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One can do a whole lot with a blank slate. With white marble throughout, you could take it in a hundred different directions and make it work. This could even be super cozy and warm without changing a single existing finish.

It is right in the gayborhood which is a nice area.

Almost $1000 for HOA fees seems excessive for what you get.

Plus, most importantly, Dallas is miserable and humid for at least 7 months of the year. Have to pass on that reason alone.

OP here:

A blank “slate” indeed!

I’d need sunglasses to even envision design changes.

Hideously sterile. Looks like a fancy operating room.

State of the art appliances my hairy asshole.

i couldn't handle all that marble. Then again I'm not used to the hot climate.

OP here…if you want humidity, visit Houston.

Before widespread air conditioning, the British consulate was deemed as being a hardship zone, and staff was paid extra to work there.

Your rescue wolferines would hate you - impossible to run and maim on those floors.

Actually, Turtle Creek is chock-full of coyotes.

Looks like a down-market version of Patrick Bateman's home.

You’re gonna crack your fucking skull open if you slip on that floor.

Lovely place but needs a little more color.

I hate it, but think you could do something to it. The floor is so mall/hospital - so with a warmer floor and/or large rugs, that could be fixed totally or partially. And while the white cabinets and shelves are fine, the white walls are too "primer" white - a warmer white or darker neutral would achieve a lot. Then fill it up with decent art and furnishings

That is a BORING city

Perhaps it could used for sex parties, just hose everything down afterwards.

That flooring throughout the entire apartment - including bedrooms - is cold, ugly, hard, noisy, echoes and is very unforgiving if you drop anything on it. I hate the whole place because of the flooring. AWFUL.

R5 I agree, for half a million I was expecting at least KitchenAid and don't get me started on that crappy stacked washer dryer. The gold plumbing fixtures in the bathroom are ghetto!

[quote]Lovely place but needs a little more color.

You mean it's not RESTRICTED?

My neighbors would kill me. I love the idea of learning to tap dance. I also love old song and dance movies. I’d need uppers.

#aptsowhite

I’ve scheduled a colonoscopy next week…maybe it’s available.

So dull so sterile. Lot of rugs, some nicer light fittings and paint/ wallpaper along with curtains and nice antique furniture could make it fairly livable though, its amazing what can be done with a soulless box given a bit of effort and determination - as R1 says it mostly a blank slate, or in this case a blank whiteboard. The HOA fees are a lot though

And how about that view Mrs. "Smith"!

And Mrs. Smith, just to triple check, we're here today to erase your 'laugh lines', is that correct?

Yes, of course, but you can understand we have to take every precaution against a possible mix-up.

And now, were going to ask you to sit here and then we'll recline and wait just a few minutes for the doctor.

1) why did someone leave big black screens on the walls and why are they still there for these pictures?

2) the ceilings appear high in some rooms, yet not other rooms. I do like a higher ceiling.

3) the balcony reveals a building that has not been kept up, and its only 25 years old or so.

Whole lotta nothin’ special…

We think it's absolutely beautiful.

What’s all that marble doing in an ordinary, cookie-cutter efficiency apartment?

Why are some fixtures gold and others nickel, and others polished chrome in the same bathroom?

R2: There's usually no snow, which seems important to people here who have no problem living in a cultural wasteland that's unlivable much of the year.

Marble is soft and, therefore, not durable. Great for accents or tops on gaudy coffee tables but not for a whole apartment. The gold fixtures also won't age well and the contrast makes them look tacky, esp. in the bathroom. The view isn't very inspiring and I'll bet the canyon-like courtyard probably tends to be noisy.

The $1000 HOA fee probably means that the building had a very low fee and a lot of neglected maintenance for many years and now they're trying to catch-up and it's too costly to do special assessments.

[quote]Marble is soft and, therefore, not durable. Great for accents or tops on gaudy coffee tables but not for a whole apartment.

The floor of the Pantheon, built for Hadrian 1900 years ago, original, trod upon by tens of millions and not looking half bad.

I doubt that the Pantheon has the kind of pristine floor people want in their own home.

Marble? LOL. Looks like someone maxed out their credit cards at the Faux Tiles R Us emporium. Sterile is a choice, I suppose. And that "balcony" is insane. It's like a Juliet balcony with a 200 foot sheer drop. Kitchen screams "apartment conversion" too.

I lived in a home with marble floors and almost killed myself. It is like walking on ice and if you fall... something is sure to break.

This is awful. And it’s not just because it’s in the world’s worst city.

This is a poor man's vision of glamour and upscale. It's gaudy - so I guess it's very Texan and fits right in.

Can't stand Texans or Texas - so very easy pass for me. It is ugly and tasteless.

Gold fixtures? Why?

Op here…the neighborhood is quite pleasant and walkable.

And those bitches dissing Dallas haven’t seen our cultural district, and google the Nasher Garden and Ft. Worth’s cultural district…the Kimball is a top-10 US museum.

Regarding the HOA, it is ridiculous, but these stupid assholes are facing so many lawsuits, it’s comical. Also, the multi-floored parking garage collapsed a few years ago.

My husband and I looked at a unit there 10 years ago, and it was a fucking frat house…and not in a good way.

Finally, the place is priced $120K over market value. They’re dreaming.

The balcony does look cheap. The neighboring apartments look cheap-ish, as well.

$539K, for that ... I'd keep looking.

Looks like a place for a 3 generation asian family of 8 to squeeze into and run a business out of. Live animals and laundry on the Juliet balcony.

You can do better at that price point.

[quote] I lived in a home with marble floors and almost killed myself. It is like walking on ice

Ita zounds vunderfull to me, no?

My hips ached as I saw all that scary marble. No thanks.

Thick antique marble floors are not that slippery. High gloss and polished shitty marble tiles are.

It's just ghastly!

Every one of your rescue pets would become a sedentary baby-stepper.

A cat wouldn’t even be able to pull off a post-shit zoomie. It would be more of a zoo…..crash.

[quote]Op here…the neighborhood is quite pleasant and walkable.

I can second this. I have never lived in Dallas, but I go there for work often, and have gone to Oak Lawn many times. There are a lot of nice restaurants. Fun bars to suit all tastes. There is a Kroger and a Walgreens right there, so a person doesn't have to drive far at all/deal with traffic if they don't want to.

If I had to move to Dallas, it would be there.

All that said, I could deal with it I suppose, but the bugs, humidity, and the heat are a real ... "presence" for most of the year. It just wouldn't be for me.

[quote] … And those bitches dissing Dallas haven’t seen our cultural district, and google the Nasher Garden and Ft. Worth’s cultural district…the Kimball is a top-10 US museum. … [/quote]

This bitch has been there & done that. Lived there for 15 years and will never go back.

Walking distance to Kroger isn't exactly a recommendation.