Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 69 St. James Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:00-4:00 (Appt. only) $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 20 Sterling Place Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,800,000 GMAP P*Shark Carroll Gardens 121 Rapelye Street Cobble Heights Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Flatbush 3317 Avenue K Corcoran Sunday 12-1 $399,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
69 St. James Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:00-4:00 (Appt. only)
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
20 Sterling Place
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,800,000
GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
121 Rapelye Street
Cobble Heights
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Flatbush
3317 Avenue K
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1
$399,000
GMAP P*Shark
“very bizarre 4:55. What was their logic behind that??”
They didn’t even say anything about it at first, just showed the house once, it was packed, and then later said they had so many people interested, they were only taking offers from people who had a contractor or architect in to see it.
Seems rediculous and actually irresponsible/unethical. Shouldn’t they have allowed a little more time and gotten their clients the most $ possible? The place is just a couple blocks from the Sterling house, just over the flatbush border. Should it go for so much less than this house when it has 4 floors instead of 3 and a lot of detail left?
Did they ask to see the architects credentials?? Or could you have brought, say maybe The What along, and said he was the architect. Anyway, anybody not immediately head-over-heels in love with a place leaves themselves an out in the negotiations until the final signing of everything. Didn’t know it was that much of a seller’s market.
I used to live right near the Rapeleye place, and it is right behind Representative Nydia Velazquez’s home (probably purchased with our tax money, but that’s another rant), so you know it’s safe at least. The house next to it was also recently sold to a young couple as a 1 family, and I believe that house was sold by Nydia V.’s husband.
Across the street is a huge school, which is a mixed blessing, depending on how you look at it (the kids seem generally well-behaved – at least until a certain age). One problem with the school is that buses idle in front of the building all morning long, honking, and generating fumes, but they’re gone in the summer at least. Also, the BQE is above-ground right there and loud, but you get used to it.
Rapeleye also is next to a decent playground. Unfortunately, during the day, the school takes it over, so parents can’t really take their kids there. At night, the park is taken over by local guidos who drink, smoke, urinate and fornicate all over the playground equipment (cops seem to not care – they only drive away kids from the PJs who cross the nearby bridge), so even if I had kids, I wouldn’t let them play there from what I’ve witnessed when I used to live there. There’s also an awesome-looking baseball field on Rapeleye, but unless you’re a guido, apparently, you can’t use it (even though your tax dollars will fund its upkeep).
Another unfortunate thing about Rapeleye is that it just doesn’t seem to have enough tress, but I think it has been in the works to plant more ever since the condo building on Rapeleye and Hicks opened.
The price seems reasonable for the fact that it’s in C.G. (don’t know about the condition, though). You’ll also have awesome sunsets, and you know the neighborhood will always be nice – even if the economy tanks, the “locals
will never let the neighborhood become crime-ridden.
The logic may have been that people who were serious and had an architect with them were assumed more likely to make a bid that would stick, that they would be able to make it all the way to closing without too many bumps in the road.
Anyone can make an offer. If they end up not getting the loan for whatever reason, the seller can suffer time-wise.
The “6 months later” posts seem to have stopped. Too many unsold HOTDs methinks.
Carroll Gardens seems reasonable. 2 mill to live in the ghetto of Clinton Hill, no thanks
very bizarre 4:55. What was their logic behind that??
Did anyone get in a bid on the prospect heights place listed for 1.4 mill? They wouldn’t even take offers if you didn’t have an architect see the place. Really not fair. Why can’t I buy a house first and find people to renovate later?
Grew up on Park Place (hence 282). Think that end of the slope is the sh***.
obv, I wish that house cost $500k less, then I could buy it. Maybe on closer inspection, it will prove over priced. But I do think it will go pretty close to ask. Brownstoner, please tell us in 6 mos if it does!