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1、原文标题：Owners Cant Overstay Welcome at Trendy Condo Ho.内容简介：美国涌现酒店式公寓，拥有者花巨资购得房屋每年却只能住上120天，其余时间由管理者对外租赁给他人居住。Hints:condominiumcondo hotelPlaza Hotel Fifth Avenue Central ParkThe Plaza Hotel Del CoronadoPacific Ocean San DiegoCalifornia$1.5You know what a hotel is, of course, and perhaps, a condominiu
2、m - a residential building divided into separate units that are owned by different people. What you may not know is that in some U.S. cities, the two have come together into something called a condo hotel. Well, several can now be found in beach and mountain resort towns and a few modest-sized citie
3、s. None is more famous than the legendary, 105-year-old Plaza Hotel in New York, on glitzy Fifth Avenue across from Central Park. The Plaza closed for renovation in 2005. When it reopened two years later, more than half of it had been transformed into one of these trendy condo hotels. The posh and h
4、istoric Hotel Del Coronado, on the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, did much the same thing. Heres how it works: You buy, not rent, buy, what amounts to an apartment or suite. If its at The Plaza, it will cost you between $1.5 and $9 million. But hey, New Yorks expensive, right? So you own
5、a piece of a landmark. But theres a catch. You may stay there no more than 120 days a year.你当然知道什么是旅店。或许，你还知道什么是独立产权公寓，即一栋住宅楼被划分为若干个独立单元，并分属于不同的人。也许你不知道，在美国的一些城市，将旅店和独立产权公寓两者特点汇集一身的新事物出现了，被称为“酒店式公寓”。数家“酒店式公寓”已经出现在海滨地区、山区度假小镇以及少数中型城市里。但是没有哪一家能像具有传奇色彩的、105年历史的纽约广场酒店那样著名。该酒店位于浮华的第五大街，正对中央公园。广场酒店在2005年因为翻修而停业。当它2年后重新开业时，超过半数的房间被改作时下流行的“酒店式公寓”。坐落在太平洋沿岸、毗邻加利福尼亚圣地亚哥的优雅而历史悠久的科罗拉多酒店也做了同样的事情。 它的经营模式如下：你购买，不是租赁，是购买，相当于一个公寓或套房的单位。如果在广场酒店，你会花150万到900万美元不等。 但是，嘿，纽约的房价很坑爹不是吗？你可是在纽约的地标建筑里买下了一套房子，所以这个价格挺划算的。不过，这是有限制条件的，你一年当中不能在那里居住超过120天。2用心 爱心 专心
