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Rant on!
I just got the price list of "resident only" pricing (where they're supposedly cutting us a break on the price if we buy our apartment); any small, fleeting desire I might've had to buy this place and avoid the headache of moving and coming up with another $1800 in security deposits is now long gone. Our garage is apparently worth $20,000. The base price on our unit without a garage is $264,990, the price for the unit with a garage (the one we have) is $284,990. Plus $190 a month in condo fees for a 2-bedroom unit, which includes $12 a month for having a garage. Why the fsck should I pay an amenity fee for my freakin' single car garage? It's not like my car is going to use the pool or that you'd have to shovel snow that much more because I'm parked in a garage and not the parking lot. If this is the price they're giving residents, how badly are people who don't already live here going to get boned? I've lived here since 1999, and I can tell you for a fact that this shoddy construction is not worth nearly that much; I can buy a single family house in the surrounding neighborhood for somewhere in the $300K range, why would I spend that much on a place that was built by contractors who couldn't even be bothered to install outlets and wiring correctly and has little ventilation, no storage space and no parking for visitors? ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
electriccat, guess how much they want for the three bedroom unit we lived in? $365,000. I realize that I live in Fairfax County, where home prices are charitably described as "on the high side" for the area, but still... Maybe if I wasn't completely unimpressed by the quality of this place I wouldn't have quite the same reaction.
electriccat, guess how much they want for the three bedroom unit we lived in? $365,000. I realize that I live in Fairfax County, where home prices are charitably described as "on the high side" for the area, but still... Maybe if I wasn't completely unimpressed by the quality of this place I wouldn't have quite the same reaction.
Re: holy crap, yo!
you could probably rent a single family house in Wheaton or even Kensington and have more space and better quality than what you're dealing with there.
True, but I work between Gainesville and Warrenton, which is 22 miles west of where we are right now. I can't realistically move to either of those places and not have a two-hour+ commute. =/ I might be able to tolerate Rockville if I lived on 28 and could take that over to 15; it would still be a long commute, but not involving 270 and the Beltway in the wrong direction.
Re: holy crap, yo!