A house on the market is actually constructed into the facet of a bridge in Alhambra, California

Stepping into the housing market in Southern California will be each daunting and complicated. If sticker shock doesn’t scare you off, discovering a property that matches your life-style will be even exhausting to come back by.

With Los Angeles and the encircling communities experiencing a number of the highest housing costs within the nation, many first-time patrons are on the lookout for one thing inexpensive that gained’t be a money-sink. And if it affords a bit of little bit of attraction? Even higher.

A just lately listed property within the San Gabriel Valley seems to verify all these bins — should you’re prepared to squint a bit of.

The 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom residence in Alhambra has captured the eye of potential patrons throughout the Los Angeles area and past. The realtor tasked with promoting the property is hoping to strike the steadiness between inexpensive starter residence and fixer-upper, however the property is actually not like something you’ve ever seen earlier than.

The house is positioned at 1340 E. Major St., however good luck discovering it on Google Avenue View. The one-family residence is definitely beneath street-level, down a staircase and embedded into the facet of a bridge overlooking the Alhambra wash.

It simply is likely to be probably the most inexpensive “waterfront” property in Los Angeles County, should you’re prepared to place up with the house’s… eccentricities.

“It’s positively probably the most distinctive itemizing I’ve ever had in my total residential actual property profession,” stated Douglas Lee, gross sales affiliate at Compass actual property in Pasadena.

In-built 1949, the house has a patio that overlooks the ditch, in addition to a “rooftop patio” in regards to the dimension of the house itself. The rooftop patio is definitely positioned at street-level, solely a row of metallic fencing separating it from the adjoining avenue.

It’s close to loads of companies, positioned throughout the fascinating Alhambra faculty district and present zoning guidelines would permit for the property for use as both a full-time residence or perhaps a industrial enterprise.

“There’s numerous simply distinctive curiosity,” Lee stated. “And as an alternative of it being off-putting to folks, it’s really come off as very distinctive and funky.”

The house has sat vacant for the higher a part of 20 years, Lee stated, solely getting used as further storage for the proprietor. However when it was bought for about $72,000 in 2005, the proprietor had some larger plans in thoughts for it.

“[He] principally was going to attempt to use it as like type of a person cave, a spot to only relax, meditate or no matter. However he by no means actually bought round to that,” Lee stated.

After holding onto the property for practically 20 years, the household contacted Lee with hopes of making certain the house will be handed off to the subsequent technology of homebuyers, presumably one with extra time on their arms to deliver out its full potential.

Lee thinks the house would profit from a reimagining — he likened it to a “trendy treehouse,” a house that must be skilled in individual to imagine.

Because it went to market just a few weeks in the past, there was no scarcity of events seeking to give the treehouse new life. The property was additionally shared by the favored social media web page Zillow Gone Wild, which shares weird and attention-grabbing actual property listings to its tens of millions of followers. That elevated curiosity within the residence much more.

“I made a decision to only do open homes for an hour Saturday, and an hour Sunday,” Lee stated. “So even on that we had no less than 40 to 50 teams inside that hour coming as a result of they have been simply curious to see.”

Along with its quirks and attraction, it’s additionally one of many least expensive single-family properties presently available on the market throughout all of L.A. County, which suggests first-time patrons seeking to escape the rental treadmill are coming from far and large to test it out.

The house is priced round $250,000, however Lee admits there’s little or no precedent for pricing a property like this. Close by properties can promote for lots of of hundreds extra, however these homes provide issues like parking and ease of entry, which the treehouse merely doesn’t.

It’s additionally in want of a beauty facelift. There’s about $3,000 in mould abatement wanted, in addition to some outlet upgrades and the occasional leak that comes merely from a house being unused for therefore lengthy.

They’re additionally ready to listen to again on the title for a bit of readability in regards to the construction itself. It’s constructed into the facet of a bridge and overlooks a ditch, however who owns the house between the house, together with the arches that droop it above the wash, isn’t fully clear.

Finally, Lee says the bones of the house — as unusual as they might be — are good.

“I knew that we’d have rather a lot [of interest], however by no means in my wildest goals did I see this,” Lee stated. “So it was really actually good to that it was type of peculiar.”