The bad rap on Long Island is that there’s no affordable housing. Not true.
As the real estate mantra goes, it’s “location, location, location.”
That’s the case for this one-bedroom bungalow in Seaford on Riverside Avenue, listed at a just-reduced $279,000, said real estate agent Robert Miller of the Century 21 AA Realty in Seaford. Built in 1935, the home is about 300-square foot on one-seventh of an acre, he said, but it’s a 30-second walk from the water and canals.
“For under 300 (thousand), usually the home would be a fixer upper,” Miller said. “This is move in. It’s going to be a little tight . . . but everything is there. You don’t have to fix anything up.”
Miller considers the house to be a starter home for a single person or a couple looking. House hunters in this price range have to be realistic and juggle location demands with size, the agent said.
“When the market comes back, they can sell it for a bigger profit and make their way up,” Miller said. “The house is for a first-time buyer or someone who wants to get away from it all. It’s very quiet. You park your car, go into the house, put your feet up, have a beer and watch TV.”
In a last point on the lifestyle, Miller painted maintenance as an almost non-existent chore: “All you need is a rake.”