Unbelievable
Here’s a find from Burbed reader hikelife. Did you always want to live in a million dollar mansion? If you have that million you could live in Sunnyvale instead!
1354 LA BELLA Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
$1,000,0003 Beds
1 Baths
1,034 Sq. Ft.
$967 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 1950
Lot Size: 9,576 Sq. Ft.
On Redfin: 1 day
Status: Active
Property Type: Detached Single Family
View: Neighborhood
County: Santa Clara
Stories: 1
Community: Sunnyvale
MLS#: 81239620Unbelievable
Does this house look familiar? It should, because it showed up in comments yesterday. We’ll let you use that worthwhile section to admire how hard this agent is working for that $60,000 commission. A word and a photo, both!
We’ll leave you with a peek at the actual house (which would have raised the agent’s commission to $80,000).
Super bunus! Ginormous trash bin!
November 2nd, 2012 at 8:31 am
Unbelievable indeed.
November 2nd, 2012 at 9:51 am
Let me fix this: “Otherwise, if there was every any doubt that BA real estate is heading into disaster, this listing should remove it!”
Otherwise, if there was ever any doubt that BA real estate is heading into disaster, this listing should PROVE it!
November 2nd, 2012 at 10:45 am
flipper baby
November 2nd, 2012 at 11:01 am
More pics on Redfin now! Still unbelievable.
The value must be in the copper gutters.
November 2nd, 2012 at 11:33 am
It was sold on Sept 14th with this listing copy :
Property to be sold “as is ” Fixer / Scraper
So… 6 weeks to take a completely run down house back to pristine…. Can’t be done. 6 weeks to slap up perigraniteel and buckets of lipstick? No problem!
Set up perfectly like in The Money Pit. It just has to hold together long enough for some sucker to buy it.
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I live about a mile from that house. House prices here are usually all about the schools. That house goes to Cupertino schools, which are very good. The lot is also huge. A typical lot around here is 6000 square feet.
It’s not about the house – it’s about location. Land in my neighborhood goes for about $3M per acre, and that neighborhood is a few levels up. The house is such a small part of what you are paying for that it’s nearly irrelevant.
Having said that – that’s a nice looking house for this area.
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Take a look at photo #4, and then please answer the following question:
For $1M does the garage door properly close?
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:19 pm
“Upcoming Open Houses
Saturday, Nov 10: 3:00-6:00 pm”
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:24 pm
In photo #5, one widow is double hung, yet the other is gliding. So classy!
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:59 pm
I thought the minimalist listing copy (one word? unbelievable!) and photo of the backyard looked like a placeholder, but they’ve only added four more pix. Only one is inside. Thanks for the new photo alert, nomadic. I am going to add the flip tag.
Holy crap the “before” picture is fugly. I’m pretty sure that link to the previous sale wasn’t there when I wrote this up last night.
They paid $550K in September and think it’s now worth a million? That doesn’t fit Rachael‘s narrative at all! Someone bought the lot with a house in the way and now wants a 90% markup? The house looks expanded, but the realtard didn’t bother changing the square footage or config numbers. Way to earn that commission!
Yes it is indeed all about location, location, location. And this place might have Cupertino schools, but they aren’t the good ones. Nimitz Elementary and Fremont High, Cupertino Schools but not Real Cupertino Schools.
November 2nd, 2012 at 2:06 pm
SEA, re: windows. That double-hung is probably a bathroom, in which case there isn’t enough room to do a gliding window with portrait configuration. My house has the same deal; landscape gliding windows in the BRs, double-hung in the BAs.
November 2nd, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Good point about Fremont. Definitely not one of the more sought after high schools.
I think that somebody sold this to a relative or something. You haven’t been able to buy a house for $550K is this half of Sunnyvale for about 10 years.
I am remembering now that I have visited a house on that street. Plus I looked on Zillow. It’s a higher end neighborhood for Sunnyvale. Maybe beaten price-wise by Cherry Chase Elementary area, but I’m not sure what else.
November 2nd, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Y’all missed the most telling clue, prompted by sfbb pointing out the prior listing. The agent is the same this time around. That made me look for this: “Agent has Financial Interest” in the current listing. If I was selling that house for myself (especially for a big, fat profit), I’d certainly be a little more serious about it.
November 2nd, 2012 at 6:00 pm
The “before” picture with all of the boxes on the porch looks like it belonged to a hoarder.
I almost buy your window explanation, madhaus, but my house has two tiny slider windows in a bathroom. I’d guess each is not much more than 12-15″ wide. Realtard should have splurged on the correct window in the front of the house. It’s hidden by the wooden post in the front shot.
Good catch on the garage door, SEA. Seems to be a bad fit – not surprising, given that it looks like they stuck redwood 2x6s on the old door.
November 2nd, 2012 at 10:22 pm
“My house has the same deal; landscape gliding windows in the BRs, double-hung in the BAs.”
I hope your windows look better than these.
November 3rd, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Nothing should be unbelievable. Check out the requirements for buying this Belmont property:
>>Only cash buyers for this property, the buyer(s) are to take possession with the occupant(s) in possession. There will be NO interior inspections for this property, only drive by.
November 3rd, 2012 at 4:31 pm
#16- Definitely needs to be less than not a lot of money.
November 4th, 2012 at 5:08 am
A big price difference than Philadelphia!
The same real estate listing here would go for a fraction of the cost.
That’s indeed the case! And you know what else, Joe? The same attempt to spam us with your Philadelphia real estate website address probably would go for a fraction of the cost back there as well. We’ve removed it until you pay us $24,950. Remember, location, location, location! –ed.