House of the Day: South Slope Mint? Flip?
This woodframe on 8th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues looked like a pretty sweet deal at $1.195 million. But as we looked a little more closely at the photos, we became a little less enthusiastic. While the exterior sure is charming, the interior has the feel of a flip job that, while perfectly competent,…
This woodframe on 8th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues looked like a pretty sweet deal at $1.195 million. But as we looked a little more closely at the photos, we became a little less enthusiastic. While the exterior sure is charming, the interior has the feel of a flip job that, while perfectly competent, feels like it lost some character in the process. Anyone know this place? The listing doesn’t give the street address so we’ve hit a dead end.
Mint One or Two Family [NYT Listings] GMAP
2:17, Bed Stuy and Crown Heights,also perhaps Lefferts, Sunset Park and Bushwick. If you don’t NEED to stay in Brooklyn…plenty of places. Regarding the interior of this house: can’t say whether it’s a flip or not, but I used to own a South Slope vinyl house. By the time I got it, it didn’t have any detail left. I had heard (don’t know if it’s true) that these frame homes never really had great detail as they were always working class. Yeah, you can do a nice reno, but it will never be drop dead gorgeous, droolworthy detail.
anon 2:17–you could find a beautiful, not just decent home in bedford stuyvesant for less than a million. but then, you already know this. so you might want to rephrase your question and define your boundaries.
Will some of the posters who think this place is worth $800k tell me where you can buy a decent single family house for less than $1 million? I’m not being sarcastic. I’ve been looking for over a year and am not finding it.
I saw this house on sunday. The block is rather disenchanting, and the house is next to a garage of some kind. The living/dining area on the parlor is quite small. The kitchen is a joke – appliances look like they were tossed in there. It’s also quite small. No charm to speak of. Interesting use of garden floor and a little extension gives some needed breathing room. There are 2.5 bathrooms, which is nice. And they’re done fairly well. All in all, I wasn’t super impressed. I’d rather buy a 3 bedroom coop on a better block.
12:41, IMO this would be center slope. (1st st. to 9th st.) South slope starts at 9th st. and runs to the Prospect Expressway. I’m sure there are varying opinions though.
The house next door to this sold for 1.1 million a little over year ago. However the house next door also had an entirely seperate charming brick building in the back yard that comprised two small one-bedroom rental units. It also needed more work. I would guess this place goes for a 1 million. There is a post office parking lot just across the street.
1. Agree the price is not a sweet deal… maybe it’s around market or overpriced, especially if the rental needs a kitchen, but…
2. …$850K? Maybe if you wear your ruby slippers and click them three times when you make the offer.
Is this the south slope? Hit the mapping button, and I cannot in any way say this is south. Clarify someone. Thanks.
I agree, 2 story framed homes just dont hold great value among the rest. It is in THE lowest demand so $850k sounds about right.