bboehlert

It's not the square footage assessment, that's fixed till at least the end of the year. It's what they haven't included within the budget line items for capital expense (if not required to be included) that owners will ante up for.

I heard through a reliable annonymous source that the management company has boofed the approved budget for the association. I guess owners are going to have to start saving their nickels to pay a special assessment at the end of the year. It figures, they get some Georgia crackers down here to run things and they don't know Florida condo law.

The issue now has become "will I loose money if I close on my unit?" Especially if someone paid a price other than what the "investor preffered" price was at the time of their contract signing. As the market softens, the chance of making any money on these units either through rental or resale is declining too. People are realizing that all the units to be used in the rental program are filled; many of them were counting on renting their units out, but they are stuck paying the mortgage or living in them until they can get on the rental list which won't be for a long time I'm afraid. This biometric access deal has got some great features if you want to restrict access to the building.

Is this considered a one bedroom since it has the partition?

Who is Mr. Franklin and what will he do for me?

That inspires confidence. Let's hope your unit is the exception and not the rule. Pretty lame putting sprinkler heads right in front of the windows, but it figures. Just when I was hoping to put in some fancy electric shades , this complicates things.

So, stopped in to the Solaire sales office yesterday. I was told a letter was being sent later this week to purchasers informing them of the start of closings (on 2/1/07). I'd like to lock a rate and get this unit closed!! Anybody else getting excited about their unit?

I called the Solaire sales office today and inquired. Then told me that a closing schedule should be coming out in the next month. She also said that they didn't know in which order (i.e, bottom to top, top to bottom) the closings would occur. She did say that they were "on schedule" whatever that may suggest.

Sears, Lowes and Home Dump all do refacing if you want to go that route. Depending on what you have now, it may not be work refacing but just have them rolled with a good quality primer like Kilz. Then put an enamel top coat on them. It is labor intensive and you need to know how to paint and remove cabinet doors etc. As far as the concrete countertop is concerned, their is a book on the markt by some Korean person who gives detailed instructions on how to get this installed. Major weight on the cabinets so you want to be sure they are well supported before even thinking about this install. I would think one of the synthetic laminates or silestone counters would be more cost-effective.

"Window stuff" in a condo? Unless your thinking of blinds, curtains...I don't know. I have ordered from Lowes 6 times now the same windows and they still can't seem to get it right. That Altamone store is the pits. I am getting the motorized curtains anyway, and I doubt that they can handle the install since they are so lame at ordering outside windows. Of course, outside contractors do the installs anyways. Any recommendations for the motorized blinds? Thanks!

On a different note, I recieved the email from the Solaire Sales Center wherein they were trying to upsell the wood flooring. It's nice that they are offering to roll it into the closing price, but I think the wood I was looking at was about 2 1/2 times the price they paid for it

Friggin. I called the sales office a couple of weeks ago and they told me January for the residential closings. I expect they will push that ahead if possible, to February. They have till the middle of March technically, but they won't to go that far.

I want to know because of the proximity to my unit which is on the end.

Anyone know where the elevators are located in the condominium homes tower?