House of the Day: 351 Adelphi Street
Whether it’s the bonuses or the fact that buyers are tired of waiting for the long-predicted bursting of the bubble, it feels to us like there’s been a perceptible uptick in market sentiment in the last few weeks. We don’t have any hard facts to back that up, but certainly the strong interest in 100…
Whether it’s the bonuses or the fact that buyers are tired of waiting for the long-predicted bursting of the bubble, it feels to us like there’s been a perceptible uptick in market sentiment in the last few weeks. We don’t have any hard facts to back that up, but certainly the strong interest in 100 Decatur Street showed that there a ton of buyers out there. The owners of 351 Adelphi Street apparently have figured this out and decided to raise the asking price of their Fort Greene brick house 10 percent. Back when we had it listed as an Open House Pick in October it was at $1,900,000. Now it’s $2,100,000. It’s a great looking house. We shall see.
351 Adelphi Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Open House Picks 10/13/06 [Brownstoner]
Dear West,
Brokers do not alter prices. Their client does (the seller). Try not to go online talking through obvious openings in your body other than your mouth.
I have slopey floors in my house too. I think the best thing to do is learn to think of it as a charming feature of an old house. It adds some character. 🙂
Thanks Anon 1:31. One poster above complained the Adelphi St. house was slopey, as if most houses were not, so I was wondering about other people’s experiences. We’ll probably just live with the slope as is.
Floors and ceilings slope when old houses settle. Chances are they sloped 100 years ago and haven’t moved much since. Personally I love it. If you don’t you can raise the ceiling and insert steel beams, but that is a tremendous amount of work (and money). Or you can lay a new (and flat) subfloor and flooring over the existing one. That’s relatively cheap.
Our brownstone has really “slopey” floors also — they slope more the higher the floor. When we bought it years ago, we asked the inspection guy about it (and he’s one of the ones who is highly recommended here). He told us the house was structurally very sound, although we should rebuild the stairs to prevent further sloping.
But that being said, has anyone found a way to repair the sloping? Or do your floors not slope as much? Or is that just one of the things you live with when you live in an old house? It’s very annoying and I’d love to do work to have straight floors, but haven’t really heard of a way of repairing them that works well.
i’ve seen the kitchen too. i hated it. cheapo and didn’t seem to go with anything else in the house. and the bathrooms, though nice, will not age well at all…
hogs get slaughtered. the person selling this house is a hog. waterworks is fine but after a while boring! take a good look at the structural issues in this house. while a “beautiful” bathroom is nice, if the floor caves in, what difference will it make?
Anonymous at 12:49:
I’d say that it’s a waste (and testimony to either the vanity of our age or the excretory consequenses of our lousy eating habits).
John Ife
Also, floors are slopey upstairs. But you’re right–it’s 20 feet wide, not 18.