LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 – The Los Angeles bungalow where four members of the Manson family murdered Rosemary and Leno LaBianca in 1969 is for sale for $599,000, but the place is a mess, one of the listing agents and other observers agree.

The small ( 1,655-square-foot) main house, built in 1922 and remodeled in 1930, as broken windows, a passer-by noticed, and the guesthouse is a charred ruin. Cliff Claycomb, who shares the listing with Dee Yarnall at Jon Douglas Co.’s Los Feliz office, termed the home “a tear-down.”

It has been occupied primarily by tenants since the LaBiancas were slashed to death there 20 years ago this August. There have been several owners in recent years, including one who said he didn’t know it was the LaBianca house when he bought it in 1974.

“I was upset with the broker who sold it to me, because she didn’t tell me,” he said in a 1978 Times story, “but looking back on it, I didn’t get a bad deal. It’s a beautiful piece of property, three-fourths of an acre on a hill with a view.” It also has a pool.

(The house above Benedict Canyon where four members of the Manson gang murdered Sharon Tate and four others before killing the LaBiancas was also recently on the market; it closed escrow at nearly $2 million in January.)