Soho Central Condominium: Shared Balconies at Gramercy, too?

Plan, plan and plan some more

QUESTION: Is Stonewall Central a better name for the property? UPDATE (click): 2012 Audited Financial Statements
UPDATE (click): 2013 Annual Meeting packet
UPDATE (click): 2013 Special Meeting packet
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANALYSIS 2009-2012 (click): A CPA analysis of SOHO Central Condominium Corporation's Audited Financial Statements

The Fantasy Vision
Does everyone remember this among the wonderful ads and brochures and how about the salespeople and what they told us. I hear such fantasies continue. So after watching and remembering, cry and then laugh at the truth that is being exposed.

And, if the above is not enough and you need elevated blood pressure, here is the project's brochure.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Shared Balconies at Gramercy, too?

I know some were surprised to hear about the shared balconies with their inherent security and privacy issues at Knightsbridge. But, when visiting a unit at Gramercy, I discovered what a friend had not noticed about their strangely, if not nonsensical, divided balcony. It was not only divided preventing cleaning unless unscrewing the hinges on the window due to the blocked access from a glass divider, but shared a window with an unused air conditioning slot from another unit.

I had noticed the bedroom air conditioner in the unit I was in and then I saw the other unused slot and thought it was odd to have two for a bedroom. After going back inside and then outside, I called my friend and said something is amiss. I had not heard about this for Gramercy. These buildings are supposed to be upscale from Soho Central and the other buildings associated with Soho Central in the climb to glory?

If I was a Unit Owner there, I would not only protest but get a glass cutter so I could clean the balcony. Who designed it this way? Did the buyers know? Was there an effort to tell them? I am getting the impression from the history of ads and disclaimers which appear to be contrary to law that buying a unit is just relying upon the fantasy only to await the unexpected potluck feast. But who and what is being served.

First for a little humor before hard hitting reality on what the millions of pesos paid for:

A Gramercy balcony followed by the TV they got which seems to be a computer monitor posing as a TV. Well, it is flat screen as was advertised for us though we got, as one Unit Owner observed, a pregnant flat screen TV. How much was the charge for that and much was the cost to the company? Someone found out how much some of the furnishings cost the company compared to what we were charged for fully furnished units. I guess I need to do a post on that so all the horrors are known.

Yes, those are cigarette butts from the unknown with no way to clean unless removing hinges or climbing very carefully on railing around the glass.