3-Bedroom Rehabbed Bungalow Now Under $325,000: 4820 N. Tripp in Mayfair
We last chattered about this 3-bedroom bungalow at 4820 N. Tripp in the Mayfair neighborhood of Albany Park (is part of Mayfair also in Irving Park? I’m confused by Mayfair’s “true” boundaries) in July 2011.
See our prior chatter here.
Many of you were surprised to find you liked this bungalow but didn’t know much about the neighborhood.
The house is still on the market and has been reduced another $24,900 to $324,900.
If you recall, it was a foreclosure in 2009 and has since been rehabbed. Someone posted a link last time to the rehabbers blog if you want to see the process. See that here.
The bungalow has been registered with the city’s Historic Bungalow Initative.
The listing says it has a new master bathroom.
The kitchen has cedar finished cabinets and stainless steel appliances.
2 of the bedrooms are on the main floor with the third in the basement along with the family room.
It has some of its vintage features intact such as built-in bookcases and stained glass windows.
Built in 1923 on a 30×125 lot, it has central air and a 2-car garage.
Mayfair was voted one of the best ”old house” neighborhoods in 2010 by This Old House magazine (51 neighborhoods were selected nation wide).
Will this house ultimately sell for under $300,000?
Edward Hester at Dream Town Realty has the listing. See the pictures here (the price in the listing is old so just ignore it.)
4820 N. Tripp: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2000 square feet, 2 car garage
- Sold in January 2002 for $211,000
- Sold in October 2006 for $375,000
- Lis pendens filed in September 2007
- Bank owned in October 2008
- Sold in February 2009 for $225,000
- Originally listed in January 2011 for $369,900
- Reduced
- Was listed in July 2011 at $349,800
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $324,900
- Taxes of $4717
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 12×10 (main floor)
- Bedroom #2: 11×10 (main floor)
- Bedroom #3: 15×11 (basement)
- Family room: 21×20 (basement)
Flip flop?
I’m sensing there’s a theme on CC this week.
I’m just happy today’s listings are outside pretty much everyone’s definition of the Green Zone
It’s a trek from the blue line.
What’s the local school like? Where do families who live around here send their kids? Also, how in the world does the listing agent’s company’s site not have the correct list price?
St. Edwards is the private school.
The nice location of this house is the proximity to the unofficial start of the north branch trail at gompers park.
It’s very easy to laugh at someone or make fun of them – but these people are actually trying….unlike G, HD, anon, bob, who do nothing but talk talk talk – there something to be said for that. I would bet anything that the significant others of the aforementioned gang would rather “be with” someone who is more of a cowboy and adventurer/risk taker. Their loss…..
se habla espanol clio?
“The kitchen has cedar finished cabinets ”
No, it doesn’t. It had and still has *cider* finished cabinets.
” I would bet anything that the significant others of the aforementioned gang would rather “be with” someone who is more of a cowboy and adventurer/risk taker.”
I hear there are lots of cowboys and adventurer/risk takers in SoCal.
“I hear there are lots of cowboys and adventurer/risk takers in SoCal.”
Southern California – and especially Beverly Hills/West Hollywood is the BEST place on earth. You ARE correct – everyone there is awesome: good looking, nice, accepting, etc. I miss it a lot!!!!
But she doesn’t miss you!!!!
OK, HD, St. Ed’s is the private school…but what about the public school? Not everyone in this nabe is Catholic, you know (as the abundance of Protestant churches in the area will attest).
“OK, HD, St. Ed’s is the private school…but what about the public school?”
Looked it up. It’s Palmer, kinda middling but with some defenders.
“Looked it up.”
Did it require googling the hell out of it?
“I hear there are lots of cowboys and adventurer/risk takers in SoCal.”
LOL.. 800 on the reading comp, but he missed that one.
“Did it require googling the hell out of it?”
No but the cps locator has had issues the last couple weeks. I also leveraged my $45 NPN (where the first N now stands inclusively for neighborhood) subscription to find out that someone knew someone who liked Palmer. While Palmer may not suck, I wouldn’t say there’s a plethora of great, let alone good, public schools, or parks with super strollers, in area.
