM

Is this across the street from 799 Carroll, former HOTD?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:35 PM

making 150k in the arts while you are in graduate school. now that's impressive.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:36 PM

4:28 - no, but talking about it with a blase and totally entitled attitude does make you a twit - exactly the kind of twit one finds in park slope. Not to mention the brag "I make less than 200,00 because I'm in the arts." 99% of people in the arts make less than $100,000, let alone 200k.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:40 PM

Two types on tis site -- 1) anonymous wise-asses who like to bait 2) overly ernest morons.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:42 PM

4:28 Finding a way to make $150K a year right out of college doesn't make him a twit. Pretending like it's not a big deal and not highly unusual does.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:43 PM

To who ever makes 150k straight out of college:

A free ride is a short ride.

Many, many people who had money when they were young, lost it when they were old.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:43 PM

It's a recipe for Oscar gold!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:44 PM

i grew up in coney island. no dad in the picture and no money.

went to yale on a scholarship.

i'm glad to be giving back to my home borough that i love. i donate large chunks of my income to charity and am on the board of two organizations to help troubled youth.

you don't know me.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:44 PM

Two types on this site -- 1) anonymous wise-asses who like to bait 2) overly ernest morons.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:45 PM

Anyone have a salty limerick out there?
There was a broker from Nantucket...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:46 PM

Come on all you rich Yalies gotta be able to throw a rhyme together.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:51 PM

So, you work in the arts, go to graduate school, are on the board of two non-profits where you donate time and large chunks of your 150k a year. Oh yeah, and you love Park Slope. You just get more impressive all the time.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:54 PM

Entertain me damn it!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:56 PM

There was a neighborhood called Park Slope.
It used to be all Lezzies and Dope.

They are still here, but then came the Kids.
With the Gowanus so close, they now all have Sids.

The houses are sweet.
Babeland...how neat!!

Maggie, Turturro and Buscemi!
Wait...I thought it was all about ME!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:57 PM

i'm finished grad school.

i work full-time and am trying to do my best to give back. i've been super lucky.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 4:58 PM

Awesome, very funny.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:00 PM

I rather buy a beautiful house in a "Fringe neighborhood " that had 6 fireplaces details etc... before I brought this one bedroom co-op

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:01 PM

Can anyone else take on 4:57's genius? Rhyme recessed lighting and check kiting or something?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:01 PM

um 5:01...you might want to read the other threads today before you buy in a fringe hood.

you didn't read the lefferts article, did you?

buying in a fringe area right now is about as smart as wearing a thong in iraq.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:03 PM

There once was a broker from Park Slope
Whose listings were totally dope
But the bubble did pop
And his client base drop
So now he just swings from a rope

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:04 PM

This is 5:01. I want rhymes, not more self-important whining. Now.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:05 PM

I'm glad that you are working hard for your 150k a year arts job and not spending all your time on real estate blogs defending yourself and Park Slope (which you love). I hope you will still have enough time to get to your board meeting. those disadvantaged kids are counting on you to get them 150k jobs in the arts as well, that still leave time for blogging.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:06 PM

Sorry 5:04, 4:57 is funnier.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:06 PM

and what is it you do, 5:06??

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:16 PM

A smug financial worker.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:18 PM

You 5:16?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:19 PM

I know this isn't the right place to post but wanted to know if anyone has any suggestions on how to find a fsbo. I've got solid financials and am looking for a coop/condo/house in BK and am sick of being jerked around by all the brokers. Is there anywhere to hear about fsbos if I'm not out in Brooklyn yet so I can find out through the neighborhood grapevines? Any advice would be much appreciated!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:19 PM

When I'm not hauling trash, I'm a troll.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:20 PM

5:19 - Check out Craig's List.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:23 PM

What link?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:27 PM

5:03 You are the same person that 25 years ago said that Park Slope was a stupid area to move to... What you people say on this site is the word.. I don't think so... most people on this blog have no idea what they are talking about, but are good stretching the truth...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:36 PM

I was mugged at gunpoint across the street from this place 15 years ago. Ahh the memories.

