Highly Motivated? How About 'Highly Stupid'
We’d be “highly motivated” too if we owned a place like this and thought there was a chance in hell there was someone stupid enough out there to pay anywhere near $1.325 million for the privilege of taking it off our hands. What a joke. $1325000 HIGHLY MOTIVATED SELLER [Craigslist]
We’d be “highly motivated” too if we owned a place like this and thought there was a chance in hell there was someone stupid enough out there to pay anywhere near $1.325 million for the privilege of taking it off our hands. What a joke.
$1325000 HIGHLY MOTIVATED SELLER [Craigslist]
to 3:08, what we are getting is some gratuitous entertainment to see what other properties are going for. Nothing wrong with that. Many people who visit brownstoner are obsessed real estate owners who like to compare their properties to what others are selling for in the nabe.
Went to a doctor recently in Dyker Heights. Was impressed by the quiet streets and feeling of long established homes and businesses. Seemed very grounded.
And if you are trying to sell your building – why not try to get a ridiculous amount – you might be lucky. And if not the market will inform you of where your price point is eventually.
Of course it is a hideously ugly house, but every pot has its top as they say.
There are places like this all over my nabe. They looks small, but they’re HUGE. Generally they are used as a 4 family with (2) 2br apts per floor. Someone probably combined 2 apts to convert to a 3 family, so they are all above grade.
Granted, the price is crazy (one across the street from me just went for $740k) but at a more reasonable price, these houses are a great way to break into the market.
i totally agree 1:28,
i came here originally for info on renovations, DIY etc, but now it really seems to be “reaching”
not sure what we readers are supposed to be “getting” from this “content”
Nothing wrong with pointing out crazily overpriced POSs in our hoods. All part of the conversation/education on the market, no? By the way, whoever wrote that Clinton HIll feels dead (?) is talking out his ass. I think the nabe is vibrant–love it. Can’t speak for the Stuy, though.
Actually, I thought it was Avenue P near Marine Park.
1:10
A 3 room walk in usually either a ground floor apt,or in this case there appears to be a side door which would probabaly be the door to that apartment.Not a true basement, it would have windows.
The steps leading up to the front door make me think that theres somekind of walk in this house
Mr B: posts like this are not indicative of the type of content that I believe most of your readership cares about. We all know there’s overpriced crap out there, what’s the point of highlighting it and allowing people to talk trash about it?
I think this adds zero value to your site and if posts like this permeate it will significantly decrease the value.
Just one opinion.
This place is probably in the Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst area. It just looks that way by the gratuitous plaster quoins and tacky brickworks accented by the classic 1970s aluminum siding.
Honestly though, Dyker Heights is a very nice neighbourhood with some very surprisingly nice older mansion-type homes, and while they aren’t the 19th-century brownstones that no one reading this can really afford, they do have some architectural merit as well.
So “11:35AM,” you may want to educate yourself on the tenets of what an “armpit” of Brooklyn looks like because Dyker Heights is not one of them. It might not be a ten minute subway ride from Manhattan, but it’s safe, clean, family-friendly and generally has a long-standing generation of residents who continue to take pride in it.
Not that I’m condoning this type of “architecture,” but Brownstoner’s post had nothing to do with this place being in an “armpit,” it was really more about it being overpriced.
You’re probably just another typical Brooklyn transplant who jumps on the pretense-bandwagon as soon as they arrive and forgets that other people might actually enjoy living in the places you only think you’re too good for.