Victorian Flatbush House Tour in Jeopardy!
The 2009 Victorian Flatbush House Tour is scheduled for June 14 but it might not happen at all if some more home owners don’t step up to the plate. According to the Ditmas Park Blog, the FDC needs ten more homes in order for the house tour to take place. Last time around in 2007,…
The 2009 Victorian Flatbush House Tour is scheduled for June 14 but it might not happen at all if some more home owners don’t step up to the plate. According to the Ditmas Park Blog, the FDC needs ten more homes in order for the house tour to take place. Last time around in 2007, the event attracted over 500 people; the tickets, which sell for $20 in advance and $25 day of, are a meaningful source of funding for the Flatbush Development Corporation which organizes the tour. The last date to have your house included is May 8, so hop to it people! It would be a serious bummer if this were cancelled.
Victorian Flatbush House Tour Endangered [Ditmas Park Blog]
Photo by Flatbush Gardener
Chosen,
My bad. I am confusing it with a different painted lady, I think.
And who are those beautiful people in the photo? Is that Chloe Sevigny rummaging through her bag?
You are misremembering. The owners of the house in the photos are long time residents. They did not sell the house.
Bob,
Well, we won’t settle the question here anyway! I do think that the house in the photo went up for sale in the year after it was last in the tour (unless I am misremembering). Also, the mansion on the corner of Albemarle and…Argyle?
Back40,
In actually don’t have any empirical evidence to the contrary. I know the people who do house selection for our tour wouldn’t normally pick a house that’s for sale, but I guess things can change afterwards. I think one of the houses that was on tour the same time I last showed my house (’06) is for sale now.
I doubt that it’s the stress of having people go through your house on tour that prompts sales though. I’ve had my house on our tour four times in the last thirty odd years and still say the only way I’m leaving is feet first 🙂
Several friends of mine put their houses on the PS tour just before putting them on the market. One, a real estate agent, was certain it added to the price he got. A few others who were on the tour got offers despite not having been interested in selling.
That house in the photo is IN-credible. I might have to take the tour and go see it!
Bob, I don’t have hard empirical information! However, it was my impression for a couple years in a row that several houses I’d seen on the tour went up for sale sometime in the following year.
However, maybe the stress of having all those people troop through proved too much and the owners fled. 🙂
I’ve done the tour 3 times and the bulk of the houses were not for sale. There was 2-3 out of 15 or so houses on the market each year, but definitely not the majority.