An apartment building doesn't necessarily have a lobby and/or conceirge.
@aliszar4 жыл бұрын
Most don’t
@michelleg91944 жыл бұрын
Exactly we have “club house” for amenities-gym, tanning bed. These are rented for parties for a fee.
@Wiley_Coyote4 жыл бұрын
I'd agree most don't. In the US an apartment building can range anywhere from a small house divided into two apartments, to a mega structure taking up a whole city block. Pretty much the same as the UK, I bet, except for the name used to describe it.
@kaylynkremblas6894 жыл бұрын
I think they stayed at hotels lol
@fjanson24684 жыл бұрын
@@kaylynkremblas689 sounds like they stayed in NY or LA fancy places.
@CrunchyASMR844 жыл бұрын
Masonette is called a “townhouse” in America
@debholtz544 жыл бұрын
CrunchyASMR84 - or Townehome
@kristenrose12834 жыл бұрын
For sure a townhouse but normally two bathrooms in a townhouse.
@footscorn4 жыл бұрын
What's a maisonette? A condo is called a townhouse in Australia.
@Conflictinator4 жыл бұрын
A townhouse is usually one story, a condo, two.
@johnpiland4 жыл бұрын
I've always thought of a condo as an apartment or townhome that you own, not that you rent in the US.
@TTMama-jx1we4 жыл бұрын
Block of flats = apartment building and if it’s a whole neighborhood of them it’s an apartment complex.
@michaelmerryman994 жыл бұрын
As an American myself, I agree. Apartment complex for a large conglomeration of apartment buildings.
@eluv72843 жыл бұрын
Ha, I was like wtf is a block of flats 🤦♂️ I thought they was talkin bout grass 🤦♂️
@paigecat91043 жыл бұрын
And they aren't always nice there are slews of disgusting apartments in a complex places are dumps. You enter one like a motel.
@deltagsyntarro13293 жыл бұрын
No mention of the Co-op apartment setup where the tenant society votes on all issues involving the building.
@danablackburn72884 жыл бұрын
Also, I think "roommate" is derived from sharing a room with someone in college. A lot of times, people move into an apartment after the first year of college with their same roommate, so now anyone who lives together are considered roommates
@WiseOldMike4 жыл бұрын
A Masionette sounds like an American Town House.
@aneophyte11994 жыл бұрын
My first thought would have been split-level.
@cherrymoore28734 жыл бұрын
A Neophyte, A spit-level is usually a house where the main entrance is onto a small landing with 2 short stair cases, one going to the upper level & anothergoing to the lower level.
@cherrymoore28734 жыл бұрын
I agree, town house.
@deannacrownover34 жыл бұрын
It sounds exactly like a townhouse!
@whelk4 жыл бұрын
Could be townhouse, but that might be a row house too.
@wallybeep4 жыл бұрын
“Roommate” derives from university days where it it common to share a room with a fellow on-campus student, The term then carried over from university days to shared living space after.
@sugarkitty47774 жыл бұрын
Roommate derives from more than one person living together. That could be townhouses, single family houses, dorms, condos, apartments, or even a cabin in the woods. "University days" is ridiculous.
@wallybeep4 жыл бұрын
Sugar Kitty ... and you’re an idiot.
@lcflngn4 жыл бұрын
“Housemate” is very common, aka how I met my husband 😉
@auldrick4 жыл бұрын
@@sugarkitty4777 I agree. The "university days" explanation wouldn't resonate with many people, since most have never had that experience, so that's not a likely origin for the term. Besides, there's a better explanation: When the word was introduced around 1770, it was very common for unmarried young people to live in lodging houses, where they enjoyed individual bedrooms but generally shared a bathroom/toilet and possibly a sitting room. This gave us the verb "to room", meaning "to occupy a room as a lodger". A term was needed for the kind of relationship these lodgers had, which was closer than neighbors but not as close as family. That term became "roommates", not because they shared a room (noun) but because they roomed (verb) in the same establishment.
@brandonk10974 жыл бұрын
I’d say that “condo” in the woods is a cabin.
@quillonri4 жыл бұрын
Apartment hotels in the US are coined, "extended stay" hotels.
@quillonri4 жыл бұрын
I've also heard them referred to as, "corporate housing", as a lot of companies will put up employees traveling to far-flung areas that are working an assignment away from home.
@twofiveb3 жыл бұрын
Also in big cities like NYC L.A. and Chicago there are buildings that were originally hotels but became more like apartments with permanent tenants. With concierge, manager and maybe maid services. The ones I have seen are either pretty nice in nice areas or pretty crappy in run down areas. Not much in between.
