House of the Day: 10% Off at 450 8th Street
After four weeks on the market, 450 8th Street in Park Slope just got a haircut on the order of 10 percent. The four-story, two-family house has nice bones and looks to be in decent but not perfect condition. Despite some very nice details like original wood paneling and parquet floors that you’d expect from…
After four weeks on the market, 450 8th Street in Park Slope just got a haircut on the order of 10 percent. The four-story, two-family house has nice bones and looks to be in decent but not perfect condition. Despite some very nice details like original wood paneling and parquet floors that you’d expect from a brownstone in this location, there’s a slight shabbiness to the photos (get that a/c out of the window!) that may account in part for why this place didn’t move at $2.2 million. We suspect at its new price of $1,990,000, it should attract some real interest.
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The reason why the rich folks are coming to Bklyn is because of the poor artists who have made these nabes cool. So as you price them out you better get used to a lot of sneering along them way.
Those of us who make lots of money sacrifice a lot to do so, are smarter than you, and have had a few lucky breaks along the way.
If I wanted to pursue something artistic or non-profit oriented, I’d move somewhere cheap outside the city.
Stop complaining.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game
Holy crap…People here talk about making 250K, 300K, 190K….
This truly is a city of filthy rich sons of bitches.
I’m on 190K, my wife is a student. There is no way I’m paying more than 3500 total for a place to live. I’ll just have to carry on admiring brownstones from afar
“Assume your average VP makes $500K+. ”
Not true for all Wall Street. At my company VP’s don’t make anything like that. It’s the Senior VP’s or Directors that are making that much, or more.
I bought a co-op in 1996, sold it for around $400K in 2002 to buy a brownstone that cost, with renovations, about 700K or so. Of course, if I had waited until now to buy it, it would cost more — it is probably worth about $1.2M now — but my old co-op would sell for around $700K today. I might have a bigger mortgage if I bought today, but I could afford it — buying the apartment early was the key. And no, I don’t have close to a Wall Street salary.
I think anon 219 who makes $250,000 a year, yet claims not to be rich, should read some books on money management…And I say that without any air of sarcasm. The medium income in the US is $46,000 so he is making over 5 times that. I would suggest “Smart Couples Finish Rich” and pay special attention to the section on compound interest and “the latte factor” before calling NY a trophy city. Some NY home owners have worked hard and made sacrafices to own property.
Okay BHS brokers, enuf already with the postings about how great u r and how lame the big C is. We get it. You love yourselves, you really, really love yourselves. Not that the big C doesn’t overprice, but still.