Former LA home of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love for sale for $1.29m

An abandoned Los Angeles house once rented by celebrity couple Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love has hit the market with holes in the floor and missing windows and a price tag of just under $US1 million ($1.29 million).

Despite being home to one of the most high-profile couples of the ’90s, the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in the Hollywood Hills is anything but glamorous these days.

The listing, with an asking price of $US998,000, describes the property as having “fallen into disrepair and is a major fixer”, however it also advertises the home’s famous former tenants.

“The year was 1992. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love ruled the airwaves,” the listing by Sotheby’s International Realty’s Los Feliz Brokerage reads.

“Together they moved into this charming Asian influenced Craftsman in iconic Hollywood Heights.”

Images of the run-down residence reveal one room even has the Nirvana lead singer’s name painted in graffiti on one of the interior walls .

The LA Times reported that according to the 2011 documentary Hit So Hard, Cobain wrote most of Nirvana’s third and final studio album In Utero in the 230-square-metre home.

It also writes that over the years, Cobain fans and YouTubers have visited the now dilapidated property to pay homage to the late rock icon, who was married to Love from 1992 until his death in 1994.

It is also believed to be the house where Cobain and the Hole lead vocalist first brought home their daughter Frances Bean after her birth in August 1992.

Built in 1921, the listing describes the home as “full of original character and unique details” and in some pictures you can see glimpses of its former grandeur.

For example, there is a dramatic two-storey living room with a regal open staircase and four oversized French doors leading to a viewing deck, only now there are missing floorboards and graffiti scrawled on the side of the staircase.

In another photo, the plasterboard has come away from the walls and in one bathroom, the tiles are falling off and a window has no pane.

The house also features a self-contained, one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, which the listing says “begs to be reimagined into an art or recording studio”.

The property is also part of the legendary Hightower Elevator Association, which means it comes with a key to the historic High Tower – a five-storey stone tower that houses an antique elevator to save residents from having to scale the steep winding streets.

You have to be a resident of one of the surrounding homes to get access to the famous elevator.

Potential buyers will also need deep pockets to return the alternative rock stars’ old love nest to its former glory.