Went to see this place at the open house Sunday (3/21). Where to begin? What a mess. First off, the information is totally inconsistent. The asking price on the show sheet is 165k more than is posted here on streeteasy. The taxes are listed as more on the show sheet too. The common charges (which are not on streeteasy but are on they brokers site) are more on the show sheet than online. In fact,... [more]
Went to see this place at the open house Sunday (3/21). Where to begin? What a mess. First off, the information is totally inconsistent. The asking price on the show sheet is 165k more than is posted here on streeteasy. The taxes are listed as more on the show sheet too. The common charges (which are not on streeteasy but are on they brokers site) are more on the show sheet than online. In fact, the show sheet lists two diffferent common charge prices (one in the details and one in the description) no word on which is correct but they're both $1200+.
The apt is also totally disappointing. It is clearly new, but the floorboards are warped in the living room by the terrace as if water comes in when it rains. The bedrooms are super tiny and the living room is pretty small too. The kitchen is poorly designed (an island would have made it feel much bigger than the current counter). All the comments on fixtures being cheap in other threads are true. The basement is large, but an unusable space really. It would have worked as a master bedroom if it had a full bath, but it doesn't. If you could reno and combine the two upstairs bedrooms into one and then put a full bath downstairs so it could be the second bedroom or the master then the place would be better. Still, there's no room to enlarge the small living room. Its too bad, for so much space overall the layout is really poor and it just looks cheap.
Pros: the backyard is nice, good size. I didn't notice any reason to fear burglary as mentioned in the building thread. The price could be a pro if we knew what it really was...
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