House of the Day: 545 9th Street
This three-story limestone house at 545 9th Street in Park Slope just hit the market and is looking pretty interesting to us. While it’s only three stories, it’s got a lot of historic charm and is located only a half-block from Prospect Park. Given those last two positives, the asking price of $1,695,000 sounds attractive….
This three-story limestone house at 545 9th Street in Park Slope just hit the market and is looking pretty interesting to us. While it’s only three stories, it’s got a lot of historic charm and is located only a half-block from Prospect Park. Given those last two positives, the asking price of $1,695,000 sounds attractive. Even on a per-square-foot basis (which comes out to about $600), it’s not too bad. Thoughts?
545 9th Street [Orrichio Anderson] GMAP P*Shark
Yeah, all of this talk about the undesirability of 9th street doesn’t take into account its extreme convenience to transport, which is my main beef with most center slope listings. At this price point I think this is an excellent value.
In re garden versus upper floor rental there are many reasons why the garden rental is preferable. The garden floor has low ceilings and just isn’t as nice space wise so the owner usually wants to be occupying the upper floors. Also, garden sharing is a nice way to have some contact with your tenants that doesn’t involve shared living spaces or shared entrances. I share my garden with my tenant and love the energy and enthusiasm they bring to the project.
Dave, agree with you. Ideal setup is tenant on garden level with a deck and stairs down to garden off the parlor floor.
In this house, by putting the bedrooms on the parlor floor, you only have two. If the bedrroms were on the top floor you’d have 4 bedrooms AND one of them being a master bedroom suite.
It’s very odd why they added an internal staircase connecting the parlor and garden instead of just blocking off the down staircase on the parlor floor.
We have the same set up as DIBS — as do many people. Our tenants have never asked for additional garden access beyond their patio, fwiw.
Right polemicist but lots of people (I’m not one of them) hate the F, so I’m not sure that proximity to F is a huge selling point. Park proximity is bigger plus, but again, I’d MUCH rather be close to park on a street besides 9th Street, or even a bit further down from park, just not on 9th Street.
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Do people ever do a garden-level rental *without* giving the tenant access to the yard?
probably not many. not giving a tenant access to the yard is a rude and stingey thing to do. i would never think about forking over rent to a landlord who did that. i feel the same about rooftops.
*rob*
9th street is one of the least charming streets in the entire slope, but… to add insult in injury… I just googlemapped this home… why are there no trees in front of an entire row of 6 or 7 brownstones?
No trees at all.
Why?
Brownstonerlogin….I agre with you that yard access can be a problem. I solved that with a parlour deck. The tenants use the area under the deck for cookouts and socializing and the rest of the garden is landscaped for me to look at from my deck. I go down to tend to the vegetables, weed, pick apples and feed the birds. The deck is a wonderful space and even more easily accessible than out a halway through a back closet.
But you’re right, without a deck it’s not as comfortable of a setup traipsing through the “tenants hallway” which I now use only for access to the cellar.
Many people I know with garden level tenants give a small portion of garden to tenants i.e. patio area off rental. If you have great tenants, they do share. And sometimes, there is no garden access for tenants, other than the view. Really depends on landlord and relationship.
And by interesting layout, I don’t necessarily mean good.
Posted by: Expert Textpert at February 24, 2010 1:27 PM
I agree.
The layout seems strange.
But we’d have to see in person to get a real feel for it.