On Jan 7, 7:10*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Jan 7, 2:53*pm, Tony Miklos wrote:









On 1/6/2012 9:20 PM, micky wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:31:28 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
*wrote:

It looks like it could be a townhouse complex.

Hard to tell from the angles shown, but if they called it "an
apartment" they could be refering to a rented townhouse.

Yes, it's funy how people look at things like that.

I've met people who absolutely refuse to call their apartment an
apartment, and even when it's relevant that there is more than one
unit in t he building, they call it a condo, to make clear that they
own it.

One guy at work used to say all the time, Got to clean the condo.

To me the physcal layout is one thing, and the financial arrangement
something else.

And in NYC they buy apartments, I didn't figure that one out yet. *I
thought you rent apartments?

Look up any of several definitions of "apartment". Rarely will you see
any mention of "rent".

An apartment is typically defined as "A room or suite of rooms
designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied
by more than one household."

Rented townhouses are sometime referred to as "apartments" since I
guess you could consider the row of attached dwellings as a single
building.

But of course, the "rented" part has nothing to do with them being
called apartments. ;-)

It is interesting that once ownership gets involved, the term
"apartment" seems to go away.

Co-op, condominium and townhouse usually *imply* some sort of
ownership even though by definition they are all apartments.