Fixer Upper or Tear Down in Menlo Park
11 HAPPY HOLLOW Ln, Menlo Park, CA 94025 | MLS# 80949636
11 HAPPY HOLLOW Ln Menlo Park, CA 94025
Price: $549,000
Beds: 2
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 1,110
$/Sq. Ft.: $495
Lot Size: 0.3 Acres
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Traditional
Stories: 1
View: Neighborhood
Year Built: 1923
Community: Alpine Road Area
County: San Mateo
MLS#: 80949636
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active
On Redfin: 7 days
Do Not Disturb Tenants!!!DO NOT DRIVE DOWN THE LANE. Park above the lane and walk down. This is a Fixer Upper or Tear Down. This home is nestled in Redwoods, Oak Trees and lush foilage. Located on a Private Lane with only 2 other homes located on this lane. Award winning Las Lomitas School. Walk to Stanford Dish and Golf Course. Please check with County regarding property to build.
Thanks to Burbed reader Herve for this find.
Wow… it’s a fixer upper or a tear down! What choices!
One really has to wonder what will happen if they drive down the lane. Will there be armed guards that shoot to kill?
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot to go on here… but it sure looks like a nice neighborhood!
This could be the deal of the century. Or not!
Maybe there’s some secret teleportation research there. After all, this house enables you to some how walk to the Stanford Dish real easily.
Or… maybe… there is a headless horseman!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow
The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during “some nameless battle” of the American Revolutionary War, and who “rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head”. Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was “to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related”. Although the nature of the Headless Horseman is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was actually Brom Bones in disguise.
Oh wait… this is Happy Hollow, not Sleepy Hollow. Oops.
November 9th, 2009 at 8:50 am
That’s an awesome deal and a great location, but you need to go into it realizing it won’t just be a $550K investment, it’ll be a $2M investment before you can make the most of it. 19 Bishop Lane is $1M for a half-acre in the same general area.
http://www.movoto.com/real-estate/homes-for-sale/CA/Menlo-Park/19-Bishop-Ln-100_80924632.htm
November 9th, 2009 at 9:47 am
It IS an easy hike to the dish. Just go out the backyard and up the hill.
November 9th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Forget building a house, I’ll put up one of those large tents in the woods there, where people bring in steaming rocks and have “vision quests”. I heard you can make millions with those…
November 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Meth.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I couldn’t resist walking down the lane to see what was there… it really is a 1930′s style green shack from some 80′s horror flick. The long narrow lot is near the bottom of a gentle, thin dead end road. Definitely a tear down. But the lot is kind of awkward for building much, and I’d worry about drainage. You’d need a great architect.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
It took forever, but this place sold for $675,000 (yes, $126,000 over asking) on 3/12/10.
I suppose the buyer inflated the price to get cash back at closing to begin to rebuild/remodel the house.