"It's going to be a high-end condominium with hotel services".
The condominium provides the service staff (for a fee), absolving the mansion-owner of the annoyance of bankrolling the square footage needed to house a private in-house staff and a load of other responsibilities inherent in homeownership.
BROOKLYN: 446 Kent Avenue, PHB A two-bedroom two-bath duplex with a foyer, a kitchen open to the living room, a washer/dryer, and a roof terrace in Schaefer's Landing, a full-service condominium.
Sprawling over 67 acres on the Las Vegas Strip, it was to contain four hotels, one of them with more than 4,000 rooms, and hundreds of condominiums offering hotel services.
Cynthia Ehrlich, a self-employed tax accountant in her early 50s, made an $85,000 down payment — "all the money I had" — last March on a small one-bedroom at 75 Wall Street, a full-service condominium converted from an old bank building.
Gordon Iaconetti, a retired consultant, was thinking much bigger than bins and bike racks when, three years ago, he joined the board of Sutton View, a Midtown condominium, and volunteered his services as director of operations.
A Web site for the building at 123 Baxter Street describes it as a "modern, newly constructed, full service luxury condominium experience," boasting that it has the city's first fully automated parking system.
They aren't just public-service condominiums that pick up trash and direct traffic.
With a gym, a lounge and a roof deck, it was one of the first full-service condominiums he looked at — and he realized how much easier life would be with amenities right at hand.
What's available is varied, ranging from empty lots to houses to fully furnished and serviced condominiums in prices ranging from the low 200,000's to 2.2 million Canadian dollars.
