Lowest price home ever in Menlo Park – OMG
MLS-2.com: Property Details
1154 CARLTON AV, Menlo Park,CA,94025 – $387,500
3 Beds 890 Sq.Ft. Aprx. 1 Car Garage MLS#: 760479
1.0 Baths 6,000 Lot Size 52 Yrs Old Aprx. List Date: 2007-10-31What’s new on MLS-2: Search by % Price Drop // Search by “MOTIVATED SELLERS”
Description – 1154 CARLTON AV, Menlo Park,CA,94025
HUGE POTENTIAL IN THIS RANCH HOME LOCATED ON A TREE LINED STREET. PERFECT HOME FOR A CONTRACTOR/INVESTOR. HOME FEATURES A COVERED PATIO, LARGE FENCED FRONT YARD, EXTRA STORAGE, SPACIOUS REAR YARD AND TILE FLOORS IN THE KITCHEN.
Just like February 29ths don’t happen all that often, neither are homes in Menlo Park under $400k!
WOW. WOW. WOW. Let’s see another picture:
Wow! It even has an outdoor… uh… yeah. Well, um… yeah.
I’m speechless. What caption would you give this picture?
In any case, this is the deal of the century. If you’re not putting in your bid right now, I don’t know what you’re doing. Add in a little sweat equity (you picked up skills from volunteering at Habitat for Humanity right?) and boom! Instant Prime Menlo Park $900k home.
Go for it today!
February 29th, 2008 at 5:58 am
This is a baaaaaaad neighborhood. Might as well be EPA. Nothing on that side of 101 is worth 900K.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Wrong side of the highway, definitely not the “real” Menlo Park.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Another bank own crap.
Sales history:
8/1/2007 $504,880 Trustee’s Deed upon Sale Resale Executive Trustee Svcs LLC Us Bk Na Series 2005-He1 Tr 635154035
2/18/2005 $580,000 Grant Deed Resale Victoria, Efrain Vazquez, Prisciliano 113354121
7/24/2001 $380,000 Grant Deed Resale Singh, Sanjay & Asha Victoria, Efrain 255904964
5/22/1996 $132,000 Grant Deed Resale Ford, Rosevelt & Thelma Singh, Sanjay & Asha 255902739
The one buying on 2/18/2005 for $580K took 100% loan. The bank Finance America will lose at least $200K on this crap.
Its price is going back to year 2001 level.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Right across Willow from EPA, same school district (Ravenswood), but at least you have the same ZIP code as all those millionaires living by Stanford so you get the same insurance rates.
It wasn’t long ago that I had never seen a house in San Mateo County under $400K. Now there are Redwood City houses under $350K and EPA houses nearly $200K, and they’re still not moving.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Yup, that’s EPA under a different name.
For half of this price, you can buy a decent house in Stockton. If you’re going to live in a ghetto, might as well save some money.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Anything in MP on that side of 101 is in the war zone, good for Iraq vets who don’t want to lose their hard-earned skills.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
RE: also Santa Rosa, which is a little less miserable than Stockton though it has its own issues. If you’ve never commuted on the Redwood Highway or San Francisco’s 19th Avenue, you don’t want to know.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
19th avenue sucks. They should build a freeway over there, connecting Golden gate bridge with 280.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Wow is that a terrible neighborhood, pinned between 101 and the bridge, yeah it really is EPA with a different zipcode. btw I am really enjoying reading your blog, I was hoping for something like irvinehousingblog for Silicon Valley and you’re the closest thing to it. Can’t wait to watch the equity in my Sunnyvale house start to bleed away. Good thing I bought it years years and years ago so I’m not in the danger the 100% financers (fools! stupid ignorant bloody fools!) are.
But of course, Sunnyvale is pretty danged SPECIAL too, though maybe not as special as that… amazing… property you have featured today. I shudder to think what you could do if you scraped it, maybe you could build an auto wreckers or something. Couldn’t possibly hurt the neighborhood any more than what’s there is.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Do my eyes deceive me or are the windows boarded up with plywood? Sweet! instant equity.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
To be honest I’m really kind of shocked that even just the land is worth less than 400k. I didn’t think we’d see that so soon.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
What do you think lurks beneath the bright blue tarp? If I make an offer will they include it? Is it worth more than the tiled kitchen?
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
That photo of the trashcan on the cement slab……. that is profound.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
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