A Vintage East Lakeview 2/2 With Rare Garage Parking: 429 W. Aldine
This top floor 2-bedroom in Cortina Court at 429 W. Aldine in East Lakeview just came on the market.
Built in 1926, this building has 24 units and some have their own, private heated garages on the back alley.
This is one of the units with the garage, which the listing says also has extra storage.
It has 9 foot ceilings and many of its vintage features including millwork, picture moldings and the mantel on the gas fireplace.
The listing says the kitchen has been “gutted.” It has 42 inch white cabinets, Carrera marble countertops, a white subway tile backsplash and stainless steel appliances.
There is also an attached butler’s pantry.
The listing says there is new electrical and plumbing.
Also rare for many vintage units, it also has outdoor space in a private deck off the kitchen.
In addition to the private garage, it also has in-unit washer/dryer but there’s no central air. There’s only window units.
This property has come on the market for $140,000 more than the 2008 price, at $460,000 including the parking. But the 2008 listing did say it had the “original kitchen.”
Is $450,000+ the new price point for renovated 2/2 vintage units in East Lakeview?
Megan Tirpak at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #9: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1309 square feet
- Sold in September 2008 for $320,000
- Currently listed for $425,000 plus $35,000 for private garage parking space
- Assessments of $469 a month (includes heat, cable, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger and snow removal)
- Taxes of $4765
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- No central air- window units only
- Gas fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 15×10
- Bedroom #2: 13×11
- Dining room: 15×13
- Butler’s pantry: 13×8
Great building and beautiful unit in a wonderful location. The HOA is pretty much in line with other buildings like it, and for what it includes.
The taxes are very reasonable for the last selling price in 2008, but are they the latest? Now that the tax bills for last year have been mailed (I just sent my own first installment payment in), I wonder if the listing has been updated to reflect the latest tax bill.
Certain things get on my nerves, though. I suppose I will never see a place that was done EXACTLY the way I would do it, which is why most people don’t want to pay for other people’s improvements. The kitchen is a fail- why does any kitchen designer park the fridge right next to the range, when there is room to separate them? This is bad energy conservation- depending on how much you use your oven, it is making the fridge run much oftener and harder than it should. You only do this when there is no space to do it any other way. And speaking of energy sense, that refrigerator is AWFULLY big for the small family that could live in that apartment- looks like a 40 cu ft.
“park the fridge right next to the range, …depending on how much you use your oven, it is making the fridge run much oftener and harder than it should. ”
I don’t think this is as much of an issue with modern energy efficient appliances. You’d probably have to cook night and day to affect the fridge.
Way underassessed:
Estimated 2015 Market Value $287,990
I dunno icky ovens and ranges are frickin hot, I totally agree that I would not want my kitchen set up that way at all! And cleaning grease from the side of your fridge and probably all over the back coils would be a nightmare, because I can all but guarantee that the hood doesn’t vent to the outside. Why do developers in this town cheap out on that anyways… its really not that much more to do it right 🙁
“Way underassessed:
Estimated 2015 Market Value $287,990”
up 9.2% from the ’14 value, but they won an appeal–the initial pass was 29,999.
Was 29,987 in last cycle, which seems about right for a $320 sale, and then there was a nearly across the board drop in the ’12 re-assessment, and a 10% drop was pretty common.
Until #13 sold in Jun-15 (which is outside the timeframe for the latest re-ass), the high sale for a 2/2 in the building seems to have been $305k. Which makes the AV seem pretty on target.
If this sells for $425, and there aren’t any lower sales bt now and 12/31/17, then the whole building is likely to get a big bump in AVs next re-ass.
‘Why do developers in this town cheap out on that anyways… its really not that much more to do it right :(”
best optimistic guess is the LOE to move the line is targeted on day 1 but falls off the scope by day 21 to save time. and the nominal money saved goes to buying slightly more expensive appliances?
” The kitchen is a fail- why does any kitchen designer park the fridge right next to the range”…You only do this when there is no space to do it any other way.”
While I agree that this is a fail, by looking at the floor plan, I’m not too sure there’s a better way. There’s 2 entryways into the kitchen along as well as a large window that can’t be blocked.
The size of the refrigerator is definitely distorted from the photograph.
I see your point.. this is a tight kitchen and hard to arrange. And you’re stuck with the location of the gas line, while it may or may not be easy to run a 240v for an electric range to where you want it.
Even allowing for photographic distortion, that is still one gigantic refrigerator.
A better solution would have been to place the fridge in the butler’s pantry, but that is such a nice butler’s pantry that I suppose no one wanted to alter it. I’m not sure I would But putting the fridge there would free up more work space near the stove, and if you wanted it to work still better, you could continue the counter from the stove to the door, using an L configuration, and use a slide in or drop in range for a more fitted look and fewer cracks for dirt to drop into.
My own kitchen is very small, and the stove is packed next to the refrigerator until I reno it. I have no choice for the time being, but at reno time, only an induction cooktop will be next the fridge, while the electric oven will be under the counter on the wall to the right, and I will get a tall, slim fridge to free up more counter space. The induction top doesn’t generate much heat, and since many experts have told me that an induction top is best not installed right over an oven anyway, I had two 240 volt lines run, one for the present stove and future induction top, and another for the future oven. It ran me about $400 more than just one line would have, but most developers and rehabbers simply will not front this extra little bit of money. My kitchen measures 8′ x9′, with an extra small pantry I keep my laundry machines in.
“you’re stuck with the location of the gas line”
Um, what? Do y’all think that running 10′ of black pipe is actually challenging? They tore out the floor, it would have been easy to run a line under the subfloor.
If it’s that easy, I would have done just that, and run it over to the counter to the right of and perpendicular to the kitchen sink, because that would have been a good place to install a slide-in gas range, while you could leave the refrigerator in its current location and install cabinets and counter next to it.
With that layout i think that was the only way to situate the ENORMOUS fridge. how else would you make room so you can crawl out the window to get to your deck.
Well that aside, the thing that is irking me is the listing. COME ON the bathroom has a pimp tin ceiling and how that is not featured by the third picture, or featured at all. And really if you have a detailed mantle like that lighting a dang fire and taking a picture of it 20 feet away? Glass/crystal door knobs and i have to zoom in to ogle them? and where is said in unit washer and dryer, do you have to climb out another window to find it?
Such an amazing apartment and the listing just makes out to be another bland cookie cutter place in lake view. what a shame!
“If it’s that easy, I would have done just that”
Did you tear our the entire existing floor (which I presume happened here, bc that tile over a 90 year old subfloor is asking for trouble)?
If you had–and were putting down a new 3/4″ plywood as you (imo) should–then running the black pipe from the existing location thru the floor is not a significant task.
This unit has a lot going for it at a reasonable price. The kitchen layout isn’t the best, but for a top floor unit at 425k in a good location, I don’t think there’s much room to complain.
I’m more surprised people aren’t commenting on the deck. Why is there a window leading out to the deck, and who does the deck belong to? The neighbors? THAT might be weirder than the kitchen layout.
“crawl out the window to get to your deck.”
Ha, I just realized that is the only way out to the deck
“I can all but guarantee that the hood doesn’t vent to the outside. Why do developers in this town cheap out on that anyways… its really not that much more to do it right”
Hood?
“Hood?”
microhood”
looks a lot bigger than 1300 sq ft. nice place.