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January 13, 2009

Entire Fort Greene House for Rent

fort-greene-rental-0109.jpgHere's something for all the prospective house-buyers out there to consider: You can now rent an entire townhouse (albeit only a three-story one) in Fort Greene for $4,500. The Craigslist ad touting this deal doesn't give an exact address, but it does mention that it is on Carlton between Dekalb and Lafayette, hardly a shabby location for the 'hood. Given that there are six bedrooms, we smell a sweet arbitrage opportunity: Rent the entire place for yourself then sublet five of the bedrooms for $1,000 a pop to Pratt students and have an extra $500 a month in walking around money! Sign up soon and be just a few paces from the nearby Inauguration festivities.




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:11 AM | Comments (22)
Categories: Fort Greene, Rentals

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I think the rental agrrement will now be amended to prevent that from happening. And then we'll have one more "bitter renter" on here. :)

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 13, 2009 11:17 AM

Sounds like a good recipe for trashing the house!

Posted by: Schultz at January 13, 2009 11:18 AM

and live with five pratt brats? no thanks!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 13, 2009 11:18 AM

We've discussed this in the past rob; although it may have been so far in the past that there were a lot of faded type guests. Frat boys can be fun when you get them drunk.

Mr. B....where's the link to the craigslist(ing)?

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 13, 2009 11:21 AM

I lived for years in a shared rental of an entire brownstone. If you can find a landlord willing to rent one, and like living with people, it's about the best way to live in Brooklyn. Our landlord had bought in the 70s, lived out of state, and charged us way under market for a whole house in PH. That said, there's no such thing as 6 real bedrooms in a typical 20x40 3-story. You'd have to subdivide the parlor into two bedrooms, and you'd still have someone paying $1000 for something like the little room above the entrance or for the windowless middle room upstairs. Assuming a typical layout.

Posted by: Frederick Law Homestead at January 13, 2009 11:26 AM

Mr. B, you misread this: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/983054744.html

it's a triplex. the landlord's gonna be there. now we'll never get to have the drum kit in the basement and keggers on the roof!

Posted by: Frederick Law Homestead at January 13, 2009 11:29 AM

This seems like a reasonable approximation of market rent for this area, given that its only a three floor house. I always approximate my four floors as 6000 in rent if I ever wanted to rent the whole thing out.

Posted by: wasder at January 13, 2009 11:31 AM

"...there's no such thing as 6 real bedrooms in a typical 20x40 3-story."

Nope. 4.5 real bedrooms.

"I always approximate my four floors as 6000 in rent..."

Seperate entrances. Not quite comparable to a triplex. But maybe you're accounting for the more expensive location that would be Fort Greene.

Million dollar question: Was this house recently taken off the market?

(Team Bear)

***Bid half off peak comps***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at January 13, 2009 11:42 AM

The fireplace leads me to think that this is a brick townhouse. Just trying to narrow down the address possibilities.

***Bid half off peak comps***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at January 13, 2009 11:43 AM

Hey, anybody want to come over to my new rental for a night of binge drinking.
Pratt Frat boys will be aplenty.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 13, 2009 11:46 AM

ive seen some 3 story houses for rent in bed stuy in the 3000 range.

seems like a pretty good deal to me.

Posted by: Santa at January 13, 2009 11:55 AM

Pratt has hipsters

Long Island Univerity has the Frat Boys, OK maybe guido Frat Boys

Get your stereotypes straight gentlemen.

Posted by: Adam Dahill at January 13, 2009 12:01 PM

My beloved 3.5 story brownstone in Bed Stuy was a rental. One family house, never been chopped up, details a plenty. Never maintained or upgraded either, but that's another story. Still, we rented it in 1983 for $500 a month, and I lived there for 17 years. Would have bought it, but landlady refused to sell. Had she sold it to me, I never would have moved to Crown Heights.

It was a great house, and a great rental deal for many years.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 13, 2009 12:06 PM

Wow. I hadn't looked at full townhouse rental listings in a while. Check out this $7500 place in Park Slope: http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1407880&ohDat=

Posted by: Frederick Law Homestead at January 13, 2009 12:25 PM

Wow Montrose I did not know you spent so much time in Bedford Stuyvesant...

Posted by: Amzi Hill at January 13, 2009 12:27 PM

I have not looked at the ad on Craig's List but couldn't help chiming in to calm certain curiousity in the comments above: if this house is 3-storeys on Carlton between DeKalb and Lafayette, it is probably one of the small brownstone or brick houses. In fact, actually, I believe the shorter houses may all be brick.

It would be across from the school but it is not the side of the school entrance. It is a very convenient location for the restaurants, playgrounds, the park, green market, eventual flea market in April again...

If the comment above referring to the owner living in the house is true, than she should simply rent out the bedrooms individually instead of advertising it as a house rental.

Posted by: BrooklynGreene at January 13, 2009 12:36 PM

Yep, Amzi, that's why I know most of the neighborhood pretty well. I've seen it when it was considered pretty bad, and have celebrated its overdue renaissance. How did the landmarking meeting go?

Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 13, 2009 12:41 PM

The meeting went well It was more of a Stuyvesant ext. meeting.. Some really good people came out even from on here. Your name is well respected among many of the board members..

Posted by: Amzi Hill at January 13, 2009 1:19 PM

Montrose: Was it you who wrote so beautifully about voting this year? If so, I think you could sue Bill Cosby for plagerism. He said almost the same thing -- taking pictures of his parents out in the voting booth -- only not as well as you -- on Meet the Press Sunday.

Posted by: BH76 at January 13, 2009 3:15 PM

BH76, Bill Cosby probably had more influence on the development of my sense of humor than anyone else, growing up. We listened to his records until the grooves wore out. They are still hilarious stories. After quoting him for years, I guess I can give him a couple. Interesting.... I'll have to find his interview.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 13, 2009 4:11 PM

I know this house. It's a brownstone. It looks like a 3-story from the outside, but has a small fourth floor which may very well have 3 bedrooms (so 6 bedrooms total is possible). The garden level is a renter, not the owner. Nice house, deck, backyard and a great location.

Posted by: Drew at January 13, 2009 8:55 PM

Does anyone know if this house is still available for rent? I'm very interested in it (and not for renting it out to frat boys), but the craigslist ad is expired.

Thanks.

Posted by: shanrock at January 16, 2009 8:34 PM

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