A Perfect Starter Property in Irving Park? 3304 W. Cullom
This 2-bedroom unit at 3304 W. Cullom in Irving Park is larger than most condos you would find closer to the lake at this price point.
With hardwood floors throughout except the kitchen, it has plenty of space including a separate dining room and sunroom.
The kitchen has maple cabinets, granite counter tops and white appliances.
It also has central air and washer/dryer in the unit. But there is no parking.
For those who don’t want the maintenance of a house, is this a good starter home in the Irving Park neighborhood?
Eric Rojas at Prudential Rubloff has the listing. See more pictures and a floor plan here.
Unit #2: 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, no square footage listed
- Sold in February 2001 for $179,500
- Sold in August 2003 for $226,000
- Originally listed in November 2009
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $195,000
- Assessments of $210 a month
- Taxes of $2851
- Central Air
- In-unit washer/dryer [the original post said the unit did NOT have the w/d in the unit, but it apparently does.]
- No parking
- Bedroom #1: 15×10
- Bedroom #2: 14×10
- Living room: 21×12
- Dining room: 17×12
- Kitchen: 13×8
- Sunroom: 11×8
ouch i dont know if i would even rent by kimball and montrose. even that kedzie stretch of now stores and eateries wont help.
wait until your stuck on montrose during some central American (ecuadorian?) unofficial parade down that street cause that will change your mind fast.
or walk to the brown line on laurence past roosevelt HS when it gets out.
I’m the Realtor who helped the owner purchase this property. Trust me, Groove et al, this is an attractive neighborhood for the most part and in my opinion the only reason this condo is still on the market is that it does not have its own dedicated parking space.
If you are in the market for a nice “starter home” in Albany Park and Eric is having an open house some weekend, by all means check it out!
yeah nothing like throwing down 200k on a place in a car dependant hood
and theres nothing like in unit washer/dryers either….
And no, i’m not a fan of the NW side at all
(i meant without a parking space)
this is a walkup rental property that was gutted… not even on a top floor so you have all that noise above you too
The condo does have a stackable in unit washer/dryer, the agent must have been a bonehead to leave that out, or assumed it was a fairly common item not to mention.
ChiTownGal,
i will have disagree with you on it being an attractive hood. its not a bad condo unit or even a bad price, but the hood is marginal to ugh. August is coming up so how about we hang out over here on a 95 degree friday evening. I am sorry but i just cant buy into the hood as being attractive.
“If you are in the market for a nice “starter home” in Albany Park and Eric is having an open house some weekend, by all means check it out!”
first, a 2/1 rental is not a “starter home”
second, i already own a starter house in a marginal hood rather not take a step back to my days out of high school.
ps. sorry if i sounded rude or harsh.
What good is a floorplan, if you can’t read the danged thing?
I stand corrected- this unit does have an in-unit washer/dryer.
“What good is a floorplan, if you can’t read the danged thing?”
My thoughts exactly! At least have the option of enlarging it.
I take this poorly executed effort as ‘one small step for RE agents, and one giant leap for prospective Chicago RE investors’.
ok, everyone raise their hand that thinks this place should have stayed a rental!
I’m just chuckling at this:
“This 2-bedroom unit at 3304 W. Cullom in Irving Park is larger than most condos you would find closer to the lake at this price point.”
You mean proximity to the lake carries value? um, well – DUH. : )
“ok, everyone raise their hand that thinks this place should have stayed a rental!”
Pete raises his hand. I’ve thought this about almost every condo conversion I’ve seen in the last few years. Few of them really made sense as anything but a rental.
COM’ON…
1. In unit washer dryer was marked on the unit features and in appliances on the MLS listing (which is fed to all the sites people use). I’ve added it in the comments section in case you missed the first two places.
2. Floor-plans: A full pdf version of the floorplan is available on the MLS account if you have one. A realtor sets this up for you. Secondly, the floor-plan (professionally drawn by a third party and paid for by me) is shown in the 15 listing photos for your benefit. We have no way of enlarging it on the MLS in that form. If you don’t get MLS listings from a Realtor on connectMLS, you may simply ask for a floor-plan by email, phone or ESP because I read minds.
If you were actually interested in the property to complain about the small floor-plan photo, you’d have emailed me for a pdf.
3. I have no idea who ChiTownGirl is, so don’t associate me with her comments. A parking space would probably help any home selling situation but there isn’t one here… just as many other places don’t have parking that sell. The “only reason this place is not sold” is price. We had two second showings on this place, close but no cigar.
4. I don’t appreciate being called a “bonehead” by some anonymous person who can’t read a listing sheet.
I must have missed the original post about the “bonehead” and chitowngal affiliation comments before it got deleted.
If there is anyone who can sell an condo that should have stayed a rental building in a not great area it is ERIC ROJAS.
Eric you say “price” is the missing mark. is it because rentals are still cheap in the area for a 2br? had a buddy renting a 2br close to here for only $850 first floor but that was like 3-4 years ago i think
also if i rememeber street parking wasnt hard, but wasnt easy. IIRC i parked within a block from his place every time.
now this was before aldermen went crazy with permit parking.
Ha Groove, you made my week. It is tight to park around here. However, I thought $195K list would be decent enough to get offers. I’ve seen several close by comparable listings sell from $160s to $180s that were smaller and with a lesser deck, no parking etc… But, this price ain’t cutting it still. The place shows great, so there is nothing else one can do but price.
As mentioned as well, prior to the first time buyer credit deadline I had two second showings. A unit on the corner of Spaulding and Cullom went under contrcat at something like $219K (top floor) right at the deadline. Pretty sure those people looked at this too.
So, what can you do when the unit below yours forecloses at $138K? In my opinion, the unit needed a about $25K in kitchen, bath, trim work, painting… but a great deal for a large semi custom unit once done.