Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 131 Summit Street Citi Habitats Sunday 12-2pm $1,650,000 GMAP Prospect Heights 603 Vanderbilt Ave Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 12-3pm $1,300,000 GMAP Windsor Terrace 169 Seeley Street Rita Knox Sunday 12-2pm $895,000 GMAP Bedford Stuyvesant 753 Macon Street Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4pm $600,000 GMAP
Carroll Gardens
131 Summit Street
Citi Habitats
Sunday 12-2pm
$1,650,000
GMAP
Prospect Heights
603 Vanderbilt Ave
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 12-3pm
$1,300,000
GMAP
Windsor Terrace
169 Seeley Street
Rita Knox
Sunday 12-2pm
$895,000
GMAP
Bedford Stuyvesant
753 Macon Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4pm
$600,000
GMAP
I bought my house for sale by owner. Gave the seller a check for $100 to hold the house until I secured my financing. The seller ripped a page out of her daughters loose leaf note book and wrote ” receipt for $100 holds house for 30 days” Closing went extremely smooth. My lawyer Ironed out the details with her lawyer, and we even closed early. No brokers. The seller had bought one of those red plastic signs from the hardware store that say “For Sale” with her phone number written with magic marker. This was in Park Slope if you can believe it. I think people passed it by thinking it was a joke or something.
Sellers using an agent who doesn’t co-broke are at a disadvantage because their property may not be getting the amount of showings it would be if EVERY agent was able to show it. It’s unfair to the seller not to co-broke…I don’t care how much is saved on commission, the bottom line is to get the house sold. On the buyers side, I just bought a house and started out with a not-so-great agent. I ended up doing the work myself and it was NO 10 minute to search! It’s practically a full time job! Anon 6:58, if you can search in 10 minutes, perhaps YOU should become a broker because you would do an awesome job!
I don’t know who your friends are, but they must not be very serious. A good broker who cares about his/her work isn’t scamming anybody, but is providing a valuable resource (see my post of 11/18 4:28 for a partial list), and I ask again — where will you find a lawyer willing to do all that (and how much will you pay him or her for it?)?
Bad brokers, on the other hand, are scammers. Fortunately they are more numerous in rentals then in sales, and they tend not to stay in the business too long — generally speaking incompetence will out and they won’t be able to make a living for long.
Hire a lawyer, not a broker. There’s no reason to use a broker — zippo!
I have lots of friends that are real estate agents in NYC and they all admit, after a few beers of course, that it’s a scam.
Corcoran is co-broking the Greene House condos; this I know for a fact — and they’d be stupid not to, considering that there are quite a few units left. Maybe it’s karma — that thing is so out of place.
The poster I was referring to said it was called Columbia Heights. I was fearful of yet another real estate agent made up name for an area that has a perfectly good one — I am completely aware of the Columbia Street Waterfront District, but the house in question is NOT on the water side of the BQE.
No desire to put anyone down (except ignorant real estate agents who attempt to invent high fallutin’ names to boost selling prices/rents).
According to REBNY new developement does not have to be co-broked, only resale properties. The Greenhouse condos have been on the market way too long.
Careful Babs–anyone who knows South Brooklyn (as the whole Carroll Gardens/Red Hook etc. neighborhood used to be referred to) knows that Columbia Street and Van Brunt on the water side of the BQE is referred to as the Columbia Street Waterfront District by everyone from realtors to Community Board 6. It’s one thing to put someone else down for their supposed ignorance. It’s another to belie your own in the process.
Any thoughts about the Seeley Street House? 895K for one of these sounds steep. They list it as 2100 sf, but property shark has it as 16×45, 2 floors, which is closer 1400- guess they’re counting the basement.