@bchapman12342 жыл бұрын
I always called them a residence hotel. Think of Eloise at the Plaza
@samuelmiller49644 жыл бұрын
An apartment "Building" is a single building with apartment "units" in it, as opposed to an apartment "Complex" which is a community of units! Love u guys! ❤
@janetbousho76254 жыл бұрын
There are apartments that are bought in the US. Specifically in New York, but I'm sure there are other cities that do the same.
@TBIhope4 жыл бұрын
Janet Bousho yeah I’ve lived in Utah and Michigan, and people buy apartments both of those places.
@samuelmiller49644 жыл бұрын
@@TBIhope I live in Indianapolis, in. i hear about ppl buying condo's all the time but not apts, to my knowledge they only rent, and we don't have "squatter's rights" here!
@TBIhope4 жыл бұрын
Samuel Miller good! Squatters don’t get rights! Rights come when you purchase or loan a property! That’s interesting about not buying apartments in Indianapolis. I’ve never heard that before! I don’t think it’s common in Michigan, either. But someone I knew moved from Michigan and had to sell their apartment! It’s definitely more common in Utah.
@tj_27014 жыл бұрын
@@samuelmiller4964 a "Complex" is a group of buildings owned by the same landlord and grouped together.
@dr.westwood4 жыл бұрын
Block of flats is an apartment building. A luxury apartment building will sometimes have a doorman and/or concierge. An apartment with stairs is a townhome but only if there's not a unit above or below, otherwise it's just an apartment. A condo is an apartment you own with lots of communal fees. A duplex is a semi detached home. A brownstone is a brick row house with 3-4 floors. A terraced house is a split level home studio is a bedsit. Sometimes called an efficiency. A loft is a flat with no walls. Subdivisions are housing developments, usually gated and sometimes with security. Project housing is a tenement. Ranch style house is just a single level home that is usually rectangular. Bungalow may or may not be single level but more square in shape. It may have 2 levels but not 3. It may also have a basement which is a cellar that the walls are proper walls not dirt.
@TheGinnygoose184 жыл бұрын
That is a well done explanation!👍🏻
@shaunabrennan65964 жыл бұрын
Rod Westwood hmm... I have been an American all my life and have never seen nor heard of a doorman at an apartment complex. Maybe the office of the complex is open 24/7 but it’s not called a doorman. Lol
@shaunabrennan65964 жыл бұрын
Semi attached house 🤷♀️a duplex is 2 homes attached together. They are attached not semi attached
@pjschmid22514 жыл бұрын
Terraced house is not a split level. They are townhouses or row houses. A split level is a style of single family (detached) house in the US that became popular in the 50s and 60s.
@pjschmid22514 жыл бұрын
Shauna Brennan Doorman buildings are more common in large cities like New York or Chicago. They tend to be high end places where the “other half” live.
@theoldvirginian3 жыл бұрын
Hello! Katy from Virginia here. Just so ya know, we do have bungalows-I live in one. It is not a ranch style house. While they both are on one floor, a ranch is spread out length wise (it's long to the side) and usually has a living room and kitchen/dinner with a long hall to one side with the bedrooms and bathroom are located. A bungalow as you know is more squared or if it's rectangled (to the back) and may not have a hall at all (mine doesn't ). I hope I didn't confuse you too much. Anyway, I enjoy watching you two. Take care and stay safe.
@steventambon25884 жыл бұрын
The Duplex is actually different than a semi-detached based on how you described it. We have an equivalent called a "Twin House". A duplex is essentially 2 flats with one on top of the other and they have their own entrance
@gleckia3 ай бұрын
In Minnesota, Never heard of a Twin House. I usually hear Side by side duplex
@danahebeler6324 жыл бұрын
Americans do use the word “bungalow”. I have heard it used when referring to a single level home on/near the beach. Larger homes on the beach are referred to as “beach houses”.
@francescampbell47314 жыл бұрын
Usually quite small houses near the beach.
@johndoe-wv3nu4 жыл бұрын
I'm American and owned a bungalow for years. It wasn't on a beach.
@jenniferflynn49484 жыл бұрын
Dana Hebeler that is true, but it’s also a style of home. My home is a 2 story, walk out basement, 5 bedroom bungalow, in the middle of upstate NY. That’s what’s on the title and deed. Not sure what makes it a bungalow, but everyone is shocked how large it is once they are inside because it looks smaller on the outside to them. I have no clue. I inherited it from my grandparents.
@williamlucas46564 жыл бұрын
It is a somewhat outmoded term.
@barbarapringle6214 жыл бұрын
Dana Hebeler bungalow is a specific architectural style but a lot of Americans use it to mean “small house” which is just wrong.