“LOL.. 800 on the reading comp, but he missed that one.”
did I?……..
“did I?……..”
Of course not. I’d guess 540-560. 🙂
“parks with super strollers”
Do we have Gompers documented as a stroller free(ish) zone? Sufficient for wiki inclusion?
I don’t know… bungalows just depress the shit out of me. I much prefer a generic suburban split-level or ranch to a bungalow.
“I don’t know… bungalows just depress the shit out of me.”
The last realtor picture (backyard shot) sums up that thought. Probably should leave it out.
“I much prefer a generic suburban split-level or ranch to a bungalow.”
Do you like gold hardware on your bathroom sink too? And it has to be shaped like a seashell.
“Of course not. I’d guess 540-560.”
I thought U of C undergrads tested well but had low social IQ? Clio, it’s U of C for undergrad, right? Which one did you go to for med school?
“Do we have Gompers documented as a stroller free(ish) zone? Sufficient for wiki inclusion?”
Afraid Icarus is going to need drive by.
“But she doesn’t miss you!!!!”
I’m sure she does – her biggest mistake was not forgiving me for a couple of drunken late nights I had (and the indiscretions which go along) that took place early in our marriage. If she would have been practical, forgiven me, and set down some rules, we both would have been fine – but obviously, like most of you, she was influenced by the media/Oprah, etc. and was absolutely inflexible and dogmatic about it. Anyway, the point is that people should really give the cowboys/adventurers out there who actually take crappy houses and fix them up a LOT more credit. If they fail, at least they tried – which is WAY more than most of you can say.
i thought clio went to uic
“i thought clio went to uic”
Wait, isn’t U.of C and UIC the same thing?
“i thought clio went to uic”
I don’t see how that could possibly be right. clio wouldn’t have to settle for uic.
” we both would have been fine – but obviously, like most of you, she was influenced by the media/Oprah, etc. and was absolutely inflexible and dogmatic about it. Anyway, the point is that people should really give the cowboys/adventurers out there who actually take crappy houses and fix them up a LOT more credit. If they fail, at least they tried – which is WAY more than most of you can say.”
I’m sure she is fine… considerably more flexible, equally dogmatic (if that’s what I think dogmatic means), agrees with you 110% about really giving cowboy a LOT more… WAY more..
Medical School: University of Illinois, Chicago,IL
Internship: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Harvard Medical School
Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine
HD – the internet is not always correct. This is the problem with morons like you who rely on the internet as the absolute truth – you will never be a winner (although you got 3 of 4 correct – that still is only 75% – but I guess that is to be expected of you, right?) – and don’t make me post your resume on the internet…..that would be embarrassing to you!!
clio, my resume is not on the internet. Yours is. but according to your secondary languages, you no longer speak spanish! four weeks ago you spoke spanish but today it’s not there.
clio, i have a pretty good idea what sort of salary you make. I have plenty of clients who make approximately you make. The end up in my office because they lived a lifestyle beyond their means. Yeah, you’re probably in the top 1%, but just barely, probably more like 2% In towns are expensive, you can’t fly private jets, you’ve never broken 7 figs in a year; you pay a marginal tax rate in the 30’s, not in the 10’s like the super rich. These types spend all their money, and the self employment tax, and max out the credit cards….did you do that too clio?
HD – huh? I still don’t get the whole “spanish thing”. I never spoke spanish, never told anyone I spoke spanish, and never changed anything on any of my profiles. That is just weird…….
In terms of my own financial status, how the fuck would you know what I make? How would you know how much money I have? More importantly, why would you even care? I don’t really give a fuck about you – why don’t you return the favor, you POS.
“my resume is not on the internet”
You don’t have a law firm bio page? I thought you all did.
It’s all over the chatboards what your specialty earns. It’s not hard to figure out.
but the problem is that you spend like you make twice that.
