(This is a new column. In an effort to help apartment owners who are looking to sell without a broker and to show off cool apartments to readers looking for them, we are posting good ones that we stumble upon. Readers are welcome to submit as well to editor@apartmenttherapy.com and put "FSBO" in the subject line.)
Location: East Village, NY
Size: 2 bedrooms - 850 sq/ft
Price: $863K
Contact: Paul 212.729.5082
Website: Evpad.com
"Clean, Bright, modern mini-loft apartment with stellar view in a wonderful pre-war East Village walk-up building. Completely renovated for your pleasure. Exposed brick throughout. 2nd bedroom currently configured as a home office. Designer bathroom with whirlpool tub. Built in vacuum system & lots of storage space."
Compared to typical East Village apartments, we think you will find our place spectacular.
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That's pretty cool. You have a dumbell apartment that spans the whole width of the building insteatd of being split down the middle.
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/083104/history/the-dumbell-apartment-000929
What floor is the apartment on?
nice space!
i'm sure you'll have no problem selling it...lovely.
holly
I LOVE this feature.
But it's making me SERIOUSLY depressed about the NYC real estate market. More than I already was.
Great & gorgeous renovation. LOVE the dishwasher and bathroom and closets. But OMG where else but NYC can you pay 850K and still have to walk all your groceries up the stairs and sleep in a tiny bedroom with a view of a brick wall???
My sentiments exactly, you guys. It looks great, but it's probably a steep walk up, and yowch, not nearly affordable.
Hi Jocelyn, the apartment is on the 5th floor (4 flights up from the building lobby). Most apartments in the EV are walkups. You do get used to it, and it helps keep you in shape. One benefit of a north facing high floor in the EV is the wonderful skyline views, instead of a dark view into someone elses apartment.
-dottie
It is indeed a really nice apartment in a most excellent location, but boy does that price knock me off my feet! The market is one of the reasons I left.
Maybe I am so equally jaded by the SF housing market, that the price for this place seems downright reasonable to me. At 33, single, and with a nonprofit job, I've pretty much never entertained the idea that home ownership might be in my future. Something this size, this nice, in a nice area of San Francisco would be just as expensive, I think. It's really lovely.
I saw Dream House this evening on HGTV. The house featured is an huge, amazing house with an open floorplan built on a hillside in Colorado. Cost: $500k. The homeowners built it on a piece of property left to them by grandparents. So there really is something to the adage of Location, Location, Location.
Hi Dottie, thanks for the response! I actually live on the fifth floor of a tenement bldg a couple blocks west of you in the EV. I agree, having to haul up the stairs is an awesome form of exercise. I never mind it as much as my guests do!
This seller doesn't appear to like brokers! I wonder if they've had a bad broker experience? I like the link page from their site to other FSBO's. Some kind of FSBO solidarity thing I guess..
Hi Don, glad you like our FSBO links. We think it's great that people are selling their places FSBO in NYC. Not all brokers are bad but we feel we can do as good a job marketing ourselves. We both work from home so we have time and since we renovated our apt thinking we'd stay another twelve years, we feel better able to describe it to potential buyers. We're having an Open House this weekend, check our website for details.
That is beautifullllll
i use to live one block from that address, and my appartment did not looked like that, but mine was bigger i had the whole 3rd floor with roof access, is rented right now for more than $3000
a month, you really get use to the walk up and is very good for you, now i drive everywhere, and have an elevator, pleasent but not healthy, i miss loisaida!