@donniebrooks214 жыл бұрын
Subdivisions are very popular here and most aren't gated. Gated subdivision are gaining in popularity here. Bungalow and Ranch are architectural styles of detached houses here.
@markbernier84344 жыл бұрын
Both types are all on one level but to my knowledge Ranch houses are usually a linear floor plan. On an actual ranch they were often enlarged by building on one or both ends.
@robnorris47704 жыл бұрын
Another American word for subdivision is ‘tract’.
@allisonhamilton12454 жыл бұрын
Yep^^^
@tiffanymims86914 жыл бұрын
@@markbernier8434ranch houses can be built in cities too. I live in a city in Missouri and we have tons of ranch houses built in the 1950-60s. It is usually a 3 or 4 bedroom, single story house with a certain architecture look.
@annchovies18313 жыл бұрын
Subdivisions are usually developed by a single contractor who bought a large tract of land and “subdivided” into individual lots for purchase
@daricetaylor7373 жыл бұрын
Subdivisions are a group of streets and land plots that have been chosen to build new homes on. They usually have 4 or 5 model homes that you can choose from, each model has it's own floor plan. From there, you choose the color, roof, carpet, cabinet and tile from a book.So basically it is new homes on a strict budget, no special additions, so the can put them up literally in a few months and have a brand new home ready.
@mountainlace76183 жыл бұрын
Homes with Steep slopes roofs are known as "A" frame homes. Depending on what part of the country you live in, they also are refered to "chalets".
@kristinebailey65542 жыл бұрын
No, my brother in law is an architect and I can tell you the difference, chalets do have steep roof pitches, but they also have side walls and A frames do not. In a A frame the roof nearly touches the ground. A chalet is not an A frame.
@hansash24 жыл бұрын
You mentioned that you call a stand alone house a "detached", we tend to call it a "single family home".
@nowthatsjustducky4 жыл бұрын
I just call ours a house.
@theheartyaerie4 жыл бұрын
Or a house
@bigboy69v4 жыл бұрын
“Bungalow” comes from a Hindi word meaning belonging to Bengal... the British adopted the word when the area was part of the British empire (how we similarly adopted pyjama into British language) in the uk we refer to single story houses as bungalows, in America maybe they have some Bengalese architecture when they’re multi-storey??
@joaquinjr25704 жыл бұрын
I feel like most American live in single family homes that are detached
@personalcheeses80734 жыл бұрын
nowthatsjustducky But is it a detached, semi detached or terraced house?
@stevenroach68094 жыл бұрын
In case nobody beat me to it, here's another one - I live in an "Apartment Complex." It consists of three apartment buildings all under the same management.
@Ten13Grl4 жыл бұрын
That's a tiny complex!
@DeniseEggertwaterlily4 жыл бұрын
I have lived in apartment complexes for my entire adult life. They are usually an entire area of at least 40 or more identical buildings which are either 2 or 3 stories high, with about eight apartments to a building. On the ground floor of each building there will be washing machines and dryers, as well as individual storage units for each apartment. The complex will offer different sized apartments with a different numbers of bedrooms and bathrooms. These apartment complexes will be in a park like setting in the suburbs, with large areas for playing sports, enjoying the park like setting. They will have playgrounds for children. They will have a swimming pool, tennis courts and a basketball court for apartment residents. There will be a management office and a concierge office, with a concierge on duty.
@JustAGalOnTheGo3 жыл бұрын
I live in apartment complex, 3 (two story) buildings surrounding a landscaped common area. 40 units(apartments).
@summeromstead70704 жыл бұрын
Never heard of an apartment hotel and I’m born and raised in the USA 🤔
@barryfletcher71364 жыл бұрын
Extended stay hotels like Marriott Residence Inn are apartment hotels.
@amandachilders99393 жыл бұрын
Suite?
@belle94383 жыл бұрын
@@amandachilders9939 A suite has a living room and bed room. Not just one room.
@johntaphouse52353 жыл бұрын
i think disney has them, they call the rooms villas they ae like little appartments with several rooms used by long stay residents or families
@bmcdaniel31483 жыл бұрын
Executive suits in Alabama. Short term housing
@danabrown23914 жыл бұрын
My daughter lives in Naples, Florida and I was amazed at all the "Gated Communities" as the sub-divisions that are gated are called, they have there. The beautiful entrances with palms and lovely landscaping, the community clubhouse and pool! I REALLY feel like I am on vacation when when we visit her! More modern American neighborhoods are bought by a developer who builds all the houses in that neighborhood, and that's called a sub-division. Many have names but not all unless they are gated.
@rjdavid34 жыл бұрын
A flat with stairs is a townhouse or townhouse apartment.
