House of the Day: 177 Maple Street
This three-story limestone house at 177 Maple Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens was an Open House Pick back in September when it was an FSBO listed at $950,000; now Brooklyn Properties has the listing for $929,000. The house appears to be in good shape and, if you can look past some of the furnishings, has…
This three-story limestone house at 177 Maple Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens was an Open House Pick back in September when it was an FSBO listed at $950,000; now Brooklyn Properties has the listing for $929,000. The house appears to be in good shape and, if you can look past some of the furnishings, has quite a bit of original charm; the kitchen, bathroom and yard aren’t going to help its chances. Seems to us it’ll take a little more price-cutting to get this one done. What do you think?
177 Maple Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
The backyard is fine. There’s new fencing, plenty flowerbeds. It’s just Fall on a cloudy day with leaves all over and the annuals are dead. Plant some perennials that stay green in those flowerbeds and do a container garden out there with some really great large pots. In which you can even do some small trees. I really like container gardens.
It’s so hard to please with kitchens. You only ever like the ones you design. Logically it would seem best to leave an old kitchen in when selling because then people can put what they want in there. But then buyers (and bloggers) get turned off by the old kitchen and can’t visualize the potential. I’ve never seen one kitchen on Brownstoner for which there weren’t just as many haters as there were fans, even the expensive, non-home-depot ones.
“Househunt” is spot on.
I think that if you’re going to redo a bathroom it needs to be period correct in some ways (tiling and fixtures). Otherwise it just sticks out like a sore thumb–like this one. And renovating a bathroom is no fun, unlike a kitchen.
Kitchens are tough. There’s no percentage in remodeling to sell, obviously, so you might was well go with what you like and can afford, and just assume some people will hate it and others will like it. At least this one is usable, and you could probably just change the cabinet doors and counters and be pretty happy.
I’m a big fan of limestones. Don’t know how strong the market is right now for PLG, but I’d assume this will sit at this price.
Actually, I wonder what the situation of the seller(s) is/are. The interiors look 100-percent staged.
Rutland I is nice but Maple I is my favorite. I think this house is over priced.
Fred – looks like they took the doors out. I don’t know for sure, just my house tour experiences….
No matter what one does or doesn’t do in their kitchen and baths, somebody’s going to be unhappy. These rooms garner the strongest opinions on this blog, as well as in real life. After all, those are the rooms that change the most with styles and materials of the times, as well as have the most expensive remodels. There have been extremely expensive homes with extremely expensive kitchens and baths that I would tear out as fast as some of the lower end examples of same, given the opportunity and dollars. It’s all a matter of personal taste.
That’s not to say most of them aren’t livable/safe/in working order, and couldn’t be lived with for terms of sale. I would think most people would prefer to remodel in some way, shape or form, and probably factor that into their pricing formulas.
This is a pretty house.
Home Depot, indeed. I wonder how much love went into what the listing describes as “loving repair”?!?!
Thanks Dave–I hadn’t realized that Google had finally gotten around to posting street views of PLG east of Flatbush Avenue. I enjoyed seeing what they have for my block, the photos of which seem to have been taken about a year ago.
That back yard is spirit killing.
“Sorry, Dave, couldn’t help it.”
None of us can help it, Mr. B.