HOTD: One Heck of a Paint Job in Caton Park!
When 53 Marlborough Road hit the market last summer for $575,000, there was consensus on the site that it looked pretty cheap despite the huge amount of work the place needed. The market agreed and the house changed hands in September for $635,000. The owner then did a couple of months of work and refinanced,…
When 53 Marlborough Road hit the market last summer for $575,000, there was consensus on the site that it looked pretty cheap despite the huge amount of work the place needed. The market agreed and the house changed hands in September for $635,000. The owner then did a couple of months of work and refinanced, pulling out $740,000. Now it’s back on the market for $850,000. We don’t have the “before” pictures of the interior handy, but we doubt the owner had enough time to do more than basic cosmetic improvements, a theory that’s supported by the fact that the current listing still trumpets the fact that the house needs TLC. Decide for yourself: There’s an open house on Sunday from 1 to 3. Update: We got our hands on some photos of what the house looked like before the current owner’s renovation. Check them out on the jump.
53 Marlborough Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: Caton Park Fixer-Upper [Brownstoner]
“P” at 2:45 pm has it right–you get a discount version of Victorian Flatbush with a quick walk to the train or bus. You are a block closer to the Park *and* the Parade Grounds, which you traverse to get to the park ‘proper’ (duh). You get to smell the forests and fields of the park when a thunderstorm blows in, too, and to know that the treeline that forms a visual cap to the end of your street will never turn into a condo. Between Caton and Church still retains a faint sense of a frontier…some of us has the belly for frontier livin’ and some of us doesn’t. Oh, and by the way, our still-half-renovated 3,000-square-foot ex-boarding house, a few houses down from this one, just got told by the city of NY that we’re worth a hilarious cool million $$$, so I guess that ain’t too much hell even if we ain’t totally gentrified yet!
oh, who cares? i don’t worry about those who have a lot to say about why would anybody live here? or who in their right minds would buy there? if i would have listened to that kind of thinking i would never have bought my current home which–10 years ago was the “there” no one wanted, and today is the “here and now” everyone wants a part of. YOU don’t ever have to pay anything to live anywhere. Hold out for you perfect home and pay the price for it, if you’ve got it like that. If not, buy into a neighborhood and pray for change. btw Caton and Church isn’t heaven but it’s not hell either. it’s all in the eye (and pocket) of the beholder.
you mean a block closer to the paradegrounds.
Mr. B-
Can’t you force people to come up names a tad more orginal than ‘anonymous’ so that it’s possible to follow a conversation?
anonymous:
The reason you’d live between Caton and Church is that you get a discount on a house in a gentrifying neighborhood compared to what you’d pay living on the other side of Church.
Furthermore, you’re a block closer to the park.
i didn’t realize that all opinions expressed on brownstoner.com need anonymous’ approval for insightfulness, complexity and enligtenment…i bow down you majesty and promise never to speak unless you approve. what an a$%
yeah, you’re comment screams complexity, insightfulness, and an all around enlightened thought process.
there’s no bait, and i didnt’ answer it. my personal opinion (you know, some of us have one, and sometimes it’s different than all of yours) is that church and caton are less than desirable avenues (irrespective of any future development) and if i am going to pay $850K + $200K in improvements, shouldn’t i like walking down the block and turning the corner.
and there is no veiled racial reference in my “less than desireable”…a fact is a fact and church ave. in particular is not a pretty stretch or particularly clean, etc. so get over yourselves…i didn’t know everyone on this site had to fall in line w/ the same opinions.
why would anyone voluntarily live b/w caton and church?
don’t worry, it’s too complicated for you.
Do you always answer your own posts when nobody takes the bait.