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Scam????? or Real

Started by zorter
over 17 years ago
Posts: 110
Member since: Apr 2008
Discussion about
$499000 For Sale By Auction - Prime East Village Studio 720 SF (East Village) (map) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: hous-709525869@craigslist.org Date: 2008-06-06, 2:14AM EDT Offered for Sale by Auction Prime East Village Studio Apartment. Recently Renovated and located on 2nd Street btw Avenues A & B. For further information e-mail... [more]
Response by stevejhx
over 17 years ago
Posts: 12656
Member since: Feb 2008

I wouldn't search craigslist for real estate.

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Response by tenemental
over 17 years ago
Posts: 1282
Member since: Sep 2007

I'd bet real. I started the "FSBA" thread around this (boy, that one sure took off). This unit was around for ever and priced at least $100k higher, and not desirable. I think they were trying to base the price off the sale of the unit above, but this is on the first floor in Alphabet City and loses a big chunk of space to the building's entrance and mailboxes. Corcoran had the original listing, but I couldn't find it.

Craigslist does have an abundance of bait-and-switch ads and brokers fishing for buyers w/ nonsense ads, but there are also FSBOs there that fall through the cracks of StreetEasy and the Times. Sometimes you'd see an apartment there for months before the buyer gave up and went with a brokerage (not this one, though).

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