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Owning or renting a luxury apartment has been a goal for many. What you couldn’t get in an average apartment, you can get in a luxury one, by paying an extra penny of course. So if you are among those seekers looking for a deluxe apartment to rent, make sure to check the following Guiding points before you proceed.

Important Tips for Tenants Wanting To Rent Luxury Apartments

What’s A Luxury Apartment

First of all, you must know that a luxury apartment is a property that has high-quality facilities, space, security, and location in comparison to other properties. It has unique features and is usually offered by luxury real estate agencies. One can rent this space for either everyday living or spend holidays with close ones.

What Benefits Does It Offer

Luxury apartments offer benefits similar to that of a luxury hotel. This includes a splendid space, access to high-end amenities, a luxurious lifestyle, and fewer maintenance costs. For people looking for apartments for rent Oakland has a number of luxury rental options to choose from.

How Is It Different From Other Properties

When choosing a suitable luxury apartment, make sure to compare the different properties first. Look for what amenities and services each property offers. These could be spacious rooms, swimming pools, reserved parking, gyms, etc. Some properties also provide services like a private car cleaner, hairdresser, fitness trainer, cook or mechanic, and so on.

What Real Estate You Should Choose

While shuffling through the options for luxury properties, you must also learn and study about the real estate agencies offering them. It is important to know about the property agencies, how old are they, are these reputed ones, have these been positively reviewed by customers or not, etc. Check out their portfolios on the internet or in person, photographs of the number of projects they have done, and also the localities they are developed into.

What Is The Registration Process

Learn about the registration process offered by each of the real estate agencies. The usual process of registering for a property is more or less the same with each agency. However, while some procedures can be simple others can be a little complicated.

How To Make Payment

Lastly, know about the modes of making payments while booking the luxury property of your choice. How is it done, online or in person, is it reliable and secure, how much time does it take, etc. should be your major concerns in this respect.

Conclusion

The above points are important checkpoints that should be at your fingertips while choosing a luxury apartment. Once you find the most suitable apartment, make haste to book it. Raj Properties offers a diversity of apartments for rent in West Oakland in high-end localities. Visit the website today to find the apartment of your dreams.

If there is one thing of significant importance in regards to rented properties during the ongoing pandemic, it is that landlords, tenants and local authorities should continue to work together, to maintain these properties safe. This is in the very best interest of both landlords and tenants. Ensuring that the properties are free of hazards and are a safe environment is priority number one. Tenants need to stay on top of the issue and alert their landlord early on, in case of a problem. This will allow the landlord to address the task as soon as possible and take adequate action. In the following guide, we will have a look at a few important factors considering all of that. 

Ventilation 

Allowing fresh air in is very important for any meetings conducted indoors. According to health and safety experts, it is best if landlords and tenants meet outside. For communal areas, opening windows and doors is one of the simplest ways to improve ventilation. It allows stale air to circulate outside the building and thus reduce the chance of Covid-19 virus particles remaining in the building. In case windows have openings at both the bottom and the top, like sash windows, keeping the top open ensures the incoming fresh air warms up a bit. If the weather allows it, both openings should be used. It is a good idea to open windows/doors on opposite sides of a room, to ensure the best circulation. If possible, tenants should maintain openings throughout the day to ensure a constant flow of fresh air is entering the home. 

Carrying out repair and maintenance work 

Work undertaken should always follow the safety guidance during Covid-19. If local authorities, landlords and contractors need to access a property, to carry out certain work there, they should do so in a safe manner. The possible works include: 

• Safety inspections are done on a routine basis, which also includes electricity and gas safety checks. 
  
  
• Various essential and non-essential repairs
  
  
• Unplanned or planned maintenance inside and outside of the home
  
  

There are no guidelines for homes with potential or confirmed coronavirus infection. The same guidelines apply to the occupants of shared properties. If one of the occupants have symptoms of the virus, all of them should behave as a single household. No work should take place in households isolated due to symptoms of the virus unless there is a very clear risk for the safety of the same household or public. 

If there is a case of a tenant refusing access to the property, landlords have the tools and powers that will allow them to gain access. This includes obtaining an injunction from the court, or a warrant. 

