An area known as "up and coming" with a handful of craft breweries and  neat restaurants within a block. 

Hey @Pete Mathias, you’re probably looking at a low C Class area but it varies quite a bit block by block so it’s tough to say with 100% certainty. 

Unlike poured foundations or brick/cement-block foundations, the stones aren't very uniform, so there is a little art to replacing individual stones.Sometimes you have to repoint the mortar in between the stones.

I would lean towards nice laminate over butcher block.

However, I made the argument to listing agent that they should want to spend the money at the very least to simply drain the basement water out since it's still an asset that is slowly deteriorating and losing value every day that the water sits there and investors/buyers will not want to take a risk on a property with a question mark like that.

I've had substantially renovated properties (kitchens, baths, wiring etc.) appraised over a 1% RV when the one 2-3 blocks over (or on the same block) was under 1% RV.Happy hunting!

We've had two completely different ARV appraisals on basically the same home within 2 blocks.   

Bought for around $700K 4/5 years ago a few blocks outside of Union Square. 

I was working on one property and I did exactly that , I searched by lot and block numbers.

Especially interested around the Fred Martin Elementary school area, there is a big factory looking building behind it, large block, seems totally empty?