Danger Man visits Santa Cruz County
We’re continuing the DEALS DEALS DEALS with yet another region full of cheap housing. Today’s victim: Santa Cruz County! But wait, you may rudely point out. Santa Cruz County is not part of the Bay Area. It does not have any part of it touching the Bay.
Oh yeah? What’s Monterey Bay, chopped liver? Plenty of people commute to Silicon Valley from Santa Cruz County. Maybe even Googlers. Presenting, the cheapest house in all of Santa Cruz County!
575 HAZEL BRAKE
San Lorenzo Valley, CA 95006
$115,0002 Beds
1 Baths
900 Sq. Ft.
$128 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 1943
Lot Size: 0.45 Acres
On Redfin: 1 day
Status: Active
Property Type
Detached Single Family
Stories: 1
Community: Boulder Creek
MLS#: 81241767
Style: Cabin
View: Neighborhood
County: Santa CruzDO NOT visit property with out an Agent; stairway, deck and house could be dangerous. This is a major fixer-upper, however it is in a great neighborhood. Bracken Brae has hiking trails, picnic grounds, private water system and roads with lovely river access just for owners.
When a property listing starts out with a warning like DO NOT visit property, we know it’s going to be good. And unlike the places we found earlier this week, this one has more than 2500 square feet of land. It also has more than one picture, which means more work for us.
At left is Picture number two. Out of 24. Believe us when we say this is one of the cheerier views.
Also, catch the not-so-subtle reminder that rentards aren’t deserving of anything: lovely river access just for owners. This is like Foothills Park, except living in Palo Alto is nowhere as exciting. For this dangerous listing, DO NOT go anywhere (especially stairway, deck and house) with out an Agent. DO NOT even look at these photos.
This agent deserves some kind of award, for either Whole Truth In Real Estate Photography, or for skipping the worse views that weren’t included.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:59 am
I actually saw a property like this, with a realtard, in SC county, and what this listing is missing is the smell. This also looks like a mess that meth built. I think it should say “Do not visit with out Haz Mat suit.”
November 28th, 2012 at 8:41 am
That’s not a house. It’s a lean-to.
How is visiting with an agent supposed to magically make it safe to enter?
November 28th, 2012 at 10:59 am
A tree house for meth cookers.
November 28th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Can we add the tag “It puts the lotion in the basket”?
November 28th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
someone was sampling too much of what they grew or cooked in that place. sold for 110K in ’09 and they lost it to foreclosure?!? how hard is it to resell your handmade products to make the $500 mtg payment?
and what’s with the cage-like area? looks like a set for a horror movie. no need to ask where the bodies are buried – they’re all over the lot fertilizing the greenery.
November 28th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Dang. Forgot the good housekeeping tag of approval.
November 28th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Looks like bodies in black plastic garbage bags in picture 8. And some wrapped in silvery plastic in 15.
Shouldn’t this dump be red-tagged by the county? It’s much more than a “fixer upper.” I cannot believe anyone could get a loan on this place. (Anyone with enough cash should have the sense to live somewhere else.) The listing should use our old favorite “value is in the land.”
November 28th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Do not visit property without an *armed law enforcement* agent.
November 28th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
After looking over all 24 grim crime scene photos, it’s safe to conclude that someone was actually living in this disgraceful pig sty. And they had children. And they didn’t just have dinner — they had DiGiorno.
November 28th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Okay this is interesting. The info says this charming residence was built in 1943. But I found this real estate overview story from 2009 that says:
Admittedly the property records mention a “multi-property sale” but hmmmmm.
Also check out the County records (in Redfin). Did our Pride of Ownership crew manage to misplace 600 square feet of their own house? If they were cooking more than DiGiorno, that’s entirely likely.
Beds 2 Style Single Family Residential
Baths 1 Finished Sq. Ft. 1,409
Floors — Unfinished Sq. Ft. 0
Year Built 1943 Total Sq. Ft. 1,409
Year Renovated — Lot Size 19,602
November 28th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Maybe the missing 600sf is the first level that appeared to be converted to cage space.
November 29th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Everybody here knows this was a Marijuana flophouse right?
Every picture looks like it’s straight out of some crime report.
I see nutrient containers, old soil with stalks sticking out, soil bags, plywood rooms, white styrofoam walls, rockwool cubes, jerry rigged irrigation, ducting for ventilation, carbon filter is still hanging for smell abatement (lord knows why in the country), cardboard ripped off of windows to block out the light, plywood on windows to block off the light, and the last two pictures show jerry rigged electrical. BAD BAD BAD