Now I own a house in a fringe neighborhood and spend all of my time walking up and down stairs. Strangely, I have never been mugged in my neighborhood. I guess my area will never be as cool as PS unless I get mugged at gunpoint.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 5:54 PM

Sorry for being a petty bastard, but I don't believe for a second that anyone is earning $150k right out of college (except for NBA and NFL draft choices). I believe what we have here is a Brooklyn fiction writer (which there are more of than stroller moms) frustrated with the progress of his novel, jerking our chain. Let's try to keep fiction on this blog limited to square footage.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 6:02 PM

Yeah I live Bedford Stuyvesant and I have never been mugged either. I guess we are not a scary hood anymore. We need more people on brownstoner that rent in PS to tell us how scary my area is keeps me big and bad.... ohhh scary guy from the south...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 6:06 PM

4-0, 4-0 sarcasm cop!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 6:07 PM

6:02, I am a front office recruiter for a bulge bracket investment bank and you are right, people do not graduate and make $150K a year, with the odd exception of perhaps a few lucky b*stards working for the right hedge fund or brilliant quant/techy types. And $250K at Deloitte? This guy is yanking our chain, has a shallow lying group of friends, or else I want some of what he is smoking.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 6:15 PM

Maybe $250 at Toilette of you are a partner.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 6:21 PM

Partners at Toilet and Douche are not that good at lying, unless they are talking to their clients about business

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 6:39 PM

There once was a troll on Brownstoner
Who touted his six-figure boner
But behind the name "guest"
Was the pale concave chest
We expect from an unemployed loner.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 7:13 PM

Very funny, 7:13. Nice.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 7:16 PM

So does this place have multiple offers yet??

I'm guessing yes.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 7:17 PM

And I didn't even go to Yale...

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 7:17 PM

if there aren't more people making 150K than you say, 6:15, there are gonna be a helluva lot of people foreclosing soon.

even more than now.

you don't think you need to be making 150k to buy nearly every house or co-op listed on this website??

you are a fool.

just cause you don't, does not make it fiction.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 7:21 PM

There once was a "Yalie" who boasted
Of his roll, when on 'Stoner he posted
Some, they screamed "TROLL!"
Still others: ASS-HOLE!"
My guess? A rich kid who's coasted.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 7:47 PM

Two types on this site -- 1) anonymous wise-asses who like to bait 2) overly ernest morons. 8:02 -- you are #2.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 8:11 PM

Seven sisters --- that's hot!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 8:12 PM

hmmmm....A full scholarship AND PHD!!!??

Why not keep that to yourself babes?

One thing worse than being an overly earnest moron like you, 8:02....a hypocritical overly earnest moron.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 8:25 PM

8:32, you are killing me. So funny. Thanks for correcting me. It is important to be Ernest, write?

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 8:39 PM

There once was a blog about houses
That attracted all manner of louses
They love to condemn
Everyone who ain’t them
But we sane ones are sick of their grouses

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 9:38 PM

^^^ IRONY? ^^^

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 10:38 PM

You gotta be a dope to pay over a million bucks for a one bedroom walk up apartment in Brooklyn.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 10:40 PM

you gotta be a dope to criticize other people for living their life and spending their own money how they see fit.

oh wait...that isn't a dope. that's just IGNORANT!!!

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 10:46 PM

There once was a chap named 8:39
Who got bitch slapped once
But still had to whine.
As his path was well paved
By what Daddy done saved
That he's just a big prick oozed from every line.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 11:45 PM

Oh yeah, brownstoner doesn't know about coop maintenances. It is far lower in your usual 4-unit coop than in elevator buildings, underlying mortgage or not, because there are no staff, management company, elevators, or large lobbies to renovate.

This is on the sort of high side for such buildings, though not terribly high. But the building is very nicely maintained - unlike many similar ones with much lower maintenances (like $400 - $650)- the reason the stairways and carpeting and sidewalks and yards look like crap in many buildings because they don't want to raise the maintenance to pay for it. To each their own - that's for the owners to decide.

This building was very nicely re-brownstoned on the front when I lived on the block in the 90's - they keep the place in nice shape. That's likely why the maintenance is as high as it is. You get what you pay for usually, where maintenance is concerned.

Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 11:57 PM

There once was a crank called The What
Who forecast Collapse from his hut
Though he had the right gist
His delivery missed
And so he's dismissed as a nut

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 1:14 AM

Nice try 11:45, but for a musician you are a bit tone deaf.

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 6:15 AM

6:15 = Dan Aquilante

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 8:49 AM

I've always said there are two types of Ivy League grads: those who went to an Ivy League school and brag about it, and those who went to an Ivy Leauge school and brag about not bragging about it. Strangely, the former is preferable.

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 12:47 PM

i'm confused- isn't this apt really similar and a lot less???

http://www.brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx?id=785198

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 1:24 PM

The Ivies have too many of these inbred legacies at them. Really dumbs things down.

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 1:25 PM

1.24. The apt. at 705 carroll seems 'similar' but you'd have to pay me to live there due to the weird angles and claustophobic rooms. No windows on the side; probably dark. ACCK! I'd run.

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 1:39 PM

705 - TOO NARROW!

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 2:12 PM

705 has recessed lighting.

Posted by: guest at February 27, 2008 2:33 PM