This personable little bungalow sits on a 6,189-square-foot lot in Highland Park, close to the neighborhood’s border with Eagle Rock.
In front of the home, a gravel walkway leads through a neatly maintained, drought-tolerant garden. In back, a wooden deck affixed to the house looks across a grassy lawn with an unusual sunken patio, garden beds, and a detached studio unit that appears to currently serve as a home office.
The house itself was built in 1925 and boasts hardwood floors, arched doorways, casement windows, built-in wall niches, and a decorative mantel in the living room. It’s got two bedrooms and one bathroom, with a formal dining room, a laundry area, and a breakfast nook.
The renovated kitchen has new appliances, cabinets, and countertops; the bathroom is equipped with a clawfoot tub.
Located at 1609 North Avenue 56, the 1,020-square-foot home is listed for $749,000.
Comments
This is very nice and reasonable, the street view and burglar bars are cause for concern
By mrjim1 on 08.29.19 12:25pm
Nice, yes, reasonable, no!
By mrxman on 08.29.19 2:14pm
Needs a real shower – who wants to sit in a claw foot tub? nice yard. I also hate security bars on windows and doors – it suggests you’re in a dangerous area.
By LAoneWay on 08.29.19 1:33pm
Probably should have removed them before putting it on the market.
By saltmine on 08.29.19 6:01pm
This is an obvious flip. That being said I really like what they did outside much more than the inside. The only thing I would change is replace the grass in that sunken patio with patterned pavers in a distinctive color. It looks like it’s square so maybe even a circular paver pattern would look great.
There is no garage/storage, and no HVAC. This thing is way overpriced even though it sits on a good sized lot.
By mrxman on 08.29.19 2:13pm
grass and trees with sprinklers put in would keep the place cooler.
By cicinla on 08.29.19 6:11pm
It’s a miracle the flippers didn’t tear out the wall between the dining room and kitchen.
By enter ranting on 08.30.19 9:42am
It is refreshing to see this borderline Highland Park/Eagle Rock home listed accurately this time as a Highland Park home. Of course this is a Tracy King listing. She isn’t only the "one true queen of NELA real estate;" from everything I have heard she strives to achieve a high level of professionalism and has passed this approach on to her partner daughter Keely Myers. Sadly there are MANY others in the real estate field who care little for accuracy or fact and give the profession a bad name.
On another note, SHOCKINGLY one of Tracy King’s prominent competitors in NELA real estate sales, Cherryl Weaver whom I don’t know personally, has been a vocal opponent of the future North Hollywood to Pasadena bus rapid transit line route where it is to run through Eagle Rock on Colorado Blvd. One would think Cherryl Weaver would want to see a more connected community with an improved more vibrant business district in one of the neighborhoods she represents instead of the rather long in the tooth status quo.
By lady who lunches on 08.29.19 2:23pm
With all due respect Lady, you don’t live in Eagle Rock so your comments on the dedicated bus line should be disregarded. People who actually live in Eagle Rock don’t want to see a landscaped median replaced with asphalt and concrete. The median happens to be desperately needed green space and you want to replace it with a bus lane? Is there some green space in Silver Lake we can pave over?
By anthon40 on 08.29.19 4:34pm
So if you defeat the bus lanes, you’re not going to complain about traffic, right? Since everything is more important than supporting bus service that could attract more riders?
And FYI, bus lane projects are being proposed all over the city and county, so Eagle Rock is not such a special snowflake target.
By Parlorpink on 08.29.19 4:45pm
Traffic really isn’t a problem in Eagle Rock. The traffic that does happen is largely school related, and those parents drive like complete maniacs!
By eaglearts on 08.30.19 7:00pm
If we limited our comments to the neighborhoods we lived in then each of these posts would have 1 1/2 comments. People can comment on anything they want, especially on county wide issues that impact us all like BRT and public transportation.
And as someone who lives in Eagle Rock, I don’t give a shit about a few tattered patches of grass in the middle of a busy street that people can’t even access.
Stop trying to act like you are voice of Eagle Rock. We clearly don’t all agree with you.
By CaliSon on 08.29.19 5:02pm
True I don’t live in Eagle Rock but my dearest friend does so I spend a great deal of time in the neighborhood but that is beside the point. The NoHo to Pasadena BRT line will plug all the communities it passes through to the larger ever improving regional public transportation system. This is about more than one neighborhood. This is also good thing, is important, and is necessary. Everything in the service of the car doesn’t work anymore.
I wish the angry senior folk of Eagle Rock would be willing to look beyond the confines of their "small town" and personal existence and think about the larger city and the younger generation. My friend I mentioned attended several of the BRT related meetings and she pointed out that many of the angriest seniors who screamed the loudest will likely not even be alive when the BRT is built. It is time they hand over the baton to those who are younger with more years to live on this planet.
By lady who lunches on 08.29.19 5:04pm
If the BRT isn’t going to run right down Colorado thru Old Town Pasadena then it should not through Eagle Rock. We don’t need it. More median landscaping, better pedestrian options, more shopping, dining and fewer auto body shops: that’s what Eagle Rock needs on Colorado. Traffic is not a problem. Put the BRT on the fwy!!!
By eaglearts on 08.30.19 2:19pm
And take a lane from freeway commuters… what sense does that make?
I agree, Pasadena is lame for not even debating the issue publicly. Colorado was probably never going to happen due to the Rose Parade (and actual traffic congestion, not imagined like Eagle Rock) but they could’ve run it down Walnut, no problem.
By corner soul on 08.30.19 3:00pm
I imagine freeway commuters are the intended audience for the BRT? Folks from Eagle Rock aren’t gonna take the BRT to Pasadena or Glendale IMO. My feeling is that for Eagle Rock people Pasadena/Glendale are convenient enough by car and they don’t want the disruption on Colorado. There’s enough traffic, including bus service and bike lanes already. Let’s make it more pedestrian and business friendly.
By eaglearts on 08.30.19 5:01pm
Save Our Beautiful Median. Pathetic.
By Greyvagabond on 08.29.19 6:02pm
Tracy King does very well – I guess sending out tons of postcards for decades works. she now goes on vacation half the year. at least that what she says at the real estate conferences she speaks at.
By LAoneWay on 08.30.19 6:14am
God bless, Tracy certainly earned her success and best of all along her journey she brought countless families HOME.
By lady who lunches on 08.30.19 12:54pm
If the BRT isn’t going to run right down Colorado thru Old Town Pasadena then it should not through Eagle Rock. We don’t need it. More median landscaping, better pedestrian options, more shopping, dining and fewer auto body shops: that’s what Eagle Rock needs on Colorado. Traffic is not a problem. Put the BRT on the fwy!!!
By eaglearts on 08.30.19 2:18pm
LWL, how will the BRT improve business in Eagle Rock? It’s meant as rapid transit, with only two stops. Other than the rapid part how will it improve on the existing lines that run up and down Colorado thru ER? Are people clamoring to get from North Hollywood to the Eagle Rock Target, Trader Joe’s or ???
By eaglearts on 08.30.19 5:06pm
We are clamouring to get to Casa Bianca Pizza. We need a bus ASAP!
By LudwigBlue on 08.30.19 7:35pm
Wrong. There is only one Highland Park stop on the Gold Line and businesses along Fig are thriving.
By dudeimstarving on 09.01.19 3:00pm
So the Gold Line has nothing to do with the business environment on Fig.
By eaglearts on 09.02.19 10:56am
Highland Park, not Eagle Rock! Not ER schools, not in the neighborhood council…….
By eaglearts on 08.30.19 7:06pm