Price Cut at 355 Degraw Street
This has flown under our radar ’til now…This two-family, four-story brick house at 355 Degraw Street in Carroll Gardens hit the market asking $1,950,000 in early April and was just reduced yesterday by a modest $75,000 to $1,875,000. It was recently renovated and has a nice modern feel without having lost its original charm. The…
This has flown under our radar ’til now…This two-family, four-story brick house at 355 Degraw Street in Carroll Gardens hit the market asking $1,950,000 in early April and was just reduced yesterday by a modest $75,000 to $1,875,000. It was recently renovated and has a nice modern feel without having lost its original charm. The new price should attract some interest, dontcha think? Has anyone been inside? Here’s the listing. GMAP
This has to stop but it is fun.
You say that a good salesman doesn’t judge a book by looking at the cover (Hey Bo Diddley )Do you feel that these agents are disrespectful and treat you like a kid ?
I’m sorry that I’m mocking you. Here is what you need to do; determine how much house you can afford (counting in deductions, rentals, insurance etc.,) decide your school districts ( but remember that schools are only good for 4 years) and stop getting mad at agents. They never change, they are sales people. Instead of going to all these open houses just run head first into a brick wall twenty times. It will give your kids a laugh and a relief from you asking questions about school districts. By now they know them as well as you do.
You just need a home don’t make it so hard on everyone.
Dear Good Old Boy/BKLandlord.
Do you think that the agents are annoying you because they are not parents and do not appreciate your children and thought that making a commission would be easier than working and who cares about school districts anyway. And if you want to be living in a million dollar home then what are you doing sending your kids to the local PS. Get thee to a Packer/StAnns/Montesorri and don’t you be going to no PS.
But you already know which is the school District du Jour of your demographic so why bother looking out of those areas.
You are right I did buy at 30K a building that now gets offered at 2 million. But there again that was a lot of money (and still is)it was all that I could afford. I think that I was making less than 20 k back then. But then it was a nice mixed neighourhood, of course Smith was a no go zone at night. But there were a few good years before Crack appeared and sketchy was not even a word. But I knew nothing about school districts coz I had no kids.
You say that you have looked at 300 over-priced houses and not found a home. How does that make you feel ? Maybe this is not your time and you are wasting time with all these house tours. How do your family enjoying going to the open houses on the weekends ?
But good luck to you and enjoy everyday.
oldtimer et al. How hard is it for a broker to know something about a property they are selling. After all what are they being paid for? To follow you around a house and be annoying? Likely reason they didn’t “know” is because they are deceitful and figured telling you something you didn’t want to hear (ps 3x) is not good for sales. BK is spot on.
As for your purchasing prowess, oldtimer, hats off to you. However all of your comments reflect a significant amount of ignorance, so I’m taking all of them with a grain of salt. But then again, you probably bought your has for 20K, and out of complete and utter luck it has turned into something worth 1+M. So, the rest of us are looking at spending actual $$$ and if it takes looking at 300 over-priced houses than so be it. Owning a house worth 1+M and having the capacity to buy a 1+M house are 2 totally different things. Everyone should not confuse the two.
As for selling, good luck to all you agents who haven’t had to work for the past 7 years selling houses. One thing a real salesman knows is that you never judge a book by its cover and “the customer is always right”. I’d show a kid on the corner of a street a house if I was an agent. Who knows maybe his dad is a VC titan, and will buy the house, cause his kid likes it.
BKLandlord, That was one fine response, but not objective. You had said that most buyers are parents of young children based on attending 50 open houses. I think that going to open houses may be a weekend past time for your demographic group; a parent of young children. Open houses are for nosey neighbours to snoop around and for realtors to catch more leads.
Your objective observation reflects lookers not necessarily buyers. but there again you might be right. Me ? Personally ? I and my wife bought about five years before our children turned up. I saw less than ten buildings and did not look at anything too big and a realtor would not show you something that you could not afford. If I haven’t found a home after dragging the young uns around fifty houses I better start to rethink what I am looking for.
Yes I have seen those famous 5 bedroom Brooklyn apartments. It is just a one family apartment with a bed in everyroom. If you are willing to sleep in the bathtub it turns into a 5 bedroom plus additional bunk. The landlorda say gimmi nother 200 hundred dollar rent. Da real estate a Brooklyn very very expensiva.
old timer, The children comment is an objective observation made after attending about 50 open houses in Brooklyn town home market over the past year. You rarely see a couple or singles looking at 5 bedroom sales. Obviously this struck a cord with you, it’s just a fact, not an insult…
hannible….are you in the Ginos, Guidos & Dudes video???? See the OT.
SnarkSlope
That was a great post. Learn to read Inglish Daveinbedsty indeed. Doesn’t everyone have enough to do learning how to read Ulyess and Gravitys Rainbow.
mopar
If this was a gut renovation that cost $515 K as Z suggests then they are breaking even. And have not made a penny on their 2004 investment.