I finally got to visit my friend's unit yesterday. Being priced in the mid-high price bracket it is obviously more posh than our condo.
The entrance and exit were dual lanes, one for visitors and the other for residents. His unit came with a tandem parking lot and additional single bays are priced at RM18,000 each and tandem lots at RM26,000 (it is all on the notice boards).
The unit is a 1442 square feet 3+1 room and 2 bathroom unit. I found all the rooms to be rather small for such a condo though the hall and dining is large. From the dining area the rooms are on a split level up like the ones in Kelana Mahkota. Finishing in the baths look quite posh too. We met two sets of tenants that morning, first were a group of Unitar students (horror of horrors) and the other were Indian IT guys. The students paid RM300 per person to Unitar but we forgot to ask how many persons stayed. Our guess is at least 6 - 8 as some desperate owners are letting out at RM1400 per month. That leaves a healthy profit for Unitar or whoever it is subletting.
Next we went down to the ground level and checked out the gymnasium. It was a pathetic room about the same size our our gym. The swimming pool (photo above) was nice though with it's Balinese feel. They had palm trees all round. We asked if there were squash courts but the Gurkha guards said no but there were badminton courts on Lower Ground 3. Huh, LG3? We asked again and he said yes LG3. Surprise, surprise they indeed have a hall which housed two parquet badminton courts complete with nets. If my senses are right I think it is right underneath the tennis courts on Ground level. It was well-lit with natural light coming from the North-West and floodlights.
Conclusion, my opinion is that with 611 units housed in two blocks (16 units per floor) and the current economic situation said to get worse Sterling will not be worth it's name if more students live there. Our condo has 625 units I think and we know jolly well how "lively" it is. The equation is simple, the higher the density the more crap there will be! I kept my thoughts to myself as I did not want to hurt my friend's feelings but he is not thinking of staying anyway. He'll either sell it or rent it out.
The entrance and exit were dual lanes, one for visitors and the other for residents. His unit came with a tandem parking lot and additional single bays are priced at RM18,000 each and tandem lots at RM26,000 (it is all on the notice boards).
The unit is a 1442 square feet 3+1 room and 2 bathroom unit. I found all the rooms to be rather small for such a condo though the hall and dining is large. From the dining area the rooms are on a split level up like the ones in Kelana Mahkota. Finishing in the baths look quite posh too. We met two sets of tenants that morning, first were a group of Unitar students (horror of horrors) and the other were Indian IT guys. The students paid RM300 per person to Unitar but we forgot to ask how many persons stayed. Our guess is at least 6 - 8 as some desperate owners are letting out at RM1400 per month. That leaves a healthy profit for Unitar or whoever it is subletting.
Next we went down to the ground level and checked out the gymnasium. It was a pathetic room about the same size our our gym. The swimming pool (photo above) was nice though with it's Balinese feel. They had palm trees all round. We asked if there were squash courts but the Gurkha guards said no but there were badminton courts on Lower Ground 3. Huh, LG3? We asked again and he said yes LG3. Surprise, surprise they indeed have a hall which housed two parquet badminton courts complete with nets. If my senses are right I think it is right underneath the tennis courts on Ground level. It was well-lit with natural light coming from the North-West and floodlights.
Conclusion, my opinion is that with 611 units housed in two blocks (16 units per floor) and the current economic situation said to get worse Sterling will not be worth it's name if more students live there. Our condo has 625 units I think and we know jolly well how "lively" it is. The equation is simple, the higher the density the more crap there will be! I kept my thoughts to myself as I did not want to hurt my friend's feelings but he is not thinking of staying anyway. He'll either sell it or rent it out.
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