Tasteful friends: 3319 S 59th Street, Chicago BRIMMING with bungalow charm!!

I've always wanted to drywall my bed into the ceiling, just didn't have the courage.

I've never watched Hoarders but I imagine this is a mild case of it, at the very least.

Pic 13 illustrates how attractive a grease and/or piss stain on a fitted sheet can be!

R2, yeah, I wonder how bad it was BEFORE they tidied up for the real estate photographer’s visit.

You never know when Doris Day will stop by and she just loves a good powdered donut!

Does the Chewy box mean they have pets or is it just another box to store hoarded items? I hope it's the latter.

It's all fun and games until a Midway plane crashes into it.

Poor thing - it's an elderly person with dementia who collected things. It's not quite at the level of hoarding. All of this can be easily removed and fixed up.

Strangely - it has SOLAR PANELS?

Not in the worst neighborhood - very close to Midway airport. But not exactly a hip or fun area.

This isn't as awful as some of you say.

Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. I bet it was all they could do to clear the pathways. They’d have had more room for boxes if they didn’t have such giant furniture.

That’s not Chicago. It’s Cicero. The best neighborhood in Cicero, but still Cicero.

And yet somehow they just RAISED the price on this!

R10 - it's not Cicero. It's south of Cicero - it's in the city of Chicago.

R12 60804 is Cicero. If it was Chicago, the ZIP code would be 606 something.

Such *careful* cropping of the bathroom pics.

R11 Right? That's the first thing I noticed and holy fuck yes that's hoarding! Full body shudder.

The outside is nice, at least

Is everything included?? What treasures to be had.

There HAS to be mice and roaches, no?

Not bad, but not the way I would have staged it

That's awful.

[quote]It's not quite at the level of hoarding.

Wtf?

R3 "grease and/or piss"

You should be so lucky.

I love it.

I admire thriftiness.

Is this near Lake Superior? Does it get very wet?

So many Chewy boxes. My late evil stepmother (whq died of oxy overdose) would order all sorts of things from her bed, and would never open the boxes. My alcoholic father would just pile them in the living room and drink himself into obliviion.

Love. Soft as an easy chair.

It’s closer to Lake Tahoe, Rose (R25).

Right next to the yoga studio and steakhouse. I kid.

Has anyone found the cats yet?

Why, it's the most disgusting, atrocious thing ever to happen in America!

I like the wind chimes in the bathroom.

No, it is not Cicero. It's up 59th from Midway Airport.

Once upon a time, neighbors would have hounded them about the condition of their backyard.

Also, this is an area where some of the alleys can hide an18 wheeler until product disappears. I was told there was a telephone chain for neighbors whenever airport security refused a shipment.

I am FURIOUS that these photos were taken before I could bring the last three trucks in for the staging!

It's very important to me that the new owners have the same aesthetic as I have.

Especially in case I decide to keep living there without their knowledge.

“ property need work”

Ya don’t say?

Pop six squish uh uh Cicero

It's a sad little working class bungalow floating in a huge sea of similarly sad architecture on the wrong side of Chicago. It never aspired to be more than it is. And there has been no "sea change" in the neighborhood (or the one next to it, or the one next to that) brought about by gentrification that never happened. I don't expect there are many bright newspaper features about new, young neighbors bringing stylish changes and the rise of shops selling $4.75 artisanal donuts.

What were you expecting if the interior? Less shit, I imagine? Fewer things attached to the exposed beams of the ground floor above? Farrow & Ball paint in surprising pairings? Next year's Pantene hot colors today? A Property Brothers kitchen with Diamond®️ cabinetry and Corian®️ quartz countertops and everything Wayfair®️? Jonathon Adler kitsch?

[quote] What were you expecting if the interior? Less shit, I imagine?

Yes, Rose.

Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it...

There is no south 59th St. in Chicago. Apparently the agent doesn’t know how to enter in the address.

Where are you seeing photos of the interior on that link?

Maybe because it's off market, now?

[quote][R12] 60804 is Cicero. If it was Chicago, the ZIP code would be 606 something.

Post Office designations do not have to align with city limits.

The listing says South 59th CT (court) not ST.

[quote]There is no south 59th St. in Chicago.

But is there a Shubert Theater?

Yikes. And I see Chewy boxes—I feel sorry for the pets who have to live in this.

If that ceiling were any lower, it would be the floor.

Nothing else matters.

I had lesbian friends who lived like this. Well, not quite THIS bad but they were on the starter path to this.

One was sane but the other one just had some serious issues. Wouldn't throw anything away and every flat surface in their home was covered with junk.

On the bright side, Cicero is just a stone's throw from avowed heterosexual Nicholas Fuentes' lovely Berwyn home.

Do all the houses in the neighborhood sell for this cheap, or just this one?

That’s probably about average for that area, but what they don’t tell you is is that it’s by the water treatment plant and the smell wafts over the neighborhood.

For some reason, I can't open the pictures on this listing. 😞

Neither can I R53

R53 They removed the photos from OP's listing.

The link at r47 still has the pics.

Well okay there's the smell I didn't know about. But looking at the street and neighborhood the homes and yards seem clean and well taken care of. You couldn't buy a house in a neighborhood like that in the Northeast, near a major city, for that price.

Cicero is an interesting place. Its leadership is Republican but the town is 90% Latino, the rest are split between small Black populations and white residents who are either really old school or part of the political machine. The mayor during the 90e went to jail for stealing 12 million from the town. They used to have 24 hour bars.

90s*. The best decade there.

Maybe a tour guide with a gun. So cheap a house I never saw must be so dangerous neighborhood they cant give them away.

Yeah, your garage is gonna get tagged annually.