HOTD: Washington Avenue at 10% Off
This swanky old-world house on Washington Avenue was an Open House Pick back at the end of July when it was asking $1,995,000. Evidently, there were no takers. There was another open house this past weekend and we’re interested to hear whether the new price of $1,789,000 has stirred up fresh interest. It’s sounding pretty…
This swanky old-world house on Washington Avenue was an Open House Pick back at the end of July when it was asking $1,995,000. Evidently, there were no takers. There was another open house this past weekend and we’re interested to hear whether the new price of $1,789,000 has stirred up fresh interest. It’s sounding pretty good to us. Did anyone go check it out? Any skeletons in the closet?
Washington Avenue House [Aguayo & Huebener]
Who cares what the color of the walls are? That is what a fresh coat of paint is for.
Jeeze, can’t you look past the surface decor and see the bones and details of a building. Or is you imagination that limited?
im sure it is a very beautiful house,
but that parlour is a weird pink colour.
who owned the place Mary Kay??
Malymis, others in this discussion claimed that the traffic is not that bad. I’m never quite sure what that means. Traffic is always a diseconomy for you and an economy for the trucks. My block it is “not that bad” either. I guess thats means relative to the BQE.
Nonetheless rules are rules and for some reason the “broken window theory” has never been applied to traffic violators. The folks over at streetsblog.org have had a piece on recently about video recording of traffic violators who are doing their violating in front of cops. The cops feel then compelled to do their job policing traffic that they should have been doing anyway. I am thinking about doing the same thing maybe for BCAT.
You know almost 200,000 Americans have died in auto accidents since 911. Never forget.
I posted about this price drop last night on the forum because I was so surprised to see it. I saw the place last spring at an open house and thought it was wonderful, just not for me. (My husband calls this house “the mothball” for reasons obvious to anyone viewing it, but hey, it’s an old house! Take out all the creaky old furniture, put up some white paint and voila, gorgeous.) The details go on and on, even on upper floors. As I recall, there was even an original porcelain sink in one of the bathrooms, the kind that costs a bundle at an architectural salvage place. The mantles are gorgeous throughout. Kitchen was fine, really. Not modern or trendy, but a clean white country kitchen. Felt dark because it’s at the back of the ground floor. Backyard was also dark and didn’t have the openness of a mid-block yard, but most people wouldn’t mind that. I’m a sun freak.
If this place doesn’t sell at the new price, I’ll be surprised, even shocked.
I can almost guarantee the people at 231 are away for the summer – they own a second house upstate. I suspect the tenants were gone too, because I saw them unloading a huge bunch of stuff from their car and dragging it up the stoop last week right after Labor Day. I can pretty much guarantee that it’s not empty and that there isn’t “anything going on with it” at all.
FWIW, the people at 231 Washington were the UR “gentrifiers” in this area, encouraging preservation back in the mid to late sixties and were instrumental in getting landmark designation in Clinton Hill. Probably most of you would still be living somewhere else if it wasn’t for them.
oops, “major” not “manor”
The price now sounds good to me. I think it will go barring any unforeseen issues/manor renovation items.
Absolutely, it’s important to realize how overpriced this offering is.
U got to be kidding in this market , no way. You must bid lower.