Cheapest house in San Mateo County! It’s in Redwood City!
$175,000
Beds: 1 Baths: 1 Sq. Ft.: 630 $/Sq. Ft.: $278 Lot Size: 2,625 Sq. Ft. Property Type: Detached Single Family Style: Cottage/Bungalow Stories: 1 View: Neighborhood Year Built: 1905 Community: Dumbarton County: San Mateo MLS#: 81020028 Source: MLSListings Status: Active On Redfin: 204 days
Black Friday Mania Deals continue! Today, let’s look at the cheapest house in San Mateo County! Go figure, it’s in Redwood City!
I love how this house offers the buyer the chance to pay $75 for the doc fee – don’t you just hate it when the seller insists on doing that? I also love how the seller will install the stove once there’s an accepted offer. Hey, you can’t blame him – there might be sneaky renters posing as buyers who will come in during the open house, rip the stove out, and sell it for scrap so they can buy some more heroin. You know how those renters are, always jonesing for the next hit!
Oh… wait a minute… now I know why this house looks familiar…
http://www.burbed.com/2008/08/07/time-to-do-your-christmas-shopping-in-redwood-city-sales-are-on/
August 7, 2008
Time to do your Christmas Shopping in Redwood City – sales are on!
170 Northumberland Ave, Redwood City, CA 94063 MLS# 80780395 – Property Details
170 Northumberland Ave, Redwood City, CA 94063
Hey, this was a great deal then… it’s an even better deal today! Go for it! What are you waiting for!
December 8th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Nice. I guess they “unconverted” that 2nd bedroom officially, so the listing is a 1-1, not a 2-1. That is bizarre – why not say “2nd bedroom can be used as a living room!” – this cuts you out from any automated searches.
It must be the real genius of home selling that renters like me will never understand…
Now where’m I going to find an open house with a stove to rip out to get my next hit…
December 8th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Would someone please buy this poor house and put it out of its misery? Not only did it appear in Burbed back in August 2008 (and generate 121 comments), it also ran in April ’08. Unfortunately the first time nabbed just 31 comments, which these days is considered a busy thread.
Here’s the Zillow price history for this Burbed classic listing on its third appearance:
rice History
Date Description Price % Chg $/sqft Source
11/25/2010 Listing removed * $165,000 – $261 Sereno Group
11/20/2010 Price change * $165,000 -5.7% $261 Sereno Group
10/08/2010 Price change * $175,000 -10.3% $277 Sereno Group
09/22/2010 Listed for sale * $195,000 11.4% $309 Sereno Group
09/21/2010 Listed for sale * $175,000 -10.3% $277 foreclosure.com
09/21/2010 Listed for sale * $195,000 – $309 Sereno Group
08/11/2010 Listing removed * $195,000 – $309 Sereno Group
07/02/2010 Listed for sale * $195,000 – $309 Sereno Group
06/15/2010 Listing removed * $195,000 – $309 foreclosure.com
05/28/2010 Price change * $195,000 -5.3% $309 foreclosure.com
04/28/2010 Listed for sale * $206,000 – $326 foreclosure.com
04/28/2010 Listing removed * $206,000 – $326 Sereno Group
04/25/2010 Listed for sale * $206,000 -57.5% $326 Sereno Group
04/01/2005 Sold $485,000 – $769 Public Record
December 8th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
What’s funny is, that’s obviously a trailer or a “pre-fab” with a carport assembled from a kit bought at Home Depot.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
They made pre-fab houses in 1905? I’ve heard of the Sears kits, but those required on-site assembly.
December 8th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Wow. 1905. At over one hundred years old, that’s technically an antique. why isn’t a historical society all over it??
December 8th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
> 04/01/2005 Sold $485,000 – $769 Public Record
it’s hilarious an idiot spent almost half million on this turd.
zillow had it down to $165k; but listing was removed 11/25:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/170-Northumberland-Ave-Redwood-City-CA-94063/15567319_zpid/
December 8th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Zestimate is $327,500. Loll.
December 8th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
madhaus- Where did all the bubble deniers go? In some Palo Alto cemetery?
December 8th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
OK so maybe it was a Sears kit, or a dog house, prefab or not, it’s certainly a turd.
A half-million in 2005? CRAZY.
December 9th, 2010 at 12:57 am
The realtor describes it as a dollhouse. So – what sort of doll? A Kewpie?
December 9th, 2010 at 1:00 am
SEA – you know perfectly well that land in PA is too valuable to fill up with bodies. That’s why we just ignore all of those inconvenient Ohlone bone bits that keep popping up, when we want to build a nice investment property.
December 9th, 2010 at 1:07 am
oh, “turd” is too harsh. If I were single and nearly destitute, I would be happy to pay 35K for it to live in.
Did anyone besides me ever read “The Teeny Tiny Woman” when they were a kid? In the teeny tiny house? Who went for a teeny tiny walk? And wandered into a teeny tiny churchyard? And found a teeny tiny bone? And thought it would make a delightful teeny tiny soup? (I’m not joking)(in another version she steals the clothing off of a teeny tiny scarecrow). For some reason this house reminds me of that rather disturbing book.
December 9th, 2010 at 1:28 am
#10, I was thinking a Garbage Pail Kid or Trailer Trash Turleen and her boyfriend Jer Wayne.
December 9th, 2010 at 3:29 am
madhaus – omg. I was not familiar with Trailer Trash Turleen.
December 9th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Oh, sad…..
December 9th, 2010 at 10:54 am
The $485k in ’05 smacks of fraud. Think of the transaction costs extracted from that deal for $630 sqft. of junk.
December 9th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Junk? That’s pride of ownership there, son.
December 9th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
In all seriousness, that is probably a not insubstantial number. Now multiply it by millions…
December 9th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Pride of ownership? That’s right: The value’s in the land!
March 16th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Sold for $150,000 on 12/10/10, but not an arm’s length transaction. Maybe the bank sold it to one of their Robosigners.