Condo of the Day: Grand Army Plaza 1 BR
Owners, if you’re going to go the FSBO route in this market, at least make sure you take some decent photos for your New York Times ad. The quality of the shots in this listing for a Prewar one bedroom condo on Grand Army Plaza are abysmal, which is too bad cuz we bet that…
Owners, if you’re going to go the FSBO route in this market, at least make sure you take some decent photos for your New York Times ad. The quality of the shots in this listing for a Prewar one bedroom condo on Grand Army Plaza are abysmal, which is too bad cuz we bet that wood-paneled living room would look great in a better photograph. Another tip: Provide the address. Many of your prospective buyers will pass you by if they can’t do a little due diligence ahead of time. Anyway, regardless of how nice the apartment is, we’re skeptical that there are many buyers out there willing to pay $450,000 for a one bedroom unless it’s a loft or ultra-prime Heights or Slope. And without an address, how would we know?
Grand Army Plaza 1 BR FSBO [NYT Listings]
$600/ft combined with low common charges and taxes makes this look like a pretty good deal if it’s within a block or so of GAP.
Maybe that’s why they used hazy photos 😉
Agreed. They should use the address. Also, unfortunately, I think the “wood paneling” is a painted faux finish of some kind- part of the “Custom Paint” and not the real deal.
Sure, it’s prime. But the way it is vaguely used in the ad without an address makes one wonder whether it’s really, for example, a couple of blocks away from GAP into Prospect Heights. That would be a little less prime than being 1/2 block away from GAP on Prospect Park West, no? Just trying to make an argument for transparency and no b.s.
Wide-angle lens on a camera is key for FSBO’ers. Rent a good digital camera for the photos (or better yet splurge for a professional photographer) if you have to. But the FSBO route does not mean you spend NO money on your listing. You have to invest money to make money. Lastly, I agree about not noting the address being dumb. For both realtors (a certain smaller Park Slope realtor never puts the address) and FSBO. It’s my peeve. I literally will just go “oh well never mind” and move onto the next listing it irritates me so much.
You don’t consider Grand Army Plaza prime slope? I think it’s got the best location in the slope – with park & transportation proximity, close to 7th, 5th and up and coming vanderbilt services. Plaza Street has got kind of an old world feel. On Prospect Park will pin it down as a lux address, too.
Doh! Actually, “abyss” is the root of the word; should have left off that last “s’ for savings though.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) –
–adjective 1. of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great.
2. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
I’m glad Brownstoner makes an occasional spelling or factual error every once in a while. Proves he’s as imperfect as the rest of us. He’s always a good sport about fixing them, and besides, there’s nothing more annoying than perfect people.
Having said that, “abyssmal” was a good one.
Abyssmal? Is it very dark down there….