Co-op of the Day: 141 Lafayette 2 Bedroom FSBO
What do you do if you’re an architect looking to sell your charming 2-bedroom apartment in one of the nicer co-op buildings in Fort Greene? FSBO all the way. The approach is nuthin’ fancy — just a blogspot site with the simplest, cleanest design template — but it works. While we’ve got no idea whether…
What do you do if you’re an architect looking to sell your charming 2-bedroom apartment in one of the nicer co-op buildings in Fort Greene? FSBO all the way. The approach is nuthin’ fancy — just a blogspot site with the simplest, cleanest design template — but it works. While we’ve got no idea whether he’ll get any takers at the asking price of $685,000 for 950 square feet, we were just excited to see the photo of the common garden (on the jump) that appears to be shared also with the neighboring townhouses. What’s the story with that?
Sunny 2 Bedroom Co-op [141 Lafayette] GMAP
How stupid of a seller to say something like that.
Another reason why the owner should never be at an open house, lest they open their big mouth and work against themselves.
Nothing wrong with not using a broker. Why give somebody 6% of the sales price of your apartment just because he or she took a four week licensing class and happened to open the front door for a buyer?
It’s insane unless you’re too busy to throw a few open houses or drastically overprice the house. Lots of people overprice properties whether they use a broker or not.
I personally think this architect should have priced his apartment cheaper and hoped for multiple bids.
With his high price he’s more likly not to get any offers and risks his listing getting stale quick.
Anybody know what floor it’s on?
What do you expect from an architect who overstates the square footage and does not see the value of properly listing it with a broker?? I smell a fish. (overprices it to boot)
The last 2 BR sold here was the parlor floor — took nearly a year to close (listed 8/05, closed 5/06), and they dropped their ask from $599K to $549K and finally closed at $540K, with a 7% commission. The year before that, the top floor sold in three months (listed in 3/05, closed in 6/05) for $597K vs. an ask of $619K — but it was in better shape. This one looks to be in pretty good shape — like the kitchen, but I really doubt they’ll get over $615K for it.
There’s no comparing condos and coops. Coops Suuhuhuhuhuck. Condos are trading at a much higher price per sq. ft. Who wants some douche bags deciding your fate based on standards they can’t even meet? Not to mention the invasive shenanigans that go on after you move in. Yuck…
I thought that common areas were only included in square footage of condos?
Standard calc is from outside of bldg. walls and a proportion of common areas includeing stairways. That goes for all bldgs, and even single family home across country. To to compare apples to apples of course the architect will include in sq. ft.
You show your ignorance of the topic by measuring inside.
Are you sure it isn’t 21 x 45, not by 40? That would make it 945 squ feet. I don’t mind the lister including the internal closets, etc. — that’s pretty standard when computing square feet. But I can’t tell from the floor plan.