9br/5ba 12,800 sqft house for $899,999
Single Family Home – DETROIT, MI, 48202 – Realtor.com
$899,999
9 Bed, 5 Bath
12,800 Sq. Ft.
Estimated Payment:
$4,532 Per Month*MLS ID# 30573267
$899,999
9 Bed, 5 Bath, 12,800 Sq. Ft.Magnificent Landmark Historic Mansion on 1/2 City Block in Boston-Edison Historic District. Exquisite detailing T/O the 30 Room Limestone Showplace designed by Albert Kahn. Unmatched quailty of contruction and finshwork, inclu. Lavish Paneling, Marble, Pewabic Tile, Muraled Ceilings & more. Spectacular Kitchen with Granite Countertops & Marble Floors! 1100 sq. ft. Bedroom Apartment above 3 1/2 Car Garage. 24 Hour Notice to show/Pre-Approved Buyers
Did you really think this would be in the Bay Area? Of course not!
This is what Burbed reader Cesar had to say:
Thank you for your magnificent website! I live in the Detroit area, where the economy is not the best right now, and jobs are hard to come by, but if you’re lucky to have a stable, well paying job, then it’s a magnificent place to raise a family. With all the jokes aside about Detroit, I thought you might find this interesting
I do find it interesting indeed. Sorry Cesar , but it just goes to show how undesirable Detroit is. If a middle level engineer can afford a 9 bedroom house, would anyone really want to live there? Do 9 bedroom houses for $899k attract the best Web 2.0 developers?
Yeah. Didn’t think so.
Thanks anyway Cesar!
February 6th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I am pretty sure I saw this house on a TV show about a year ago – its a beautiful mansion from the 1910-1920 era. Unbelievable quality and fixtures. However when they showed the hood its in, its clear why its only 900K (I thought the show I watched said it was 1 million – guess the asking went down).
Detroit is too easy of a target for you Burbed – I think suburban NYC or Chicago is fair game, but no one is going to leave the Bay Area for Detroit.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Alas I rely mostly on my readers. Sadly I know little about Chicagoland. What are some good zip codes there?
February 6th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Hey, come on. I’m sure it’s no worse than EPA or Oakland or Richmond or …
February 6th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Try 60615 and 60637 in Chicago. These are the Kenwood and Hyde Park neighborhoods, home to the University of Chicago. Obama bought his house there. (Louis Farrakhan also lives in the neighborhood). There are some blighted areas, but also some stunning homes. However, it may not be worth comparison since there are no good Korean or Japanese restaurants to go with the ethnic/social diversity, world-class university and hospital, huge parks, beaches next to Lake Michigan, and affordable residences (by SF standards) designed by architects like Mies van der Rohe and I.M Pei.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Seriously cool. Is that Henry Ford’s old place? Deal that it is, I’d not consider buying it without some serious income, enough for staff, you know, maid, butler, cook, and some guy who wears a lot of black and is good with a sniper rifle.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am
And Korean cooking is learnable. You can learn it, unlike Japanese cooking where you have to grow up immersed in it…. You just have to know the basic ingredients such as:
Cabbage
Won Bok
Bok Choy
Peppers
Hot (spicy) oil
Sesame oil
Pickled vegetables
Fish
Beef
Cat
Dog
It’s a cold-weather cuisine, and the best part about it is the variety of pickled vegetables and things, stuff you’d never think of (and are delicious) like peanut stems. It’d be well-suited to the northern climes of the US, and is well-suited to those who keep their own gardens and can and pickle for the winter. Extra points if your ‘hood has a stray dog problem, hehe! Honestly, I just can’t suppress the dog jokes but Korean cooking is the bomb.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:12 am
This youtube video of Detroit shows the worst scenario of real estate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM&feature=related
February 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Burbed -
Try the following northern suburbs of Chicago: Highland Park, Deerfield, Wilmette, Glencoe, Northbrook and Glenview – You get a nice home for $600k and something really impressive for $1.2 million. Plus the public schools and park districts for each of these towns are amazing — If you want to live next to the hood (like in Detroit) you can look at Kenwood and Hyde Park, but the North burbs offer so much more, so why? For zip codes look at 60062 and 60035 – I think these are Northbrook and Highland Park.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Thanks!
