Open House Picks
South Slope 189 15th Street Corcoran Sunday 3:15-4:15 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Park South 180 Rugby Road Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 1-3 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 52 6th Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2-4 $940,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 605 Jefferson Avenue Bergen Basin Realty Sunday 12-2 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
189 15th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 3:15-4:15
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Park South
180 Rugby Road
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 1-3
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
52 6th Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4
$940,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
605 Jefferson Avenue
Bergen Basin Realty
Sunday 12-2
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
So, hypothetically, a meteorite crashes onto the PPS house and destroys it.
You HAVE to rebuild it as is? You can’t even go back to what was originally built there in the early 1900s?
Ah.
No, it’s what I’m betting that house will go for. In another year.
$550k? Is that what you’d pay for an empty lot?
$550k.
It has a nice yard? So why are those heinous vertical blinds closed in the photo of the living room!?
OK. I really don’t like to laugh at the expense of people trying to sell their house. Honest, I don’t. But, I came (can I call you that for short?), your post cracked me up. I don’t know why, but the “strange, gigantic crawl space in the middle” made me laugh the most.
OK. So it is probably completely legitimate to say that the property is over-priced, rather than a question of taste. Though, I suppose, that taste, even if it’s only relative to what people in this area are likely looking for, is not irrelevant.
For those of you who are appalled by the exterior of the Rugby Road house, I invite you to go to the open house and keep your jaw from hitting the floor in mixed company. Good lord, it is a dump in half a dozen ways (tiny, outdated kitchen, poorly cared for, outdated bathrooms, ceiling stains…and that bay window? Needs to be replaced). It’s four levels, each a half flight apart, and a strange, gigantic crawl space in the middle. Not only is it in bad shape, but it is also small and depressing. It is truly a marvel of delusion to behold.
The good points? The backyard is nice. The end.
Yeah, I thought of that, how cheaply those houses were made. But can’t a cheaply built .. . I don’t know, bungalow, or something, look charming? Was everything built before 1948 well built?
Yes, Nomi, I too think you are being overly optimistic.
But maybe when all the ugly cheap stuff from the mid 1900s all rot and are destroyed, if this house is still preserved — like a time-capsule — it will be prized as one-of-a-kind… and a glamorous young movie star with dark glasses will move into it.
That’s a scary thought.