Originally Posted by
bricksnmortar
Hi Guys,
Can i just qualify this by saying its strictly my own personal opinion and i mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone - I just don't understand the idea of buying a strata house.
Reasons:
1. Problems with neighbours.... they share common space with you. One of the nice things of landed is that your own space is your own space. No such thing as common space to fight over.
2. Cannot rebuild. Need approval from whole Management committee to even change part of external facade.
3. Pay maintenance. I understand there are nice facilities in some. In others, what facilities are there to talk of? But really, the pools are often so small and there aren't like big playgrounds for kids or BBQ pits or tennis courts.
4. Expensive. Pay $$$ and always based on psf built up. Not on land.
5. For bungalows and Semi-Ds, they are all so close to each other. No guidelines on setback. How to relax in the garden without neighbours seeing everything you're doing or even worse, listening to all you're saying?
Anyhows, don't mean to gripe. But really, too many strata houses coming up all over the island for my liking. One day, i'm sure there'll be a newspaper article about the problems of this type of housing....