Sold on 11/4/2010 for $460,000
2135 Monte Vista in Pasadena California is a 3 bedroom 2 bath home with 1694 SqFt.

This home has been described as, This is the house your Mother always told you to buy; the Biggest Fixer on the Best Block at the Great Price! Now meet the newly, breathtakingly priced Shady lady of Monte Vista! O what a beauty of a certain age! This 3-BR faded Spanish star needs work - a nip, a tuck, some reconstruction. Like any Grand Dame with great bones this home poses pretty for its pictures - a close up reveals wrinkles. Hey, if you had been sitting in the Pasadena sun for 84 years, you might need a fascia lift, want arch supports, and even have an urge to get plastered! In other words - This house has been around the block! What a beauty it must have been in 1926 (the year Marilyn Monroe was born)and what a dazzler it can be again in 2010. It has style. From the gently shaded flowering front yard filled with pretty environmentally correct natives - to the capacious backyard abloom with whimsy - a sweet water pond that would never call itself a water feature - and serene sitting areas.