Maintenance work and repairs with clinically vulnerable people 

As per expert clinical advice and the rollout of the vaccine programme, all individuals previously considered clinically extremely vulnerable are not advised to shield again. Such individuals should consider some advice from their healthcare professional on what precautions are right for them. 

Communal lounges in retirement/shelter schemes 

Scheme managers and landlords should always perform a risk assessment, inclusive of the risk of Covid-19 and do the necessary to minimise it. Everyone who is self-isolating, or symptomatic of Covid-19 or has a positive test should steer clear of communal areas when others are there. These areas should be properly sanitised at all times, to ensure no cross-contamination occurs. 

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Perhaps I should've read Malamud's works in order, because I just jumped through time into a completely different author. I've read Malamud's first two books and loved them; I even loved the crazy debut novel about baseball for crying out loud. Then I stepped over five other books and landed in the 1970s. 1970's Malamud is not the same as 1950's Malamud. Gone is the easygoing, beautiful prose that glimmers; in its place is a noisy, experimental tale that felt more like cocaine on the brain. Hey, it was the seventies.

Had I not known this was written by Malamud, I wouldn't have had the faintest idea from the writing. Maybe I should pretend it wasn't Malamud and approach it as an unknown author. There's some wonderful conflict in this story. The novel is largely about two writers at war with one another. Now, I roll my eyes almost anytime a story is written about writers, but I'll grant each and every author one token to play the writer card (but only one). The characters themselves are sort of cliché, but I think the author did a wonderful job making them believable and original within their caricatures.

Truth is, this story is all over the place. I couldn't tell what was dreams, what was imagined, what was novel. Did any of this really happen? Was some of what I read the novel that was being written by one of these imagined writers? Were there even two writers, or was this all merely the internal struggle of one writer? The author of The Tenants seems angry, confused, and hopeless, a person with a negative view of the world. And this is not how I remember Malamud.

So back to Malamud: I get the feeling that maybe this was a very personal story for the author. I get a sense that maybe his own personal life and writing life were unraveling. There's a sense that everything is falling apart, not only for these characters, but for the author as well. And maybe that wasn't the case, and if so, Malamud did a wonderful job painting chaos without having to be submersed in it. I don't know, I'm just trying to find the positive. Knowing this is Malamud, it sort of sucked, but even if I didn't have preconceived notions of the author, I still would've found The Tenants to be jarring, strained, and little more than okay. So, that being that case, I have decided to get back in my time machine and journey to the year I left off at: 1958. Maybe by the time I read through the sixties, 1970s Malamud will make complete sense. Or maybe it would be better to skip over the seventies altogether.

As promised in my previous post, my plans for 2014...

Reading

I hope to read about 70 books this year. Last year I read mostly new authors and newly published works. This year, I want to return to some of my favorites (Malamud, Tolstoy, Naylor, Mishima), as well as read those books I promised to read in 2013 (my 2013 shortlist). I'd also like to read more of the books I own--my shelves are full with books, a small percentage of which I have read; I'd like to make it through more of those this calendar year.

With David Mitchell's new release The Bone Clocks scheduled for release in September, and my desire to read his entire body of works in order prior to then, expect my shelves to be Mitchell-heavy this year. Other new releases I'm anticipating include Hannah Pittard's Reunion and Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See.

Writing

My primary goal is get my novel done and out there. Largely, it is completed, but there's considerable tweaking to be done. This year I want to finish the editing, get some more feedback, and get it into the hands of some agents.

Additionally, I'd like to get out from under my novel this year. These past five years, I've been so buried by The Weeds Shall Inherit that I've neglected my other writing. I want to return to some of my previously written short stories and poems, rework them and submit them for publication. I want to write some new pieces and maybe start researching and planning for my next novel. I would like to get involved once again in social media, blogging, and the real world, i.e. maintaining actual friendships.

'rithmetic

In the words of the Clan, I plan to make "Dolla, dolla bill ya'll!"

C.R.E.A.M.

And now that I've put it in writing, it all must come to pass.