I’ll know who you are when you are referred to me, but you won’t know who I am.
“It’s all over the chatboards what your specialty earns. It’s not hard to figure out.”
ONce again, our resident moron is relying on “chatboards” and the internet to determine what a specific individual makes. See everyone – this is the type of analysis and deductive thinking that HD practices – and this is EXACTLY the reason he is wrong about real estate (as well as being wrong about me). HD – you have to factor in money made in business, outside investments, inherited money, AND specialization beyond what a generic “chatboard” states. It would be similar to me telling the Founder of Corboy and Demetrio that he must make 60k a year because that is what the average lawyer makes….god, you are stupid
HD – I apologize for any insults. I am seriously stressed about financial issues and can’t deal with it much longer. You are totally correct in stating that I spend much more than I make and you are probably right stating that I will likely be heading into foreclosure on most of my properties. I just hope that you treat me with kindness and empathy if you do get assigned my case.
CLIO I don’t know who you are but stfu and go home already.
“You don’t have a law firm bio page?”
Nope, just a video with Donald Duck and Panchito. But not too many can match that!
“See everyone – this is the type of analysis and deductive thinking that HD practices”
Well it does give a high probability of a reasonably tight range. For HD, I’m impressed.
HD – come back out and play w/ us. I’m bored…..
Harvard medical school. Now aren’t they the ones with the close ties to Big Pharma? Impressive.
Kinda old news, but I’ve followed the career of Joseph Biederman since he was selling bogus reasearch on adhd drugs. Seems to me he was trying to get more kids diagnosed as bipolar as well. Total Big Pharma shill. But of course, he is only one. Still, it does tarnish the image a big.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us/08conflict.html?pagewanted=all
juliana, people at Harvard are very smart – they understand that the majority of the population are total idiots/morons – why not take advantage of it?! 99.99999% contribute nothing to this world.
I enjoy the clio show.
“but obviously, like most of you, she was influenced by the media/Oprah, etc. and was absolutely inflexible and dogmatic about it.”
Oprah influences me all the time. 🙂
‘Southern California – and especially Beverly Hills/West Hollywood is the BEST place on earth. You ARE correct – everyone there is awesome: good looking, nice, accepting, etc. I miss it a lot!!!!’
Kinda have to agree (somewhat) with clio on this one. The one thing I notice out here is the overwhelming abundance of optimism, something Chicago *definitely* lacks. Okay, I’ll give you that most of it is probably blind, but all that positive energy (very LA thing to say) rubs off on you… it’s like living in a 24/7 pep rally, I mean out here you really *want* to to wear a pocket square at Cecconis.
The thing is, folks here *aren’t* that much better off than those in Chicago regardless of the constant over-the-top display of wealth, or rather the appearance of wealth. If I had only to rely on the daily Debby does Downer posts of CC as my barometer for all things Chicago, I’d never go back. Had the internet/too-much-information been around in the early 90’s, maybe I would have dumped my place in LP during that crash: lets see – I paid $400’s (@11.5%, 20% down) in the late 80’s, worth $300’s in the early 90’s… underwater, big time. Think I could pick up a brick SF/2 car there now in that price range? WIthout getting all Deepak Shopra/Oprah here, you do kinda make your own reality.
So cheer up Chicago, your neighbors to the far far west are just as broke-ass as are the rest back home, they just don’t wallow in it like midwesterns (love to) do. You can always pitch another screen play, right?
jay – awesome post!!! Totally agree. The big difference, though, is that in LA, you can spend a lot of time outside (so your actual house/apt/condo may not be as important to you). In chicago, the weather is so awful that we are married to our homes (also, don’t forget the fact that so many people here are so frickin’ fat that they CAN’T move out of their house) – this adds to the misery….
Why do any of you feed into this Clio bullshit? Who cares? This thread went downhill as soon as he posted about cowboys or whatever… so stupid.
“This thread went downhill as soon as he posted about cowboys or whatever… so stupid.”
How is having someone who went into the medical field, thinking they are a cowboy, not hilarious?
