Open House Picks

People saying the rooms in the Lincoln Road PLG house are small are on crack. The bedrooms are huge. The parlor floor has two smaller living rooms but that’s because it’s split into a double-parlor. If you ever see one huge living room in this era house it’s because a wall has been knocked out. Which means lost details of course. As for bathrooms, each bedroom floor has one, and there is so much closet space you could add 5 more if you wanted. So whatev. It’s the most ideal situation to add a parlor level bathroom you ever saw. There’s a butlers entrance to the dining room between the kitchen and the DR that is perfect for making into a parlor powder room. You don’t have to have it open onto the DR either, it can open onto the kitchen. And you don’t lose any of your kitchen space nor your pantry, like the vast majority of houses do adding a powder room.

The apartment building next door really looms over the house when you’re looking at the front of the house. But it’s amazing how private and quiet the interior and the backyard is despite being next to that big building. I really did not expect that I have to say. The details are ASTOUNDING. The photos don’t do it justice. Go and look just for fun. The leaded glass bookcases in the parlor, the leaded glass cabinet built into the fireplace mantel of the formal dining room. Stained glass windows everywhere, in bedrooms and in the 2nd floor bathroom. Cherubs in the original chandeliers and medallions.

I don’t know they’ll get the full asking price being next to Flatbush sure, but this sure as heck is not going for only a million. That’s just some dude posting over and over again who hopes to make a lowball offer and have no competition. He posted 3 times already. Same language and same punctuation and same points over and over.

“Does anyone of this site actually buy and renovate houses? It is EXACTLY houses like the Putnam Avenue house – in horrible shape, on the edge of acceptable location, being sold by a less than smooth realtor which offer the possibility of creating something new and perhaps increasing equity.”

I wonder about that, too.

The putnam house even has a driveway. It’s a corner lot,too, with a yard. Even if it needs a total gut, I think it’s a good deal. And I’d bet the price is negotiable downward.

“The larger, nicer apartments are “turning over” but the huge number of mid-size apartment buildings on Flatbush are still 99% low-income and section 8 housing. Which is why 99% of the stores in the area are nail salons and calling card stations. And why the area still has major quality of life issues. No number of stores on Lincoln is going to change that. Again, the area has a massively long way to go.”

And this should change, why? So wealthier people can get a latte more easily? Section 8 and low income people have to live somewhere, and for years, this area was just fine. A gradual change is inevitable, but to act as if the neighborhood is unacceptable until it is rid of low income people is elitist, racist and unrealistic.

Does anyone of this site actually buy and renovate houses? It is EXACTLY houses like the Putnam Avenue house – in horrible shape, on the edge of acceptable location, being sold by a less than smooth realtor which offer the possibility of creating something new and perhaps increasing equity. If you are really looking for a house you should wander around the borderlands between Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy and jot down the numbers on the for sale signs, many of which are not being marketted by the big name brokers. And for a buyer, isn’t that a good thing? Of course many of the sellers have no caryng costs (long-time owners) so may just be content to wait for prices to solidify. But you don’t know until you look, do you?

But please, return to your snark-fest.

LOL!!!

That rent vs buy calculator link for Putnam was funnier than Eddy Murphy Raw. 3% annual appreciation and comparing only tax-adjusted mortgage payment (w/o maintenance, utilities, etc.) to rent?

They should remove that link right away.