House of the Day: 119 Fort Greene Place

I like this house and think we may go see it. (hubby sighs and throws his hands up at my continued interest at this point..."but we STILL have to sell THIS home FIRST *eye roll* which you don't seem to want to have to do *followed by second eye roll*" or "What is this for you, a hobby? I'm not looking at anymore homes until we put THIS one up first"... followed by MY *eye roll*. Of course its a hobby, Duh! ;)

No, seriously. I think I'm mustering up the ovum to list our place again. I'll have to clean like mad and store half of our stuff and pretend we don't have little boys, and probably take a 30% cut to what we thought we might get when we listed in summer 2008, but life's life.

Posted by: Nokilissa at November 5, 2009 1:45 PM

Well Rob, I haven't got any balls you know!

Posted by: Nokilissa at November 5, 2009 1:54 PM

We're in that weird price point place where we can't sell at stratospheric/super luxury prices, but we're not in the category of those homes selling well and within 10% of peak either. Its a really large loft we bought in Manhattan in 1999. We renovated the whole place in 2005. So we're one of those potential buyers most on Brownstoner don't take into account when figuring the numbers.

Posted by: Nokilissa at November 5, 2009 2:23 PM

Miss Muffett,

because we have grown tired of the very busy part of downtown Manhattan in which we life, the traffic, construction, over-development, crowds, the Gaps, banks, K-Marts, Starbucks and American Apparel's being the only stores able to afford rent anymore... I'm tired of being nearly mowed over by aggressive cabs and trucks every few days with my kids. I'm tired of yelling over jackhammers on many corners. we have no outdoor space, no dog and no sense of community or neighborhood. We have small children who we want to be able to trick or treat at places other than the corner delis, cleaners and restaurants. We'd like them to be able to run in a hose in the summers! I'd love a small garden with tomatoes and some herbs. Hubby wants a grill so badly he practically burns the apt. down every month or so in a sorry attempt at searing a steak. We have 3 bedrooms, but they're all taken. I'd love my parents and in-laws to be able to stay on something other than an aerobed in the family room when they come to visit. We want a damn dog too. We'd love a stoop, and friendly neighbors, and ball games going on at a park down the block. Mostly, we just love Brooklyn. We just end up there nearly every weekend. With friends, at street fairs, going to the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Red Hook, the zoo, wandering around Park Slope and Ft. Greene...

Do I ramble, or what?

Posted by: Nokilissa at November 5, 2009 2:49 PM

My apologies for waxing poetic... too much information, Zip it!

But give me a break DistractedMom. 'Downtown Manhattan' could be anything south of 23rd street to the Battery. I wouldn't venture to guess how many thousands of apartments and homes are for sale in that catchment. I doubt I'm risking a sale by ranting about Manhattan for a moment on a little thread on Brownstoner.

bkplebe, couldn't disagree more. Like I said, we've spent many weekends in Brooklyn with friends and family. One of my best friends lives in the north slope and I've been over dozens of times at all hours and on different days. We've seen no less than 100 brownstones in the last 2 years.

Last weekend we met friends in Park Slope for Halloween trick or treating, and I can assure you we had a ball wandering about, from Brownstone to Brownstone, people decked out everywhere, standing at gates and sitting on stoops, handing out candy and little gifts...I'm not sure why you would ever make such a statement as "I would never send my kids to trick or treat...brownstones".

Of course there are construction spots and traffic, Gaps and franchised stores in Brooklyn. But not to even remotely to the same degree as we have here. You disagree?

Posted by: Nokilissa at November 5, 2009 3:47 PM