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There was a recent mail on our apartment mailing list which informed us that about 1/2 of the 2000 borewells in our area have run dry, because of which the water tanker supply was likely to get erratic. We were requested to brace ourselves for water shortages, at least intermittent ones.

At least a couple of weeks a year, BESCOM, anyhow struggling to keep pace with the ever increasing need of a burgeoning city, fails to supply power for hours together. Our apartment's diesel gensets have been known to run overnight. These run at a maximum of 35-40% efficiency, and the entire dependence on huge amounts of fossil fuel directly to keep the lifts etc working is definitely not a very ecologically conscious act.

Vertical living just needs more natural resources and energy. The lack of these is starting to cause minor inconveniences and may give us a taste of major failures in not too distant a future. It'll take very little time for these tall edifices to our conceit and imagined prowess and mastery of the elements to be uninhabitable. Sure, sounds like a doomsday movie, but I'd almost bet that 24 hours of no water supply will be a real, quick trailer in not too distant a future.

Are apartments, as they're designed and built today, sustainable in the long run ? An 'independent' home on the ground level can live off human effort and power, harness enough solar energy, harvest enough rainwater, and redo stuff like plumbing etc more easily as newer, smarter, more efficient solutions are found to reduce our individual footprints. The pressure an individual home exerts on the earth is lower, and can be reduced quite dramatically. Can apartments do it ? Will real estate values start getting tied in to these fundmentals ?

Should I really start thinking about that house ?

In fact, if you book through discovergirona.net you get a 10% discount on their rates, making it an even better deal with no time limit from 1 night to weeks.

The 1 bed 1 bath apartments go for 100€/night 

The 2 bed 2 bath apartments are 150€/night

There are larger 2 bed 2 bath apartments at 185€/night

and the 3 bedroom 3 bath duplexes with garden are 250€/night

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Bookings can be made from now on but the complex opens its doors on October 16th 2009 and will be open all year round.

So, if you were thinking about visiting one of the most exciting cities in the world, the Casp74 apartments provide the perfect base to call home for the duration of your stay.

Like I said, James set up two different appointments and I did not even realize it until he came into the apartment complex for the second time. Even then I thought he looked familiar, I was not sure if he had looked at it before. I showed him Tonya's unit upstairs (200's are upstairs and 100's are downstairs). He liked it, but his wife was pregnant so I offered to move him into a downstairs apartment so she would not have to go up the stairs all the time. He liked this idea and wanted to see the apartment. I told him it was not ready, but he was persistent and wanted to see it so I gave in. So we went down to apartment 103. I had not done anything but clean the junk out of it. The walls were not painted, there were a few holes in the wall, and the carpet was completely trashed. So he looked at it and realized that it would be a little while before he moved into the apartment complex. I told him that I could have the painting and new carpet done within a week so we agreed on that and he signed the one year lease agreement. About a day later I was kind of busy and James called me up and we got to talking about the apartment. He really wanted to move in as soon as possible so he offered to paint it for a little bit of compensation. I talked to the owner and we agreed on it. So he painted the apartment, and I was getting ready to call a carpet laying business when he asked how much it cost to get the apartment carpeted. I gave him the estimate I received, and he said that there was this wood laminate flooring that was on sale and it would be the same price, if not cheaper, to put it in. He also liked it a lot more. I started looking into it, and asked him how much it would be to get it installed; he said that he had installed flooring like that several times he would install it for free. I liked this idea so I had a talk with the owner and we arranged for him to install it in the apartment complex. It took him a few days, but when he finished it it looked amazing. James even replaced all the molding in the apartment with wood that matched the flooring. So apartment 103 worked out extremely well for me. I didn't have to do a whole lot of extra work, the apartment got a new paint job and flooring, and a tenant moved in. =] After James and his wife moved into the apartment complex, the calls started to die down to "normal" again. It's kind of weird how I move 3 people in over many months, then the end of summer comes and all of the sudden 3 people move in in 3 weeks. Oh well, I'm not going to question anything *knock on wood*

This is my first post so lets get acquainted a little bit. I'm 19 years old, I go to school full time, work part time, and am the manager of set of apartment complexes. So your probably wondering how I got to be the manager of an apartment complex. I actually know the owner, Mike. He used to have an outstanding manager about a year or two before me, but he made the mistake of steeling form Mike, and ever since then it has gone downhill with managers (except for me). So the owner was having trouble finding someone he could trust, so that is where I come in; I have known the owner almost all of my life, and he knows that I am trustworthy and a hard worker. I started running the apartments in December of 08 and I am just starting this blog now so there is a whole lot that I could say, but I'm not sure if I remember it all or if it is worth even mentioning. So when weird things happen or people make up stories, I'm going to post them. I guess I want to do this for two or three reasons: for keeping track of stuff at the apartments, for myself, and for anyone who wants a laugh or two when "things go down."