House of the Day: FSBO at 178 Maple
The owners of this house must have a lot of friends! Within the space of about two hours on Friday, four people emailed this listing to us having recently received an email about it. Everyone who had an opinion said the same thing: Gorgeous, pristine house but perhaps a little pricey. If you include the…
The owners of this house must have a lot of friends! Within the space of about two hours on Friday, four people emailed this listing to us having recently received an email about it. Everyone who had an opinion said the same thing: Gorgeous, pristine house but perhaps a little pricey. If you include the finished basement, the house is 3,000 square feet (actually, more like 2,700 according to Property Shark); if you don’t, well, you can do the math. We’d have to agree with the emailers, but you can’t blame the sellers for trying. And you never know–this brownstone is so beautiful you can’t rule out the possibility that someone who’s been looking at absolute crap in this price range in other nabes will walk in and feel like they’ve found a bargain. And if they love, then maybe they have. It only takes one.
FSBO $950,000 [178 Maple] GMAP P*Shark
I love the FSBO listing. So much info. Should have more pictures though. Mostly of bathrooms and kitchen.
-stephen
Just asking. . .do others agree with one the previous posters that houses on the north side of the street (not just this one) are better because the front faces south?
I often see ads touting “south-facing garden,” which is the opposite. . .
Lovely house, but it can’t be bigger than 1,900 square feet. $950,000 for that in Lefferts Manor seems way over the top to me. No matter how you feel about the nabe, prices there simply do not justify this asking price. The house on the same block for $975K is about a thousand square feet larger and has simialr details–and that one is overpriced too. I’d say this should be 900K tops. But we’ll see…
I’ll take southern exposure in the backyard over melting snow in the front any day.
As far as the photos go, the advantage of selling FSBO is they can update the photos as soon as they like if they get better pix in the spring.
I’m a broken record, but a finished basement is just not equivalent to other square footage. A playroom is great, but it’s not equal (in utility or renovation cost) to a parlor or another floor of bedrooms, etc. — it’s still a basement, sitting on cold earth. But, much like Bstoner said, all it takes is one buyer who doesn’t realize that…
Looks pretty, anyway.
more fsbo
Beautiful house, and very informative website. A very professional job, and better than some RE sites.
They should have had photos of the kitchen and bathroom, however, only because most people want to see them, warts and all. Not showing them makes you think they aren’t that great, when they could be fine. I didn’t even notice the snow. Flowers are nice, but wouldn’t sway me towards the house if it wasn’t great otherwise. I like that they took pictures of the rooms empty. You get a better sense of what you are really getting without the distractions of people’s stuff.
All in all, a fine FSBO effort. Best of luck to them.
That backyard is to die for.
wow, it is indeed gorgeous