@kathleenjimenez83944 жыл бұрын
Bob D not true. Townhome refers to a home where you receive ownership of the actual land the unit is located on. A flat with stairs is just called a two story.
@ltaken25894 жыл бұрын
In Ohio when we say townhouse that just refers to like a house thats split in two basically apartments but its just a house cut in half either upstairs downstairs or side by side
@johnbowers62584 жыл бұрын
@@ltaken2589 Rest of the country calls that a duplex
@ltaken25894 жыл бұрын
@@johnbowers6258 makes sense not the most stupid thing happening in Ohio 😂😂
@jerronaw4 жыл бұрын
Townhouse
@rjdavid34 жыл бұрын
A "ranch house" is typically one level. It may have a pitched roof.
@pjschmid22514 жыл бұрын
They are typically larger as well. There are smaller single story houses that are called cottages. I think the concept comes from the large single story homes built by ranchers in the west.
@benrast17554 жыл бұрын
Exactly. They rarely have flat roofs except maybe in the southwest. They’re just single story houses that are more sprawling than bungalows or craftsman style houses. They may have a roof with a lesser pitch than some styles, but rarely flat and still adequate for rain runoff.
@AlbertMeza4 жыл бұрын
To be more exact, ranch houses have low-pitched roofs.
@mermaid17174 жыл бұрын
Ranch is a direct style & floor plan. You can have a 2 story ranch, but that's usually a ranch with a basement or half basement.. where the basement is a walk out in the back. And MOST Ranch houses on average in the US are all fully bricked. They're like the #1 style house you'll find everywhere in the US because sooooo many were built from the 60s-early 80s.
@mermaid17174 жыл бұрын
@@Judy_R agreed.. so many differences depending on where in the US they are. I'm in eastern North Carolina & our ranches traditional do not have garages, but single carports. We don't have basements here because we're so low in elevation. I even grew up in a white brick ranch my parents built in 1977 on one of my family farms that I will one day inherit. Oh & they always had a formal living room plus a separate den. That's why I say.. Ranch styles are very specific floor plans.
@dawnkathleenmyers4 жыл бұрын
Not all apartments have a conceirge. None of the apartments I lived in had one.
@jowen4663 жыл бұрын
If you have a conceirge you are rich or how do you spell it booshy?
@numbernine34363 жыл бұрын
Heck no.. that would be an expensive apt complex
@terrifictomm3 жыл бұрын
"Concierge"? Apartment manager with a full-time maintenance staff? Every apartment I ever lived in that wasn't "ghetto". I did live in a few ghettos in my 20s.
@terrifictomm3 жыл бұрын
When my in-laws first look at moving to Vegas from California, they visited one weekend and came back with about a half-dozen brochures from brand new housing developments and an amazing statistic. At that time, there were TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR BRAND NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS being built in and around Las Vegas consisting of HUNDREDS OF HOUSES EACH! That number not only did not DROP for the next twelve years, IT GREW! Not until the housing crash of '08, which only slowed it down. The Vegas housing boom started in the mid-80s and is still going on.
@jasonmaysonet26864 жыл бұрын
I stopped cleaning because I thought Joel & Lia were talking to me through the TV when they said Maisonette
@janicefeny22234 жыл бұрын
👍😅
@Belovelyava4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@Shannon04704 жыл бұрын
We say "Studio Apartment" too. The term "they" are trying to coin is "Efficiency" to entice people to go with it and feel better about. it.
@Ryarios4 жыл бұрын
It’s also called a bachelor apartment...
@42istheanswer234 жыл бұрын
It used to be called efficiency back in the 70s and 80s when they were not that common. Then make them sound fancier they started calling them Studio
@iwouldratherbewithmydog4 жыл бұрын
I've always heard studio and efficiency as different things. Like a studio has a designated kitchen, bedroom, and livingroom area all without walls separating them out it's still an ok size, but an efficiency is a much smaller version of that where you don't have a designated livingroom area, basically just the bed and kitchen.
@DATo_DATonian3 жыл бұрын
"Roommates" - a very Brit answer - Think, Sherlock Holmes and Watson. They each had their own bedrooms but shared a "common room". See? You guys invented it before we did.
@trottheblackdog4 жыл бұрын
A lot of these American terms mostly come from New York, like "brownstone"
@yellowsub223 жыл бұрын
Brownstones often have an exterior stair up to the main floor and sometimes another apartment flat half a story down.
@pukwudjivc4 жыл бұрын
Ranch house refers to the house being a single level.
@teawill5094 жыл бұрын
And usually the living room or family room is open to the kitchen and dining area.
@allisonjae31524 жыл бұрын
There's also executive ranchers. Those are larger than normal, and I think they are in an L shape.
