verovee's Profile
- Veronica
- 1998
- Brooklyn
- Park Slope
- Rental
- lawyer
- Female
- 34
- http://verovee
Author's Posts
September 23, 2008
love the apartment, hate the broker
Sunday I managed to get a showing of a condo for sale in clinton hill after chasing down the broker for over a week. I was hoping there would be an open house but if not I was very flexible as to when she could show it. She finally said I could see it at a specific time but would be in a rush so I better be on time. I was on time she was late. I could go on about all the annoying things she said during the very short time we spent there before she rushed us out but I think the worst was when we asked a question and she responded "If you want the answer to that question, you should make an offer". okay, lady. Anyhow, is there any way to pursue an apartment you like when you would rather not someone so awful get a commission on an apartment she is making zero effort to sell? Is there any way to find out who their boss is, as it were, and at least make a complaint? In any case, the seller is being done an injustice. My bf has contacted her via email and phone re: other listings and never heard back on those so it is not just this instance.
August 27, 2008
Don't hate me b/c I want to buy near AY
I have (mostly) decided to buy an apartment that, yes, overlooks the Atlantic Yards site on the Carlton side. I know all the arguments and don't want to wake that monster. I am more hoping that someone has an update on the status of the project since the last round of information that came out around April- the redesign, the problems with funding and the tax issues. Does anyone know anything more current about the status and whether/when the construction is likely starting on the stadium and when/if you think the other buildings are going to be built. Or is it just anyone's guess at this point?
Author's Comments
I went to the open house last weekend. Very cute apartment and I think it is reasonably priced. There is already a dining room "nook" so I don't know about the conversion of the dining room into a bedroom. We actually thought it would work better to open up that bedroom and combine with the dining area to make a bigger bedroom and use that as the master bedroom. AS it is now the master bedroom is teeny. Barely room to move around the bed that is there; no room for a dresser or much of anything else in there besides the bed. Both bedrooms are currently baby sized- would seem roomy enough for a crib, but not roomy enough for adults.
Also I had the same thought about it facing Atlantic Yards. Was assured by the broker (I know, I know) that it was too far down and away from the footprint and therefore the sunlight (which is currently good) wouldn't suffer.
Posted by: verovee at October 1, 2008 2:47 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 147 South Oxford Street, #3C
Newswalk- I think. It is not a done deal. While I hate the idea of people having been displaced for a parking lot, I would prefer that to the gargantuan AY buildings we will face otherwise. (We have various fantasy ideas of what ends up happening with the phase two area.) I know the stadium will be built and probably the buildings around it. I am just wondering how much time before the dust and noise extravaganza reaches down to the opposite end of the "footprint". I have done a lot of internet searching but the last updates were months ago and seemed only to say that the deadlines were pushed back and the residential buildings are maybe slated for 2016 completion but are basically a big question mark. Clearly I have reservations but I like the apartment a lot and -for obvious reasons- the price isn't bad. Was hoping someone out there had recent info. thanks!
Posted by: verovee at August 27, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Don't hate me b/c I want to buy near AY
What's wrong with being near the theater? It's not *that* close that you would get crowds wandering by.
And I don't think many people would pay more than 2800 for this rental. Granted, I actually like sun and high ceilings. But I pay less than that - just under 2700 - for a much larger (but not recently renovated) brownstone floor-through on 8th in the N. Slope, with outdoor space and very near the 2/3 train. I know opinions differ greatly on the matter, but I think our location on a nice leafy street is better than this location. Also, I wandered into the Armory to ask a question and the women there were seriously nasty to me.
Posted by: verovee at August 7, 2008 4:14 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 1405 8th Avenue
I went to see this at their open house this weekend. I too thought it looked great in the pictures. But I didn't like it at all. The kitchen looks better in the pictures, the bedrooms felt very cramped (but we prefer one bigger master bedroom and a smaller bedroom, these felt about the same size), and the entire thing seemed dark. In fact it is the first apartment in a long time that both my boyfriend and I agreed on - we both disliked it.
Posted by: verovee at August 7, 2008 3:06 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 1405 8th Avenue
I believe there is at least one , and maybe two other listings in this same building. I was supposed to go to the open house of a one bedroom here last weekend but couldnt make it and recall that there was also a 2 bedroom in the same building that was slightly out of our price range. (And over a million is most definitely out of my price range). Curious that there would suddenly be three listings at the same time?
Posted by: verovee at July 22, 2008 2:42 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 44 Cheever Place
Responses to Author's Forum Comments
How do you know the stadium will be built? That may actually be the most difficult piece to get an authorization of eminent domain -- a for-profit, non-housing, non-community sports facility. And without eminent domain it can't happen. Dan Goldstein's apartment is on center court.
You are looking at living in hell for at least 10 years, whatever happens. Newswalk is a nice building, and as long as you face away from Pacific St. you'll be less exposed, but still...
Posted by: babs at August 27, 2008 4:51 PM in response to Don't hate me b/c I want to buy near AY
My aren't you snotty, on the parkway. I've done my research - thus the "i knows" in parenthesis. I was trying to pre-empt comments exactly like yours.
Posted by: verovee at October 1, 2008 5:27 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 147 South Oxford Street, #3C