353 6th Street 50 Percent Sold, Maybe
The last time we checked in at 353 6th Street, we were confused by the mix of brokerage firms that appeared to have their fingers in the pot: Douglas Elliman, Bond New York and Citi Habitats were all listed by Streeteasy. We recently found a Craigslist post by Bond New York, claiming the building was…
The last time we checked in at 353 6th Street, we were confused by the mix of brokerage firms that appeared to have their fingers in the pot: Douglas Elliman, Bond New York and Citi Habitats were all listed by Streeteasy. We recently found a Craigslist post by Bond New York, claiming the building was 50 percent sold, with two units left, although this is a six-unit building. (Streeteasy, however, only shows two recorded sales.) To clear up the confusion, we emailed the Bond New York broker repping the property using our Brownstoner email. Her response: “Please explain to my [sic] why I have to answer all your question [sic] when you don’t have any proper address or email and tell # and signature?” Considering these units have been on the market since March 2009 and aren’t flying off the shelves, a little free publicity would have been a good reason. Oh, well. (The Craigslist post has since expired, but check out the screenshot after the jump.)
Checking In on 353 6th Street [Brownstoner] GMAP
Actually, after only a 75-hour course (and a passing grade on the state test) you can be a real estate agent, who has to work for a broker. To be a broker or associate broker requires a certain amount of experience (measured in points per various transactions) as a salesperson and completion of a second, 45-hour course (and passing a second state test). Not that there aren’t some great salespeople/agents out there and some incompetent/dishonest brokers, but the true crap has usually been weeded out by then.
bugs = bucks (I don’t think bugs are legal tender at the department of licensing)
DeadCat —
Take a 60-hours course and pay a couple hundred bugs and YOU TOO can be a real estate broker!
I saw this place last year. I am pretty sure it is only 4 units – 1 per floor. I thought the building was actually nice but agree that there was wasted space in the layouts.
Funny enough what put me off at the time was that the broker and marketing was confusing at the open house.
I have often thought there should be a more open, direct and less expensive way to get real estate transactions done.
I have on rare exceptions met “customer service superstars”.
Way more often I have come across pushy, unknowledgeable, dishonest losers. The later will naturally hate this website where real information can be gleaned.
That broker sounds like a real smarty.
You are too kind to even post this up here and give the building any publicity at all after that deplorable response.
I’ve looked at the apartments on the first floor and the top floor. It does not surprise me that they haven’t sold. The apartments are small with weird layouts. The master bedroom in the first floor unit is especially small. There is a back yard, but it does not make up for the smallness. They should knock down walls, call them one-bedrooms, and lower the prices. I think they would sell then.
classic response that will surprise no one with any experience in nyc real estate.
you are doing the owner a service by bringing this behavior to their attention.
Emily… Real estate brokers only come in two forms (a) Intelligent, customer service superstars and (b) complete and utter idiots that have the attention span of a goldfish.
Your buddy at Bond New York is of the latter category. Hopefully she isn’t an owner of the company.