If You Love Natural Light, You Will Fall
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Today’s featured FUBAR hails from the linchpin of higher learning in all of California. No, not Stanford. Thanks very much to Burbed reader Ms. Snoopy for this bodacious buildout of BOOM in Berzerkely!
1068 CRAGMONT Ave
Berkeley, CA 94708
$399,0004 Beds
3 Baths
2,129 Sq. Ft.
$187 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 1959
Lot Size: 8,100 Sq. Ft.
On Redfin: 20 days
Status: Active
Type: Detached
Stories: 2
Community: Berkeley Hills
MLS#: 40598550
Style: Craftsman
View: Bay
County: AlamedaIf You Love Natural Light, You will Fall in Love w/ the “VIEWS” of this home. This is definitely a HOME IMPROVEMENT house in the workings! NEEDS a lot of TLC.
Here’s Ms. Snoopy’s nominating speech for this front-page folly:
According to the agent, this one “NEEDS a lot of TLC.” I guess “TLC” in realtard speak now means drywall, doors, and ceilings. But the agent is right that you will get “lots of natural light” due to the fact that there are no walls.
Love your site!
No walls? That means plenty of fresh air as well! Plus fresh water.
And plenty of nature, both animal and plant kingdoms, free to surprise you day or night.
Would you look at those VIEWS!!!!!
January 7th, 2013 at 8:16 am
Selling shortly.
January 7th, 2013 at 8:42 am
No, not VIEWS, but “VIEWS”
I am besotted.
January 7th, 2013 at 8:54 am
Speaking of “views,” behold the street view..
January 7th, 2013 at 8:56 am
“Special Information: Potential Short Sale” really, who’d have thunk?!?
crazy price history over the past several years. some folks misunderstand the concept of doubling every few years.
January 7th, 2013 at 8:58 am
Oh yeah, previously foreclosed (Jul-08) for $867k, then again (Jan-10) for $974k and purchased Jan-11 for $425k. There’s no recorded sale between the two foreclosures, so I don’t know what that’s about. The last “normal” sale was in Feb-07 for $998k. It had a bubblicious ride from $470k just four years before that!
January 7th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Check out the before demo pix: http://www.redfin.com/CA/Berkeley/1068-Cragmont-Ave-94708/home/621972/ebrd-40492482
Gotta love how the demo work helped with all of the natural light!
January 7th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
More proof of how Special we are – $500K doesn’t even get you a crack house anymore…it gets you a crack house without walls. I like how the listing above has it as a 4/3 – at what point do you have to adjust that to match the non-room status of the building?
January 7th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Sorry – mistype, meant $400K
January 7th, 2013 at 2:40 pm
nomadic, double points on the streetview, DHO and trash can! And great find on the old listing, Metalhead!
Tiger’s Blood all around for #winning!
January 7th, 2013 at 3:32 pm
Another flipper flop. We’ve had a few lately.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:21 pm
The street view shows the proposed development and a drawing of the future house. In one shot Google even felt the need to blur the drawing. House porn?