864 Jones Way, Campbell, CA 95008 Campbell MLS# 80821405 - Property Details
$699,000

* Status: Active
* Bedroom: 4
* Bathroom: 2&1/2
* Year Built: 1961
* Lot Size: 6360
* Square Footage: 1850
* List Date: 7/14/2008
* Garage Spaces: 2
Great opportunity for Day Care/Pre-School, Previous Owner was permitted for 12 Kids earning over $100K/Yr! Day care space at back of prop. clred by fire dept. Charming home, Quiet area, Bright tile Kitchen/Dining w/Garden Windows, nice Hdwd LR/Hall. Dual Paned Windows. Nice yard with automatic sprinklers and drip system. Room for RV. New Exterior and Interior paint * Cul-De-Sac location

This was sent in by Burbed reader Real Estater.

Like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, the next owner of this house will have no problems easily pulling in over $100k per year running a day care. Just thing, you can have your cake, eat it too, and then write it off! It’s a Win-Win-Win if you ask me!

At night, I dream not of sugar plum fairies, but opportunities to monetize my residence. Talk about House 3.0!

Better buy this house and get an MBA, because you’ll need another degree to manage this incredible moneymaker.

Cha CHING!

207 N Central Ave, Campbell 95008
$899,888

* Status: Active
* Bedroom: 3
* Bathroom: 2
* Year Built: 1900
* Lot Size: 7880
* Square Footage: 1185
* List Date: 3/26/2008
* Garage Spaces: 2
* MLS#: 786918

Unique! Majestic Beauty! Only one of its kind! Restored & upgraded charm historic Greek Revival home w/huge lot in downtown historic social circle walking distances 2 farmer’s market. REAR UNIT NOT INCLUDED in sqft, NEW cement foundation w/6?H basement/electrical/plumbing/gas line/heating/interior/granite counter/tankless waterheater.All New construction permits w/current building code, MUST SEE!!

This caught my attention in a few ways:

1) It has the lucky price. This means that the house is lucky, and when you buy it, you will be lucky too.

2) It has a basement. That’s pretty unusual, and actually kind of cool IMHO.

3) Something about a rear unit. Let’s take a look at some more photos:

Hm. No. I think that’s the back of the house. (Nice entrance to the basement though!)

Let’s look at another photo:

Wow… really that’s not what I expected. For some reason, I have this urge to say “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!”

Perhaps why this house is majestic - it’s like a fairy tale. Wouldn’t you tell your kids about this?

I can see the Craigslist ad already: “Room for rent in Campbell above garage. Very safe - you can be sure you won’t be burglarized. BYOCMD (Bring your own carbon monoxide detector).”

630 W Sunnyoaks Ave, Campbell 95008(Campbell)
$695,000

Status: Active
Bedroom: 3
Bathroom: 2&1/2
Year Built: 2005
Lot Size: 3484
Square Footage: 1630
List Date: 1/20/2008
Garage Spaces: 2

Description of 630 W Sunnyoaks Ave, CampbellNEW PRICE,3 YEARS OLD AND TOP CONDITION, hardwood floor main level, large covered side yard, granite counters,gas range, stainless frig & appliances.Designer carpet, easy rise staircase to stunning upstairs with 3 large bedrooms + laundry room. Skylight, upgraded plumbing,2 car attached garage. Best location for Los Gatos/Campbell shops and restaurants. Convenient to Hwy 85/17

Top condition indeed. Let’s take a look at some photos, and see why long time Burbed reader Brendan
sent this in:

OMG. Who lives in this house? Is it the Pope? (No, he lives in Willow Glen remember?)

Why, of course, Sherlock Holmes lives here! Just think, you come home from a long day of work at eBay as one of their fraud detectives, you take off your hat, put on your robe and puff away at your pipe. You admire the Greek and Roman antiquities you acquired - appreciating how they were all made in places like Shenzen. You sip on your glass of aged port and wonder… what is Moriarty294’s next move? Will he pose as a Nigerian buyer? A high ranking Nigerian military official? Will he collude with others to rig a sale? So many questions - and luckily you have strong deductive reasoning skills. After all, you deduced that this house would be a great buy!

You’ll then think about stagers, and what happens when you give them a bucket of money and say “Make my place look fantastic.”

Frankly, if these photos don’t sell you on buying this house? I don’t know what will.

UPDATE: Fixed a typo. Also, a Burbed reader reports that this actually isn’t staging - that this is how the place actually looks as per the seller. WHOA.

