midtown condo (apartments, foreclosure, rental)

[saucemoney]

Ive been looking at a couple of condos lately in midtown ( spire, 805 peachtree, 860 peachtree ect..)and im getting tired of seeing condos that look like apartments or have been converted from apartments. Ive also looked into lofts but all the 2 bedrooms have that open slit at the top.. i dont want to hear my roommate doing their business . What would yall recommend
BTW i tried searching but i keep getting an error when i do

[ATLTJL]

I believe Plaza Midtown has full walls, not that 3/4 wall stuff.

Actually, I thought even the crummy Novare properties did full walls on the 2 bedroom units.

Higher end places like Aqua and Luxe are also going to have full walls.

[cittic10]

Originally Posted by saucemoney

i dont want to hear my roommate doing their business . What would yall recommend

A detached single family dwelling.
Apt life isn't for everyone. Even with full walls (full walls?) you will hear them doing their business above and below you.

[rzzz]

Originally Posted by cittic10

A detached single family dwelling.
Apt life isn't for everyone. Even with full walls (full walls?) you will hear them doing their business above and below you.

That's not necessarily true. Many houses, especially in warmer climates have thin walls and you can hear everything that happens anywhere in the house. This is true in the house I am renting, which was built in 1950. Same with when I rented in a home in San Francisco, and my sister's home in Australia is similar.

On the other hand, I looked at a rental in that building where Condesa Coffee is located, and it seemed like it was built with 1 foot thick concrete. Very unlikely you'd hear your neighbors. However, I do think it had those weird gapped dividing walls. The apartments I rented in Manhattan, I could only hear outside noise, never anything to the side or below me. Once in a while if someone dropped something upstairs, I could hear that. Similarly, my friends own a luxury condo in a new high rise in Brooklyn and it's like a sonic isolation chamber in there.

It's a factor of the construction of the building rather than the type of the building.

[cittic10]

Originally Posted by rzzz

That's not necessarily true. Many houses, especially in warmer climates have thin walls and you can hear everything that happens anywhere in the house. This is true in the house I am renting, which was built in 1950. Same with when I rented in a home in San Francisco, and my sister's home in Australia is similar.

On the other hand, I looked at a rental in that building where Condesa Coffee is located, and it seemed like it was built with 1 foot thick concrete. Very unlikely you'd hear your neighbors. However, I do think it had those weird gapped dividing walls. The apartments I rented in Manhattan, I could only hear outside noise, never anything to the side or below me. Once in a while if someone dropped something upstairs, I could hear that. Similarly, my friends own a luxury condo in a new high rise in Brooklyn and it's like a sonic isolation chamber in there.

It's a factor of the construction of the building rather than the type of the building.

I lived in a high rise for many years. The sound never came from the walls. It came from the ceiling most of the time. I recall laying in bed and hearing male urination (standing up) in the toilet upstairs and one room over, shoes and furniture moving across the floor above. God helpya if you got a smoker nearby.

[George Chong]

Originally Posted by saucemoney

Ive been looking at a couple of condos lately in midtown ( spire, 805 peachtree, 860 peachtree ect..)and im getting tired of seeing condos that look like apartments or have been converted from apartments. Ive also looked into lofts but all the 2 bedrooms have that open slit at the top.. i dont want to hear my roommate doing their business . What would yall recommend
BTW i tried searching but i keep getting an error when i do

It depends on your price range and what amenities you are looking for. Most of the Novare properties look too much alike to me and have the three-quarter walls and soft loft look.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by saucemoney

Ive been looking at a couple of condos lately in midtown ( spire, 805 peachtree, 860 peachtree ect..)and im getting tired of seeing condos that look like apartments or have been converted from apartments. Ive also looked into lofts but all the 2 bedrooms have that open slit at the top.. i dont want to hear my roommate doing their business . What would yall recommend
BTW i tried searching but i keep getting an error when i do

I feel the same way. I actually live in Viewpoint and had them customize my floor plan so it has full walls in my 2/1. (And coincidentally I just bought a new place and will be listing my condo in a few weeks, so your search is over! )

[Mishap]

^What 2/1 floorplan are you in? I only know of 2/2's in Viewpoint along w/ the 1/1 | 1/1.5 + study floorplans. The study units are usually ~1,000sf max and the 2nd "bedroom" some people claim is usually too small to be an actual bedroom along w/ not having doors and having the sloped 3/4 wall at most.

Most of the full size 2bdrs in Viewpoint (and most of those in Spire) had roommate floorplans w/ the bedrooms split on opposite sides of the unit. These are generally the ones on the corners of the building where they have access to that much light. From my past experience most of those tend to run close to 300k or more depending on upgrades/etc.

The cheapest 2/2 roommate floorplan I saw was a foreclosure in Spire at 240k in '09 but they had ripped out the closets to make the bedrooms bigger(the bedroom smelled like old shoes), tiled half the floor w/ a jagged edge of the original wood, and tore out a shower wall so it had 2 curtains and the bedroom had a view straight to the toilet for some unknown reason. Needless to say, I didn't make an offer.

[cittic10]

oh I misread the OP.
It said roomate, not neighbor.

Please disregard my original comment and every comment thereafter. I don't even know what a 3/4 wall is! They didn't have those when I lived in a condo.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by Mishap

^What 2/1 floorplan are you in? I only know of 2/2's in Viewpoint along w/ the 1/1 | 1/1.5 + study floorplans. The study units are usually ~1,000sf max and the 2nd "bedroom" some people claim is usually too small to be an actual bedroom along w/ not having doors and having the sloped 3/4 wall at most.

Most of the full size 2bdrs in Viewpoint (and most of those in Spire) had roommate floorplans w/ the bedrooms split on opposite sides of the unit. These are generally the ones on the corners of the building where they have access to that much light. From my past experience most of those tend to run close to 300k or more depending on upgrades/etc.

The cheapest 2/2 roommate floorplan I saw was a foreclosure in Spire at 240k in '09 but they had ripped out the closets to make the bedrooms bigger(the bedroom smelled like old shoes), tiled half the floor w/ a jagged edge of the original wood, and tore out a shower wall so it had 2 curtains and the bedroom had a view straight to the toilet for some unknown reason. Needless to say, I didn't make an offer.

My floor plan is one of the "one bedroom plus a den" floor plans. In the "10" stack if you know the building. I just had them complete the walls so the master was separate from the living room (The "den" / second bedroom already had full walls). The second bedroom is smaller,~10'X10' but I have had a roommate the entire time I have been here and lived in that room for over a year myself with a queen sized bed, night stand, and a desk in the room. The building agent actually really liked what was done and came and took pictures, so it is possible it was done in some of the other units too.