Apartment Rentals
Apartments
Apartments can be classified into several types.
Studio or efficiency apartments tend to be the smallest apartments
with the cheapest rents in a given area. These kinds of apartment
usually consist mainly of a large room which is the living, dining,
and bedroom combined. There are usually kitchen facilities as part
of this central room, but the bathroom is its own smaller separate
room. In the UK and Ireland, a roughly equivalent term is bed-sit
(bedroom and sitting-room combined). Moving up from the efficiencies
are one-bedroom apartments where one bedroom is a separate room from
the rest of the apartment. Then there are two-bedroom, three-bedroom,
etc. apartments. Small apartments often have only one entrance/exit.
Large apartments often have two entrances/exits, perhaps a door in the
front and another in the back. Depending on the building design, the
entrance/exit doors may be directly to the outside or to a common area
inside, such as a hallway. Depending on location, apartments may be
available for rent furnished with furniture or unfurnished into which
a tenant usually moves in with his/her own furniture. Permanent carpeting
is often included in an apartment.
Laundry facilities are usually kept in a separate area accessible to
all the tenants in the building. Depending on when the building was
built and the design of the building, utilities such as water, heating,
and electric may be common for all the apartments in the building or
separate for each apartment and billed separately to each tenant. Outlets
for connection to telephones are typically included in apartments.
Telephone service is optional and is practically always billed separately
from the rent payments. Cable television and similar amenities are extra
also. Parking space(s), air conditioner, and extra storage space may or
may not be included with an apartment. Rental leases often limit the
maximum number of people who can reside in each apartment. On or around
the ground floor of the apartment building, a series of mailboxes are
typically kept in a location accessible to the public and, thus, to the
mailman too. Every unit typically gets its own mailbox with individual
keys to it. Some very large apartment buildings with a full-time staff
may take mail from the mailman and provide mail-sorting service. Near
the mailboxes or some other location accessible by outsiders, there may
be a buzzer (equivalent to a doorbell) for each individual unit. In smaller
apartment buildings such as two- or three-flats, or even four-flats,
garbage is often disposed of in trash containers similar to those used at
houses. In larger buildings, garbage is often collected in a common trash
bin or dumpster. For cleanliness or minimizing noise, many lessors will p
lace restrictions on tenants regarding keeping pets in an apartment.
In some parts of the world, the word apartment is used generally to refer
to a new purpose-built self-contained residential unit in a building,
whereas the word flat means a converted self-contained unit in an older
building. An industrial, warehouse, or commercial space converted to an
apartment is commonly called a loft.
When part of a house is
converted for the ostensible use of a landlord's family member, the unit
may be known as an in-law apartment or granny flat, though these (sometimes
illegally) created units are often occupied by ordinary renters rather than
family members.
Excerpt of "Apartment." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apartment&oldid=50726778 Renting
Renting is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good or
property owned by another person or company. The owner of the property may be referred to as the
lessor and the party paying to use the property as the lessee or renter. There is typically an implied,
explicit, or written rental agreement or contract involved to specify the terms of the rental.
Examples include:
- Renting real estate for the purpose of Housing tenure (where the lessee rents a residence to
live in), parking a vehicle(s), storage, business, agricultural, institutional, or government
use, or other reasons. When renting real estate, the person(s) or party who lives in or occupies
the real estate is often called a tenant, paying rent to the owner of the property, often called a
landlord. The real estate rented may be all or part of almost any real estate, such as an apartment,
house, building, business office(s) or suite, land, farm, or merely an inside or outside space to
park a vehicle, or store things. The rental agreement for real estate is often called a lease.
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