Belmont showpiece house, collector’s item
1822 BAYVIEW Ave, Belmont, CA 94002 | MLS# 80951201
$688,000
1822 BAYVIEW Ave Belmont, CA 94002
Beds: 3
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 2,340
$/Sq. Ft.: $294
Lot Size: 9,750 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Modern/High Tech
Stories: 1
View: Bay, Mountains, Neighborhood, Ocean, City Lights
Year Built: 1977
Community: Belmont Country Club
County: San Mateo
MLS#: 80951201
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active This listing is for sale and the sellers are accepting offers.
On Redfin: 18 days
Probate bargain with 200 degree view. Great sweat equity potential here. Top quality home that needs TLC. Kiln dried redwood walls, interior atrium, glass entry built in 1977. Sit in the sunken tub & enjoy views from SF to Palo Alto. Most appliances appear never used. Can be a showpiece. CAUTION, NO DECK OFF REAR SLIDERS, DO NOT OPEN.
Thanks to Burbed reader Jeff for this find!
Jeff called this a “collector’s item”.
Indeed! This can be the showpiece of your 1977 house collection. There are many house collectors in the Bay Area as you can make a solid income giving tours of 1970′s houses. Sure you might first need to add a deck so that your patrons don’t fall to their death, but hey that’s a small investment towards improving this show piece.
I wonder if you could get this designated as a POI on a TomTom or Garmin! That’d be pretty neat. Coyote Point, Pez Museum, Hiller Aviation Museum, and “The 1977 House EXPERIENCE at 1822 Bayview Ave”. Wow… pretty soon San Mateo county will be its own cultural hotbed. That’d be pretty awesome!
And it starts with this amazingly cheap house. Go for it. Or have your trust acquire it so that we can all enjoy this 1977 house.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:38 am
Well it has a nice sized lot. And an incredibly lazy agent…
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 am
Interior atrium? As opposed to an outdoor one?
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:52 am
I suppose it would be inappropriate to wonder about the link between the no deck out the back door and the probate sale.
Still, “most appliances never used”, and a precipitous drop out the back? Sounds like someone got it halfway built in 1977 and then didn’t finish it. That’s thirty years of equity just waiting for someone to snatch it up and sweat it to a finish.
Unused 30-year-old appliances are likely to be worth a lot as antiques I suppose. Maybe that is where the appreciation comes from….
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Great sweat equity potential here.
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In the era when everybody is crazy about low-carb food, “sweet” just does not sound right. Salty stuffs are better.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I looked at this one. It is actually quite nice and has some potential. Unfortunately, it has a half finished addition (permits unclear) and the buyer needs 100% cash to get this through the probate process. At the one open house they had a couple of weeks ago 50+ prospective buyers showed up. There is definitely strength in the local RE market at the right price point.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
50+ people showing up (and nobody is able to buy due to 100% cash requirement) is demonstration of “strength” of the market. :/
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
“no deck off rear sliders” – let me first dispel the image of the deck having slid down the hillside thanks to specially built sliders, like a modern sideways ship launch, and consider what’s probably the real situation:
A 200-lb or so aluminum-framed hunk of glass that no longer moves, and the last attempt to do so has made it jump out of the bottom channel. This has happened because those channels are absolute magnets for dirt and junk, and most haven’t been cleaned since the door was new.
The result is everyone’s scared to death to go near it and for good reason. These things are not safety glass and if it falls and breaks will slice off a limb without even slowing down.
The cure is to get on in there anyway and CLEAN THAT CHANNEL and I mean METICULOUSLY and oil all rollers etc with Break-Free and preferably with a friend’s help, stick the door back in the channel, give a lecture on keeping it clean and oiled, and know in your heart of hearts it’ll be similarly messed up in another 20 years.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Unreal Alex is hoping for his first EMT call.
November 24th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I’m just hoping for BLUD…..