From Brownstoner:The oldest house in Crown Heights North, the freestanding wood frame Susan B. Elkins house at 1375 Dean Street, built in the mid-19th century when the area was still mostly open farmland, is back on the market. This time the ask is $1,100,000, and the building looks to be in worse condition than when it last changed hands in 2011 for $194,000, according to PropertyShark.
At the time, buyer Real Properties Group said it planned to restore the exterior to its 1939 tax photo condition and turn the interior into apartments. In recent months, the Crown Heights North Association reported the owner for “demo by neglect” because neighbors saw gaping holes in the roof.
Unfortunately, the building was left open and looted over the years. Now the current owner appears to have gutted what little remained of the interior. The listing says “Delivered vacant and with an interior that has been completely cleared, you can project your fantasy home and build out to suit your individual tastes and desires.”
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The company should be heavily fined but there's probably no legal reason to do so.
What is wrong with people? Have they no sense of history or beauty? This is so sad.
I dont get why they are charging so much for houses that look like shit....granted it is an old house....but selling it for over one million dollars is insane!
There was a house in bayside by me that was a foreclosure and I went in it to see how it looked and there was no kitchen and the floors had holes in them and the ceiling had water damage and it looked disgusting inside! This house should have been a hud house! But since its in bayside....home of the asians who will buy anything even if its a hole in the ground.....the price tage of this home was 450000! I was like are you freaking kidding me?! For a house that needed at least 200000 in work! Or needed to be torn down completely and built over again!
Because a developer will pay that much just for the land. It will become a teardown.
People have no imagination...you can turn an old house into something unique and beautiful. Not to mention if you are savvy and handy the cost to fix it up can be less than expected.
I would pay $2 million for that house, if I had $2 million.
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