Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 396 Sackett Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 3-5 $2,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 112 Vanderbilt Avenue Corcoran Sunday 3-4:30 $995,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 320 15th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 3-4:30 $965,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 747 Hancock Street Brown Harris Stevens Saturday 11-1 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
396 Sackett Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 3-5
$2,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
112 Vanderbilt Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 3-4:30
$995,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
320 15th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 3-4:30
$965,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
747 Hancock Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Saturday 11-1
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
not only, that vanderbilt house is too close to a busy gas station – justifiable nit pick for a $1M house
the house on Vanderbilt is outside the historical district, so I am sure it would be easy to fix any cosmetic issue or even to add a floor. You can’t fix the location though. It will always be half a block from the BQE.
I think I am going to suspend my search until September – I am getting irritated with the offerings.
IZ — in fact I do save children in Darfur. OK, maybe not.
My feeling about Realtors is that they do shoddy work on the whole. The only measure of success is if the house is sold. They don’t care if you list your property at some ungodly price-point because they’re really not working that hard or invested in selling it. They use time to prove the point, not actual effort. I’m glad you had a realtor that did exemplary work. Would you say posting pictures of the wrong property is good work?
Let’s take off a generoud 50% of the commission for overhead (their office rent etc.) How much effort is required to justify $22,500. At $300/hr (a decent rate for a lawyer), that’s 75 hrs… or almost 2 weeks FULL-TIME.
Three questions: Is the typical Realtor worth $300/hr to market your home? Did they add $45,000 of value to the transaction? Was their effort equivalent to almost 2 weeks full-time?
This is not some sort of communist plea about people making too much money… it’s just a call for reality. Sellers should REALLY start questioning what they’re paying for. AND demand it! If I’m gonna pay $45,000 for a service, I had better get $45,000 worth of service!!!
ditto — yeah, and nothin wrong with any of that, just screws with one’s internal GPS when walking down Vanderbilt.
newsflash for these sellers – “Rich SUCKERS” are now on the national extinction watch list.
Perfect iz – the green plastic door awning and vinyl siding are Greenpoint de rigueur, and the fir-trees in tubs on concrete with inappropirately colored brick and skinny railings are Staten island chic.
Dave, I remember they hadn’t finished the re-do of the basement floor yet, but it was still miles better than most of the houses I see. My biggest concern would have been whether the last room, the extension, could be insulated sufficiently to make it usable as a bathroom.
But I guess what you’re saying is that if the re-do was complete, it would have gone for a lot more. How much would you put it at?
I really like the 15th street house but agree it’s way too tiny for the price.
re: vanderbilt. I didn’t know there was a vanderbilt avenue in greenpoint.
tybur6, I used to have the same meanspirited and condescending attitude (if not such eloquent expression of it) towards realtors. But one of my favorite people in the world turned out to be a realtor: the guy who sold me my house. He’s now in grad school for some other field but was proud of his work and did a great job, not least of which included emotional support for me as we went through the insanity of closing our deal — and, before you give me that crap about “That what they get paid to do” bullshit — AFTER our deal, when I was faced with the epic scale of my renovation. Gave me so many leads and helpful contacts . . . Anyway, don’t project your self -hatred on other people, I don’t know what you do but I’m sure it’s not saving children in Darfur. There are a lot more vile jobs one can do than helping people find their dream homes. (Horrible experiences with real estate agents notwithstanding!)
As far as that house is concerned, on Vanderbilt, it looks really promising. My only question is, can one change the facade from current Staten Island meets Greenpoint aesthetic to somethign closer to what it might have been originally? Or would LPC be all hard up about preserving it as it is even if it’s totally out of character with its own past?