@liglyhuse90584 жыл бұрын
We call that a bungalow
@allisonjae31524 жыл бұрын
@@liglyhuse9058 I just see a bungalow as a cozy house.
@liglyhuse90584 жыл бұрын
Allison Jae a bungalow is a house that is only one level so there’s no upstairs
@chelseyfaye87784 жыл бұрын
I personally love when yall dont do reasearch! I LOVE just seeing your point of view and your understanding of things❤
@dmendez47413 жыл бұрын
We say bungalow, it's generally an Arts and Crafts style low one or 1/2 stort house, with large covered porches and lots of woodwork/builtin's. Ranch are plainer houses that are generally long and sorta narrow, but the long side faces the street. They have a pitch to their roofs, just not a super steep pitch
@martimbe3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! A bungalow is not just a small house. It's a specific architectural style of house from the Arts and Crafts period.
@ChaoticDestiny14 жыл бұрын
It's all over the us and it's called subdivisions, and hardly any of them are gated
@DW-vd9mp3 жыл бұрын
Unless in Florida a lot of subdivisions and upscale apartments are gated. I hated it. I moved to Georgia in a new subdivision with no gate or guard. Costs the homeowners a lot to have gated security.
@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds4 жыл бұрын
"Bungalow" and "ranch-style" are types of housing styles, like colonial, Georgian, Victorian, etc.
@balakuntalamsridhar57894 жыл бұрын
The word 'Bungalow" comes from Hindi "Bangla". Brits imported the word from their then colony.
@wesleypeters41124 жыл бұрын
Victorian is not a style, it is an era. Queen Anne is a style.
@biancastepney15173 жыл бұрын
@@wesleypeters4112 In the US we call them Victorian style homes
@wesleypeters41123 жыл бұрын
@@biancastepney1517 I am a stickler for definitions and proper wording. Victorian is an era, hence Queen Victoria's reign , 1837-1901. Queen Anne, Second Empire, Italianate, and Eastlake are all styles of architecture.
@biancastepney15173 жыл бұрын
@@wesleypeters4112 You being a stickler doesn't change that it also a style lmao
@rjdavid34 жыл бұрын
We not only have a duplex, but also triplex and quad. One building with 3 units or 4,
@mermaid17174 жыл бұрын
Then there's the simi detached house.. that at the end of the day is just a duplex 🤣
@genrex0725723 жыл бұрын
Where your parents live at in Florida Joel is called a subdivision, not a division. A subdivision is a neighborhood of houses built by same builder that may have several styles selected for that subdivision. Also a slang term for the houses in a subdivision can be referenced as cookie cutter houses -- meaning they all are very similar in appearance such as a batch of cookies made from a cookie cutter...hahahaha
@daniellemarie26254 жыл бұрын
American here~I just found your videos and am enjoying them tremendously! Thank you for always speaking so respectful about our culture/way of life.
@rjdavid34 жыл бұрын
Yes, a division is actually called a sub-division.
@wesleybush86464 жыл бұрын
Subdivisions, In the high school halls, in the shopping malls. Be cool or be cast out. ("Subdivisions" by Rush)
@lamllemaussade4 жыл бұрын
And, while it technically qualifies as a real estate subdivision, I’d say it sounds like Joel’s parents’ Florida home is in a “gated community”.
@mitsim4 жыл бұрын
Never knew anyone living in an apartment that had a concierge. You probably came upon that because where you stayed they did. But, on the whole, probably 95% of the time they don't.
@SternLX4 жыл бұрын
We call that "On site Security" in certain Apartment complexes here in Las Vegas. :)
@Teewriter4 жыл бұрын
Ritzy apt may have. It would be an up charge.
@Belovelyava4 жыл бұрын
NY. Thing! Anywhere up North that’s upper class
@m_soko4 жыл бұрын
That's because most of those building setups are most of the time condominiums. We have 7 different associations that we do contract work for that I'm in almost daily.
@sugarkitty47774 жыл бұрын
Depends on where. It's not always high end/ritzy either. Really large places in US cities have it more based on size than priced paid in rent. I know 1000 unit buildings in NYC that do but the rent is average. Yet in DC I know a building with loads of concierge servces because it's $80k a month.
@cla97513 жыл бұрын
Your terraced houses are what we would call “rowhouses” or more commonly known as a townhouses (or sometimes called brownstones bc townhouses were made with a type of sandstone that turned brown)-US person that loves your channel!
@KKC9274 жыл бұрын
A ranch style house is a house where everything is on one level.
@danikarecore96013 жыл бұрын
Yes, "Ranch-style" doesn't have anything to do with the roof style.