On Monday, we showed you what a $1.295 million dollar house looks like in Greenwich, CT where the income regularly tops $500k. Let’s look a house in that price range here in the Bay Area:

MLS-2.com: Property Details
1149 AUDREY, CAMPBELL,CA,95008 - $1,250,000

4 Beds 1221 Sq.Ft. Aprx. 2 Car Garage MLS#: 753932
3.0 Baths 10,890 Lot Size 59 Yrs Old Aprx. List Date: 2007-09-25

What’s new on MLS-2: Search by % Price Drop // Search by “MOTIVATED SELLERS”

Description - 1149 AUDREY, CAMPBELL,CA,95008
Fixer upper! Large lot over 10,000 sq ft, huge backyard,opportunity to build custom home or remodel. Located on quiet street, excellent Campbell location

Now, Campbell is clearly better than Greenwich - how do we know that? For one thing, it’s got the Egyptian themed Fry’s. TAKE THAT GREENWICH! Also, Campbell has… uh… prunes. What does Greenwich have? Probably nothing! Yeah so Donald Trump lives there… but just think of all the amazingly famous people who live in Campbell. Can’t think of any? Well that’s because they prefer to be private.

It’s on the first day and we’ve already given Greenwich a good stomping… let’s see what tomorrow brings!

Reports

1560 W HACIENDA AV
Campbell (Campbell) 95008
Detached Single Family (Class 1)
Bed/Bath: 5 / 3
SqFt: 2,580
Lot: 12,035 sq ft
Age: 53 years
List Price: $850,000
Assoc Fee:
Remarks
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH* TWO STORY HOME IN ROUGH CONDITION WITH DEFFEED MAINTENENCE**VALUE IS THE LAND**LARGE FLAT LOT IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW CONSTRUCTION HOMES*GREAT CANDIDATE FOR BUILD/REMODEL

Frankly, I’m not sure what “DEFFEED MAINTENENCE” is - is that when you starve the house so that it doesn’t gain weight?

In any case, that’s not why Burbed reader Sandi sent this to me - here’s what she had to say:

 Here is another gem…especially photo # 8 of 9…gotta love the owners,

1 laying on the bed and the other in the recliner. Looks like they can’t get up. MLS # 760244

Hm, let’s take a look!

Hm. Nothing unusual so far - just another classic reminder to potential buyers of how Bay Area houses don’t need any further investment once you buy them… let’s keep going…

Found ‘em!

So… are they included with the purchase price? Or not? One wonders!

Thanks Sandi!

MLS-2.com: Property Details
1149 AUDREY, CAMPBELL,CA,95008 - $1,250,000

4 Beds 1221 Sq.Ft. Aprx. 2 Car Garage MLS#: 753932
3.0 Baths 10,890 Lot Size 59 Yrs Old Aprx. List Date: 2007-09-25

What’s new on MLS-2: Search by % Price Drop // Search by “MOTIVATED SELLERS”

Description - 1149 AUDREY, CAMPBELL,CA,95008
Fixer upper! Large lot over 10,000 sq ft, huge backyard,opportunity to build custom home or remodel. Located on quiet street, excellent Campbell location

Did you guess a house in Campbell?

No? Oh.

Uh.

Well, yeah it’s a house in Campbell. And it’s a fixer upper! So it’s win win!

Just think: Buy it for $1.25 mil, then spend another $300k to build a new house. Presto - you’ve suddenly got a $1.55 million dollar house in the Bay Area. Now that’s something you can write home about!

And with a lot that big, you can easily rent out campgrounds for people to set up tents. Can you say CA$HFLOW?

You can thanks to Burbed Reader Sandi for this find. That is, if Sandi hasn’t bought it already!

MLSlistings Property Detail for MLS number 740173
3974 W CAMPBELL AV
San Jose, CA 95008

$729,000

This Single Family Residence has the following features:
MLS#: 740173 Approx Age: 31 Years Approx Sq Ft: 1694
Detached Single Family 1 Story Contemporary
4 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2 or More Stall Showers
1 Shower over Tub 1 Tub Separate Family Room

Did you guess “A 1694 sqft house in Campbell!”?

No?

Well… uh… you should’ve because that’s the answer!

I really like the drought resistant yard that’s been added to this house - it’s very eco friendly. It’s fairly obvious that the next step is to pave it over so you can have more parking…

588 Hawthorne Ave, Campbell, CA 95008 - Property Details.
588 Hawthorne Ave, Campbell 95008
Bedroom: 4 Bathroom: 3 MLS#: 716108 Square Footage: 2250 $1,010,000
Status:
Active
Year Built: N/A Parking Spaces: 1 List Date: 3/30/2007 Lot Size: 6098
Open: Sat 13:00 - 16:00 Sun 13:30 - 16:30
DESCRIPTION -
588 Hawthorne Ave, Campbell
ALL NEW remodelded home offers great location & Campbell living!! 2,250 sqft. of living spc. 4 Bdrms & 3 bath rms. Beautiful kitchen w/ granite coutner tops& NEW highest quality appl. Gorgeous oak hrdwd flrs. PLENTY of dual pane

I love how this house is over $1 million dollars, but yet the description is so… well… chump change. Plenty of dual pane? What, this million dollar house has so many windows you can’t count them all? And what exactly is “Campbell living” anyway? How does it differ than, say, Sunnyvale living? Is it more special? Does it mean “enjoy the roar of 17 all day and night”?