February 6th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
PA Homeowner, my heart warms to our North Side/South Side rivalry, though neither of us presently lives in Chicago. We are brothers in this, though, since most Chicago neighborhoods–north or south–are too antiseptic to be relevant to the Bay Area. I speak from the perspective of my rented $1660/month 650sf stucco box in San Francisco, to which I recently moved from the $120,000 800sf condominium that I owned in Hyde Park. Whereas once I walked only to book stores, restaurants, and the beach to go swimming, I am now an easy stroll from the the Tenderloin and UN Plaza. I know from experience what Chicago folks go without in their sleepy environs: Deerfieldites do not step over sleeping homeless as a matter of routine and Hyde Parkers do not fill their public spaces with graffiti and broken glass. Burbed can search as long as he likes, but he will find no $800,000 ramblers overlooking I94 in Chicago. And why would he, given that, compared to the Real Bay Area, Chicago is a cultural, gastronomic, and geographical wasteland?
February 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Mark – you are wrong on which town the gastronomic wasteland – I was just back in Chicago enjoying some Vienna Beef polish sausages, which we both know are on almost every corner in Chicago and completely unavailable in the Bay Area.
February 6th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Come now folks. I thought we all agreed that if there was no Fry’s within a reasonable distance, that the place obviously CANNOT be nice.
Bet the sushi sucks too.
February 6th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I think there was some missed sarcasm in this comment thread.
That said, I did find Chicago to be in dearth of quality pizza.
Uh oh! I just said that!
February 6th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Thank you, gentlemen, but I can’t take any of the bait that has been offered. There’s a chance my California born-and-bred wife will discover I have posted on this site, and my earlier rants would have me in enough trouble. She’d rather find me surfing porn than making fun of San Francisco.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
“I thought we all agreed that if there was no Fry’s within a reasonable distance, that the place obviously CANNOT be nice.”
You are confused. Fry’s stores don’t sell food. the place you are looking for is “In-n-out Burgers”.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Fry’s sells the kind of food needed for the special lifestyle of the bay area, including Penguin mints, snack club hot peanuts, Jolt Cola and other goods otherwise only available from a 7-11.
Can you get a hard disk and a bag of peanuts in the same store in Detroit or Chicago? I think not! Besides, the sushi here is better.
February 6th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
>> Fry’s sells the kind of food needed for the special lifestyle of the bay area
And that lifestyle includes getting crappy customer service, so that you can become self-sufficient quickly. In Fry’s, some of store guys just run away when you try to ask something. That helps to learn in your own and educate yourself better. After all it’s Bay Area.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
>> Can you get a hard disk and a bag of peanuts in the same store in Detroit or Chicago? I think not!
Au Contraire Mon Frère. Frys exists in Downers Grove, IL
February 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I’m a Detroit native and I recently went back for a visit. Did you know that you can buy homes there for less than $10k!? I could trade my used VW Jetta… for a freakin’ house! (Of course, I’d need another $10k for a security system, but still!) Several gastronomic pleasure exist in Detroit that don’t exist here in the Bay Area. I swear! There’s Polish pierogi and punschki, and Coney Island-style hot dogs. There’s crazy cheap Greek food in a district downtown named for it, and my picks for the best (non alcoholic) beverages ever: Faygo Red Pop and Vernor’s Ginger Ale. So when am I moving back, into a six-pack of Detroit houses? Uh, never.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
> Can you get a hard disk and a bag of peanuts in the
> same store in Detroit or Chicago? I think not!
> Besides, the sushi here is better.
Actually Fry’s has a store in Chicago too.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
As for zip codes in Chicago. Try 60563 (Naperville, IL) which is pretty much a middle class town in the middle of so called Silicon Prairie. Great schools, a lot of parks, low crime, lots IT jobs etc.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I buy Vernor’s Ginger Ale at BevMo. Good stuff.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:56 am
But do the Frys locations in Detroit and Chicago have the 15 year build-up of grime that the authentic bay area frys have? I think not!
February 7th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Why would you want so many rooms and bathrooms? 600 sq ft and 1 bathroom is perfectly fine for Californians. Or even the Portlander (referring to the new downtown condos built there).
That’s why people in Detriot are fat and real estate is cheap. You will need to pay $30k/yr to keep this sucker well maintained. Detriot people really need to learn about conservation.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I showed this “single family home” to my husband and we agreed: we’d have to close off 80% of the place in the winter just to keep the heating bills this side of sane.