28 Mar 2007 3:36 PM:

I have just completed an apartment - subject to the snags being done. Unfortunately, a number of these snags were meant to be fixed already. I note from all your contributions that many of you have gone out some months after completion and still found the snags not done.

I asked Calidonas rental department to send me details of their package. I also thought that this might mean that their snag deperment would get my snags done quicker - I am not sure yet if this will be the case.

I find it strange that I have to take the initiative and chase their rental deparment. I would have thought that as each apartment completed, they would be actively looking for the client to do their renting through them. It seems we will end up with a hotch potch of different rental companies having offerings for RODA. If RODA had gone strong on this and marketed themselves well they could have a strong position. I find the standard furniture pack expensive and having some strange elements:

- a pale fabric sofa is not going to stand the rigours of short term lets. Why not have a brown leather sofa. The leather need not be high grade and it would be far more durable.

hasd anybody gone with Calidona? Has anybody actually got any bookings yet through Calidona or is it too early?

Alan

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16 Mar 2007 1:53 PM:

Hi Lyndy,

Your website is very nice!

Did you go for the RODA furinture package in the end ?- I think you said before that you were

Did you pay for any extras or are the leather sofas and flat screen TV / sun loungers included in the package that costs the 14k?

The kit out does look very high quality. I had seen the show apartment pictures but it does seem to differ from yours in final style. Can you choose from within sofa colors etc.?  I was a bit concerned at what looked like a cream textile sofa in the pictures that I saw and I wondered how it would stand up to the wear and tear of short term lets but if you can get a leather option in choclate as appears in yours, that would be much better.

Regards,

Alan

 

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05 Mar 2007 1:26 PM:

Hi,

It was a 2 bed but like you I saw the model and thought that all the end apartments had a proper stairs on the gable end.

Don't know if the fact that you are 3 bed makes a difference - I asked for a detailed floor plan after purchase contract stage but never received it so could not pin it down.

 

Alan

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01 Mar 2007 2:43 PM:

We have an end top apartment also and I was sure that I had a proper stairs but it turned out that it is a spiral stair case.

It is very steep and certainly for older people & children (and those with a bottle of rioja in them! ) is a real risk

To describe such an apartment as "penthouse" is a nonsense. It diminishes the use of what is a large space considerably. Will you in reality bother bringing up settings for a meal each time? How will you get furniture up there in the first place?

Alan

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