7 Exclusive Features of a Gated Community
In most cases, these homes in a gated community are rented as holiday homes when the homeowners decide to reside in different homes or geographical locations.
Victor Kiplagat
The residential property allows a gated community to thrive. A gated community is also known as a walled community. These features make living in a gated community unique and amazing. It is worth noting that a gated community is a group of houses accessed by its residents only. These features include the following:
1. Estate arrangement
The houses and homes have a common structural and architectural arrangement. This arrangement allows all houses to have all amenities in one space. Additionally, the entrance to these housing estates is strictly controlled. More so, all amenities are in one space.
2. Improved Security
Security is important in any establishment. One security lapse and a whole lot could go wrong and irreparable damage would eventually occur. The gated community has massive investments in the security sector. These include CCTVs, security guards, alarms security systems, and electrocuted wiring of the perimeter walls just to mention but a few.
3. Water Supply
The water supply is sufficient. This is done via boreholes, piped water, water bowsers, tapped water, and storage of water in water tanks. In addition, the water treatment plant is also done as far as the water supply is considered.
4. Private roads
These roads that lead to the gated community are not ripe with congestion or potholes as they have been well constructed. In the same vein, these roads make transport easy, convenient, and safe. The residents of this gated community are not affected by traffic snarl-ups.
5. Sharing of Amenities
Gated communities do have a lot in common and sharing these important amenities saves costs and ensures pooling of resources is beneficial to all and sundry. The amenities that people share include a gym, swimming pool, golf courses, children’s play area, social halls, sports clubs, and recreational parks.
6. Strong Community and Networks
Indeed when we come together great things happen. The “gated community” lives in harmony when all residents respect each other’s privacy when security situations are handled communally, “nyumba kumi initiative”, the same environment offers great leverage for growth in schools, a strong bond is nurtured during graduation events, birthday celebrations and when parents meet in schools around these gated community.
7. High-end facilities
In these gated communities, high-end restaurants, cafes, shopping malls, hospitals, and clinics, parking lots ensure the resources meet the professional living standards of residents who call the gated community their home.
These homes in a gated community are rented as holiday homes when the homeowners decide to reside in different homes or geographical locations. The house manager ensures that professional cleaning is of the highest standards.
Garbage collection is done weekly. Maintenance and repair of the amenities are handled excellently. Although residing in these homes is expensive, gated community solves in a big way the housing challenges.
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