An update on the lonely condo dwellers...

[salinqmind]

http://www.news-press.com/article/20...WS0110/3080347 This is the family that has been living all alone in a condo building, using it as a second home, and battling in court...

I always wondered how it was going with them. I was reminded after I read a snippet in Carol Burnett's collection of memoirs (This Time Together) where she said she and her girls moved into an apartment in the 80's in Los Angeles. The Wilshire House was a brand new high rise built during a time when no one was buying. Ms. Burnett and family had no neighbors; six parking valet attendants; a handyman; and a telephone operator (all of whom had virtually nothing to do). When her friends would phone, the operator would answer "Wilshire House, how may I help you?" and the answer was always: "Is she home?" LOL! They lived there, all alone, for a year, when tenants finally started moving in.

[SeaDragonTattoo]

Those people are stupid. An identical unit across the courtyard - who cares? Just move.

And since when do a firefighter and a City Hall worker make enough to buy a near half-million dollar vacation home?

I would think the developer would be within their rights to charge assessments for the whole building to the stupid sole occupants. If that wouldn't be incentive to just move, I don't know what would.

[Oakminster]

Originally Posted by SeaDragonTattoo

And since when do a firefighter and a City Hall worker make enough to buy a near half-million dollar vacation home?

from the linked article:

He accuses Related of using stalling tactics and of playing hardball because of Cathleen Vangelakos' separate legal problems: Last month she started serving a three-year prison term for pocketing parking ticket payments in her job at Weehawken City Hall.