Hopefully nothing in the home is as broken as the realtor’s caps lock key.
Update: Realtor includes my favorite lazy realtor picture (from the car, including the car door mirror).
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Hopefully nothing in the home is as broken as the realtor’s caps lock key.
Update: Realtor includes my favorite lazy realtor picture (from the car, including the car door mirror).
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I wonder if this is a Fehr & Granger? Kinda-semi-sorta looks like one… but like a budget version, hmmmmmm.
GREAT potential and the area is not nearly as bad as I originally expected. Gonna take some work and $$ however. Used to have a pool, but that has seemingly been filled in. If I were seriously in the market and had the $, I’d be VERY interested.
Rob
Ugh, and the fish-eye lens…I feel drunk and yelled at.
I love this house!
I’d love to hear a few responses to this question:
“Do ya’ll think there’s a premium on modern houses in Austin. i.e. If you built an identical house with approximately equal finish outs, one house modern, and one traditional, do you think the modern house would sell for more? And, if there is a difference, how marked do you think the difference is? Can new, modern, and low cost stand on it’s own or does it need to be coupled with luxury finishes?”
Looks like a diamond in the rough… anyone know this neighborhood?
I know the neighborhood: near Montopolis and Grove. House backs up to ACC Riverside campus and a golf course. The street itself only has about 8-10 homes on it, otherwise it’s an orphaned group of homes in what looks like a never completed development. My guess is the area was outside the city limits when the home was built and there’s a fair anount of undeveloped land in the immediate vicinity. I don’t see any significant development taking place while the economy is flat.
If the price drops about $50-$75K this could be a great and FUN project that would still be in the ballpark price wise for the area. Looks to me like the house needs updating in all the expensive, but crucial areas – baths, kitchen, windows, etc.
My wife and I went and checked it out – back gate unlocked and easy to get around. its a great place but probably $150,000? to get it in real good shape. The way it sits its got to be a major energy hog in the summer. Its begging for a pool. The property is so big you could build a second home / studio in the side yard.
Any noise pollution from the airport?
Drove out there the other day…it may not be a bad neighborhood, but it’s kind of a gloomy trip; ugly part of town. Right off Riverside Dr. the street Penick itself looks pretty unloved. It looks like the remnants of a development that someone forgot to finish. The vacant field across from the house is where you actually collect your mail. The field is overgrown and apparently an impromptu dumping ground for disused sofas and other junk. There was also evidence of parties in the woods nearby.
So, it’s a neat house, HUGE, and mostly untouched by cheezy modern updates, but it’s stuck in a pretty shabby spot. I’d also worry about a Wal-Mart or some other Big Box going up on that lot across the way.
The zoning for the property itself is SF3 but the 5 lots across the street are SF1 (single family, large lot). The property at Riverside (in front of the SF1 lots) is LR/MU: light retail (retail serving neighborhood) and mixed use. The land across Riverside is zoned LO or light office (offices serving neighborhoods, such as medical offices).
The house did have a pool (visible on older satellite photos). From the looks of the back yard it appears the pool may have been filled in and the deck around it covered with sod.
The house is in good shape and shows limited updating (read: mostly original, in a good way). There are some minor signs of foundation settling but the lot is level and overall the condition is good for a 50+ year old house.
I’m a realtor if anyone is interested in taking a serious look at the place. Robert @ 512-659-3481
One more comment: the land in front of the house is owned by a partnership that includes Bill Greif, a retired pro baseball player.
Neat potential, but I just have to echo the statement: This realtor is really horrible. Check out her website – wow – no information or listing of homes. The photos are TERRIBLE, but with some creative searching, you’ll find some really NICE photos — she simply didn’t bother to put them in MLS – can you imagine? I am also in the camp of “if I had an extra $100k lying around, I’d definitely be interested.”
I dig around once in awhile trying to find the architect and history of our home. We bought in June of 2010. Lo and behold, I found this post. I’m still trying to figure out who the architect could have been. We have gathered several stories about the original owner of the home, but not done “real” digging yet. It had a pool with speakers in it. Harvey Penick’s house, next door, had a son who’d come hang out at the pool. One story was it was a groundskeeper for the Austin Country Club back when Penick was the pro. Another story is it was a high ranking officer for the military. The latter would explain the “intercontinental surveillance system” still scanning. There are many unique features that we eventually need to figure out why done and how to “fix.” We did build a house next to this one for my dad. East Riverside has boomed and Bill Greif is going to try to get a variance in this historic, unique street. It ain’t gonna be easy with us hip new owners on the street. Any input on the architect possibilities would be great. My list currently is Stengar, Fehr & Granger, Roland Roessner. The old listing is still accessible if you google the address or I can send more pictures.
I should clarify…we bought the home referenced in this post. :o)