Just Found This This Morning

[JinnyJoan]

https://www.propertypal.com/apt-54-2-old-brewery-lane-glen-road-belfast/915775/slideshow/photo-7

 

do you like it - Erm - there is a gate in and out.  

[Redhelen72]

If you shut your front door and curtains - do you see anyone?

[pastafreak]

If it's gated, wouldn't you as a resident be able to open the gates when you have visitors? You can let in whomever you want...you're not locked in.

[Maydup]

Do check in the service charges too but the estimated £70 pcm is reasonable. 

[JinnyJoan]

shut the front door but sorta leave curtains wide open.  have venetian blinds and maybe at a later time when I am going to bed I close them.  

[Maydup]

Gated means no passers by I suppose. No dog walkers to chat to but even if it wasnt gated you would miss them anyway being upstairs. 
 

keep looking and go for ground floor I'd at all poss. 

[Redhelen72]

pasta that was the point I was trying to make in a ham fisted way.

Shut your door and you are locking out the outside - the gate does the same thing

[JinnyJoan]

The houses are quite a way from the gates and even tho I don't know I would say for car owners etc - they would be remote controlled.

 

 

[barry1010]

Locking your front door and getting in the lift to let Maxie outside everytime he needed to 'go' would soon get to be a chore, especially in winter.

 

[Redhelen72]

But she would have a large balcony?

Its very common in America for dogs to go potty on the balcony - they put down pad trays and hose them off.

[barry1010]

Not everything that comes out of America is better