New York – Every time it rained, Majora Carter cringed. “I lived in mortal terror whenever I thought it was going to rain,” Dr. Carter says, remembering how the rainwater seeped from the street into her Bronx brownstone.
Then she and her husband, James Burling Chase, realized that the source of the problem wasn’t on the ground, but on the roof. The stormwater system in their neighborhood backed up so quickly that the water rushed straight from their roof to the street – and into their home.
In this blog, we talk about urban living and everything about it. First of all, let’s define the phrase. Urban living is living in a city or town. This includes living in a central business district, usually in an apartment, or living outside the central business districts in suburbs, known as suburban living. Cities and towns are areas that have mostly residential, commercial and industrial development. Because of this, most properties are smaller than those in rural areas but living is more convenient because there is more access to businesses to purchase goods and services. In rural areas, farming is an important part of life while commerce and trade are central in the city.
If you are planning to buy a condominium for yourself or a gift for your future spouse then here are some tips you should consider before purchasing one:
1.) Ask the developer a copy of the floor plan before you check on the actual unit, so that you can choose the design and decide what fits your taste.
2.) Once you’re decided what designs you wanted to see then don’t forget to include in your list of things to inspect the bedroom, hallway, closet space and might as well the garage space.
3.) Check also the vicinity where the condominium is located is it near the mall, supermarket, hospital or even the police station. Check for convenience.
4.) Lastly, check the amount. Is it within your budget or too much for you to splurge?
Once everything is in place, and you’re satisfied with what you saw then go ahead and buy that dream condo of yours. Enjoy!
By: MJ
When you consider all these factors in moving out, you will surely find yourself satisfied. You have prepared you mind, heart, and wallet before regretting. Just make sure that you don’t vacillate on your decision to stay there when you find little discomforts along the way. Stick to your decision once you have fully weighed on the seriousness and urgency of it.
The last key to be contented in your new place is to find a life. Though you have made one in your old place, then you have to see this new opportunity as another adventure to the path you have chosen.
By: MJ
When you make up your mind on moving out, you should take to mind the adjustments waiting for you. Aside from the new house you’ll live in, you’ll be meeting different types of people that you’re not used to. There would also be quite a shock on your part on the trends and culture of the ones in the city.
Even your principles would be questioned by the people around you. It is, then, more advisable for you to set your own principles and stands before going out to the crowd. Or else, you’ll be swallowed whole by the waves that will topple your integrity.
If you easily get bored or befuddled when you read a long paragraph, then you may be in trouble when it comes to signing contracts or documents. It’s very important that you read the fine detail of a document before signing it or you will regret it.
Although to some, reading it may be a chore, especially if you’re uber excited in owning the unit. For example, if you see “no pets” or “no one under the age of 18”, but you have a pet Python and a month-old child, then the condo unit is just not for you.
If the document has a lot of legal stuff in it, please consult your lawyer, or (better still) a condominium consultant. He or she knows a lot of how these bylaws can be translated to layman English.
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Cheap condos these days are extremely rare, if not non-existent. However, you may notice that the prices go up every year. According to a condominium-specialist realtor, a good benchmark for operating costs or “housing fees” should be 30 cents a month per square foot of private property.
So where does those fees go to? The landowner’s pockets? No, they go to a lot of things: building maintenance, landscaping, waste removal, legal fees incurred by a condo board—in short it’s for the betterment of the condo and its owners.
“There are certain responsibilities a corporation has to maintain — whether it’s the exterior of the building, amenity rooms and, in some cases, betterment to the property and (condo fees) can also include paying a management company looking after things.”
Mainly because of the loss of so many jobs that is rendering more and more people unable to pay their rent. The economy is a general indicator of the health of the real estates business and with rising jobless people comes a rise in vacancies and people are scrambling to get their empty properties occupied. The craftier the solution the better for people need places to live but not much money to pay for them. From changing larger units into smaller chunks or converting them to room sharing areas, they also offer weekly rent for transients, even for daily rates. Most city centers are already filled up with most of them quite expensive but without renters, they serve no purpose for their owners hence the solutions.
There are a lot of new laws that will be set for implementation next year that would have buildings and commercial properties declare their energy efficiency ratings with commensurate penalization rates for those who fail. Buildings are known to be some of the most polluting and least energy efficient structures man has made but greening them is indeed becoming easier with more and more technologies for retro-fitting becoming available making them more efficient than they currently are. From water management, heating and smart lighting technologies, they are slowly creeping into mainstream use as building owners strive to meet guidelines for efficiency that have been laid out.
In terms of the real estates industry that is, for not much movement in the positive side is almost void. That is except for some areas where local banks have been disposing of properties they have acquired due to foreclosure and bad loans. They might be sales but with a very unpleasant aftertaste, they are selling at a fraction of their actual values and that’s good only for the buyers and not the sellers.
Less profits means more housing units have to be sold to make profits acceptable enough to put back in manufacturing new homes. With homes selling, there is still quite a lot of homes waiting to be sold off so developers can call it quits with their development projects. The government cannot do much in terms of the economy as a whole and their band-aid methods have proven to be a bit short of failure for money alone cannot solve the problems created within the industry that bore the hole into which it fell into. Read More