House of the Day: 501 Montgomery Street
This detached townhouse at 501 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights just hit the market asking—brace yourself—$1,485,000. The house is quite large (23 by 70 feet) and has a whopping nine bedrooms. It’s also been recently renovated with results that make for interesting viewing. 501 Montgomery Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
This detached townhouse at 501 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights just hit the market asking—brace yourself—$1,485,000. The house is quite large (23 by 70 feet) and has a whopping nine bedrooms. It’s also been recently renovated with results that make for interesting viewing.
501 Montgomery Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
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windows with frosted pictures on it such as swans and other birds
frosted peacocks are a deal breaker for me even tho they arent that scary anymore.
*rob*
I would want to know if it’s close to playground and day care facilities to avoid wasting the brokers time. Screaming little people are no fun. Not even the ones likely to live with me.
back to the house- one BIG problem that i have with properties previously owned by the target community of this particular home’s ad, is that most details are destroyed and the “upgrades” are so different different and opposite from my taste that in my opinion it should count AGAINST the value of the house, but they insist to increase the property value. i think most in this brownstoner community would have taste similar to mine. so there is probably at least 600k priced-in on the asking price of this house which includes items such as shinny brass railings, windows with frosted pictures on it such as swans and other birds, gigantic jacuzzi tubs with golden details all over the bathroom, over the top cabinets and tile all throughout kitchen and bathrooms, fake crown molding…just to name a few. someone please go see it and make a list of these “upgrades” for us.
babs, are you that babs corcoron lady?
*rob*
@Boerumresident
>(I assumer that this house is either owned a psychiatrist/psychologist maybe working out of the house or (less likely) a rabbi)
Bingo: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bloggers/brian-trappler-md
Where would we be without Google?
Another BHS broker once had a house advertised as being in the “very special neighborhood known as Crown Heights”. Too close to that fine line, if you ask me.
Also, nightclub-goers and not are not a protected class, so you can say those kinds of things. Now, “Close to area playgrounds and day care facilities” is another story.
I’ve had many conversations on this subject, and it’s always safer to avoid anything that might even be construed as discriminatory in any way. Forget the “perfect for shares/couple/families” stuff – that goes right to family status. Ditto mentioning school districts – what if the buyer doesn’t have kids? And forget walking distance to houses of worship. The only things you can safely say (so far) are convenient to transportation/shopping/dining, since presumably everyone does those things, and not depending on class, race, or religion (so “close to kosher shops” is right out).
You also can’t discuss crime or safety (very often people who ask about these things are speaking in code as well).
A friendonce commented that soon you won’t be able to say “walking distance” to anything, since that discriminates against people who can’t walk.
And every year it gets worse and worse, due to lawsuits filed by people who believe (rightly or wrongly) that they’ve been discriminated against.
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Obviously, no one is that blatent nowadays, but what’s the line between informing potential buyers of things they may find attractive, such as a second kitchen, and coded language that says, non-Orthodox need not come look?
like the old saying goes, the devil’s in the details.
*rob*