When you buy this toiletless house, you know you’re dealing with a pro
10220 STERLING Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014
Price: $890,000
Beds: 3
Baths: 1
Sq. Ft.: 1,342
$/Sq. Ft.: $663
Lot Size: 10,659 Sq. Ft.
Age (Years): 54
Year Built: 1954
Type: Detached Single Family
Stories: 1 Story
Neighborhood: Cupertino
County: Santa Clara
MLS#: 785483
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active
On Redfin: 51 days
Price just reduced. Value is mainly on the land. This property has already obtained city permit for building a house of two stories for a FAR of 44.7%, which is 3437 SF, including a 2-car garage. The approved blueprint of the plan is available to review upon request. The house currently has no PG & E; sink and toilet been removed. Time to build your own.
Frankly, I like dealing with professionals a lot more than amateurs. Clearly this Realtor and Seller know what I’m talking about. When you deal with novices, people who aren’t serious about buying, they tend to want to see things like… the house… the yard… the street… the door… the garage.
You know. All the BS.
Professionals know that when it is a plot of land in the Real Bay Area, it doesn’t matter what the photos look like - it’s in the RBA. You buy it. Period. Full stop. ’nuff said.
By not providing photos of this PG&E-less, sink-less, toilet-less house, this seller is doing you a favor. They’re telling you “Hey big boy flush with VMWare money… this is your house. Because you’re a pro. And so am I.”
Professionals. That’s what this house is all about.
But just for those of you who might be novices, here’s a gratuitous picture of your future dream home:
Look at that. Now don’t you wish you hadn’t seen this?
Novices. Sheesh.
(Thanks to Burbed reader AnonyMouse for this find.)
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 am
If you zoom in enough, you can actually SEE the bums hanging out at the 280-to-Lawrence off-ramp.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
If there were ever a part of Cupertino that isn’t “really” Cupertino, you’ve found it.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
It is interesting that 10,659 Sq. Ft. is considered so large, it can be split. My parent’s live in a middle income suburb of DC, and have a lot around 9800sqft, and it is considered a normal size lot, people would look at you like you’re insane if you were trying to split that.
Then of course there is a lot of empty land around there to build on, since there developments left a lot of developable land in between them, as opposed to here where few parcels are left like that.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
cardinal2007, you should have been here when we had cheap houses in Redwood City week. I think every one of them was on a standard lot that was quartered.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:31 am
This used to be Rancho Rinconada, an unincorporated enclave of shacks that began giving way to McMansions in the late nineties. This phenomenon, which is now taken for granted, inspired the great headline “Invasion of the Monster Homes.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Rinconada
“But now the monster home phenomenon has permeated the Peninsula and beyond, pitting neighbor against neighbor in increasingly affluent cities such as Burlingame and Menlo Park, in Marin communities from rural Nicasio to tony Belvedere, and even in low-income areas with no name recognition, like the Rancho Rinconada neighborhood in Cupertino.” - SF Chronical, 1999
Ouch!