I agree with you that the condo board may have to suck it up and pay people to finish the job in order to sell it.
I don’t know if it is ugly, I don’t know how to quantify that.
I like the open main room, because you have a lot more freedom to organize how you use that room. I tend to be very utilitarian, so a room that is more usable to me is a more attractive room to me.
However, I don’t like the vaulted ceilings, because of the fact that you have to change the lightbulbs. That’s a problem for me because it means getting up on a couple of ladders, with a board between the two of them. That’s unnecessarily dangerous to me. Allthough, I have found light bulb extension poles that are supposed to allow you to change lightbulbs on high ceilings.
The rooftop units could be a problem. They might give off a constant hum. Not everybody can put up with that. I would want to put sound buffers between the unit and my condo, if it were possible.
The $765 is Canadian, not American. It’s about $560 USD. It is offset by heat/air conditioning and water. Where I live, the condo association takes $340/month and I still have to pay for my own heating and water and electricity.
For the house I’m in now, my ‘must haves’ were
Walls
More Walls
Doors everywhere
Yard for the Dogs
Office for Himself
A large kitchen lab for me with lots of walls and doors so i could lock myself in there.
Actually got everything after looking for 3 months or so, my realtor and I had the best conversations about open concept vs walls and doors. Neither of us convinced the other :)
Well, I ALMOST got everything. It’s a fun, quirky, 1959 tudor revival with walls and doors everywhere and some added for good measure by the former owners, but my kitchen is small and sucky. At least it has walls and doors, though.
As for that apartment, it needs some color and some life. Plants, crystal lights, a few paintings, make it into an art studio, and yes finish all the projects. Maybe cut it down to 3 bedrooms and enlarge or repurpose the 2 smallest. Upgrade those bathrooms - those shower stalls are the cheapest builder grade you can get. Depressing as hell. The kitchen is dismal with no storage planned out. Take pictures in summer spring or fall.
Nothing in the photos is welcoming or warm or enticing.
God save us from gray.
As is it’s a bleak looking, expensive project. When a place isn’t moving it’s usually because it has dead bodies all over or the price is too high.
Maybe just me. I have my own taste, but I’ve rehabbed and sold a few homes and shopped for more. Zillow and the Behr Paint website are my entertainments :) I was an unsuccessful real estate agent, too. I shoulda been a decorator instead.