Affordable Albany Park 2-Bedroom Finally Under Contract: 4958 N. Troy
We’ve chattered about this “affordable” 2-bedroom condo at 4958 N. Troy in Albany Park several times before.
See our March 2009 chatter here.
It is finally under contract after being reduced $37,100 over the course of 8 months.
Here’s its history again:
Unit #1: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in October 1997 for $134,000
- Sold in January 2002 for $172,500
- Relocation sale in October 2008 for $205,000
- Was listed in October 2008 for $212,000
- Several reductions
- Was listed in March 2009 for $184,900 (plus $12k for parking)
- Reduced again
- Currently listed for $174,900 (plus $12k for parking)
- Under contract
- Assessments of $255 a month
- Taxes of $2096
- Central Air
- In-Unit Laundry
- Deck
- Bedroom #1: 12×11
- Bedroom #2: 11×10
- Kate Mangan-Smith at Prudential OneSource Realty had the listing.
2002 pricing…sounds about right for now.
That’s a fat relo benefit.
Fair price. We’re getting there…
Just make sure the oven and the dishwasher aren’t open at the same time, and especially don’t have the dishwasher open when you’re standing at the sink! This is a terrible worse than rental quality polish salvage renovation. Then again the price reflects that, at least.
I’m gonna guess it went for 170 WITH parking.
“make sure the oven and the dishwasher aren’t open at the same time”
That’s definitely a big problem for me–I like to keep my to-be-washed dishes in the oven.
“That’s definitely a big problem for me–I like to keep my to-be-washed dishes in the oven.”
LOL, what about the sink? Good luck standing near the sink with that dishwasher door open
“LOL, what about the sink? Good luck standing near the sink with that dishwasher door open”
The sink v. dishwasher location seems to be a frequent problem–there are a lot of places on here that have the dishwasher open directly in front of the sink (that is, they are to the left and right of a corner). Never understand it–they need to be next to each other.
Code does require the DW to be within xxx number of feat from the waste drain, too far and the DW can not adequately ouch out the waste. I’m sure building this unit to proper code was the builder’s main concern. the realy problem is the corner sink in a small kitchen. Its almost imposible to layout a decent kitchen around a corner sink when you only have a small amount of space.
This is a hack remodel so we would only expect a hack kitchen job.
its nice to have the DW next to the sink so you can put disher right in without dripping on the way from the sink to the DW.
The DW is fine where it is, drips only go on the counter, and there is plenty of room to stand unless your 300+.
If you have the DW and oven going at the same time, you wouldn’t be buying this place / keeping this kitchen.