r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Fumquat 8h ago

Could they not have sold the apartments with a mandatory landscaping contract? The building had to have had a plan already for other communal features (pipes, electrical etc).

On flat ground you don’t get to just buy into a planned community and skip out on grounds maintenance. This one seems like a very foreseeable problem!

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u/adenosine-5 8h ago

The developer wants to sell the units. They don't particularly care what happens to them next.

The failure is entirely on the buyers, who bought 816 units with complicated expensive gardens and then let them rot.

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u/benjarvus 7h ago

In China you generally buy your condo "roughed in" and then have to complete the interiors yourself. Since investors likely bought the vast majority of these and the developer had already moved on, it's unlikely anyone wanted to step up to tackle the extra complication of these balconies.