Condo Living
I met with members of the HOA board representing 3883 Turtle Creek Boulevard, otherwise known as “21,” as well as Worth Ross, the owner of their management company. If you’re blind or haven’t driven by recently, you may not know that 21 has, in recent years, undergone some very dramatic changes to the exterior of…
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On the eve of whisking out of town, a Goldcrest unit popped onto the market. With just 54 units and a booming private sale market, seeing any unit on MLS is cause for a prospective buyer to pop some champagne … just as soon as their broker has secured the first tour PDQ. When I…
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In April 2015, just a few months after I started this gig, I noticed that Bleu Ciel’s prices had jumped. Well, it’s done happened again! Today saw a further 2 to 4.5 percent increase on top of the 15-ish percent they’d jumped since pricing was announced. For the “teaser” units on the MLS that translates…
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Older condo buildings have this problem where it’s mostly the junky, outdated units that make it to market. By having no “new” product, buyers are either renovators or blind. You see, when a renovator buys one of these units, they mostly keep it. What these older buildings need are flippers who return older units to…
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It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good HOA schadenfreude moment. Sensing your need for a fix (and a reader with a crazy HOA board meeting me for drinks), well, here we are. All board meetings start with the same tedium of roll calls, calling for votes on topics residents don’t understand (because residents are…
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