@dalelatham27183 жыл бұрын
I live in what was advertised as a three level ranch. A rambler is a one level home.
@1177kc3 жыл бұрын
Split levels where you go up a half flight to the next level in a ranch style.
@supersop4 жыл бұрын
Division ... I think you mean Subdivision. Literally any "neighborhood" in the suburbs is a subdivision.
@juliem63724 жыл бұрын
They are generally named for the land developer.
@TXKafir4 жыл бұрын
A subdivision is part of a larger housing development.
@mitsim4 жыл бұрын
It's subdivision. Meaning that a developer bought a large piece of land, and subdivided the property into individual lots where they built houses and sold them individually.
@reginawallinger87113 жыл бұрын
Yes, in Fl, the housing developments are called subdivisions because the huge plot of land they all sit on has been sub divided into individual plots. Many of these subdivisions have gate security men who check who goes in and out for security reasons.
@danielleporter18293 жыл бұрын
A ranch house started on ranches as the main house the family would live in. The Bunkhouse was where the ranch hands ( ranch employees ) lives. When this style of house began to be built in suburbs and other parts of the city, the name just stuck. We do have bungalows in the US. There can be whole sections of cities that are known for their Craftsman style bungalows. In Los Angeles for example, in portions of the Jefferson Park and most of the West Adams neighborhoods, bungalows take center stage and many are on the city's, state's and national register of historic houses. Bungalows are usually a lot older than other types of houses given they were built in the 1910-20s.
@deannaeakle86804 жыл бұрын
Condo is owned but also has Monthly fees for any extras like a pool or workout rooms etc.
@Trifler5004 жыл бұрын
Yes, but these fees are collected by the homeowner's association within the condo building, rather than by a landlord.
@lamllemaussade4 жыл бұрын
Condo and HOA owners own a percentage interest in the association itself, which is a legal corporation.
@nicejewishenby4 жыл бұрын
What you kept calling a “division” is actually called a “subdivision” or, more commonly, a “neighborhood”. lol Do y’all really not have those in the UK?
@travis38104 жыл бұрын
they think of neighborhoods more like a whole section of the city, where we would call it a suburb. idk though
@doncarlton48584 жыл бұрын
I believe they call them "housing estates".
@nowthatsjustducky4 жыл бұрын
I consider the neighborhood to consist of the housing and the people.
@quitman20504 жыл бұрын
Correct......they missed the subdivision completely. It is simply a subdivision of a larger piece of land into smaller lots for houses, with connecting streets, and utilities provided. I have approved subdivisions of 5,000 to 7,000 homes in Central Texas, but elsewhere in the US, a typical subdivision would be 100 homes or less.
@TheOriginalLexa4 жыл бұрын
Don Reynolds I disagree with the “under 100 homes” part of your comment. I’m in FL and my subdivision is fairly small at just over 400 homes. My grandmother’s house was in a subdivision with several subdivisions that are part of a larger subdivided area (they’re all over here, most communities are are like that here) and the overall subdivision was probably 2,000 homes.
@robertpearson87983 жыл бұрын
In my part of Canada (Ontario) we tend to refer to a duplex as single family home that’s been modified and divided up into two living spaces so one can be rented out to a tennant.
@esaasaggus41794 жыл бұрын
Condo is a high end apartment in the city.
@laureldennis17274 жыл бұрын
You own a condo, you rent an apartment- at least outside of New York
@esaasaggus41794 жыл бұрын
@@laureldennis1727 well I live in the South. Atlanta, GA you can do both. NYC is very expensive city to live in so that makes sense. Mostly our condos is downtown area. You can rent, lease or own them plus it's not nearly expensive as the ones in NYC.
@mariahg61464 жыл бұрын
a condo is owned by individuals, an entire apartment is owned by a management company. You can still rent a condo, it’s just your landlord would be a single person, not a company.
@kelcal66974 жыл бұрын
“Condo” is owned and occupied. But the difference is all condo owners then become part of the “Condo Association.” And they do no lawn/outside maintenance of their condo.
@miltonlegendre20244 жыл бұрын
A condo can be rented out by the owner most of the time. Condo owner's also have meetings and vote on matters. An apartment has a management group that owns the buildings and make decisions without tenant approval.
@xNYCMarc4 жыл бұрын
@David Roberts "Condo" is a legal term that essentially means "an individually owned portion of an otherwise single property". In other words, a single plot of land is officially subdivided into separate, deeded tax-lots and the individual owners own their tax-lot within the larger property. I don't think an entity is legally allowed to call itself "condo" if the conversion process hasn't been filed. When you buy a condo, you receive a deed just like any other property and its yours. If someone can throw you out, then its not a condo and I'd bet that the word "condo" isn't actually written anywhere. People in your scenario might casually call it "condo", but I guarantee that the word "condo" isn't in any contract.
