1.3 fucking million

[susandennis]

There's a unit in this building that is about to go on the market for $1.299,500.00. It is the biggest unit in the building - 2,106 sq feet and it has two bedrooms and two full baths on two stories. But, yikes. The couple selling it bought it in 2013 for $525,000. But, the county appraises it now for $1,100,000. Still, yikes!

This makes six units for sale in the building and some have been on the market for a while. The cheapest one is $679,000 - been on the market for 70 days. It's just down the hall and about the same size and layout as mine.

Glad I don't want to sell... stressful!

This building is trading in keys for key fobs. It's a project that's been talked about for years and promised for last year. They have been doing the install work for several months and have done a very crude looking job of it. Today the newsletter - often full of incorrect and incomplete information - said that they would hand out fobs next Wednesday-Friday and will hand out one per person. Most people need spares for family/houseguests/housecleaners and currently have spare keys. The last time they re-keyed the building there was a massive bruhaha when they tried to limit the number of keys.

Seems like the idiot building manager who writes the newsletter is trying to stir shit up again. He said the details would follow in an email. He did not even need to include that one fob per person shit. What a bozo.

Also, apparently, they picked the fat round fob option instead of the small, slim slip in your wallet kind. My car key is already massive. Buggers.

I took a walk down in the garage - cool and a breeze - and ran into the HOA president we had a lovely chat about stuff including my kittens. I asked her about the one per and she indicated that I'd get my normal key and spare and one for the house cleaner. So whew. I could actually get by without a spare so not a killer for me either way actually.

We've had a lovely quiet day. I made 10 breakfast burritos for the freezer. We played with Stickie a lot. And then just TV and reading. and keeping cool.



Baseball at 5. But, we're playing Houston who is currently playing amazing baseball so I expect we'll get hammered early and badly. Oh well.

The Smalls enjoyed liking the scrambled egg bowl. It was a great distraction from his 'helping' in the burrito building process.

Comments

[justphoenix.livejournal.com]

Turing was a helper when he was younger 😊

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

Hope the same thing doesn't happen to you that happened to me. When the previous owners of the building who didn't like me switched to the fob system, guess whose information wasn't programmed into that system?

[amw.livejournal.com]

My building uses card entry for the apartment doors, like a hotel. At first I thought I would hate it and I would forget my card all the time, but now I am converted. It is much nicer to just wave your card over the door to get in than to wrestle with a key. And my pocket has no annoying bumps.

I think I would be much less pleased with a solution that made for a bumpier pocket.

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

I would think a card entry system that could also use a contactless phone app would be a winner all around! Just like hotels can either hand you a proximity card or just let you check in by app and then wave your phone at the door to your room. That's the kind of fob I'd hold out for!

Also, if there have been units on the market for months, it's pretty cheeky for sellers to hope theirs will go for two hundred thousand more than its assessment! Yikes.

[susandennis]

phone app would be perfection and i suspect we'll have it in the 25 years or so.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

For 1.3 mil, that place better have some GOOD renovations! The unit across from mine that is a mirror image has crap tile floors inside and still sold for way more than it should have. AND the new people didn't replace the floors.


My complex just got new fobs for the workout room and clickers for the gate. I'm not sure if the pool will use the same keys we have. The old clickers clipped to your car's visor and had one button for your garage door and one for the gate. The new clicker is a fob that is a only for the gate. It has a "keyring hole" that is impossible to get a ring into. and would have to be removed to change the battery. I guess I can just leave it in the car. If the old clicker didn't melt, these should be okay, right?

We also got new gate codes. The letter said something about security, and to have people call you to get buzzed in rather than giving out your code. I have so few visitors they can just use my code. I have no idea why they are getting so uppity about security when there are gaps people can walk through, and the gates are open in the afternoons.

[ladythmpr.livejournal.com]

I think that laundry room is bigger than the room i lived in for 3 years when i was in college!