what i love about this house is that it just goes to show you how truly different and subjective people's tastes and desires really are.

Posted by: Blabber at August 9, 2006 11:08 AM in response to Brown-stone? Not Exactly

Uh, I don't get it, why do black people want this and white people oppose this?

Are blacks not inconvenienced by traffic jams? Do whites not want to go to baseball games? I just don't get it. Someone help me out.

Posted by: Blabber at August 8, 2006 1:16 PM in response to Learning to Oppose the Atlantic Yards Project

You would need about $500,000 in reno money for this house.

Posted by: Blabber at July 31, 2006 1:31 PM in response to House of the Day: Caton Park Fixer-Upper

I laugh and laugh and laugh at the fools who would buy places there at $700 a foot. You have to actually tour the area to realize just how bad things really are, how disgusting and filthy the beach really is, etc., etc., etc.

But as always, there will be those who rush for the pre-sales at $700 a foot to flip it for $1300 a foot before the building is complete. Every day an idiot is born....

Posted by: Blabber at July 27, 2006 2:55 PM in response to Beating the Coney Island Dead Horse

Why is there no central A/C -- the window A/Cs really bother me. Clearly not $4 mil worthy.

Posted by: Blabber at July 14, 2006 2:32 PM in response to Stepping Out On FG Park (For Almost $4 Mil!)

sorry for the double post -- I got a message saying I needed to try again after the first post.

Posted by: Blabber at July 14, 2006 2:23 PM in response to Open House Picks

If anyone buys the century 21 house within 20% of that asking price, please send them my way - I have a bridge for sale. Got to be f&^%ing nuts to pay that kind of money for a place with a rent controlled tenant on the second floor. This house should be trading at a $350,000 discount to the 56 16th street house which is also overpriced in this market by about $150,000. Haven't these people heard that the bubble is over?

Posted by: Blabber at July 14, 2006 2:22 PM in response to Open House Picks

If anyone buys the century 21 house within 20% of that asking price, please send them my way - I have a bridge for sale. Got to be f&^%ing nuts to pay that kind of money for a place with a rent controlled tenant on the second floor. This house should be trading at a $350,000 discount to the 56 16th street house which is also overpriced in this market by about $150,000. Haven't these people heard that the bubble is over?

Posted by: Blabber at July 14, 2006 2:22 PM in response to Open House Picks

You are aware that the installation cost of tile vary with the complexity of what you want installed right? Or is this another do it yourself job for you?

Posted by: Blabber at July 13, 2006 2:47 PM in response to Looking Ahead: Bathroom Dept.

I don't understand why you don't post the numbers on this site. Seems to me that people reading this blog have a lot of experience with contractors and would be able to tell you whether the guy is trying to rip you off, is fair in his pricing or is undercharging. Correct me if I am wrong, but Mr. & Ms. Architect makes a percentage of the total construction cost (i.e incentivized to have higher construction costs). Unless you, you and you don't become painfully familiar with what reasonable prices are, you will be ripped off in this process - that's a guarantee.

Posted by: Blabber at July 13, 2006 2:43 PM in response to When reality hits

Looks closer to 0.45 million than to 1.45 million to me -- especially with all the recent shootings in this hood. You would have to be smoking some of the stuff they sell on the street corners to pay 1.45 for this.

Posted by: Blabber at July 11, 2006 3:41 PM in response to House of the Day: Overpriced on St.James?