In a multi-storeyed apartments building where everyone owns a flat, who really owns the plot of the building?
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In a multi storeyed apartments, each apartment owner shall be entitled to the exclusive ownership and possession of his apartment.\nEach apartment owner has an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities in the percentage specified and established in the Declaration or deed. The common area are  permanent character, and shall not be altered without the consent of all of the apartment owners. The common areas and facilities shall remain undivided and no apartment owner or any other person shall bring any action for partition or division of any part thereof, and Any covenant to the contrary shall be null and void.\nSo the land where the building stands is a common area and not registered exclusively in anybodys name.
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ask the property manager of the commercial place.  they will usually accomodate you, and are eager to do it since some of the people will be spending money.
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Well never having been to America, your system, whilst different to ours in England does have the same thread running through it so to speak.  Here in Britain it is the councils who create the ghetto's They tend to take a place that has or is starting to get a bit of a bad name and they start putting petty criminals, nuisance neighbours, rowdy types into that area.  The decent people living there do their very best then to get out but nobody wants to exchange houses with them, the council will not allow a transfer unless there is a serious reason such as a medical one, and if they have been unfortunate enough to have bought their council house, nobody wants to buy it from them. They are then well & truly stuck whilst the council continue to put the dross onto the estate. I believe it is for the purpose of facilitating the council's own interests and that of the police. I know this sounds awful but that is what I believe. I am so sorry for you if you are stuck in a situation like that & I hope that you find some peace somewhere
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Two common reasons:\n1) The building is an extension on another building, but is maintained as a separate residence. This is only used when the  extension has a separate enterance, and is most common when an apartment is attached to a single-family home.\n\n2) A building is built between two consecutively numbered buildings (e.g. between 864 and 866 - remember that all odd numbers are on one side of a street and all even numbers are on the other). Rather than renumber the entire street, they will the number that is in-between the two existing buildings (864 1/2).
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Its all up to the individual landlord. They can discount what they see fit.
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There are legal ramifications if they get caught, because he falsified documents.  What the course of action would be, depends on your state laws I am sure and what the apt. management want to do about it.\n\nI would say at the very least the friend will get evicted, loose his security deposit and may have to pay an additional fee.  If they choose to go after your boyfriend, I am not sure what they can do legally.
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The tenant could be sued for conversion[1]. The movable property in the apartment still belongs to the original owner, so he may sue to recover the monetary damages.\n\nThink about this way, You rent a Hotel room, while you are there you throw a TV set out of the window.\nYou will have to pay for it.\n This is exactly the same thing as what you are describing, except that the lease is longer and the things are more useless. But these are immaterial differences.\n\nIf the tenant lies, The landlord will have to put evidence that he left the stuff. He can testify himself, and put his friends on the stand who saw the stuff at his place, he may also make the moving company testify that they never moved the stuff etc etc etc. The case like this can come out either way depending on what evidence might be obtained.
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Kick em both out on there collective asses hahah so how about the top floor tenant pay fopr the cost of the lift and the bottom floor pay for security... am i missing something?
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Depending on the size of the company it is either: The owner, maintenence supervisor, director of purchasing, or it could be in hands of the owner of the building if it is leased, not owned.
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Depends on the location.  Can't give an answer until we know where the estate is based.
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Definitions of Tenement building on the Web:\n\nAn apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is termed a tower block in the UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is used regardless of height in the US. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement_building
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This depemds on mhat you want to do and have happen if you die.\n\nJoint Tennants... You die she/he gets your share. All parties own the whole. Can not be willed to another.\n\nMost common is Joint Tennants
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I am not sure on this one, but the best approach may be to ask the manager if the complex has insurance as a business that will cover the damage to the property as an act of God.\nThe property is owned by them, not you, so the damage to the apartment will definitely be covered. As far as your personal property like the tables, etc., you might be on your own. Mostly, people are expected to carry renter's insurance for their personal belongings. Good luck to you.
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Interestingly enough, the reason a 'flat' is called that is to distinguish it from a house. Homes used to be very skinny, with several small stories stacked on upon another. The single apartment, with neither upstairs nor downstairs, was called a 'flat' dwelling. If you lived in a flat it was a given that you were just a renter, and not a homeowner. \nCigarettes are called fags as an abbreviation for faggot, which means a bundle of burning sticks and that's what cigarettes looked like to people, when they were first introduced. Elevators are called lifts (because that's what they do).\nThere are also differences in spelling, such as tyre for tire. The bottom line is that the English language evolved in Britain, and many of them think the language used in North America has gotten completely out of hand and strayed far from its roots!\nI, too, enjoy reading English novels and particularily enoy some of the characters that inhabit the backgrounds of the stories. \nHope this is useful.\nHmmm -- checking this before sending it out, I notice that Yahoo has put in a row of asterisks where I had spelled out the complete word that means a bundle of sticks. Try looking up eff, aye, gee, gee, oh, tee in your dictionary, and you'll see that it is a word with absolutely no sexual significance whatsover.
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Architect... you get to play with rich people's money
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Probably the N.I.H.E.             the Housing Executive they supply public housing on a massive scale.
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Different countries have claims on settlements there but no one actually owns/governs it.\nLooks like Australia, Chile, Argentina, UK, France and New Zealand claim to own sections of it.