Tired of Tracts?

by | Apr 25, 2011 | Bubbleinfo TV, REOs for sale | 9 comments

Do you like ’em different? Here’s a tour of a 3,026 sf REO in Mission Hills, listed for $1,319,000:

9 Comments

  1. SD_suntaxed
    SD_suntaxed on April 25, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    Forgot your miner’s helmet again?

    Love the detail and the close ups of it. Beautiful.

  2. Susie
    Susie on April 25, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    It’s amazing what you do to bring us these videos, Jim. I winced when you bumped your head! Loved the old-world craftsmanship and detail…

  3. tj & the bear
    tj & the bear on April 25, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    Must be the very high ceilings and overall architecture, because you get a sense that it’s much bigger than it is (and 3K is not small).

  4. François Caron
    François Caron on April 26, 2011 at 8:36 am

    Jim is an inch taller now. 🙂

    Would have liked to have seen the third floor though, and the view from that little balcony in the living room. You could see the trap door in the closet of the room behind it.

  5. Kardashianians
    Kardashianians on April 26, 2011 at 8:37 am

    Beautiful details.

    I’d love to live in it but I’d hate to own it. I am guessing the owner could spend some serious money each year just to maintain it.

  6. Auntie Agent
    Auntie Agent on April 26, 2011 at 9:43 am

    The living room is the best part of the house – very dramatic. The layout is very chaotic. The third level is accessed by a small spiral stair case. The views are nice from up there. The slate roofs looks like it will need some work. Overall, it needs some cosmetic work and the kitchen looks much better on the video then in real life. It is on a kind of busy corner but still in beautiful north mission hills.

    JTR more of the metro SD please.

  7. Sean
    Sean on April 26, 2011 at 10:20 am

    Can you get or does it already have Mills Act treatment?

    What a shame that they did not do a better job making the kitchen update fit more seamlessly into the original character of the home in terms of materials and design elements. Ditto with the master closet – great idea badly executed.

    The Spanish lace plastering finish inside is kind of a bummer, and not original, but nothing that a $20k interior smoothcoating and painting budget couldn’t fix.

    Having lived in a 1931 built home, the maintenance really isn’t any worse than on a more modern build and often the pre-war homes are way better built. It’s only things like major rewiring and plumbing that are a challenge because of the plaster/lathe wall construction which usually has diagonal beams between 2×6 studs.

  8. ewhac
    ewhac on April 26, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    That’s the screwiest-looking ice cream truck I’ve ever seen :-).

  9. Former RB Resident
    Former RB Resident on April 27, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    Ok, I like old houses and a I really like this one. (And its in my price range.) Too bad I don’t live their any longer. Jim, was the detail on the walls in the master and the upstairs bedroom original as well, do you think?

    The previous owner(s) did indeed do some smart things to overcome the common problems with old houses. I have owned houses built in the 20s and the 40s, and kitchen, bathroom and closets are the biggest killers. Bathrooms with old concrete laid tile are hard to fix and even harder to replace; kitchens are smaller and need upgrading and closets are often the classic “broom closet”, even in the master. My wife and I “shared” a single 4 foot wide closet in our last house, built in the 40s (and by “shared”, I mean I used the guest room closet),

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