House of the Day: Clinton Hill Brick
Here’s a lovely 1870’s brick 2-family that Aguayo & Huebener currently has on the market for $1,060,000. We don’t recognize it off hand and, as is their habit, A&H do not give an address, so we can’t confirm whether this is Clinton Hill proper or “Clinton Hill East”. It also looks like this is really…
Here’s a lovely 1870’s brick 2-family that Aguayo & Huebener currently has on the market for $1,060,000. We don’t recognize it off hand and, as is their habit, A&H do not give an address, so we can’t confirm whether this is Clinton Hill proper or “Clinton Hill East”. It also looks like this is really a 3-story house (not 4 as advertised), as the basement apartment is about 75% below grade. Regardless, the place appears to have retained much of its original charm and this is certainly on the low end of the price spectrum for Clinton Hill these days. We don’t know the square footage, but in general houses in Clinton Hill are selling for between $300,000 and $350,000 per floor. By those metrics, this is right in line even as a 3-story house. We expect whether this is a good deal or not hinges on the exact location.
Enchanting Gem [Aguayo & Huebener]
I had a great experience with AH my condo was with Bk properties Corcoran and AH. AH was the only firm consistant and professional when obtaining mutiple bids, Corcoran did present themselves well, but made me feel like they were doing me a favor and they would work harder if they got the exclusive, Brooklyn Properties was dispicable, and not even worth mentioning. I for one think they do a phenominal job. I just wish they re-did the web-site.
I also don’t like dealing with A&H. We went to an open house for an apartment on Eastern Parkway. Any question we had the agent there said that we would have to talk to the agent that we had been working with. We thought fine but strange, why would you have someone working an open house that didn’t know anything about the place. Then we later found out that she was the listing agent and knew everything and just didn’t want to tell us information because we had alredy been assigned to another agent.
Then on another instance we were sitting in the A&H office looking over plans for the Washington Ave. apartments and this other agent was sitting at her desk and talking loudly on the phone. She had an attitude that she didn’t want to answer a customers questions because she wasn’t working for them. After she got off the phone she was complaining that she was doing someone else’s job. It seems to me that there is not a good “culture” at A&H and that people are very territorial and not into teamwork. I think this makes the company appear unprofessional. Although I’m not crazy about Corcoran, at least their agents are helpful, a little bit more sophisticated, and give an appearance that they are working for the team. (Even if that is not really what happens behind the scenes.)
Also saw this house last fall when it was listed in the low 900s. Now, a year later, with interest rates higher, they think it’s going to sell for more money. We’ll see. It is small, and it gets no afternoon sunlight since the Clinton Hill coops next door block the sun. Not ragging on the coops, I lived there, just a fact.
I also had a terrible experience with AH selling my coop. I think RE agents simply take buyers for granted today. With the market as it is, they unfortunately seem to get away with it – which I think masks some real incompetence on behalf of many realtors out there.
Corcoran does the same thing… I had quite the same experience with them, and actually sold throug A&H…I got my money.
I am familiar with the block and although it is not the best location within Clinton Hill it is decently located. Unless you have the cash to fix the house to your taste I would suggest staying away from the property due to its size. Now I am a firm believer of “If you do not have anything positive to say then don’t say nothing at all.†but this time I am going to make an exception. As for A&H I have dealt with them on the buy side. Unfortunately, my experiences with A&H have been sub par at best. I would never sell a property through A&H based on my experience with the firm. Each time I have contacted A&H to determine the LOCATION of a property (which is only one of the most important factors in real-estate) that I am interested in I am directed to a specific broker. Not the listing broker of the property but the selling agent (who knows nothing about the property) that I happened to buy a property from some time ago that provided poor service to me. I communicated my frustration to another selling agent of A&H and was still forced to work with the same piss poor agent even though I requested someone else. After several requests I was finally given another selling agent to work with that was great. But now that person has recently left A&H and I refuse to contact the firm and go through the same crap all over again. Basically, if you have a bad experience with an agent at A&H you are locked in with that person no matter what your interest is. In my experience the selling agent was very unresponsive. When I originally submitted a bid for the property I purchased I basically ended up working with another selling agent to get status updates on my bid (the original agent submitted my bid and basically went on vacation and did not appoint anyone from the firm to follow-up with me during their absence). More recently, I scheduled an appointment to view a new property I was interested in buying (against my will with the same absentee agent) and the agent never showed up or even called. Bottom line is now when I see properties advertised on A&H that I am interested in buying I dread calling them because of my fear of forcefully getting routed to the same agent that I have no respect for.
A&H does not discourage co-brokes whatsover they sold a house of mine in Cobble Hill and co-broked it immediatley they even set up a brokers party, If they don’t give the address maybe its because other brokers typically try to steal the listing even when they are presented with the a co-broke. I actually had brokers from a corporate firm find out that my house was on the market through A&H and tried to convince me to get out of my contract!! Nonetheless A&H sold it themselves but my house was out there with everybody. You should really educate yourselves before making comments on situations you have no idea about…Jesus!
Hillbilly,
We didn’t know how big this house was when we made the initial post. Given what’s been said, we’d say this ain’t such a great deal.
Personally, I don’t care whether a broker tries to keep money “in the family” — as long as it doesn’t get in the way of their getting me, the seller, the best deal. If I’m going to sell through a broker, I want to know that that’s their top priority. To me, a policy of discouraging co-brokes — as AH apparently seems to have — is in AH’s interest but not the seller’s, since it means fewer people seeing the place I’m selling.
If anyone wants to persuade me that this practice benefits the seller as well as the broker, I’m glad to listen.
Could some categorize house sizes by sq. ft
range?
Teeny-tiny – from 0 – to 1800?
Tiny 1800 to 2400?
Small 2400-2999?
Med. 3000-3600?
Large 3600- 4200?
very large 4200-5000?
huge over 5000?