At 19:34 3-8-01 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
>If someone told you your
>apartment was started in 1977 and finished in 1979, but in 1978 they came
>out with more strick codes, like for wiring or fire sprinklers, but they let
>the building be built with the 1977 codes, would you stay where you are? I
>really only mean this generally, I know nuclear buildings are a lot more
>important to get right than apartment buildings (except for the one YOU live
>in ;-)
Don't worry about the building *we* live in. It's so substandard now (not
to mention: behind on maintenance) that the owner is going to knock it down
next year. Renovation, he claims, would be too expensive. We're still a bit
suspicious, though: the building (and two adjacent buildings) will be
replaced with new apartment buildings -- with a rent three times what it is
now (~NLG 1,500 per month vs. ~NLG 500 per month).
Jeroen
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