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I really enjoyed living there – had some great times, but also learned living in an apartment comes with mixed blessings… eg neighbours stinking out the stairwell cooking god knows what… or dealing with a body corporate (never again!)<\/p>\n
FWIW the entire building was bought out from under us, to make space for more roads! It was a fairly stressful and unpleasant time, dealing with NZTA who went out of their way to try & devalue our building with fake EQC assessments and bogus deadlines… I still smile when I think about going to the final meeting with the suits from NZTA, where they attempted to hand us all a fait accompli. As the meeting started I interupted them, plonking my little Zoom handheld recorder on the desk and saying “not all the owners are present so its no problem if I record this for them, right?” In hindsight, apart from wanting a recording for evidence it also put them on notice that anything they said in that meeting was public info and could be shared…
\nIn the end we each settled for a fair-ish price, and one of the few benefits of being forcibly bought out was that they also had to cover all expenses of buying a new property and moving. This was right about the time I went and did my two Artists Residencies… so I packed up my apartment and stored it in my studio in Miramar, and headed off to Shodoshima, Japan for 2 months… And then 2 months in Little Huia, Auckland… And then found my house in Plimmerton and have happily lived here ever since!<\/p>\n
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Some timelapses shot from the balcony of my apartment, soon to be a ghost!<\/p>\n