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February 19, 2009

Condo of the Day: 238 South 3rd Street

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Here's a good example of a simple, more modern approach to an older space. This 1,100-square-foot floor-through condo at 238 South 3rd Street keeps it simple and in the process is successful, in our opinion. The two-bedroom, one-bath pad is asking $695,000. Think that's realistic?
238 South 3rd Street [FSBO.com] GMAP P*Shark




Posted by Brownstoner at 12:38 PM | Comments (24)
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Is this a joke?
why oh why would you have that busy floral print bedspread on your bed with a trendy Cowhide rug
oy oy oy

Posted by: gemini10 at February 19, 2009 12:50 PM

yuck. look past the furniture/accessories and you have a characterless, dark, cold (white brick) box....with the BQE as your neighbor....for too much money for that area.

in this case i'd agree with mr. bidhalfoffpeakcomps.

Posted by: goldie at February 19, 2009 12:51 PM

is that a drop cloth under the bed?

Posted by: northsloperenter at February 19, 2009 12:52 PM

$595 should do the trick.

Posted by: PropJoe at February 19, 2009 12:53 PM

that's a horse hide, NSR. I like it. Not as fancy as a zebra though.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at February 19, 2009 12:54 PM

that livingroom pic is dizzzark. hey owners, turn some lights on in there! warm it up a lil bit.

Posted by: bowl of dicks at February 19, 2009 12:55 PM

Is zebra hide more comfortable than horse, or just more snazzy?

Posted by: northsloperenter at February 19, 2009 12:57 PM

I *LOVE* the floors in this place. Why oh why can't my landlord do that to my place?
(bitter renter here hating her carpeted living room and bedroom. ugh)

Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at February 19, 2009 12:58 PM

$695 -- or even $595, which it was last purchased for -- is way too much for this place. It's in a garbage neighborhood far, far away from anything decent. I'd also like to see the floorplan. I would bet it's not 1,100 sq ft.

Posted by: BOBBY HINES at February 19, 2009 12:59 PM

Lousy photos, lousy staging, and no floorplan... I think they'd have a better shot if they hired a broker with skills... but $695K still seems easily $100K overpriced.

Posted by: geekspice at February 19, 2009 1:01 PM

More snazzy...and a hell of a lot more expensive for a real one!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at February 19, 2009 1:03 PM

http://www.africanskins.com/products/skins/

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at February 19, 2009 1:04 PM

I agree that this is way overpriced. I guess the owner wants to start the bidding high. Aside from the floors I don't really like this place at all...

Posted by: Heights Hustla at February 19, 2009 1:14 PM

If it's $100k overpriced, as some people are implying, then that's 15% off of ask and something that a rational seller should factor in as a likely sale price.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at February 19, 2009 1:18 PM

I could rent it, or something like it, for $2400. So... uh, nope.

Posted by: Heather at February 19, 2009 1:23 PM

Mr. B., you've gotta be kidding. It looks to me as if all they did was erect some sheetrock and splash the place with white paint. It would be okay for someone immediately post-college whose parents were willing to buy it ... if it were going for about $250k or so.

In that link to the Atlantic Monthly article you posted elsewhere today, it said that houses in Detroit are now selling for as little as $18k. I say all the young and creative types should move to Detroit and take over all of the abandoned industrial buildings to create a new SoHo or Williamsburg in the Upper Midwest!

Posted by: Park Sloper at February 19, 2009 1:26 PM

i'd move to detroit to buy something that cheap (tho it would still take me years to save up even 20 percent of the 18K) oh well. if a house in detroit is 18K how much is a rental? i dont know a lot about detroit other than it's supposedly really really bad and burnt out and stuff, but what's the economy like down there?

i cant believe i just said down there. detroit's in michigan lol!


*r*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at February 19, 2009 1:37 PM

agree w/ sloper -- this screams post dorm. In what way is it successful at anything?

Posted by: BH76 at February 19, 2009 1:44 PM

*r*: Would it really take you years to save up $3,600? If so, then you probably REALLY need to leave NYC, where the cost of living is so high....

Actually, Detroit is already kinda creepy so I can't imagine what it's about to become. The city never recovered from the 1967 riots, and there are literally abandoned skyscrapers with broken windows in downtown Detroit. The economy is basically non-existent except for what's left of the auto industry and ancillary industries. You'd have be a self-sustaining artist or freelance web designer or writer to survive there.

Posted by: Park Sloper at February 19, 2009 1:46 PM

Overpriced and not spectacular.

Agree, post dorm vibe.

Posted by: TownhouseLady at February 19, 2009 2:00 PM

dismal...400K would be more appropriate

Posted by: binnyG at February 19, 2009 2:13 PM

Nice Noguchi and Lane coffee tables, but I wanna swing at that chandelier like it's a piñata.

Posted by: SnarkSlope at February 19, 2009 3:33 PM

Snark, I know somebody here who can lend you a baseball bat if you need one.

Posted by: Biff Champion at February 19, 2009 3:35 PM

$695K in South Billy Dub. Ha ha ha. That's so funny.

***Don't bid at all***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at February 19, 2009 4:29 PM

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