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"Brady Bunch" house for sale

nomadcowatbk said:
the backyard has real grass
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There probably was some real grass smoked with the production crew as well.

But that is neither here nor there. The home seems just a bit inflated, (as in someone trying to get a high price just for owning "The Brady" home. In LA, that may indeed happen.)

There is a bunch of stuff on the interwebs about this house, and how the interior is completely different from what was shown on the sitcom. In fact, if you look at the photos of this home (real photos), the floorplan on the tv show makes little sense. But who cares? Absolutely nobody.

I predict someone will overspend for this home based on nostalgia and way too much money in his/her bank account. But if that rings their chimes, more power to them!
 
seatownmedia said:
There probably was some real grass smoked with the production crew as well.

But that is neither here nor there. The home seems just a bit inflated, (as in someone trying to get a high price just for owning "The Brady" home. In LA, that may indeed happen.)

There is a bunch of stuff on the interwebs about this house, and how the interior is completely different from what was shown on the sitcom. In fact, if you look at the photos of this home (real photos), the floorplan on the tv show makes little sense. But who cares? Absolutely nobody.

I predict someone will overspend for this home based on nostalgia and way too much money in his/her bank account. But if that rings their chimes, more power to them!
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has the NYC brownstone used in the Cosby Show gone down in value since his conviction?
 
seatownmedia said:
There probably was some real grass smoked with the production crew as well.

But that is neither here nor there. The home seems just a bit inflated, (as in someone trying to get a high price just for owning "The Brady" home. In LA, that may indeed happen.)

There is a bunch of stuff on the interwebs about this house, and how the interior is completely different from what was shown on the sitcom. In fact, if you look at the photos of this home (real photos), the floorplan on the tv show makes little sense. But who cares? Absolutely nobody.
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This is typical. The set designers don't bother to look at the stock footage of the "outside" of the house. I've seen sitcoms where the set has the front door set off to one side of the front room, with a solid door, but the stock footage shows a house with the front door in the center and a window in the door. Makes no sense what so ever.

But the worst offender is that the house (inside or outside) often doesn't match the story line. So you have a sitcom about a working class family who lives in New York or San Francisco, but the huge luxurious house shown in the stock footage would be clearly unaffordable by anybody who was less than a multi-millionaire.
 
LKellerIII said:
This is typical. The set designers don't bother to look at the stock footage of the "outside" of the house. I've seen sitcoms where the set has the front door set off to one side of the front room, with a solid door, but the stock footage shows a house with the front door in the center and a window in the door. Makes no sense what so ever.

But the worst offender is that the house (inside or outside) often doesn't match the story line. So you have a sitcom about a working class family who lives in New York or San Francisco, but the huge luxurious house shown in the stock footage would be clearly unaffordable by anybody who was less than a multi-millionaire.
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The most obvious example for me is the All in the Family house. During the opening credits when the front of the house is shown from the outside there is no porch. But in scenes when the outside of the house is shown there is a pretty big porch.

Bronx
 
Check out that house on Google Earth.
The Los Angeles River runs through the back yard.

Not really a river, but a concrete aqueduct made famous by chase scenes
in many movies and TV shows (notably Grease).

Who would want THAT in the back yard?
 
Freddy, that is called external obsolescence (depreciation). If a buyer is found who gives a mortgage as security, that external obsolescence will never be discovered, discussed or reported, because the bank will just tell the appraiser that the Cost Approach to value, from which depreciation is extracted once direct sales comparison is made, is "inapplicable", so just use diagnostic codes for the rest. It is very 2010.
 
Bronx said:
The most obvious example for me is the All in the Family house. During the opening credits when the front of the house is shown from the outside there is no porch. But in scenes when the outside of the house is shown there is a pretty big porch.

Bronx
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The Full House house. I hated that show, but it was on because my kids loved it, but I never paid any attention to the supposed careers of the main characters - John Stamos, Bob Saget, or <gag!> Dave Coulier, but I don't think any of them were portrayed as wealthy captains of industry. I guarantee that the actual San Francisco house shown - a tourist attraction near Alamo Square - is now worth probably $4 million, but was likely worth a couple million when the show was originally being produced.
 
LKellerIII said:
The Full House house. I hated that show, but it was on because my kids loved it, but I never paid any attention to the supposed careers of the main characters - John Stamos, Bob Saget, or <gag!> Dave Coulier, but I don't think any of them were portrayed as wealthy captains of industry. I guarantee that the actual San Francisco house shown - a tourist attraction near Alamo Square - is now worth probably $4 million, but was likely worth a couple million when the show was originally being produced.
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Full House was never realistic, it had 3 heterosexual men rasising 3 young girls in the one most childless cities
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Full House was never realistic, it had 3 heterosexual men rasising 3 young girls in the one most childless cities
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One of American's "childless cities" or not, there are still tons of kids here, and a substantial public school system. I raised 2 kids in SF in the 80s-90s, and a third in the 00s. Most of my kids' friends grew up in 2 parent families. It's totally true that some had 2 mommies, and some 2 daddies, but it was still probably 60% hetero-couple parents. San Francisco is not as different as people want to portray it. In fact, as gay people move out more into the suburbs, the famed Castro District is filling up with young techy hetero couples pushing baby carriages around.

And due to the cost of rent and home ownership here, I wouldn't be surprised to see households with multiple single tenants raising kids. So nobody is saying that Full House was realistic, but the 3 hetero men raising girls thing is not the reason.
 
FWIW, Bob Saget's character worked in TV news (as a sportscaster), then)because he didn't really fit the 'sportscaster' image) became a morning TV talk show co-host(along with Lori Loughlin's character). Coulier's character worked as a standup comic, and later hosted a local TV kids' show (an anachronism). Stamos's character was, IIRC, an xterminator, and also played in a rock band, presumably with some paying gigs. So, pretty much every adult character had an 'untypical' job, which might have paid enough...if they all chipped in...to afford that house.
 
Full House and another MB TGIF kidcom Family Matters had working and middle class families living in what are in real life expensive houses in large cities with racial and income inequality that the shows didn't address much if at all Could the Winslow's afford their house on Carl's Chicago PD salary in real life, although Urkel mentioned his dad was brain surgeon? Also these shows had what looked to be racially integrated neighborhood schools which were rare in large cities in the late 80s/90s? The house used in SF has actually become a tourist attraction like the Brady Bunch house but only a rich TV producer can afford in real life, the Family Matters house never became a tourist attraction and was torn down about a year ago because the land was worth more than the house with many issues. The house used in Step By Step is actually located in South Pasadena although the show takes place in small town Wisconsin, but that house hasn't become a tourist attraction either but maybe a working/middle class family could afford a house like that in small town WI in real life

https://people.com/home/full-house-producer-buys-full-house-home/
 
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