Hey ze, your building isnt going to collapse into a heap of straw, mud and bricks, is it?
Nice bungalow renovation. But a dual-income white professional couple opting for the West Ridge or Mayfair bungalow belt first made several significant compromises:
1) comparative social isolation, because many compatriots aren’t living in these areas.
2) high tolerance for neighbors’ picadillos – whether ethnic-background or economic demographic-related (we’ve been there and done it, and not snobs – but it can get annoying to be one of few native English-speaking, college-educated, white-collar residents in your immediate neighborhood. Cultural differences show up for both parents and kids. It’s easy to advocate “diversity” and “urban living”, but “spitting in the pool”, head-lice, continual petty law-breaking, sometimes lack of shared civility, differing standards of home maintenance, etc. and non-English speaking context of non Green Zone does get to you.)
3) Mandatory two-car minimum household
4) Mandatory car trips for shopping other than local grocery store.
5) Likely mandatory private HS, unless kids are brilliant.
“although you got 3 of 4 correct – that still is only 75%”
clio, you didn’t really have to go to UIC, did you?
Architect, you had me at “picadillos” 😀
“Architect, you had me at “picadillos””
I hope the neighbors are sharing. That’d be awesome.
“I hope the neighbors are sharing. That’d be awesome.”
I’m confused–do you folks actually have issues with your neighbors’ cooking smells from one SFH to another? Or are we talking about condos in Mayfair for some reason?
“clio, you didn’t really have to go to UIC, did you?”
All I can say is that if I were a dcotor who owned a horse farm in/near St Chux, I’d want to make sure my affiliated hospital group had my education right. And I’d have fix it asap.
“All I can say is that if I were a dcotor who owned a horse farm in/near St Chux, I’d want to make sure my affiliated hospital group had my education right. And I’d have fix it asap.”
And if I were an up and coming lawyer, I’d want to have a bio page. Are there really legitimate law firms in Chicago that don’t list their attorney bios?
“Are there really legitimate law firms in Chicago that don’t list their attorney bios?”
Hell, there are illegitimate law firms that list bios.
Or were you implying lawyers for “legitimate businessmen”? Them, I don’t think maintain much of a web presence.
“Hey ze, your building isnt going to collapse into a heap of straw, mud and bricks, is it?”
I’ll take “things my mother would say” for $1,000, Alex.
“I’ll take “things my mother would say” for $1,000, Alex.”
You can tell her that your fake internet friends are looking out for you!
“You can tell her that your fake internet friends are looking out for you!”
It truly amazes me how things are built down here. Inspection? Code? Nada! In front of my building there is a walkway. There are outlet boxes every several feet, with electrical wire daisy chaining to loose bulbs inside each box. Then covered with a simple non sealable panel. On a wet installation! I bitch about it and people think I’m just a nit-pickin American.
“It truly amazes me how things are built down here. Inspection? Code?”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/world/americas/brazil-building-collapse/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
“Hell, there are illegitimate law firms that list bios.
Or were you implying lawyers for “legitimate businessmen”? Them, I don’t think maintain much of a web presence.”
Just meant I thought a law firm befitting HD’s standing would give him a profile page, is all.
“http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/world/americas/brazil-building-collapse/index.html?hpt=hp_t3”
Amazing!! I mention something about collapsing buildings in Rio and it happens!!
Ze–you need to tell people they need to pay me off so that I don’t mention it again!
Sorry, only saw gringo’s post. Didn’t see yours above it.
Sabrina,
The selection of homes you chose to showcase week on cribchatter is a PERFECT example of how your readers are fooling themselves into what they really want and what they really want to talk about. Do your own research and you will find that despite everyone stating how they would like you to showcase more affordable homes, and more homes outside of the greenzone – when you actually DO that (like this week), the discussions break down into idiotic comments on brazil, resumes, schooling, etc. That is because these properties are boring. Bring back the very expensive and unique properties and you will have a lot more traffic and a lot more discussion on real estate itself.
