Rental of the Day: 212 Garfield Place
This six-bedroom rental at 212 Garfield between 7th and 8th Avenues is pretty impressive. The triplex apartment has been completely restored and renovated, a pleasing combination of old and new; there’s also a deck and a garden. It definitely has all the appeal of living in a Park Slope brownstone—without the down payment! Do you…
This six-bedroom rental at 212 Garfield between 7th and 8th Avenues is pretty impressive. The triplex apartment has been completely restored and renovated, a pleasing combination of old and new; there’s also a deck and a garden. It definitely has all the appeal of living in a Park Slope brownstone—without the down payment! Do you think it will go for its asking price of $9,000 a month? This was since reduced from $9,500 when this was post was written earlier this week. How do you think it compares to last week’s $18,000-a-month rental in Brooklyn Heights?
212 Garfield Place [Garfield Realty] GMAP P*Shark
are people with this amount of money to spend on rent a month really looking in brooklyn?
Maly’s link is amazing. I want to go there now. very grand but not overwhelming, just beautiful.
The ROTD looks like a very nice house and is quite large but has no design wow factor and it’s hard to see past all of the current stuff. It’s not bad stuff, or untidy, but it feels almost like I’m peering into someone’s private space. $9k/mo seems high for no wow factor, but that’s well out of my range so hard to gauge.
If I may speak as a longtime long-term “high end” renter (i.e., corporate housing allowance)…unless my children were going to a school across the street, I wouldn’t consider a house that requires all that furnishing and maintenance when I could so easily move into a full service apartment in Manhattan with stellar views and no risk of being booted out when the lease is up. Even if the numbers make sense (the rent is less than the cost of owning), some rentals are just too much trouble and uncertainty.
Wow, Maly. That place is AWESOME!
I much prefer it to the 18k one we saw in the Heights.
Good one, Maly! We’ve had our eye on that one for a little while now. Look for it next week as a rental of the day.
they could get it. i could see a snooty family and their help renting here while their UES dream townhouse gets renovated to perfection..
but yeah, id rather see it a share fer sure then have it be filled with a brood big enough that needs six bedrooms. that’s just absurd.
*rob*
The listing was already reduced to $9,000, which I think is still way too pricy. Maybe $6,000?
As to the Brooklyn Heights rental, a fairer comp would be this ultra-fancy one:
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=2012227
Only $114,000 per year… Will the landlord change lightbulbs and unclog sinks?
Ha! That was funny *rob*.