Entire Fort Greene House for Rent
Here’s something for all the prospective house-buyers out there to consider: You can now rent an entire townhouse (albeit only a three-story one) in Fort Greene for $4,500. The Craigslist ad touting this deal doesn’t give an exact address, but it does mention that it is on Carlton between Dekalb and Lafayette, hardly a shabby…
Here’s something for all the prospective house-buyers out there to consider: You can now rent an entire townhouse (albeit only a three-story one) in Fort Greene for $4,500. The Craigslist ad touting this deal doesn’t give an exact address, but it does mention that it is on Carlton between Dekalb and Lafayette, hardly a shabby location for the ‘hood. Given that there are six bedrooms, we smell a sweet arbitrage opportunity: Rent the entire place for yourself then sublet five of the bedrooms for $1,000 a pop to Pratt students and have an extra $500 a month in walking around money! Sign up soon and be just a few paces from the nearby Inauguration festivities.
My beloved 3.5 story brownstone in Bed Stuy was a rental. One family house, never been chopped up, details a plenty. Never maintained or upgraded either, but that’s another story. Still, we rented it in 1983 for $500 a month, and I lived there for 17 years. Would have bought it, but landlady refused to sell. Had she sold it to me, I never would have moved to Crown Heights.
It was a great house, and a great rental deal for many years.
Pratt has hipsters
Long Island Univerity has the Frat Boys, OK maybe guido Frat Boys
Get your stereotypes straight gentlemen.
ive seen some 3 story houses for rent in bed stuy in the 3000 range.
seems like a pretty good deal to me.
Hey, anybody want to come over to my new rental for a night of binge drinking.
Pratt Frat boys will be aplenty.
The fireplace leads me to think that this is a brick townhouse. Just trying to narrow down the address possibilities.
***Bid half off peak comps***
“…there’s no such thing as 6 real bedrooms in a typical 20×40 3-story.”
Nope. 4.5 real bedrooms.
“I always approximate my four floors as 6000 in rent…”
Seperate entrances. Not quite comparable to a triplex. But maybe you’re accounting for the more expensive location that would be Fort Greene.
Million dollar question: Was this house recently taken off the market?
(Team Bear)
***Bid half off peak comps***
This seems like a reasonable approximation of market rent for this area, given that its only a three floor house. I always approximate my four floors as 6000 in rent if I ever wanted to rent the whole thing out.
Mr. B, you misread this: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/983054744.html
it’s a triplex. the landlord’s gonna be there. now we’ll never get to have the drum kit in the basement and keggers on the roof!
I lived for years in a shared rental of an entire brownstone. If you can find a landlord willing to rent one, and like living with people, it’s about the best way to live in Brooklyn. Our landlord had bought in the 70s, lived out of state, and charged us way under market for a whole house in PH. That said, there’s no such thing as 6 real bedrooms in a typical 20×40 3-story. You’d have to subdivide the parlor into two bedrooms, and you’d still have someone paying $1000 for something like the little room above the entrance or for the windowless middle room upstairs. Assuming a typical layout.