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It has a dated kitchen and bathrooms but its not THAT bad. It looks like it was renovated in the 90s with the stainless fridge added more recently since those became popular only a few years ago. But one can live in it as is and update those eventually.
Biggest question is are there any electrical, roofing, plumbing or other issues. That’s always the downside to houses with “historic charm”.
Actually, on second thought, new construction always has issues too.
Exactly. I only care about functional issues for now, I'm not the type to care about "dated" looking rooms
That place is DISGUSTING. The kitchen cabinets were half @ssed cleaned (the glass ones). The whole layout is weird and takes away from actual usage square footage. The stove is in a very strange place. I would gut the entire place down to the studs and start fresh and get rid of that siding and put in brick.
You're stuck in the past. People who don't think like you have purchased in rough neighborhoods and now own houses worth a lot of money.
You are correct.
People have purchased.
I'm ok with that.
People now own houses worth lots of money.
O.K. with that to.
Ok .Let's apply your logic.
No different than going to Wilmington North Carolina when the
rivers and mass flooding of neighborhoods subside
and start buying up all those damaged homes on the cheap.
They will be worth lots of money down the road too....
Bottom line is homes in poor,crime ridden,exposed to natural disasters are all risky.....
When you talk as a realtor Building Lover you make much sense but when you try to
sell your theory to prospective home buyers looking to raise a family .......shame on you.
I would rather be stuck as you say in the past and point people in a conservative direction
than have them take that King of the Road path ( look up the song ) and take a gamble on the future of their families.
While many people would live anywhere in this city nowadays without any worry, one still has to consider their kids and the environment they will experience in the local schools.
Not everyone has kids. Or one could buy the property and rent it out. Or some people would buy and send their kids to private schools.
And the housing prices in Bedstuy continue to rise as that element get priced out of the neighborhood.
Too bad you didn't buy there years ago.
I'm gonna bring up this thread in 5 years when houses in that neighborhood start at 900,000 dollars. I do have good foresight I would like to think, but I'm way too young to have capitalized on Bed Stuy, Bushwick, Harlem, etc. when they were actually cheap.
And I don't want to buy just so I can make more money, for me it's about owning something that will be useful to me and that I won't get priced out of (unless the city manages to raise property taxes by an exorbitant amount). It has subway access and it's close to Manhattan. And it's a very urban neighborhood, which I like. And I'm a Yankee fan too.
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