Tasteful friends: Patio del Moro, a 1926 Andalusian style 1925 landmark courtyard apartment complex, $7.425M
[quote]Patio del Moro is a true West Hollywood cultural landmark. [The] Spanish-Revival style courtyard complex features 7 maisonette apartments [13 bedrooms and 10 baths in total] formerly home to Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, and Joyce Van Patten. Built by Arthur and Nina Zwebel in 1925. With a premier, West Hollywood address Patio del Moro is located just 1 block south of the famed Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip. Its distinctive Andalusian and Moorish-inspired architecture boasts a copper-domed Tunisian tower, horseshoe-arched entrance tunnel, and tiled fountains in the private and public patios and fireplaces. Intertwined private terraces and patios, Juliet balconies, and private outdoor spaces distinguish Patio del Moro.
It's an ugly stretch of West Hollywood street with an eccentric facade, but inside the patio is really lovely and, together with the apartments, largely unspoiled.
Fancy being landlord of your own Barbary Lane situation? Or have sex friends in or approach their golden years looking for a final destination?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | November 24, 2022 6:02 PM
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So, real life Melrose Place?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 23, 2022 11:08 PM
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Video description from an earlier listing of a few years ago:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | November 23, 2022 11:08 PM
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Yet another video from when the property was listed previously.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 3 | November 23, 2022 11:09 PM
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*Or have SIX friends in...
(Or sex friends, you buy it and it's your choice.)
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 23, 2022 11:10 PM
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I would love to retire in a place like this with 6 friends occupying apartments with the 7th reserved for a live in cabana boy who handles chores and such - as well driving our old asses around to doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, and such.
That's what "retirement" communities should be like.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 23, 2022 11:19 PM
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The copywriter or content director who put Joyce VP and Humphrey Bogart in the same sentence should be fired.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 23, 2022 11:25 PM
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Yes, the 'and Joyce Van Patten' was quite the punctuation mark. Save your best for last.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 23, 2022 11:27 PM
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I find it unbelievably beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 23, 2022 11:52 PM
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Are Jack Janet and Chrissy still living there?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 23, 2022 11:55 PM
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For my taste, architecture like this is a visual orgasm. Southern California will never leave my heart.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 23, 2022 11:57 PM
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Living there properly requires smoking and perfume wearing.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 24, 2022 12:04 AM
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I wouldn't live on Fountain. Did it for a few months once and the amount of brake dust that settles in your place is disgusting. Always loud.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 24, 2022 12:45 AM
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The location is terrible. You're living on a very busy street.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 24, 2022 1:07 AM
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It looks like a 1980's Mexican chain restaurant. FUGLY !
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 24, 2022 1:40 AM
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Would it be easy to turn it into a bed and breakfast?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 24, 2022 1:43 AM
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Cheap kitchen appliances and cheap bathroom fixtures. Horrible street to live on for that much money.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 24, 2022 2:15 AM
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OP, what exactly do you know about LA? That “stretch” of Fountain is no worse or better than another segment. You aren’t “tasteful “ and you have no “friends.”
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 24, 2022 2:26 AM
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It’s cute, has charm. The kitchen is too small. No pool is a big problem. No way for this price.. The price is a joke.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 24, 2022 2:26 AM
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Put a pool in the middle and have Michael and Jane Mancini purchase it. Just be careful when Amanda Woodward and Kimberly Shaw come around.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 24, 2022 3:00 AM
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I had a friend with benefits who lived there in the early 80's before it became gentrified. He paid 375.00 a month for a one bedroom with no AC. The thick adobe walls kept it cool in the summer The actor Tony Hamilton lived upstairs with two other dancers.. I remember siting in lawn chairs under dead banana trees and the dried up fountain. Drinking Jager shots till dawn and listening to the sirens on Sunset. Then we fucked like rabbits. La Dolce Cazzo
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 24, 2022 3:33 AM
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^ Woops it was the Andalusia on Havenhurst. Same type of LA Spanish revival.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 24, 2022 3:39 AM
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Did you ever do a threesome with Tony Hamilton ? He was incredibly hot back then.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 24, 2022 4:27 PM
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That one picture is charming. The rest is horrid.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 24, 2022 4:31 PM
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I LOVED the Andalusia - I worked at Propaganda Films and the owner, Steve Golin lived there for a time. Id house sit and hook up in that building.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 24, 2022 5:11 PM
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OP How dare you. I used to live just two blocks from there @ Laurel. It’s a perfectly fine area with beautiful ‘20s-style homes and apartment buildings. Equal distance between Sunset and Santa Monica Blvds. Convenient to all culinary and cruising needs.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 24, 2022 5:24 PM
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Is this where they filmed Mulholland Drive?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 24, 2022 5:42 PM
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If you bought this as a business proposition, could you break even? The mortgage would be almost $50,000 a month, which means each of the apartments would need to rent for $7000 a month each just to break even--and that doesn't include the expenses from keeping the place up. So, say, $8000/month to cover all that. Could you get $8000/month for these places?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 24, 2022 6:02 PM
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