Weird house / real estate listings.

[Pkrd]

"Sure, let's build in a flood plain!"
Plus they slammed that house right up against an apartment/condo building.
In Alaska.
With tons of open space...

Half built pool.

 

[MaxStout]

Why, yes, you can be the second or third person to set up a meth lab here!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/64-Idell-Ct-Byron-GA-31008/76591188_zpid/

 

[Kharnynb]

I love the statistics
Cooling YES.....i guess smashed windows count as cooling?

also...what the heck is with the prices...that doesn't even seem in a good area or such.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

In my neighborhood...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/26772-Avenida-Shonto-Mission-Viejo-CA-92691/25627774_zpid/

I spoke to the neighbor while walking the dog... Apparently quite a sordid story and the owner likely committed arson...

https://hoodline.com/2023/11/blaze-...ave-neighborhood-dream-as-flames-engulf-home/

 

[day_trippr]

Mister Jake Rodriguez really getting use out of that thesaurus he won at the office Christmas gift swap
But I really love that the Zillow ad still claims there are bedrooms and bathrooms and all kinds of rooms...

 

[mashdar]

In my neighborhood...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/26772-Avenida-Shonto-Mission-Viejo-CA-92691/25627774_zpid/

I spoke to the neighbor while walking the dog... Apparently quite a sordid story and the owner likely committed arson...

https://hoodline.com/2023/11/blaze-...ave-neighborhood-dream-as-flames-engulf-home/

How did those photos get on zillow? Did a human have to add them? A human involved in selling it?

 

[Pkrd]

Mister Jake Rodriguez really getting use out of that thesaurus he won at the office Christmas gift swap

I'd like to see a photo of his hands.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

How did those photos get on zillow? Did a human have to add them? A human involved in selling it?

Yes. It had actually been listed 2 days before it "burned" with the before photos. My discussion with the next door neighbor suggests that it was part of a domestic issue (wife had separated and was terrified of husband) and the husband had stopped paying on the house. So I suspect that it was listed for sale as pre-foreclosure. And once it was listed the husband (who according to neighbor didn't want to leave) torched it.

But once it was torched, the bank/etc basically said "we're selling this as-is and someone who wants it as a teardown/new build must take responsibility" and that's why they flat out listed it with the real pictures and the explicit disclaimers that it's being sold as-is and is completely uninhabitable and is a total teardown.

I can't find the husband's name but based on the discussion with the neighbor apparently he might have killed himself after all this while under investigation for arson. But I didn't want to include TOO much of my discussion with the neighbor because it was the first time I'd met him and he was a very kind but VERY elderly gentleman. So I don't know how much to believe. His take on it included a number of other details that suggest arson though... As I said, a sordid tale...

 

[Kharnynb]

damn...those prices...no wonder your wages are so much higher than in finland, between insurances and housing, you'll be lucky to have money left

 

[mashdar]

damn...those prices...no wonder your wages are so much higher than in finland, between insurances and housing, you'll be lucky to have money left

Cali real estate is crazy. We briefly looked around in LA, and $1M USD could only buy absolute wrecks in extremely sketchy neighborhoods.

That 8,000 square foot (~800m2) place in texas was under $1M, which blows my mind. Probably in a flood plain or something.

It's a big and varied country. California takes the cake for craziest suburban house prices.

 

[Kharnynb]

over here, outside of the center of helsinki, you can get something decent for 100-200.000 easily, once you get where I live, you can get something nice for that money.
1 million is mansion money here. a great house in a good location here will be less than 500.000

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

damn...those prices...no wonder your wages are so much higher than in finland, between insurances and housing, you'll be lucky to have money left

Weather costs money

 

[MaxStout]

Only $625k in D.C. Not a single-family home, it's a single-person home.

 

[Kee]

Only $625k in D.C. Not a single-family home, it's a single-person home.

A good test for any person or couple that considers themselves minimalists.

 

[Kharnynb]

my wife and I lived in an apartment smaller than that for 6 years in our 20's

 

[Kharnynb]

https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/myytavat-asunnot/helsinki/20851407

not ours, ours didn't have a balcony, but same building and ours was very much pre-renovation

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

A good test for any person or couple that considers themselves minimalists.

At 6'5" I'm already claustrophobic just looking at it.

 

[pvtpublic]

Only $625k in D.C. Not a single-family home, it's a single-person home.

600 Sq ft? They're probably talking about the vertical sq ft

 

[lumpher]

Only $625k in D.C. Not a single-family home, it's a single-person home.

I have a 2100 sq ft home and some land in Texas. I paid less for it total than the down payment for that would be. I told my sister in Florida what I paid for it... I had to dodge some vases and chairs she threw at me...

 

[Pkrd]

A good test for any person or couple that considers themselves minimalists.

I guess the second bathroom helps?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/myytavat-asunnot/helsinki/20851407

not ours, ours didn't have a balcony, but same building and ours was very much pre-renovation

Is that a shower or a launch control system for missiles?

 

[Kharnynb]

Is that a shower or a launch control system for missiles?

looks pretty normal for finnish style, the square head is a new fad though

 

[brewskitom]

Tastefully decorated - by Louis XIII.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/26-Oakwood-Rd_Orinda_CA_94563_M19831-86970

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Is that a pistachio colored Viking range in the gawdawful kitchen?? Haha

 

[day_trippr]

I vividly recall when pistachio was a thing: the early 60s, when my mom's colonial repro was built, with both that kitchen and the matching formal dining room, and the matching powder room. Fortunately I wasn't wise enough at that age to know how wrong it all was

 

[brewskitom]

Is that a pistachio colored Viking range in the gawdawful kitchen?? Haha

Yes. When we were looking at houses in the area I would have considered this gem, but the fact that the combination microwave+oven opposite the range was stainless steel and not a matching pistachio was just a deal breaker for me.

 

[Deadalus]

If this wasn't mentioned. previously, Ugliest House in America, HGTV MONDAYS at 9.

 

[NoCornOrRice]

$139 million, typo, I assume.
Check out this listing https://www.realtor.ca/l/bMeVq/ja?propertyIds=26758096

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Wondering if I should tour this listing...

https://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/port-royal-compound-on-market-for-record-295m/

 

[doug293cz]

Wondering if I should tour this listing...

https://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/port-royal-compound-on-market-for-record-295m/

You'd probably have to provide an audited financial statement, showing adequate net worth, just to get in the door for a look.

Brew on