Condo living
[Editor’s note: Jon Anderson is a columnist for CandysDirt.com. His opinions are his own.] I recently suggested that builders lay off the endless blocks of cookie-cutter townhouses with their all-too-familiar floor plans. I see them as an inefficient use of space that invariably cost homebuyers more for the same amount of usable space. They’re the real…
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Back in 1982, two oceanfront thirds of an acre caught the eye of a developer who created a four-unit community behind private gates. Called Ku’u Makana it’s located in Honolulu at the foot of Diamond Head crater on the island of Oahu. Each of the four units are identical 3,536 square feet indoors and another…
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Meridian Square is a new luxury condo development off Addison Circle with high-end finishes and a killer location just off the Dallas North Tollway. The development itself has come to being in stages and they now offer or will offer an expansive communal courtyard with green spaces and brick-paved streets, a resort-style swimming pool, gardens,…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about the pitiful communication skills many HOAs and management companies use when communicating with residents. Who knew I would get a second example so soon? Imagine your Saturday tranquility shattered by jackhammers ripping through concrete minutes after sunrise at 7 a.m. Turns out that a building with ground-floor commercial…
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We’ve all heard (and likely employed) the old saying, “Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.” The inference is that while you were going to do something anyway, once it’s done, the resulting hassles are less than having to deal with the before-during-after trio of carping. But that strategy doesn’t play well in multi-family dwellings…
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