Rob, house tours have volunteers in every room. No one is going to lift grandma’s silver, or steal a necklace off the dresser, as if anyone would be so foolish to leave it out. Besides which, you can’t get in a house without a brochure or ticket, which costs at least $20 to $25 dollars in most communities. Your average snatch and grabber is not going to pay to get in, and no ticket/brochure, not admittance. Park Slope has been doing this for 51 years, many other communities for over 30 years. I’ve never heard of anything being stolen from any community, at a house tour. Or anyone whose house was on tour ever been robbed afterwards, either.
Yeah, CGar…. I would perhaps think about finding yourself a new “my broker.” Can’t arrange a second showing? Is he/she retarded? Bad at his/her job? Just a lazy idiot?
gem: “I think it’s a bit overprices at 1.15K as it seems it would still need some updating like the pic of the kitchen looks old – right?
m4l: “CGar, it’s not a bad price – ie better than those duplex condos at similar price. but it’s not a bidding war, all-cash, etc. type house.”
It is overpriced, and it’s definitely not bidding war material. But I was thinking it was a great alternative to the duplexes at the Arches. The house still has some nice original details (wide plank pine floors, marble mantles, tin ceilings). It has great potential, but it needs a good $100k – $150k in work done.
The top floor needs to be reconfigured from a rental to 2 bedrooms / 2 baths. All 3 (or there may only be 2 at the moment) )bathrooms need to be gutted. Kitchen is fine for now, but will need to be redone. Beautiful garden, which needs work, but nice mature trees and shrubs — Dogwood, roses, *butterfly* bushes. Evidence that beams in the cellar have been sistered, so I’d want to be very careful about termite damage.
Let’s face it: people putting their homes on tours aren’t doing it strictly out of the goodness of their hearts. They must get some sort of kick out of being able to brag their house was on the tour and/or are often showing them with the intention of putting them on the market down the road. This isn’t to say I condone going overboard in ridiculing their place in front of them like one or two of the boorish people noted in the posts above, but the owners’ skin should be thick enough to deal with some mild critiquing uttered during the tour.
Europeans are running out of money… fast.
“What….that is why all those europeans are taking their money quick and buying in Brooklyn”
Watch the video and stop talking to me.
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
Rob, house tours have volunteers in every room. No one is going to lift grandma’s silver, or steal a necklace off the dresser, as if anyone would be so foolish to leave it out. Besides which, you can’t get in a house without a brochure or ticket, which costs at least $20 to $25 dollars in most communities. Your average snatch and grabber is not going to pay to get in, and no ticket/brochure, not admittance. Park Slope has been doing this for 51 years, many other communities for over 30 years. I’ve never heard of anything being stolen from any community, at a house tour. Or anyone whose house was on tour ever been robbed afterwards, either.
PLG tour next weekend!
Yeah, CGar…. I would perhaps think about finding yourself a new “my broker.” Can’t arrange a second showing? Is he/she retarded? Bad at his/her job? Just a lazy idiot?
gem: “I think it’s a bit overprices at 1.15K as it seems it would still need some updating like the pic of the kitchen looks old – right?
m4l: “CGar, it’s not a bad price – ie better than those duplex condos at similar price. but it’s not a bidding war, all-cash, etc. type house.”
It is overpriced, and it’s definitely not bidding war material. But I was thinking it was a great alternative to the duplexes at the Arches. The house still has some nice original details (wide plank pine floors, marble mantles, tin ceilings). It has great potential, but it needs a good $100k – $150k in work done.
The top floor needs to be reconfigured from a rental to 2 bedrooms / 2 baths. All 3 (or there may only be 2 at the moment) )bathrooms need to be gutted. Kitchen is fine for now, but will need to be redone. Beautiful garden, which needs work, but nice mature trees and shrubs — Dogwood, roses, *butterfly* bushes. Evidence that beams in the cellar have been sistered, so I’d want to be very careful about termite damage.
exactly, What….that is why all those europeans are taking their money quick and buying in Brooklyn
Do any of you read the weekly PostSecret?
This one is VERY funny and VERY true! http://bk.ly/rRD
Let’s face it: people putting their homes on tours aren’t doing it strictly out of the goodness of their hearts. They must get some sort of kick out of being able to brag their house was on the tour and/or are often showing them with the intention of putting them on the market down the road. This isn’t to say I condone going overboard in ridiculing their place in front of them like one or two of the boorish people noted in the posts above, but the owners’ skin should be thick enough to deal with some mild critiquing uttered during the tour.
what about Bond St and 1st Street, Cgar.