House of the Day: 3 Monroe Place
This Greek Revival house at 3 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is a beauty but the fact that it’s a three-family house probably narrows the pool of potential buyers, particularly those who want to buy in the Heights. The ground-floor owner’s duplex looks very charming indeed (though someone dropping close to $4 million for a…
This Greek Revival house at 3 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is a beauty but the fact that it’s a three-family house probably narrows the pool of potential buyers, particularly those who want to buy in the Heights. The ground-floor owner’s duplex looks very charming indeed (though someone dropping close to $4 million for a home will probably expect a slightly grander kitchen). As lovely a house and great a location as this is, we just don’t see how they end up getting close to the asking price of $3,800,000, do you?
3 Monroe Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I agree with BoerumGuy about the broker – just awful! She was the broker on a rental for us and we nearly walked because we couldn’t stand her…..really fake and totally pushy. I guess she must be doing something right though if she is now getting these kind of listings.
I have nothing to say to Mr. B because he just PWNED me.
I am off to find a thread that I haven’t ruined yet. Wish me luck!
Merci beaucoup.
Dave, because you are obviously a gentleman and a businessman with knowledge of “The Modern Builder’s Guide”, please call me Minard.
What,
$1.2 million. Stay tuned tomorrow.
Please, call me dave. David is too formal and DavidInBedStuy sounds like the name of a hair salon. 🙂
Mr. Davidinbedstuy,
I am afraid that New York’s well-meaning regulations affording rental tenants protection from market-driven forces, sadly overdoes it in cases like this one. it is one thing to protect the rights of renters and quite another to allow them to hold an owner hostage. In this case, the renters overplayed their hand and instead of accepting the $100,000 checks they were instead forced out to a Red Cross Shelter by the city with little or no notice or explanation. So it goes.
Mssr. Lafever: that is a classic example of the greediness of the renter class. 🙂
I believe that eventually the corner house will be rebuilt to match the historic look of the original. The landmarks permits are in place. In the long run, this will be a beautiful corner of one of the nicest blocks in the Borough. I do think that this house is just spectacular. So perhaps it is a wonderful chance to buy a top-notch house at a deep discount.
I actually prefer 100 Clark Street the way it is today (vacant and mummified) to the way it was a year ago when it still housed several holdout renters who could not be budged or bought out even though the house was falling down around their ears. I heard they were offered $100,000 each to move and they refused, only to be evacuated with only five minutes notice by the DOB last summer.