Showing posts with label building managers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label building managers. Show all posts
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After dark, it's all the same junk, only moodier.[/caption]
It's end-of-month, end-of-summer: Let's all move! Binners of every persuasion, enjoy pawing through what Fairview renters throw away when they move out. Dumpsters will be dived, repeatedly, and painstakingly, with every bag opened, in the search for, well... whatever. Who knows? There's all sorts of good things to find: fresh food, trinkets, even money! I'm not much for dumpster diving but even I get the whole, "you'll never know what you'll find until you look" mentality that drives experienced binners to spend hours searching all the way to the bottom of a full dumpster.
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Someone didn't want to take this stuff with them?[/caption]
Of course, there's another side to this. The building managers of the Fairview neighbourhood's many apartment buildings are all about tidy, well-ordered properties -- they hate the way their departing tenants shed unwieldy junk behind the buildings on their way out the door to some new apartment with all the mod cons, and wainscoting -- several of them have been quite blunt on the subject of tenants, and their trashy ways.
What gets building manager's goats isn't so much bags in the dumpster, or even cardboard boxes full of discarded items -- it's the big stuff like mattresses, and furniture, and mirrors. Mattresses are the worst; they won't fit into dumpsters, the City of Vancouver doesn't want to take them away anymore -- in fact, thanks to the possibility of bed bugs, no one wants to get within 20 feet of a discarded mattress anymore. Mirrors are a pain, because the longer they linger in an alley, the more likely that they'll end up smashed. Click the images to enlarge.
After dark, it's all the same junk, only moodier.[/caption]It's end-of-month, end-of-summer: Let's all move! Binners of every persuasion, enjoy pawing through what Fairview renters throw away when they move out. Dumpsters will be dived, repeatedly, and painstakingly, with every bag opened, in the search for, well... whatever. Who knows? There's all sorts of good things to find: fresh food, trinkets, even money! I'm not much for dumpster diving but even I get the whole, "you'll never know what you'll find until you look" mentality that drives experienced binners to spend hours searching all the way to the bottom of a full dumpster.
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Someone didn't want to take this stuff with them?[/caption]Of course, there's another side to this. The building managers of the Fairview neighbourhood's many apartment buildings are all about tidy, well-ordered properties -- they hate the way their departing tenants shed unwieldy junk behind the buildings on their way out the door to some new apartment with all the mod cons, and wainscoting -- several of them have been quite blunt on the subject of tenants, and their trashy ways.
What gets building manager's goats isn't so much bags in the dumpster, or even cardboard boxes full of discarded items -- it's the big stuff like mattresses, and furniture, and mirrors. Mattresses are the worst; they won't fit into dumpsters, the City of Vancouver doesn't want to take them away anymore -- in fact, thanks to the possibility of bed bugs, no one wants to get within 20 feet of a discarded mattress anymore. Mirrors are a pain, because the longer they linger in an alley, the more likely that they'll end up smashed. Click the images to enlarge.
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One of the great photo of the rain in downtown Vancouver by the CBC! My photos sucked. Click the image to go to the CBC item.[/caption]
Last night's heavy, heavy rain, and thunderstorm was a short, sharp, shock, which overwhelmed the city's drainage capacity, and largely caught everyone by surprise -- it's at least a month early for this sort of rain. According to this CBC item, Vancouver only received between 12 and 18 mm of precipitation. That's 0.7 inches, so no records were in danger. But it was overwhelmingly fast. The storm came, and went inside of an hour, with the heaviest rainfall occurring in a span of minutes. The accompanying thunderstorm was a rarity, speaking as a 30-year resident of Vancouver. According to the CBC item, nearly 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded during the hour-long storm which dumped 17 mm of rain on the downtown area of Vancouver.
One of the great photo of the rain in downtown Vancouver by the CBC! My photos sucked. Click the image to go to the CBC item.[/caption]Last night's heavy, heavy rain, and thunderstorm was a short, sharp, shock, which overwhelmed the city's drainage capacity, and largely caught everyone by surprise -- it's at least a month early for this sort of rain. According to this CBC item, Vancouver only received between 12 and 18 mm of precipitation. That's 0.7 inches, so no records were in danger. But it was overwhelmingly fast. The storm came, and went inside of an hour, with the heaviest rainfall occurring in a span of minutes. The accompanying thunderstorm was a rarity, speaking as a 30-year resident of Vancouver. According to the CBC item, nearly 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded during the hour-long storm which dumped 17 mm of rain on the downtown area of Vancouver.
In front of Fairview's gracefully ageing apartment buildings, colourful, meticulous, landscaping abounds -- building managers really seem to be able to indulge their green thumbs. Fairview renters may get tiny apartments, for high monthly rents. But, they get to live in well maintained buildings, in a nice area. close to so much great shopping, and a vibrant night life (glug, glug. glug). And they get flowers.
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Building managers in the midst ... of a task. Diane (left), and Margo (right) are managers of apartment buildings which sit side-by-each. The two buildings probably have the same owner, Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]
It goes without saying that money is a major reason Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood looks as good as it does, but a lot of care goes into how that money is spent. The area bounded East-West by the streets Burrard, and Oak, and North-South by Broadway and 16th Avenue, is almost 100 per cent apartments and condos. Like other, less shiny areas, Most of Fairview's apartment buildings are old, several going back to the 1920s. What distinguishes Fairview is money, in the form of high rents, and how it is spent on up-keep, and maintenance. Every apartment building, it seems, is aggressively well-maintained, whether it's sweeping, or repainting, and replacing balconies.
Building managers in the midst ... of a task. Diane (left), and Margo (right) are managers of apartment buildings which sit side-by-each. The two buildings probably have the same owner, Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]It goes without saying that money is a major reason Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood looks as good as it does, but a lot of care goes into how that money is spent. The area bounded East-West by the streets Burrard, and Oak, and North-South by Broadway and 16th Avenue, is almost 100 per cent apartments and condos. Like other, less shiny areas, Most of Fairview's apartment buildings are old, several going back to the 1920s. What distinguishes Fairview is money, in the form of high rents, and how it is spent on up-keep, and maintenance. Every apartment building, it seems, is aggressively well-maintained, whether it's sweeping, or repainting, and replacing balconies.
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