House of the Day: 109 Gates Avenue
What was the current owner of 109 Gates Avenue thinking when he shelled out $2 million for the five-story brick house in Clinton Hill last winter? The stop-start renovation had been on going since a group of investors had bought the place for $1.1 million back in early ’05. We’d been hoping that the reno…
What was the current owner of 109 Gates Avenue thinking when he shelled out $2 million for the five-story brick house in Clinton Hill last winter? The stop-start renovation had been on going since a group of investors had bought the place for $1.1 million back in early ’05. We’d been hoping that the reno was taking so long because of a painstaking restoration effort. Not so. The result is a cheap-looking Home Depot special on the upper three floors (in addition to the two unfinished bottom floors that are for rent, presumably for commercial purposes), a decision the owner must be regretting as the house sits on the market for the ridiculous asking price of $2,800,000. Especially in this market, if you build cheap, you’re gonna have to sell cheap. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
109 Gates Avenue [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Mural, And Then a Restaurant, at 109 Gates Avenue [Brownstoner]
Brownie, can you get some grammar check installed? It’s “you’re gonna have to sell cheap,” not “your gonna have to sell cheap.”
Thank you.
And ya know, as sad as it is to see some jackass screw up the interior of a brownstone, at least the rest of us don’t have to look at that. We DO, however, have to suffer these ridiculous criss-cross mullions in the windows. This house is within the Clinton Hill Historic District–you can’t slap ugly shit like this onto a landmark house when said shit is visible from the street. They couldn’t have included this in a permit application–would have been immediately denied.
Would someone nearby please snap a photo, print out the violation complaint form for the Landmark Preservation Commish…
(http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/forms/violation_form.pdf)
…and drop a dime on this schmuck?
I have to agree. Flip-fraud.
Here folks, check out this blog. Her name is Rachel Dollar. She is a Lawyer that investigates Mortgage fraud. Some of the stories are unbelievable.
http://www.mortgagefraudblog.com/
Someday this war is gonna end……..
The What
so which owner put in the cheap renovation stuff? this building has been out of commission for years after a fire ruined the bodega on the ground floor, maybe they blew their budget on getting that burnt smell out of the walls!
@2:09 yeah you can get a hit, but i’ll cost you 2.8 million
What is sad is that they put on all the lights for the photos BUT this only serves to highlight the $20 fixtures. Nice.
Now you’re talking, The What!
Folks, this was fraud!! Flip, fraud, flip fraud!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…….