A Couple of Foreclosures
Here are a couple of foreclosures this week that may interest some readers. First up: Unit 2R at 559 Warren Street. One of eight co-op apartments in the 6,500-square-foot building between 3rd and 4th Avenues, this property has a lien of $122,984 against it. Second pick: 189 Lefferts Place. The 16-foot wide three-family brownstone between…
Here are a couple of foreclosures this week that may interest some readers. First up: Unit 2R at 559 Warren Street. One of eight co-op apartments in the 6,500-square-foot building between 3rd and 4th Avenues, this property has a lien of $122,984 against it. Second pick: 189 Lefferts Place. The 16-foot wide three-family brownstone between Classon and Franklin has a lien of $578,034 against it, which can be a whole lot less than it’s worth. The auctions take place at 3 p.m. on Thurday at 360 Adams Street; 559 Warren happens on the front steps and 189 Lefferts in Room 274.
559 Warren Street Foreclosure [PropertyShark] GMAP
189 Lefferts Place Foreclosure [PropertyShark] GMAP
PS. if you’re serious about foreclosures, Propertyshark has trainings and a lot of data:
http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Marketing/Forcs/
I get the sense that a workshop is well worth it, even if you only want one home, precisely because it is complicated.
MaFo, I have the same question. I mean, I can answer your question but there’re others worth asking. You show up to the auction, is answer one. Two, there’s no agent involved so you aren’t paying a Realtor. Three, fees. I have no idea. Your standard fees include the cost of hiring a lawyer (which you’d presumably still want to do in a foreclosure); title search (ditto); transfer taxes and mortgage recording fees. My guess is that in the case of a foreclosure bought at auction the buyer is going to get stuck with the fees, but I’m just guessing.
hypothetically speaking, how would one go about purchasing an apartment that is going through foreclosure? would it be via auction through the bank? what abt RE agents, fee’s, etc.
Thanks~!
The only shoot-out I heard about was on Franklin Street in Greenpoint. Not Franklin Ave. This block certainly has its share of charms (there’s a “hotel” on Classon and Lefferts that definitely keeps the sheets hot and a motel on Classon across Fulton that is in similarly active use)
And … I don’t know from greed but the story on Lefferts is curious. A $572,000 mortgage in 2002 and he owed $578,034 when the first foreclosure auction was set in 2006. It sounds like he got underwater fast which might suggest that the terms of his loan were unbearable. Or that they jumped after the first two years and he started accumulating debts.
Wasnt Classon and Franklin where that shoot out was on Friday, might even go for cheaper!
What’s your point cornerbodega??? No, I don’t like to see people foreclosed out of their homes but if they did it to themselves out of greed, then so be it.
Dibs, you must love news like this…
Questions about how these work:
For the coop, there’s no information on P-shark or Street Easy about the unit itself. If you wanted a floorplan, where would you find it? Ditto for if you wanted to know something about the building’s finances.
And for the place on Lefferts … the place has changed hands exactly once since 1966. No building permits on file. So you can safely assume that any wiring / plumbing is either vintage 1966 or was done under the table. Neither something that adds to the value of a place.
With auctions like this, is there a way to view the property (inside the property) beforehand?
Go here, What, <<<<
You’d be making some money instead of ranting if you listened to my BUY YCS call last week and again yesterday.