Vacation Apartments, The Good And The Bad.
Strata titled holiday apartments on the east coast of Australia
first came about well over a quarter of a century ago as a means
of building holiday accommodation in large building complexes
without the whole resort being owned by a single identity.
A ten storey building could then be built with each seperate
apartment sold off to the public and one of the apartments to a
resident manager who maintained the whole resort. They kept the
gardens maintained, cleaned the pool and generally looked after
the building. The other role they played was to rent out the
apartments of owners to vacationers as an onsite real estate
agent.
All this looks great and while the building is relatively new
doesn't cause any great problems.Once the apartments become aged
and in need sprucing up a bit it is up to each owner to then
renovate there own apartment. Many owners don't understand or
simply refuse to update to a standard you would like to stay in
on holiday. Older buildings can then have a variety of standards
of accommodation and not all apartments look like the glossy
brochures you see.
Apartment managers actively encourage owners to update, as the
quality of apartments on offer, if left to decline will
adversely affect there business.
It is important that you either check with managers what your
standard of accommodation will be or you book through a company
that will insist that there buildings are maintainted at certain
standard to come under there banner.