House of the Day: Lefferts Looker
We’re loving this brick beauty from the outside but are a little worried by a few things in the ad on Craigslist. First of all, there are no interior pics but there is extensive language about the extent of the highly customized reno that was performed over the last two years. Call us cynics, but…
We’re loving this brick beauty from the outside but are a little worried by a few things in the ad on Craigslist. First of all, there are no interior pics but there is extensive language about the extent of the highly customized reno that was performed over the last two years. Call us cynics, but we’d say the odds are that the purchasing public will not put such a high value on the sellers slate bathroom that took two years to renovate or the hand-crafted book case or the marble floors. As nice as this place is from the outside, $1.799 million is a TON of moolah for a house in the Lefferts Garden Area, as the ad describes it. (The implication being that it’s not actually in Lefferts Gardens.) That said, this is probably a little cheaper on a per square foot than the new Lefferts South condos we discussed earlier today. Can anyone speak to the interior of this place? How about its exact location? And don’t forget, there’s an open house on Sunday from 2 to 4. Update: The address is 385 Parkside Avenue. Check out links to Bob Marvin’s photos in the comments.
Beautiful 2 Family House in Lefferts Garden Area [Craigslist] GMAP
Parkside has some gorgeous houses, I love the buildings on the block, the architecture is quite interesting. It is also on a bus route, which is a major neg to me. Plus some people have makeshift driveways in what was meant to be a front yard, this has to get under control. Finally, there are some businesses being run from these houses if I remember correctly, daycare at the very least. Overpriced.
These houses are beautiful; unfortunately they are not in the PLG Historic District, so they are in danger. Someone could buy this house and tear it down to replace it with whatever godawful crap he felt like.
And I’ll bet you anything this agent is not charging 6% or even 5% — that’s how these little brokerages survive, charging lower commissions, then refusing to co-broke.
Too bad — you get what you pay for. A higher commission would equal a more professional presentation, a company with a real website, better-quality and multiple photographs (if not a video tour), advertising in major publications, and invitations to co-broke to all major firms.
Not to mention (hopefully) some realistic pricing advice, although when a seller insists on a ridiculous price, there’s not much you can do.
I love these houses on Parkside. They’ll be worth a fortune one day.
Whoops—the post at 2:15 was (obviously) by me , but was signed “Anonymous” even though I’m signed in–no doubt an artifact of the recent website re-design.
Bob Marvin
Thank you very much Anon. 1:50. I’m very serious about my photography, exhibit it often, and ocasionally manage to sell prints, but fortunately I don’t have to make a living out of print sales. “Fine art” photography would be a difficult “day job” but I love it.
Reminds me of the dumping of MC Hammer’s former estate in Fremont, California.
This price just reflects an ignornance of the current market conditions in PLG. Any decent broker could tell them that. Parkside is a very loud, traffic-filled street, not neraly as nice as Midwood or Rutland for example. They are smoking rope as Tony Snow might say.
Wow Bob, great pics. do you do this for a living?
These double duplexes on Parkside, between Bedford and Flatbush are remarkable houses IMO. They were built as two–families, have separate entrances, and really LOOK like two separate houses from the inside. That being said, the ad isn’t very well done–this house deserves better. As to the price, it seems a bit of a stretch, but I’d think that the rental duplex would bring in a good income. BTW the ad is NOT accurate when it says ” a duplex on each side.” These houses are four-story with two duplexes, one over the other–the entrance to the upper duplex opens to a flight of stairs.
Here are links to some photographs I took of the row, which includes single family “American Front” houses as well as the double duplexes:
http://tinyurl.com/yb693z
http://tinyurl.com/jalen
http://tinyurl.com/hqgnq