Comments on: Bertrand Goldberg Mid-Century Modern Available Again in Flossmoor: 1310 Brassie

By: Dan #2

Dan #2 — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:42:07 +0000

I said it was a bargain in January 2012 and it looks like it might still be. But I’d never consider Flossmoor a place to live.

By: riz

riz — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:54:32 +0000

I kind of hate it. I’m sorry. I tend to appreciate architectural individuality / uniqueness, but this place just kind of sucks. As does Flossmoor. I’d be surprised if it got 350.

By: GoneFishin

GoneFishin — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:04:06 +0000

I hate the house and I hate Flossmoor. Next.

By: vb

vb — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:44:06 +0000

Looks great for parties. I don’t care for the kitchen chairs facing the wall.

No basement? I have to wonder how the “concrete foundation” (slab?) has held up to 60 Chicago winters. If it’s like Marina City, it probably needs concrete work and that’s frick’n expensive.

By: jp3chicago

jp3chicago — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:08:36 +0000

“They imagine how “awesome” their life would be if they lived in this “cool” space (the cool parties, the great mood they would be in every night when they came home) and they don’t realize how impractical this house is for everyday living”

Clio was wrong on this statement – Life is awesome by design. Not by a home design but by life design. It starts with the key point that my wife and I get along great. We both make it a daily effort to see that the other person is happy. Life throws plenty of curve balls and problems but we do just fine together. Our kids and personal lives are fairly simple but based around being happy and having a laugh whenever possible.

The cool house we live in is just the cherry on top. People really are surprised when they see the place. (There are some similarities to this place) We do have cool parties a few times a year but mostly we truly get in a great mood when we return home and pull into the driveway. I find our MCM design to be extremely practical in our everyday lives. Even after we spend a week at a five star hotel there truly is no place like home.

Someone will enjoy living in this place! I know little about the area but have a customer in Flossmoor and when driving in the area find it to be a nice place. Seems pretty safe and the commute downtown isn’t terrible.

By: jp3chicago

jp3chicago — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:54:32 +0000

From my comments in 2012

“If it were in P.R., Glenview, or one of my other favorites I’d be calling the movers.”

Clio reply

“uhhh- no you wouldn’t because it would be 600-800k!!!!”

Well he was right. We ended up paying in that range for a MCM house a few years after his post and love it.

By: anon (tfo)

anon (tfo) — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:39:58 +0000

“selling for below the 2012 price”

Which itself was below the ’02(!!) price.

Think that it says something in particular about Southern Cook suburbs.

By: AC

AC — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:19:03 +0000

Flossmoor?

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:17:11 +0000

I have bad associations with Flossmoor stemming from my slob coworker screaming at maids over the phone because they wouldn’t provide a guarantee that they wouldn’t break his mom’s antique perfume bottles. His mom lives in Flossmoor. I now associate that suburb with crazy people.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:47:34 +0000

a friend who lives in Floosmoor says that neighbors are always rating each other out about lawn and small, insignificant code violations. I’m sure that happens everywhere but she made it sound like it was more of an thing in Floosmoor.