“Sorry, only saw gringo’s post. Didn’t see yours above it.”
Nothing to be sorry about. Ze does the total non sequitor enough that it was possible he just happened to mention it.
“Just meant I thought a law firm befitting HD’s standing would give him a profile page, is all.”
he does tell us that much of what he posts is intentional misdirection. maybe he’s a paralegal.
“the discussions break down into idiotic comments on brazil, resumes, schooling, etc. That is because these properties are boring.”
This never used to happen, right?
clio, it’s ok if you went to uic. You should feel free to come out about it. I promise you we won’t think any less of you.
I see your point Chuck, but I rather pay a bit more and be in a nicer building with gym and pool. I totally am with you about the advantage of having a kitchen and ones clothes in already in place. As an added benefit, one’s spouse might get the impression that one does not own way too many pairs of shoes ; )
“clio, it’s ok if you went to uic. You should feel free to come out about it. I promise you we won’t think any less of you.”
Ain’t that the truth.
UIC?!! I wish!!!
-‘The selection of homes you chose to showcase week on cribchatter is a PERFECT example of how your readers are fooling themselves into what they really want and what they really want to talk about.’
-‘2) high tolerance for neighbors’ picadillos – whether ethnic-background or economic demographic-related’
I love it! Arch and clio’s remarks remind me of that Amy Poehler joke about Ford discontinuing the Taurus: “It’s forcing many 30 somethings to find a new way to show the world that they’ve given up on their dreams’
Whenever Sabrina shows are perfectly *sensible* property in an *bland* location at an *affordable* price (Taurus criteria), the crowd goes flat. Where are my pony tailed/baseball cap wearing/Range Rover driving monster neighbors I love to hate? In Daniel ‘make no small plans’ Burnham’s city of Chicago, you have two options for living the urban dream: pay dearly for the DB9, or drive the Taurus. Come recession, hell, or high water, those options will ALWAYS be the same. Yes, there was a time in the late 70’s to the late 80’s when you could find a ’57 190SL in need of restoration for a few thousand, but those days are long gone…. O-V-E-R. When oh when will the majority of posters of CC learn that?
lice infestations are not related to class or ethnicity
So what is it Clio? Did you or did you not go to UIC for medical school?
Where’s Riz when I need him?
I happen to actually live in this neighborhood—technically called North Mayfair—and I’ll tell you what…it’s a really nice place to live. That’s why This Old House picked it as one on the best old house neighborhoods in the country. It’s a historic district, we’ve got a forest preserve on the north boundary with trails and sledding hills, Gompers Park with a pond and walking trails, neighborhood swimming pool, walk to Marie’s Pizza, a new brewery called Finch’s around the corner, 14 minute walk to the Blue Line, right on the Lawrence 81 that drops you at the door of the Brown Line. The neighbor school—Palmer Elementary—is currently average on its ISAT scores, but the new principle (former trainer of principles for CPS) is working to take it to the next level. I’m just saying, it’s pretty darn nice and worth a look versus just making assumptions based on some vague impressions. Might be a little more green than you think…
I meant “peccadillo – a minor or petty sin, slight fault”. Never had problems w/neighbors’ cooking, though we did live downwind from a barbeque joint. We had 10 years of urban diversity gentrification experience, and we’re happy now in OPRF – which isn’t exactly white-bread country.
I live here, too – melbourne, thanks for the excellent description. This is a fantastic area that flies under the radar. I came upon it three years ago after living in Bucktown for years. What a lucky find! I have a charming bungalow home, just enough yard for a great party, and smart, interesting, fun neighbors. For reference, very close by: Irish American Heritage Center, WTTW, Northeastern College, North Park University. Lincoln Square and Kedzie restaurants are minutes away. Northside College Prep, among the best high schools in Chicago is nearby as is Galter Health Center, one of Chicago’s best health clubs. I’ve biked, cross country skiied and run on trails in woods about three minutes away. I love living here and am ideally situated to head out to city, suburbs or airport. This is an adorable, friendly and cool ‘hood.