Fill out this form to email this article to a friend
Letters to the Editor
Apartment to condo is good, but for whom?
Letters to the Editor
Published February 10, 2006
Re: The condo craze, Feb. 3
If I were a developer, this sounds like a good idea. As a renter, this sounds like a bad idea. Watching new apartments being built and comparing them to new condos being built, the quality does not look to be, and cannot be, the same.
Having lived in apartments while going to school, it was just accepted that the quality would be low (even for luxury apartments). Wood frames and being able to hear your neighbors just comes with the territory.
Looking at new condos being built, they are cement block construction and look like they could take a beating and might be worth the six-figure price.
Someone needs to take a look at what the buyer is really getting for their money - a comparison between the quality of an apartment to condo conversion vs. a condo built from the ground up. I bet it's not nearly the same.
There is no way I would have taken out a mortgage on an apartment-gone-condo. Developers are probably making a boatload of money on this scam.
-- Dave Scott, Pasco County
[Last modified February 9, 2006, 09:32:00]
Share your thoughts on this story
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
|
News
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
Print
Email story
Comment
Email editor