As owners of income property, they deducted the expenses of maintenance, mortgage interest and depreciation of the structure.

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At one point, having just shown off a breathtaking fully-modelled aerial view the aforementioned future mega-resort, the game then immediately drags you into the boring, pop-up baddie-filled maintenance tunnels underneath it, so your view of this awesome structure lasts mere seconds.

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Some of that is deferred maintenance, but the bulk derives from the cruel Catch-22 of occupying a historic structure: The Corcoran has been "grandfathered, " or exempted, from various ordinances and codes over the years.

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We have a contractual structure which we published in January last year, which sets out the requirement for the maintenance of a contestable framework and for us to have intervention rights in the event of supplier failure.

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