@meomy294 жыл бұрын
Most of the time, a condo association does not include lawn and sidewalk maintenance. Condo association fees pay for lot maintenance. In our area, at least, the condos associations that take care of outside work own the yard. You only purchase your home itself. They usually let you plant flowers where you want, but there can be limits. With zero lot line homes you basically own the inside of your home. With a zero lot line you're dependent upon the condo association to repair roofs, outside walls, etc. Some small condos don't have associations.
@xNYCMarc4 жыл бұрын
@@meomy29 Condo association fees pay for the common areas of the development, like if there is a clubhouse with a pool, the fees will pay for the electricity for the clubhouse and the maintenance of the pool. The fees will also pay for the gym equipment if there is a common gym for the residents. Sidewalks are common property and ALWAYS maintained by the association. Sometimes your front landscaping is included when the association makes a bulk deal with a landscaping company and you can opt-out if you don't want them touching your stuff.
@meomy294 жыл бұрын
@@xNYCMarc Not all condos are large buildings and they don't always have associations or any monthly fees. Smaller developments may have individual entrances so each condo owner is responsible for their own sidewalks. These types of developments have agreements about building and roof maintenance. Developments like this don't have landscaping, gyms, pools, etc. I'd just about bet that the definition of the term "condo" varies from one city to another. We live outside a big town so there probably is one or two developments like you describe. That type of condo development is rare around here. It might be because, although the nearby city is pretty big (couple hundred thousand in the general area), it's nothing like NY, Chicago, or other huge cities.
@dennismorgan22304 жыл бұрын
I live in a “townhouse” we have our kitchen,living room and a half bath downstairs and three bedrooms and a full bathroom upstairs.
@badjer43284 жыл бұрын
-An apartment with stairs is a townhome. -A duplex/ triplex/quadplex is a property split with multiple living arrangements. -A studio is an apartment that doesn't have any rooms, they don't have to be a crammed small space. A housing development after its been around a while is just a neighborhood,
@barryallender48614 жыл бұрын
Divisions are designed by developers and are single family homes of varying sizes and lot sizes. These are usually found in Suburban areas.
@tracymaczka96144 жыл бұрын
Condos are rented out sometimes by the owner. A condo can be like an apartment, townhouse or a semi dettached house
@ottadeef62914 жыл бұрын
Yes, although in Canada, "condo" is increasingly used to describe a freehold apartment to distinguish it from a rental apartment.
@tracymaczka96144 жыл бұрын
@@ottadeef6291 but an owner can rent them out. At least in Windsor they do.
@lamllemaussade4 жыл бұрын
Otta Deef Interesting. “Freehold” is not a term we use in the US. We refer to the concept of also owning the lot as “fee simple”. However, it has nothing to do with rentability in our case. The rules on that vary by association.
@lolabear67884 жыл бұрын
I love this type of video! Very interesting about the housing names. A lot of good info in the comments here. I laughed when you thought apartments had concierge. hahahha Most apts or apt blds are middle or lower class. The very low end are the tenements also called housing or projects, bc of being created by a govt welfare project. I grew up in northern NJ outside of NYC by 15 min. We called the tall apt blds in NYC high rise apts or high rises. I think a high end apt bld would be a doorman bld. Bungalows are a specific architecture style. I've heard of them by the sea in New England or anywhere along the east coast. I grew up in a duplex. It was side by side full 3 story Victorian type house in Nutley, NJ. Right next to Montclair. Good neighborhood. We always called lower end or mass produced duplex or row houses townhouses. They usually were laid out front to back and very narrow, but had multiple floors. Ranch is simply a one story house. Fun stuff.
@johe643 жыл бұрын
I live in a suburb of Phoenix and we call our subdivision "Rancho El Mirage". We have both one and two story houses in our development. We don't call them "bungaloes" we just call them one or two story homes. Most subdivisions are not gated communities--because they usually have really expensive homeowner's association fees. Ours isn't gated. Phoenix is a great place to live, warm and DRY! I would never move back to the midwest. You don't have to shovel the sunshine! lol
@nicholassnow50104 жыл бұрын
Council houses would be the equivalent to what we call “projects”
@wren94633 жыл бұрын
So apartments that the government rents too people with very low incomes?....i wondered about that🤔
@kristinebailey65542 жыл бұрын
@@wren9463 Yes, exactly. The projects are usually connected apartments and rented, also called section 8, you have to be low income to qualify.
