Foreclosure of the Week: 1316 Beverley Road
This house at 1316 Beverley Road in Victorian Flatbush almost came up for auction back in 2007 and is slated for sale tomorrow. From what we gather, someone started to renovate it back in 2006 earlier this decade but ran out of steam mid-way through the project. This patch of Beverley is a little spotty…
This house at 1316 Beverley Road in Victorian Flatbush almost came up for auction back in 2007 and is slated for sale tomorrow. From what we gather, someone started to renovate it back in 2006 earlier this decade but ran out of steam mid-way through the project. This patch of Beverley is a little spotty but it’s surrounded both to the south and north on Argyle and Rugby by beautiful homes so this could be an interesting play if you can get it anywhere near the lien amount of $409,036. Anymore know anything more about its circumstances or the condition of the interior? GMAP
As of last year there was still a lovely stained glass window visible at the back of the house… I was very worried for about its safety.
I walk by regularly. It’s not that this patch of Beverley is “spotty” – there’s nothing unappealing about the house the next block with some signs for medical / spa businesses. It’s just this one sketchy house that’s an eyesore (though, like in other neighborhoods, the quieter side streets are more appealing than a 2 way street with more traffic).
Don’t know the story here… I’ve seen the half-done, half-assed brick porch, and trash and broken down cars on the sides of the house for years.
I hope someone can buy it cheap enough to have the money left to fix it up, and do us in the neighborhood a favor. And I hope it’s someone who wants to make a home, not like the guy (Azad or something like that?) who used to do a lot of crappy renovations of forclosures or distressed properties in the area for flipping.
This house has been a wreck – and frequently an illegal one at that – for over a decade. BSW Neighborhood Association tried many avenues to get this place cleaned up. It was(is?) an illegal SRO, has had some prostitution issues, drugs, many abandoned cars piled up in the backyard, not to mention the state of the half-bricked up porch which has been like that as long as Chaka (and I) can remember… That said, this is the blemish on the block, and one of the very few in BSW…
Haves and have nots.. Most of the PPS house owners paid a fraction of what new buyers in BSW are paying… No place for snobbery.
I don’t know why I’m arguing this point but the porch was partially bricked in sometime in 2006 because I remember watching the progress on the way to work after we moved to the neighborhood.
I would say that if you purchased this property, you would be looking at the “have mores.” There are certainly spotty, shabby even downright scary blocks in these parts but this ain’t one of them.
it’s only not nice because you are looking at the “haves” across the street in Prospect Park South!
I will agree that this house is an eyesore and has been for sometime but having a commercial space on that block does not make it spotty. On the next block – Beverley between Marlborough and Rugby there are two commercial properties, one a doctors office and the other a therapists office that are beautifully maintained.
This house for one! We asked a neighbor who said that while everything around it is nice the combo of this house plus the existence of some commercial/office space in another building right there make it a little less scenic than much of the surrounding area.
What makes this “patch of Beverley a little spotty” Mr B?
Also you gathered wrong, nothing has been done to this house in quite sometime. The half bricked-in porch has been like this for at least eight years and there hasn’t been any renovation work done in almost as long.
I do wish the owners well however this turns out.