House Joke of the Day
This listing is just silly. First of all, a house like this would have a hard time getting $1.4 million in friggin’ Park Slope. Secondly, the broker claims the 224 Avenue I address is in Midwood. We consulted with the High Priestess of Victorian Flatbush real estate, Mary Kay Gallagher, who has a detailed map…
This listing is just silly. First of all, a house like this would have a hard time getting $1.4 million in friggin’ Park Slope. Secondly, the broker claims the 224 Avenue I address is in Midwood. We consulted with the High Priestess of Victorian Flatbush real estate, Mary Kay Gallagher, who has a detailed map of the area’s neighborhoods. This, being west of Ocean Parkway, doesn’t even make the cut. Thirdly, if you’re going to slap a ridiculous price on a house, at least put some interior photos up. One good thing about the more sober market is that it should gradually weed out pie-in-the-sky listings like this that only waste people’s time.
Midwood Two-Family Corner Property [Craigslist] GMAP
Thanks, Anon 1:46.
Don’t know the technical religious def, but it’s a symbolic wall that extends the area of the house. On shabbat, orthodox jews can’t do work, which includes carrying anything outside the house–not keys, not babies, nada. Some authorities permit the use of an eruv so women can push strollers, etc. There are requirements for the eruv, which I am not familiar with, but I know people used to use the old overhead telephone wires when they were araound. Now, some folks string wires.
” Also, some communities have “Eruvs” which permit carrying on the Sabbath, which would otherwise be forbidden. If this house is inside an Eruv (and I think it is), there would be a premium.”
Can someone please explain what an ERUVS is?
Developerxx own lots of properties, but no talk so good…
I too had a good experience with Mary Kay and her daughter Eileen. You can’t get along with every one I guess.
Bronwnstoner never said he was a Brooklyn real estate expert.
This is a real estate blog, not a class being taught by Professor Brownstoner.
Developerxx, you need to learn proper English grammar if you expect anybody who can read to take you seriously.
Sorry, but when you are a busy person and many houses are for sale in the area (all with their pluses and minuses (I am not rich enough to be able to afford perfection) and in the same price range), you give up on a house after the broker does not answer your questions/return your calls, etc… while other brokers are going out of their way to show you equally interesting houses in the same price range. Perhaps this would not be the case for you, but it is for many people. If the house was a very rare, hard to find, excellent condition house, etc…, you would probably still forge ahead, but for the average house, it isn’t worth the hassle.
Come on Folks, you won’t make an offer on a house because your not happy with the Broker, you decided your not going to buy in an area because you don’t like a Broker. Please, sounds more like maybe you couldn’t afford the house or the house went for money then you could afford.
I never heard of something so stupid. You don’t have to like the Broker, heck you don’t have to like the Seller. You have to Love the House and the Area you are buying in.
Its part Love of the Home and the other part is Business. An in business we have to deal with people we don’t like. So please people, these all seem like excuses to me….
FWIW, I grew up not that far from this house, and I think something has been lost with all the tear-downs–a lot of houses in the part of Midwood I’m from were very spacious to begin with, surrounded by large lots, with small lawns leading to steps and open porches. It was a charming area that went on for block after block after block. Now there’s all these garish brick mcmonsters with the same bland flower-free landscaping. And where I grew up, it’s not because of large families–frum or not, the wealthier you are the fewer children you have. In fact, when the area was more secular, some pretty small houses were home to families with 4-6 kids, and these have been replaced by huge things housing families with only 1-3 kids.