February 8, 2007

Oakland: FSBO Looks In Good Shape

My companion in the car wasn’t too happy when I braked abruptly and reversed the car to take a closer look at this ‘For Sale By Owner’ house on 1083 Alcatraz Avenue. When I actually got out of the car and started taking photographs he was positively cringing.

But duty called.

Here we have, according to the owner’s own rather professionally printed details, a 2-bedroom 1.5 bathroom, approximately 1,020 sq ft bungalow in Oakland offered at $509,000. It looks as though the house has been taken care of — it’s painted lemon yellow with a raspberry front door — and although I didn’t venture inside the interiors look reasonable on the flier.

Alcatraz is a main thoroughfare so the location isn’t great. The North Oakland Community Charter School is across the street.