House of the Day: 216 Maple Street
This three-story limestone at 216 Maple Street at Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is, like many houses in the area, a real beauty. In addition to the impressive wood paneling, we’re quite taken with the separate side entrance on the ground floor. The asking price of $985,000 isn’t nuts but we suspect the market-clearing…
This three-story limestone at 216 Maple Street at Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is, like many houses in the area, a real beauty. In addition to the impressive wood paneling, we’re quite taken with the separate side entrance on the ground floor. The asking price of $985,000 isn’t nuts but we suspect the market-clearing price will end up being more like $900,000. What do you think?
216 Maple Street [Brooklyn Bridge Realty] GMAP P*Shark
Could be true about the doc’s office, but not as easy as an apartment. . .in any case, you’d still need to spend plenty on reno to get a doctor’s office and i’m not sure any docs would be lining up to rent it.
It’s amazing, but 99% of LM residents think the sing;e-family rule is great.
They don’t realize it costs them bigtime when they try to sell since it keeps folks like CW out of the nabe.
They should have made the top floor laundry into an ensuite master bath. Oh well.
Plenty Lefferts Manor houses have medical office tenants on the garden floor. It’s grandfathered in therefore legal in those houses. So check it out, don’t assume you can’t earn rental income on this house. You can also rent out the garages.
This house has the same drawback with the bottom floor in the corner house at 218 midwood. . what are you going to do with the space?
you’re paying for wasted square footage that’s all chopped up.
It would cost you to make it useful and you can’t legally rent it out.
Also wouldn’t want crappy carpeting on the entire top floor, but i guess that’s not a deal breaker.
There are plenty of choices in this price range right now in PLG> . . . .so why not wait for even better deals?
CW,
I’d suggest looking at the N. side of Lincoln II as well as Sterling and Lefferts II and III–all in the PLG Historic District, but not in Lefferts Manor, with it’s single-family restriction. There are also many nice blocks outside of the HD.
Bob Marvin –
Thanks for the confirmation. That’s too bad. PLG would be much more appealing and plausible to people like my wife and I (once we’re back in the market) — people who only need two floors — if we could rent out the bottom floor to help offset the mortgage.
Right CW–no rental apartment. At one time it might have been possible to rent out the doctor’s office, but I think changes to rules governing houses zoned R2 may preclude that. Rogers Ave. is a commercial street, but it’s considerably less noisy than Flatbush or Nostrand. There IS noise from the firehouse, on the E. side of Rogers between Maple and Midwood, but I think I get more noise on my block of Midwood–the usual fire truck route. The trucks usually sound their sirens before crossing Bedford, close to my house. That being said, our bedroom is in the front and we’re seldom disturbed.
M4L–didn’t know I was a price barometer for you. That’s funny.
Thanks Basementalist – just needed to know what the high price points were