House of the Day: Wood for 52 Midwood
This gorgeous house at 52 Midwood Street is a bit of a hot potato. The property changed hands in 2004 for $540,000 and then again in 2005 for $775,000. It looks like the owner took out a second mortgage for $200,000 three months after buying it — perhaps to get the house into the beautiful…
This gorgeous house at 52 Midwood Street is a bit of a hot potato. The property changed hands in 2004 for $540,000 and then again in 2005 for $775,000. It looks like the owner took out a second mortgage for $200,000 three months after buying it — perhaps to get the house into the beautiful shape it’s now in. And beautiful it is. Our first impression is that this isn’t the work of an amateur. Both the interior decoration and even the photographs are totally pro. (Look at those flowers in bathroom window!) We’d love to hear from those of you who hit the open house on Sunday. Did the real thing match the photos? Is $1,525,000 achievable for a brownstone in PLG right now?
52 Midwood Street [FSBO/NYT] GMAP P*Shark
I think the comment at 10:43pm attributed to Dan is a troll.
I hope the house on Ocean goes to the person who placed the winning bid at the 5 pm hour on Friday 2 weeks ago of best & final offer. They should get it!!
Congrats Dan! We’re all definitely staying tuned to what the sale price ends up at.
(So much for what people actually believe on Brownstoner about certain neighborhoods – I heard Dan’s house got a ton of offers on the first open house day, and my friend’s friends who bid on it are depressed they didn’t win out.)
Ed, that one day may be today. Stay tuned…
p.s. – Dan, I’m sad for you because I think your Ocean Avenue house will one day be worth a fortune.
Gee Dan – I probably shouldn’t have said it was “on the verge of falling apart.” I am, if anything, guilty of using hyperbole for dramatic effect…
I own the Ocean Avenue house mentioned in this thread and I run PlanetPLG. I can’t believe I had the infamous “Ed” in my very own home and I wasn’t even there!
My reasons for leaving PLG have nothing to do with the neighborhood. I love PLG – warts and all. I love the PLG that exists now – even the much maligned Flatbush Avenue stores – and the one that you can see coming. I am very sad to leave it and all the excellent people I have met since I moved here from Clinton Hill 6 years ago. I am also seriously worried about Roti withdrawal once I move on…
Fiunally, although my Ocean Ave. house is not pristine and renovated like this Midwood gem, it’s absurd to say that it is “on the verge of falling apart”.
Although I almost never agree with Ed, he’s right that PLG is a wonderful place to live.
Dan
So true, 3:09, the vibe is very very different here. Those are about the same years I lived in L.A. too, and looking back now, I’m incredulous at how much gunfire I heard during my time there. I forgot about those loony New Years Eve gunshots! Jeez.
Hey 2:32,
Yeah, I lived in LA from 1990-2002 and heard close gunfire probably 25 times…in nice neighborhoods. (miracle mile and silverlake) plus you would hear hundreds of rounds fired into the sky every new year’s eve all over the city…and i recall that in several of those years there were tragic fatalities from the falling bullets, including toddlers… a disturbing number of angelenos really love their guns and unfortunately behave like complete dolts.
And we also had the low-flying helicopter thing virtually every single night in miracle mile for about 6 years. one time they shined the light into our ground-floor bedroom window at 2 am as if we were holed up in a standoff! it was insane – a very weird place.
and people even rang my doorbell on occasion to ask for money!
i love brooklyn – most people have no idea how much better the vibe is here than in LA.