A 2-Bedroom Duplex Up With a Rooftop Deck: 2300 W. Armitage in Bucktown
This 2-bedroom duplex up in The Citadel at 2300 W. Armitage in Bucktown came on the market in March 2020.
Built in 1900, The Citadel has 12 units and garage parking with a unique open courtyard design where each unit has a private entrance.
This 1600-square foot unit has the living room, kitchen and bedroom on the main floor with a glass and steel staircase leading to a second bedroom, den and rooftop deck on the second floor.
The master suite is on the first floor.
The bathrooms have a modern style.
The kitchen has Italian cabinetry, an island, stone counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The second floor bedroom has French doors.
The listing says the Trex roof deck has city skyline views.
It has the features that buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and garage parking.
Listed at $540,000, is this a townhouse alternative if you want levels of living and a rooftop deck?
Amanda Sharp at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #12: 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1600 square feet, duplex up
- Sold in October 2000 for $349,000
- Sold in July 2002 for $387,500
- Sold in December 2008 for $380,000
- Sold in April 2015 for $417,500
- Listed in March 2020 for $540,000
- Currently still listed at $540,000 (garage included)
- Assessments of $263 a month (includes exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $6,625
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 17×18 (main floor)
- Bedroom #2: 10×10 (second floor)
- Living room: 17×16 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 9×13 (main floor)
- Laundry: 5×3 (main floor)
- Den: 10×10 (second floor)
- Deck: 14×8 (second floor)
If you’re going to ask $110,000 over the 2015 price, you need to stage this place. The current owner’s taste in art (e.g. Chewbacca as Jesus is an interesting piece) and other things (e.g. the red Solo cups on the bar cart) scream that a frat boy has been living here. Would be a turn off to lots of female buyers and they might dismiss this place on first sight. Not saying it couldn’t sell, just needs to be made attractive to the broadest group of people possible.
Wow, Amanda really outdid herself getting this listing ready for market.
Follow along on our tour of 2300 W. Armitage, let me highlight the Oz-Inspired prison block entry first. Orange jumpsuit included in purchase price! And here we are at our first stop, a small, crowded laundry closet framed poorly enough to highlight the partially opened door. Let’s continue on….
Didn’t realize Rico Tubbs took his police pension and started doing condo conversions in Chicago.
It’s hard to believe that these were built in ~2000.
oh, and: Could the crap all over say more about the lack of storage inside the unit? I’m not even talking about the games, the powerblocks, and assorted stuff ‘on display’, I’m talking about the box of microwave popcorn, etc.
This listing triggered my urge to declutter my own place. 122.5k appreciation in 5 years? Thats adorable.
I think we found out Andy from 40 year old virgin moved
If you’re going to ask $110,000 over the 2015 price, you need to stage this place. The current owner’s taste in art (e.g. Chewbacca as Jesus is an interesting piece) and other things (e.g. the red Solo cups on the bar cart) scream that a frat boy has been living here.
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s a tenant, which makes staging difficult.
Most of the fixtures/finishes just scream 1998, which is working against the alleged appreciation.
“Most of the fixtures/finishes just scream 1998”
The bathrooms? Really? If true, I must have blotted that out somehow.
@Madeline – tenant is probably a good call. My only argument against that being the case is the volume of “artwork” (using that term loosely) that is hung on the walls. When I was a tenant, as a single dude, i never put that much effort into hanging everything up. Maybe it was just me.
“When I was a tenant, as a single dude, i never put that much effort into hanging everything up. Maybe it was just me.”
pink slides in laundry room and pink bag on bathtub (with flapping open panel!) imply not single.
Folks are definitely renters or someone’s mommy and daddy bought them a place while they attended DePaul rather than pay rent or room and board. I knew rich kids whose parents bought them a house when they were undergrads…well, parents bought the house and rented it to the kids. Good tax place at the time. Kid ended up getting into grad school at the same Uni so the parents didn’t sell the house until about 8 years later and I recollect did very well on the whole transaction. How the rich get richer.
I thought the same thing about ALL OF THE CRAP (and I mean CRAP) in this place – – clearly it lacks storage. Otherwise, they should absolutely clear this out a bit, paint it, stage it and take at least $50K off the ask. For a 2-bed unit, it really lives well. Not sure about those skyline views once the trees come in and all finishes are so seriously dated….I do like the kitchen however. Classic modern cabinetry that can for sure stay.
“they should absolutely clear this out a bit, paint it, stage it and take at least $50K off the ask”
Or spend $50k+ on updating all 3 baths. Agree the kitchen is ok, except the refrigerator which I am nearly certain is 20 years old.
Not legal to show tenant occupied units during Covid shutdown. So most likely owners?
Whoever said the entrance is like a prison was right on target.
Also, anyone want to pay nearly $600,000 for a 2 BR right on Armitage?
“tenant”
A little research shows the owner of record is a guy. My guess is this was his bachelor pad and his girlfriend/fiance either moved in with him or spends a lot time there, hence the pink personal items the bathroom/laundry room.
I’ve been wondering what this apparent regular footer did with his bindings. Are they (1) on his new board, which is (a) being stored (i) in a closet within this duplex or (ii) at his mountain home (if the parents sprang for this DePaul pad, they might have a ski place), or (b) in a landfill, it having been rendered unrideable during the avalanche he was in (and either barely survived, or his estate is handling this sale); (2) on his ex-girlfriend’s board, but she hasn’t been able to return them and pick up her pink bag (a) due to the lockdown or (b) because she lent the bindings to her new boyfriend, who traded his board for 100 jumbo packages of toilet paper (which he sold and used the proceeds to fund his now indefinitely extended stay in Costa Rica); or (3) nonexistent, the guy having either (a) kept the board after his college roommate skipped town (but not before that deadbeat put the bindings on his new board, purchased with what should have been his rent money) or (b) picked up the board at a yard sale used, intending to buy bindings eventually but never did, with the board taking on a never-played-guitar-like prop role at this place.
” in a closet within this duplex ”
Listing references storage space outside the unit. It may well be behind the door next to the front door. But I like your theoriez.
Wow. If I had seen the pics with no further info apart from the address I would have guessed it was in the 425-440K range. Underwhelming.
Beautifully staged, a superb declutter job! That realtor is truly consulting the client…… 😉