Open House Picks: Townhouses
Carroll Gardens 361 DeGraw Street Brownstone RE Sunday 1-3 $1,650,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 53 Monroe Street Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $1,150,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 212 16th Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-1:30 $1,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 271 Brooklyn Avenue Ettelson RE Sunday 1-3 $799,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
361 DeGraw Street
Brownstone RE
Sunday 1-3
$1,650,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
53 Monroe Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
212 16th Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
271 Brooklyn Avenue
Ettelson RE
Sunday 1-3
$799,000
GMAP P*Shark
I went to the open house at 602 Bergen. Although it was dusty and dirty, the house has some charms, plus an extra long back yard. The broker was very forthright about the amount of work needed and the cost of the work.
Did anyone else go to Brooklyn Properties open house at 602 Bergen Street? It was horrible! The seller or the agent should have cleaned the house beforehand. There were dirty mattresses, canes and about three inches of dust everywhere……
Even at $999K for a house (needing a gut reno), a buyer shouldn’t have to see a property this way.
Sylvia, in NYC, rent control/rent stabilized tenants are not always disabled and eldery. In fact, as often as not, they’re people in the prime, earning a decent amount who can afford to pay more. Your melodramatic focus on kicking old ladies out of their homes is not what people on this board are advocating. Let’s not confuse control/rent stabilization with low-income housing — they’re not the same thing. I’m all for low income housing (and think there should be far more of it in this city), but rent control/rent stabilization make no economic sense, especially as they are not always used for the people who need them. Everyone in this city would be far better off if the city got rid of rent control/rent stabilization and instead focused on providing more low-income housing in every part of the city.
Oh my goodness, what a pain, disabled and elderly tenants that might actually call in violations cause they’re not afraid of getting kicked out of their apartments. How mind-bogglingly awful.
I have no sympathy for landlords who bitch about rent stabilization or rent control, I really don’t. Just accept the fact that your building is worth less than other similar buildings because it can’t pull in as much rent, and leave it at that. To buy a building that has RS/RC tenants in it in the hope of kicking them out is flat out immoral. You’re basically planning on ruining people’s lives so you can get a deal and make a profit. Go find some other money-making project that doesn’t involve kicking old ladies out of their homes.
Rent control and rent stabilization are one of the only instances in NYC real estate where the huge imbalance of power between landlords and tenants is reversed. Thank God. I understand that some tenants may take advantage of this fact, but seriously, the landlord still owns the building and is guaranteed to come out ahead, in the end.
And all this talk of RC/RS tenants as if they’re some cancer to get rid of only encourages landlords’ tendency to view their property in terms of its cash value to the exclusion of all other considerations (such as the contribution it makes to their neighborhood, for example). That’s just irresponsible and short-sighted.
I just got back from Monroe, i do not see them selling that for more than 1 million. The area needs a good 10 years and the house is small. I swear some ppl take playing with the house’s money to a totally dif level. ITS BED STUY!
I agree, the monroe house does look nice. and contrary to the prior comment, it’s not really overpriced (at least from what we can see). you could find a house in that area for as low as 900K. but it would need about 250K of work. this one, other than the kitchen, appears beautiful, details intact, etc.
Did you see the comment on the footer of the Ettleson webpage “This information is reliable but not guaranteed”. I love it!
I think Monroe looks nice — that’s a sweet block. Clearly the kitchen could have used an updating…
I love the sink, tub and floor tile in the Crown Heights house. (Seriously.)