Sunday, February 25, 2007

Screaming buy (Sunday Guess the Price Contest) $480k


Why buy? Because it is one of the cheapest... err... least expensive SFRs in the zip code. A couple hints and all you internet sleuths no fair peeking:

2 Bed, 1 Bath
616 Sq. Ft.
0.13 Acres

The "big" lot bumps the price so don't be shy. Oh and just so you don't get big ideas; 1.4 miles of you don't want to walk at night from the beach.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

FIRST BITCHES..HA...STUFF THAT UP THE TAILPIPE OF YOUR DIRTY YELLOW JEEP

Rob Dawg said...

"...STUFF THAT UP THE TAILPIPE OF YOUR DIRTY YELLOW JEEP."

Ummm, "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus."

Anonymous said...

That house is only slightly larger than my one bedroom apartment.

LOL said...

my guess, 890,000

Dimes said...

Whatever $400/month works out to being on a 30 year mortgage with no down payment. My apartment is almost three times the size and I don't have some scary ghetto retaining wall.

I bet they're asking $566K.

Anonymous said...

I gots to know !

Anonymous said...

God I am sure it's about $700,000.

My can not sell his house in a great town in Jersey for $725,000...or $700,000, or $685,000 or $679,000. Apparently the market is still strong in New York, but a retired cop friend of mine says he remembers a lot of buildings sitting unfinished throughout the 70's and 80's. The exact thing people saay can't happen here anymore.

Anonymous said...

I gots to know

Anonymous said...

::stir, growl::

Anonymous said...

damn double post, my DSL is kind of flaky tonight. Is that house east or west of the beach ??

Rob Dawg said...

Mo Hints:

City of San Buenaventura.
Directly North of the beach. So as to not confuse the wrong coasters; between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara the coastline runs almost due west. Really, look on a map. Thus due south from this Property 1.4 miles to the beach. Due west it is about 2.5 miles. Built in that great year 1928 it surely has no modern safety or convience features. The neighborhood also has the advantage of numerous body shops, thrify stores and oil service companies.

Now how much?

Anonymous said...

I'm no archtect, but how can you possibly squeeze 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, and probably a kitchen and living room into 616 sqft? I have a 2-bedroom with one bathroom, it's around 1100 sqft and it's pretty tiny!

Anonymous said...

ok I guess $650,000

Rob Dawg said...

Oh, Ogg. This house is slightly SMALLER than my living room.

Rob Dawg said...

Seems people are confused. I posted this under the title "Screaming buy." It is priced way under the neighborhood which is what caught my eye.

Anonymous said...

well I'm friggin sorry, I guess I suck at this game. I don't have a clue what houses sell for in California but all anyone ever does is bitch like crazy, so 650k seemed reasonable.

Anonymous said...

Rob,

Aside from the fact that I know this house is overpriced, I just did a quick search within my threshold of affordability with my New York income and nearly fell over. What a shitty lookinmg place to live. Ugh. No trees, tiny shitty houses with cheap chain link fences. Reminds me of my brief and character building days in Oak-town circa 1992.

TK

Anonymous said...

Jade, I'd think of 1100 sf as pretty generous in a 2 bedroom. 2 bedroom houses are relatively uncommon here, but 3 bedroom houses of 1100-1300 square feet and 2 bedroom apartments in the 700-900 square foot range are typical.

You'd squeze everything into that footprint by cutting down on closet space, doing away with washer & dryer hookups, shrinking the kitchen to the bare minimum, and designing the house with little or no unused space such as hallways and entryways. The dimensions of the actual living spaces probably wouldn't be much smaller than those of a typical 1940s house.

Rob Dawg said...

Jade, if it is any consolation I suck worse. Or is that better? Anyway I can't let this go on as the guesses are all over the place.

$480,000 or more than $700/sq ft.

And the reason I stopped the game? There's a house around the corner that's even more fun. See the next post.

Anonymous said...

$700/sqft? That's a SWEET deal for that neighborhood! Rob Dawg - can you send me the details on that? Unfortunately I don't have the cash on hand right now to pay you my standard birddogging fee of $500 but I can pay it after I take cash back at closing.

What do you say? We could even partner up on it. I'm working on building my team - you could be part of it!

Bob said...

"I'm no archtect, but how can you possibly squeeze 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, and probably a kitchen and living room into 616 sqft?"

here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/2g4vmt

I'll say $575,000.00 based on the assumption that the poseur factors in near-ocean CA and Greenwich CT are roughly equivalent.

Anonymous said...

I have no idea.....but here, it would be between $50-$60 per s/f. However, NOBODY builds a house that small...maybe you'd find it in the backyard as a playhouse for the kids.

Anonymous said...

I know absolutely nothing about SoCal, but my WAG is 725K

Anonymous said...

It looks like a mini-Casey Albuquerque house.

$574,900.

Anonymous said...

$480K eh?

OK, Rob, please help us out with a zip code next time. I just saw this in Palo Alto and it messed badly with even my jaded Bay Area sensibilities:

http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=19505101

837 sq ft. 2BR, last sold for $850K in 2005, just sold for ... $1.8M. Over $2K/sqft.