Pick up trucks galore, metal bar doors, designer crown molding
1876 Luby Dr, San Jose 95133
$635,000
* Status: Active
* Bedroom: 4
* Bathroom: 2&1/2
* Year Built: 1979
* Lot Size: 3480
* Square Footage: 1681
* List Date: 2/4/2008
* Garage Spaces: 2
* MLS#: 776136
Newer Carpet and Hardwood Flooring, Newer Furnace and AC, Newer Appliances and Garage Door (2006). French Doors lead out to Covered Patio with Hot Tub. Garage has been converted to Living Quarters (permits unknown). Current owner has added New Tile flooring in Dining Room and New Paint Inside! Beautiful Kitchen Cabinets and Designer Crown Molding/Base Boards.
Wow… just look at all the parking this house has. You can easily fit 2 pickup trucks and a car - maybe even more! And look at the metal gate on the front door - I feel more secure already.
Let’s face it, there’s really nothing terribly wrong with this house. It’s 1681 square feet, build in 1979, and is reasonably priced at $635,000. But what I think is most noteworthy is the fact that this house has designer crown molding and base board.
That certainly has my attention. Is is Armani? Cartier? D&G? Vera? Who is the designer? I simply must know!
And what happens when you have people from LA over? Do they ask “OMG, whose crown molding and base boards is your house wearing?”
Watch out - the TMZ might be camping out in your driveway if you buy this house!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Sweet deal — near James Lick (my 1st HS before I made it out of there alive), where all the upstanding future presidents are schooled. Also not too far from the cemetary, which we used to drink beer at on Halloween nights too! I’m buying just to relive the glory days.
Rob
May 8th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Another extra zero on the price dump. And why isn’t the yard COVERED with cars? Why’s that green stuff still there. It should have good old ecological dirt and oil spots.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Another extra zero on the price dump. And why isn’t the yard COVERED with cars? Why’s that green stuff still there? It should have good old ecological dirt and oil spots.
You and 13 other day-laborors will LOVE this place!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Another troubled seller who bought it for $710K in 2006.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:16 am
What are “newer appliances?
Less than one year?
five years or less?
newer than the house?
May 8th, 2008 at 11:23 am
This must be a flipper project, the seller is either the flipper or the fool who bought from the flipper.
Probably it is a nice flip, but it certainly don’t worth more than 450k.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Crown molding?
Who lives deah, da Pope?
May 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
>>What are “newer appliances”?
That probably means they’re not from ‘79, when the house was built.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
It’s scary to think about how many people are currently living there….4 bedrooms PLUS the garage has been “converted to Living Quarters”??
May 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
One of the constant factors I’ve seen in California houses is that they’ve got NO storage space. I think I’m one of the few people around who actually parks their daily-driver car in their garage; and, at that, I’ve got a tandem garage that I’ve partitioned, otherwise I’d be parking on the apron like everyone else.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
>One of the constant factors I’ve seen in California houses is that they’ve got NO storage space
Why is that? Is it because Cali houses don’t have basements?
May 8th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Yes Crossroads, both basements and attics are rare in housing here. It’s expensive to dig a basement and our pipes don’t freeze so we don’t need one anyway.
Also much of the more affordable housing stock is older and thus smaller (the stuff from the 1950s & 60s). The newer homes are larger.
The price for today’s featured house is way too high. The lot is half-sized, the neighborhood is full of declining values, and I bet none of the cars pulling up in that driveway is a Rolls-Royce!
Also this place has been sitting on the market a few months, going untouched at $675,000. I wonder who will catch the knife on the way down for, say, $550,000?
May 8th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
a 3400 sq ft lot? Whats up with that? Thats half the average, yes AVERAGE lot size of the houses I look at in San Jose.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Most of the newer homes have very small lots, because land is so expensive here. That’s why it’s generally better to buy an older home on a bigger lot. You can always expand the house, but you can never expand the lot.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Also, don’t forget that the modern urbanist paradigm is Maximum Density.