Just today I was perusing the rental ads, looking for deals. You know, nothing extravagant – maybe a 2 bedroom (what is the current euphemism?) garden level suite. Space is at a premium here, so it’s totally understandable if the second bedroom is outfitted with a Murphy bed.
$13500/mo is just slightly above my price point, but the unique architectural feature offered in this rental ad is particularly attractive to me. Finally – an opportunity to show up less savvy penthouse dwellers, who waste interminable minutes each day standing around in lifts like common poor people.
Don’t miss your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this exciting new trend!
It’s natural that you might think that, but the housing market in Vancouver is completely bananas. $2250/mo wouldn’t get you a garage in that neighbourhood, and this sort of listing is unremarkable for top-tier rental properties, apart from the novel definition of “penthouse.” If you own in one of these buildings, you can expect to pay >2000 monthly in strata (condo) fees.
This listing represents a much better value, if you want to spend at least a few months with an enviable address. (About market equivalent, if you are going to cheap out and take the $27,950 monthly rate.)
Us mere mortals pay about $1500 for a middling 2BR in an average neighbourhood.
Personally, I like this building. It’s called 200 Eleventh Avenue and is a high-rise Manhattan apartment building, in which some of the units have attached garages. You drive right onto a special elevator that takes you up to your private garage, right outside your apartment.
You know, I always said that I would never be able to live in Manhattan because of the parking issues, and the crowding, but that is a building I could actually live in - private off street parking, reasonably large apartment, lots of relative privacy. I would have the option of having everything delivered [cold storage in the lobby with a concierge for food deliveries!] going out in town via taxi, or in my own gimp equipped car for out of town. Since it is on the edge of the city, I wouldn’t feel so closed in I bet.
I wonder how many fantastic places in that little area deliver nummy nummy food at the drop of a phone call…
It’s only that short-sighted people have never before had the vision to construct a ground-floor penthouse.
I haven’t looked into the engineering details, but my assumption is that the requirement of having many floors below for habitation by lesser beings has been achieved through the use of multiple sub-basements. I only hope that morlocks don’t negatively impact the property value as time wears on.
