Debbie Reynolds was from Burbank

This week has marked the sad and sudden passing of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.  Debbie grew up in our little Burbank and above is a picture of her in front of her childhood home.  It is located at 1034 N. Evergreen.  I have sold it twice in the last 14 years -- first to a buyer (not related to the Fisher or Reynolds family) and then sold it for the same person 10 years later. It still has that little touch of mid-century glamour.  As you see from comparing the picture above and below, the outside has barely changed, which is a charming hallmark of many Magnolia Park and Burbank homes.  Although the house has been remodeled over the decades, the inside still has many of the same features that it did when Debbie grew up there, too.

1034 N. Evergreen, Burbank, Debbie Reynolds, and throw-back Thursday

For throw-back Thursday: This is a picture of Debbie Reynolds in front of her home at the time, 1034 N. Evergreen in Burbank.  For those of you who don't know, Debbie was a popular movie-star of the 1950's and 1960's -- see Singing in the Rain. Anyway, I listed and sold this house last October for $657,500.  The house looks almost exactly the same 65+ years later! If these walls could talk...

1034 N. Evergreen in Burbank has closed and I'm sorry to see it go.

1034 N. Evergreen in Burbank has closed at $650,000.  It was listed at $630,000 and we received eleven offers (see Allegra the potty-trained cat below).  The seller did NOT take the highest offer or the all cash offer because she wanted a real family in the place.

I will really miss this house.  The seller and I are friendly and I've been to many parties and gatherings there over the past ten years.  I watched the seller's daughter grow up, got sunburned in the pool, and had lots of nice meals there.  I'll miss hanging out there with the seller.  Sigh.  We Realtors get sentimental about homes, too.

Trulia scam for rentals with two extra-creepy bonus details!

1034 N. Evergreen in Burbank got a lot of activity this week and not all of it was good.  I began to get calls from people looking to rent the property, which was for sale.  They all told me they'd seen rental info on the internet, specifically mega real estate listings site Trulia.  And the property was going for $1,100 a month.  That's so low I'd rent it myself.

The folks who responded on line then got an email back from somebody purporting to be the owner, in Africa, along with a rental application.  Yup, typical phishing scam.

I called Trulia, and they were most helpful in taking down the rental listing.  I also wrote back to the fake owner and told him/her that if they didn't stop, I'd report them to the FBI.  It appears that it's down as I haven't gotten any calls lately.

Extra-creepy detail #1: during this, the owners woke up at 7:30 to a woman poking around their backyard.  Yes, she was a prospective tenant.

Extra-creepy detail #2: The name of the supposed landlord was the name of my seller's ex-husband.  She hasn't spoken with him in many years and he was never on title.  How did the scam artists get his name and use it in an email? Ewwww.

Letters and pet pictures from would-be buyers

So far on the offers I've gotten on 1034 N. Evergreen in Burbank, I've received some compelling pictures from would-be buyers.  The pics are of the would-be buyers, their families, their dogs, their cats, their babies in front of the house for sale, and one toilet-trained cat named Allegra* hovering over the toilet. Keep 'em coming, people and pets!

*The picture above is a stock image -- Allegra has privacy issues and hasn't given permission for her likeness to be used yet.