Yes, he calls up acting like he is now ‘my agent’ and trying to talk me into buying things that I feel are over priced. I explained that I do not want to be another competitor in the high end flipping. There are already 5 or 6 flips on the market for $2.5 million that have just lingered out there forever.
I need to find the ones that I can bring out at a reasonable price
When I saw this house, it reminded me of the discussion of striped wooden flooring from an earlier flip. http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-170051543-4435_Algeciras_St_San_Diego_CA_92107 Maybe the seller was a zebra in an earlier life? Stripes everywhere! The kitchen is…startling. I think I’d get dizzy trying to cook in it. Notice the stripey cutting board on the stripey island on the stripey floor. And stripey stools.
I do like including the floor plan with the photos. And cb - glass deck walls! Just what we all wanted for the Liberace house.
Yikes, it does look like a mutant zebra! 
Nice floorplan, but could have made the kitchen a bit bigger by sacrificing one of the useless extra bedrooms. As it is,the kitchen is geared towards a family that eats out and orders a lot of pizza. And Viking appliances in a $2M+ home? A big no-no! [-X
What a shame! The house is great…but the ugly things…floors and that kitchen granite…would be expensive to replace.
Dying to hear how long it takes to sell. The space is wonderful…but I would need atavan to live there!
Also the exterior does not seem to have a cohesive architectural motif. Apparently it grew from a $1.3 million “beach house”.
@BunsenBurner , if Viking appliances aren’t appropriate for a $2MM+ house, what would be suitable? (That’s a serious question.) I’m not happy with Wolf/SubZero but don’t know what to consider for a possible remodel. Our house wouldn’t sell for $2MM+ because of where we live, but in other markets it would probably command more. La Cornue seems to be in the same price range as Wolf but I don’t know anything about its quality. How about Bertazzoni?
Viking has had some serious issues with quality and lost its reputation of “upscale” - I have no idea if they fixed those issues or not. Here (and we are comparable to SD in RE pricing), those upscale homes would have the Wolf/Subzero packages or packages from Miele, Gaggenau, Liebherr, or even the “cheap” Thermador (which rocks, BTW). If you are remodeling for yourself, go with what you like!
Bertazzoni was called “Italian KitchenAid” by an SA at our local appliance store. Which means it is good. Not familiar with the other!
I think the decor is very strange. Note that even the carpeting has wavy stripe design. The house was flipped by a group that paid $160,000 over asking price!!! Just yikes. From Encinitas out of town. They will not get that high price, but watch me eat my words.
I’m not sure why, but we don’t have too many buyers that are appliance snobs (not meant in a derogatory way) in the coastal areas. I think the appliance snobs are buyers in other areas of the County. For example, I had no idea Viking had quality issues…I would walk in to a kitchen and think Viking was high end.
Got dizzy looking at the pics!
I’m also not a fan at all of waterfalls on islands. Prolly just me. I also think it will be a thing that eventually dates a kitchen.
@emilybee - agree about waterfalls.
What were they thinking when they chose that wild-colored countertop?
And the waterfall in this house is particularly dire.
LOL… More like a mudslide than a waterfall…
Not anywhere near my top choice but I could live with the countertops. The floors, on the other hand, would give me an instant and continuous headache. It looks like flooring that was chosen from a single piece with dark edges without a thought as to what it would look like when it was installed.
Do the floors look better in person and just horrible in the pictures? Or do they look as bad in person? I think the countertops are too busy.
If I have a chance, I’ll stop by the Open House and let you know if it is as “in your face” as it appears in the photos.
This is the same mistake that the owners almost made in the Grandma flip. They selected flooring from a couple of small cut piece samples. When I walked into the wholesale place to pay for the order I (luckily!) poked around in a back showroom area and saw a large floorboard sample. Holy moly, it was just like this stripy flooring in a brown variety. It would have been a hot busy mess.
Just noticed the vessel sinks in MB! Not going to make an offer.
I will say that the photographs are outstanding. At first I thought they were artist’s rendering until I got further into the photos.
But, in looking at everything in more detail I think they tried to cram in too many trendy things (note two tone kitchen faucet) and made some serious design mistakes. Note master bathroom mix of wild stripy marble type tile surrounding the bathtub but the backsplash is a more traditional style (some kind of natural stone), which looks like it was poorly laid.
Hall bathroom has trendy lacquer euro style vanity cabinet with cheap traditional brownish polished granite??? That is very questionable design
Now I’m really intrigued to go to the Open House so I can nitpick the design choices:)
OH!
those floors! And the granite in the kitchen!
God- what were they thinking??
On the other hand- the views of the ocean are to die for!
Yes, the beautiful photography was one of the reasons I posted it after seeing so many fiascos. The twilight scene almost looks like a painting. I’m also tempted to drop by the open house but don’t have professional reasons as an excuse.
The most surprising picture to me is the aerial shot of the exterior. This design is certainly intended to build the largest possible house on a small lot, hence the weird transition from one to two stories in the back! I’m guessing that is due to “daylight plane” regulations that would prevent the second and third story in the front that would be very close to the house on the right in the picture. Even with that I don’t think this house would be allowed as is in my California town. We have very strict total square footage allowances. I assume the big covered patio in the back with the second story above doesn’t count either, but there is still very little uncovered ground on that lot.
The current trend here is to build full finished basements (very few older homes have basements) on most new homes, and some remodels, to add square footage that doesn’t count against the floor area ratio.