Apartment complex being adorned with grandiose titles

SparkyTech

I'm sure i'm not the first and last to notice the trend in marketing when it comes to flogging Celtic tiger apartment complex's. (now abandoned :P)

Just the other day I was coming up the N11 near Stillorgan when I noticed one entitled ''The Spirit of Gracious Living'', On the outskirts of Rathgar, a building site for more then 5 years now, the soon to be apartments promise ''Passion for life, respect for living'', and as for a site in Dundrum, its ''a point of difference''.

Why don't they just entitle the now derilict/half finished apartments ''Derilict demise meets NAMA suprise'' or some other witty pun, Stick it all over the happy smiling, affluent middle class models, having the time of their lives in their luxury apartments, on the estate agents websites and flog them for half their asking price? If you had to brand one of these tinderbox apartments, what would you call the potential home in order to entice prospective buyers? :rolleyes:

slavetothegrind

"not the poorly built **** box you think! With next to no soundproofing and built to accommodate 3/4 size furniture!"

Hookah

Sounds like one of those superiority complexes.

Guill

Tired of living in a soundly built concrete house?
Tired of well planned interiors?
Tired of adequate plumbing, electrics, etc?
Do you want to be the only person in a half finished housing estate built on flood plain?



Live like they did in the 20's - for a quarter the price!













Please someone buy my house...

Saila

the money pit - you put your money in never to be seen again

Toby Take a Bow

The advertisements for that apartment complex in Dundrum are hilarious:

Inspired by beauty in nature, people – from poets to
parliamentarians, artists to company directors – have always
sought a retreat from the hectic sounds of city life. Set on
a twelve acre site, with three acres given to its own park,
woodland, and a lake, Wyckham Point provides such
a private retreat.

Woodland paths, tree-lined avenues, places for walking, areas
for sitting. Forget about the car, ignore the busy bustle of town
and relax for a while in one of the largest private gardens
in Dublin.

Having said that, the apartments do look nice. If they'd ever finished the development.

dr.bollocko

Every 2nd one is called the cloisters for some reason.

Kaizer Sosa

Yeah, heard of one apartment complex called Fatima Mansions and they weren't very mansion-y.

mikemac

The Tudors: Sorry but that just doesn't work in Ireland, doesn't fit somehow. Just sounds wrong and ill fitting to me. Maybe I'm alone on this

Tuscany Downs or Tuscany Villas; GTFO, a complex beside a road is not some magnificent property in beautiful Italy. That's what I picture when I hear Tuscany, offtopic but I'd love to retire in Tuscany!

ro_chez

They should name one Nelson Mandela House to make the Queen feel more at home

El Weirdo

Check out "The Mill" apartments in Ballisodare, Co. Sligo.

Cianos

Sick of seeing that 12 foot poster of the guy with the slicked back hair in a suit holding an outdated phone up to his eye.

Circus_O

Spirit of gracious living
Flows through
Broke-ass tiger

All their advertisement should be in haiku

mconigol

El Weirdo wrote: »

Check out "The Mill" apartments in Ballisodare, Co. Sligo.

That's a ****ing disgrace.

The scum that thrashed them are probably the same ones moaning about not getting enough from the state.

Circus_O

Bertie Ahern
Zoologist he's not
Tiger died

El Weirdo

mconigol wrote: »

That's a ****ing disgrace.

The scum that thrashed built them are probably the same ones moaning about not getting enough from the state.

FYP

Hookah

El Weirdo wrote: »

FYP

'Not in my NAMA'

oppenheimer1

El Weirdo wrote: »

Check out "The Mill" apartments in Ballisodare, Co. Sligo.

Stripped of all its copper wires and cylinders. I wonder which ethnic group those that did that belong to? Would it be perhaps the one which "99% are good law abiding citizens"? :rolleyes:

Denisejcc

SparkyTech wrote: »

I'm sure i'm not the first and last to notice the trend in marketing when it comes to flogging Celtic tiger apartment complex's. (now abandoned :P)

Just the other day I was coming up the N11 near Stillorgan when I noticed one entitled ''The Spirit of Gracious Living'', On the outskirts of Rathgar, a building site for more then 5 years now, the soon to be apartments promise ''Passion for life, respect for living'', and as for a site in Dundrum, its ''a point of difference''.

Why don't they just entitle the now derilict/half finished apartments ''Derilict demise meets NAMA suprise'' or some other witty pun, Stick it all over the happy smiling, affluent middle class models, having the time of their lives in their luxury apartments, on the estate agents websites and flog them for half their asking price? If you had to brand one of these tinderbox apartments, what would you call the potential home in order to entice prospective buyers? :rolleyes:

The Grange have always had the tag line 'The Spirit of gracious living' nothing to do with the eceonomic demise! :rolleyes::D

Hookah

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Stripped of all its copper wires and cylinders. I wonder which ethnic group those that did that belong to? Would it be perhaps the one which "99% are good law abiding citizens"? :rolleyes:

At least someone had the good sense and social awareness to engage in a little recycling.

mconigol

El Weirdo wrote: »

FYP

lol

Still though it takes a special brand of scum to thrash a brand new apartment complex like that. It's no wonder this country is ****ed.

El Weirdo

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Stripped of all its copper wires and cylinders. I wonder which ethnic group those that did that belong to? Would it be perhaps the one which "99% are good law abiding citizens"? :rolleyes:

To be fair, it could just as easily been a contractor who wasn't paid for work.

Just saying.