Grandmarc at the Corner

evitaperon
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:29:48 +0000

Haha my GrandMarc subletter in summer never told me about this either! It makes it annoying to synchronise visits to your apartment gathering.

GrandMarc’s management is curious, to say the least.

Parking costs $60 a month, but it’s a steal for the Corner. People who live in GrandMarc seem to be living there for their social / night life (frat and sorority types abound).

The pool…is an interesting situation. GrandMarc has no visible security guards. In fact … one time I was going down there at 2 am to relax with my significant other only to find that 100 glass bottles were at the pool and there were cans everywhere; this happened twice at the end of every summer session. Often, it wouldn’t get cleaned up for 24-48 hours.

It’s funny – the management will prefer to constantly clean up after their residents’ mess and destruction of common property (lights, signs) – rather than enforce order. But I suspect it may make business sense for them. To crack down offenders would drive many future residents away and give it an “uptight” reputation.

Of course I only knew about this situation because rent basically gets slashed in half each summer (because GrandMarc tenants have to compete with much cheaper apartments for the summer sublet housing market).