5860 CANYON COVE, LOS ANGELES—$1,058,000

MLS#09-357317
The downstairs rooms were very compartmentalized, the kitchen was the size of our current kitchen IN OUR APARTMENT, it had low ceilings, one of the bedroom windows looked into the neighbor's bedroom windows, and the back yard had too many landings with too many concrete and brick walkways/steps—not kid-friendly. The house was photographed extremely well.

2628 MANDEVILLE CANYON RD, BRENTWOOD—$2,395,000

MLS #08-291345
We were driving down Mandeville Canyon and felt like stopping at another open house (since the previous one was a bust). This was a beautiful home from the outside, but the inside was quite gaudy. There was a HUGE rock wall waterfall in the backyard... felt completely out of place.

2964 MANDEVILLE CANYON RD, BRENTWOOD—$1,095,000

UPDATE: On 4/26/09 we were down the street looking at a different open house so I took the opportunity and went inside for myself. It wasn't as bad as I had expected. The photographs make it look much worse. But it's still an overpriced dud. There's a concrete landing strip of a usable backyard — the rest is steep hillside. There's no front yard to speak of. Owners: It's obviously not going to sell at your current (nearly $1.1M) asking price. Save yourself some time and lower your price to at least below $1M. That way it will appear on more people's house searches. That, and it's SO not worth $1.1M.
MLS # 09-353013
I knew I would hate it and didn't bother seeing it, so my wonderful husband did the honors. He said it wasn't worth what they're asking for it. He said it needed a few hundred thousand dollars to make it livable (rip out carpeting and put hardwood floors throughout entire house, re-do kitchen, etc...)

8809 OAKWILDE LN, LAUREL CANYON—$998,000

MLS # 09-353975
The house is essentially one stunning living room with three "bedrooms" attached as an after thought. Bedrooms is in quotes since two of the bedrooms aren't large enough to put a bed in. There was also an awkwardly placed kitchen and the weird swinging hot tub in the bathroom off the living room.

3343 MANDEVILLE CANYON RD, BRENTWOOD — $1,195M

UPDATE: This lovely house sold for $90k over asking price at $1,285,000.Sunday, March 8, 2009

MLS# 09-351319

"...sigh..."

4028 SUNSWEPT DR, STUDIO CITY -- $950,000

UPDATE: 3/11/09—Reduced to $898,000
Sunday, March 1, 2009

MLS # F1799579CN

An obvious flip that's gone sour. Had a long private driveway. Other than that, nothing memorable.

1721 N BEVERLY DR, BEVERLY HILLS -- $1,349M

Sunday, March 1, 2009

MLS# 08-333403

Deceptively small. Dull.