House of the Day: 182 Rutland Road
This limestone house at 182 Rutland Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is beautiful, no doubt about that: Gorgeous original details, attractively updated kitchen, everything in good shape. It is, however, only a three-story house and it’s not in the most expensive part of town, so it will be interesting to see whether the asking price…
This limestone house at 182 Rutland Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is beautiful, no doubt about that: Gorgeous original details, attractively updated kitchen, everything in good shape. It is, however, only a three-story house and it’s not in the most expensive part of town, so it will be interesting to see whether the asking price of $1,050,000 flies. It was purchased for $450,000 in 2003, though it looks like the current owner is the one who did the renovation work.
182 Rutland Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
When my son was a teenager I really wished that I had a four story house–five would have been better and a separate rear building even better [actually, an additional house in another neighborhood would REALLY have been best–parents of teenagers will know what I mean; those of you with young kids will learn. :-)]
Other than that, a three story house, with one floor of bedrooms, was just fine. FWIW there ARE three story colonial revival houses in PLG [and elsewhere] with one floor of living/entertainment space and two floors of bedrooms. They might be more practical, if considerably less dramatic, than a three story high stoop (limestone) “brownstone”like mine, where the ratio of living/entertaining to bedroom space is reversed.
This is a 20 foot wide house with the same sized bedroom floor as any other brownstone house in Brooklyn.
“Is this neighborhood considered more “edgy” than Stuyvesant Heights??? The A train into Manhattan from Stuyvesant heights is certainly an asset”.
I don’t think so DIBS and the Q train is an equivalent asset.
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Yes, Jingle Mail – and since you can never convert that basement into a rental apt – no fall-back to pay your mortgage. I’m a former single family owner, but in this market, I think it’s safer to buy a building with a rental unit. At least you’ve got something to fall back on. Provided you can’t afford to pay your mortgage without the rental from the get-go.
DIBS, According to the floorplan, there is no stair from the basement to a cellar, so I am guessing that this is the bottom floor, with the boiler etc. A renovated basement is useable space, but it is not the eqiuivalent of a full floor. The “three story” houses in LM all have the kitchen and formal dining room on the garden level (and a cellar below that). This is a two story with a finished basement that is more above grade than most.
Is this neighborhood considered more “edgy” than Stuyvesant Heights??? The A train into Manhattan from Stuyvesant heights is certainly an asset.
yes, a couple with a family or planning to start one… buying a house in a still “edgy” neighborhood for ONE MILLION DOLLARS! then they have to send their one or two kids to private school (which invariably involves a horrid commute). that is some serious exuberance/confidence from said family in the near-term economic prospects of nyc. b/c if one of those high earners happens to work on wall street (or law or retail or real estate) and is cut, the whole thing comes unwound. this is for a family of gamblers at this price.
Since the garden, or basement level has a bathroom, there’s most likely a cellar underneath. Also there is no utility room drawn into the garden level floorplan. Either way though its defined as a 3 STORY because there are three habitable stories and you are paying taxes on three stories, the bottom one being more than 50% above grade.