Almost finished!
By GreatMartin
@GreatMartin (23670)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
September 29, 2019 7:46pm CST
3 years of making improvements and Gateway is almost finished. Aside from replacing the old--very old--wiring in the apartments and not sure if that is even on the horizon all the inside work has been done. All the buildings have been painted all that is left is the lettering of the building and apartment numbers. It would be great--and add some color to the blah look--if the letters were a bright color but I am not holding my breath!
The past two weeks have been spent redoing the driveway through Gateway and this coming week they are working on the parking lot across the street and the 3 that are in alcoves between buildings and that should be it.
Parking resident's cars has been a problem since I moved in here as there have never been enough parking spots for all the apartments and now I believe there are 25 'reserved' spots for people who know how to work the system and received 'prescriptions' from their doctors for their own private parking spaces besides there are 5-6 public handicap spaces
There are many abuses by residents regarding parking but this company really isn't as stringent as the previous owner was.
This is really not a problem for me as I don't have a car. Of course, with my 21st Leap Year birthday coming up I just might get a car (with a year of automobile insurance) from a friend or two and then it will be a problem! LOL
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
30 Sep 19
Good job it's well done. Your car is coming by December. That's my hunch.
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
30 Sep 19
No I have my friends and relatives well trained--no gifts except on February 29th--not the in-between years--not Christmas, Easter, Passover, Hannukah , etc. Only on Leap Year Day--my birthday!
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
30 Sep 19
@GreatMartin I see. How does it feel to have your birthday every 4 years?
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
30 Sep 19
@GreatMartin That's the advantage of having a Birthday that falls on in leap year. I am just curious to know if you do celebrate between Feb. 28 and Mar. 1 when it's not a leap year?
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
30 Sep 19
replacin' all that wirin' d be a major thingy, with residents most likely displaced. nah, no purty colors fer yer apartment numbers, that'd go 'gainst the 'sleek' landscapin'. 'tis 'lways folks who'll milk the system. 'tis a shame the new folks've less concern 'bout parkin' versus the aesthetics, eh?
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
30 Sep 19
Our main concern--once they start replacing the 90 year old wiring is that they will sell it to a company that will want to knock the buildings down and replace them with condos!! Or that within 10 years this part of Fort Lauderdale will be under water--and I am sure they have heavy flood insurance!!!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
1 Oct 19
@GreatMartin 90 yr ol' wirin'?? aint that illegal?
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2 Oct 19
@crazyhorseladycx Nope--actually more like 80 years--this place was built in the 1940s--originally as a barracks for officers in WW2!
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Sep 19
Glad to hear everything is going well and you have a nice place to live, Many smaller apartment buildings in Latvia look like they are about to fall down with leaning balconies and overgrown patches of grass with broken benches for people to sit, Compared to that you are living in a palace. Would you like to live here?
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
30 Sep 19
I wouldn't like to but I would survive very happily!
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