Open House Picks
Brooklyn Heights 12 Willow Place Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $3,600,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 503 10th Street Warren Lewis (#5948) Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,920,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 305 12th Street Coldwell Banker Sunday 1-4 $1,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 319 Decatur Street Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage Sunday 11-12:30 $725,000 GMAP P*Shark
Brooklyn Heights
12 Willow Place
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$3,600,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
503 10th Street
Warren Lewis (#5948)
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,920,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
305 12th Street
Coldwell Banker
Sunday 1-4
$1,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
319 Decatur Street
Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage
Sunday 11-12:30
$725,000
GMAP P*Shark
i love the 10th street house and think 10:46 is insane.
anyone who would come on here and give a detail by detail account of what they do and don’t like about something either has WAY too much time on their hands or is pining away to have a house like that and is bitter as hell.
i wouldn’t be surprised in fact if it’s a real estate agent from a non warren lewis firm trying to get in on the action.
anyone who spends 2 million on a house doesn’t give a rats ass about some renovations, btw.
i highly doubt anyone from warren lewis has posted on this thread. i see nothing that would indicate so. only someone paranoid or with a vested interest in that particular house would say such a thing.
Regarding 10th Street house:
1) It is not legal to use a two family as a one family. The Certificate of Occupancy must match the set up of the house to be legal. Insurance companies may not pay up if renovations were done illegally. In a legal renovation, the C of O MUST be changed.
2) Those fireplaces aren’t “closed up.” That’s utter BS. Originally, heat was pumped out of those things from a furnace in the cellar. It’s possible to
“open them up” and line the chimney, but you have to use a small gas insert, not real wood, because the openings are too small.
3) The top floor does look like it needs a total renovation. You don’t spend 2 million bucks on a house and just “open a wall” to make a master bedroom. At a minimum the master bathroom needs to be moved to one of the small bedrooms which requires a lot of work (both construction and plumbing).
4) Per Property Shark, the house is 18.75 feet wide which means the usable interior space is at most 17.5 feet wide, probably a bit less. Nothing wrong with a narrow house, but claiming the place is 20 feet wide, as a previous poster does is an outright lie.
5) I’m not disparaging this house because I’m a “hater.” The original detail in the photos is indeed impressive and the yard is beautiful. But the house does need substantial work on the top floor to build a proper master bedroom and bathroom. Also, redoing a kitchen is not cheap, especially considering we’re talking about a 2 million dollar home.
6) Warren Lewis, the broker, does not co-broke. Any broker that doesn’t co-broker (not even a REBNY member) does not represent the best interests of their client since there is no incentive for agents of other firms to bring their clients to view the property. I’m sure some of the positive comments about this house is the agent himself tooting the place.
All that said, the house will likely sell for around its asking price because of the crazy market and the great details remaining in the house. The buyer will spend a couple hundred grand more renovating the top floor,putting in a new kitchen, adding central AC, and changing the C of O to a one family use as it should be. No “hater” here. Just speaking my mind.
All that said, it doesn’t look like a bad deal considering all the other overpriced crap on the market.
Following up on someone’s apparenly inccorect post that the renovation of the 10th St. house was illegal because it was a legal 2 family being used as a 1 family —
I always thought this was perfectly legal as well. When you are doing a renovation to make a 1 or 2 family out of a house with a 3 or 4 family c of o, you can file your plans without officially changing the c of o. This would be useful if you thought, at some future date, you might return the property to a 3 or 4 family.
In a discussion months ago, someone else also said you are supposed to officially change the c of o if you are using it this way. I always thought you only had to worry if you had MORE apartments that the c of o allowed, not LESS. Anyone know?
I don’t get the constant rejection of homes just because someone doesn’t like the paint color or the wallpaper. Hello – when it’s yours, PAINT! Painting is about the easiest, cheapest renovation out there. Same with other people’s decor and furniture. You’re not buying their taste, you’re buying the house. It’s a blank slate for you to do with as you like and can afford, especially small cosmetic changes. People who can’t look beyond the surface are going to be disappointed constantly, or pay too much for cosmetic niceties and miss what’s behind the flash and dash and make huge mistakes.
7:55 — Actually, “PS 39 is not considered a very good school…” sounds to me like the comments of someone with “no personal knowledge of the school.” I’ve got a son in 39; we chose it over the district’s gifted programs, and we’re glad we did. The new principal, Anita de Paz, is great, active and dedicated to getting the teachers professional enrichment. The school is small and tight-knit, without overcrowded classes. And the administration is very open to responding parents and encouraging parental involvement; the kindergarten classes are learning Chinese, from the grandmother of one student who’s a retired professor of Chinese.
I don’t know if that makes the 10th Street house worth the price or not, but the knock on PS 39 was totally unsupported. If you have some first-hand experience of the school, feel free to share it.
7:55 Is it the agency (Warren Lewis) or the owner plugging the 10th Street listing?- or maybe the principal of P.S.39? – make up your mind. Your attempt to discredit a very good agency and a beautiful home isn’t working. The house speaks for itself and Warren Lewis has a great reputation in our neighborhood. I don’t know much about the school but I like what I hear from the 7:25 post
2:07 :”which is a legal two family. It would cost big bucks to make it legal.”
OMG, ROTFL (to use the AOL acronyms that exemplify the inanity of 2:07’s post).
i’m neither the owner nor work in real estate.
simply showing two sides of a story. the person said ps 39 sucks with zero anything to back it up, i’m showing people there is other info out there.
i happen to like park slope and don’t support people bashing listings just for the sake of bashing them. it’s called pride in your neighborhood.
more people on here should try it.
and do it more fairly.
My guess is that Warren Lewis agents are just trolling this site to plug their 10th Street listing. That or the owners. This seems to happen every time that agency has a listing that gets mentioned on here. Not that there can’t be a difference of opinion. But really if you have something to say about PS 39 just say it. Only an agent with no personal knowledge of the school would post the info above. I think brownstoner should make them disclose when they are hyping their own listings.