@kimberlyk22954 жыл бұрын
Give Joel & Lia a break... they're entertaining the Nation!!😆😁😄😂😅 You guys are sooo cute!💗💖Thank you for the much needed laughter; you make my day!❤️🌷
@pattymathes-nelsonstlnflt68654 жыл бұрын
@Thomas Johnson Yes.
@taylorg70794 жыл бұрын
What about duplexes? Two houses mashed into one, with separate entrances.
@juanitojaime45534 жыл бұрын
Semi-detached, I believe.
@doncarlton48584 жыл бұрын
Two houses with a common wall. A concept of multi-family housing that pre-dated condominiums.
@theheartyaerie4 жыл бұрын
They covered that in the video the call them semi-detached
@morganhall57554 жыл бұрын
And a "division' is a *subdivision*
@joaquinjr25704 жыл бұрын
Think of it as a multifoor apartment so it’s in a building. Think if iCarly, Spencer and Carly technically live in a duplex because it was a Multi floor appointment
@pcno28324 жыл бұрын
3:43 I live in a condominium-townhouse with 2 rooms up, 2.5 rooms down and a full bathroom upstairs. It also has a foyer shared with the townhouse on the other side and a back stairway stairway shared the same way that leads to the basements, which are separated and mostly finished. The main thing about the term "condo" or condominium is that it can be any kind of housing unit, an apartment, townhouse, semi-detached or even a detached house, but like a "common hold" it is legally part of a trust that funds the management and maintenance of the grounds, facilities and parts of the building that are considered commonly owned (my roof and heating systems would be examples of that).
@butterflyforeve4 жыл бұрын
An apartment can have stairs or 1 floor. Apartments here in the 🇺🇸 can be in a building with units only attached to each other or attached and stacked on top of each other. These can also be called condos or condominiums. We also have places called duplexes where 2 individual homes are attached in the middle. Usually they have a backyard that is either shared or a fence down the middle to divide them. I have seen huge duplexes like 2 houses just stuck together like siamese twins. Lol I have never heard of an apartment hotel. No a sub division doesn't have to be gated. Its basically how they plot out land. The definition of subdivision an area of land divided into plots for sale. "Subdivision" means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development. Not all are gated and not all have concierge services. Thats just for rich people lol No a ranch style house is just meaning its all on one level has nothing to do with the roof pitch. Ranch is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.
@intallpines4 жыл бұрын
In Los Angeles and California in general, bungalows are everywhere for sale. They are small cottages usually selling in the millions.
@martinrow12134 жыл бұрын
A bungalow can be quite large and a cottage can be enormous,, even manor house size.
@teamcougars4 жыл бұрын
intallpines we have bungalows in Northern California also.
@emerald6374 жыл бұрын
In the U.S.A.: -Roommates are those who rent/share an apartment unit or a house, with multiple rooms, generally, each having their own bedroom, and yet, all sharing the other common rooms: Kitchen, living room/lounge, laundry room, garage, a screened-in patio or porch, backyard/courtyard, etc. Sometimes the term "roommates" or "roomies" can be quite literal, like when six college students all rent a three-bedroom, unattached house off-campus, and there are two to a room. Even though it can be cramped at times when it comes to space, it can still be less expensive (with everyone sharing the costs) and have more options for privacy, than the student dorms are on campus. -A two-level apartment or house would be called a two-story. -A duplex or a fourplex apartment building is a certain number of separate, attached (meaning the walls) units. You could live in a whole residential neighborhood with all duplex or fourplex apartment buildings, with attached walls/apartment units. They are very similar to condos (condominiums). -A single-family home is an unattached, generally larger house. -Yes, we do say bungalow, when referring to a smaller, one-story, unattached home.
@johnp1394 жыл бұрын
Debórah Lee a bungalow is either one or two stories.
@rich33712 жыл бұрын
A duplex is a house that's divided in two
@Baconbreath06524 жыл бұрын
A rancher really has nothing to do with the roof it's more that it's all one level. Theres no upstairs or downstairs.
@neesie75974 жыл бұрын
Agreed i live in a ranch house very spread out but one level.
@cargen2414 жыл бұрын
I live in a ranch with a finished basement...we call it a raised ranch ( from the outside it looks like one level)
@jacob78294 жыл бұрын
Apartment Hotel are better known as “bed in breakfast or BnB”
@Hunnydee3574 жыл бұрын
Bed and breakfast
@grannyweatherwax80054 жыл бұрын
What they described sounded more like a suite hotel to me. Like a Holiday Inn Express - aimed at business travelers often. Often a bedroom & sitting room with a kitchenette.
@ninaradio4 жыл бұрын
I’ve only just started to see apartment hotels in the last few years, and I think they’re likely only in areas with a lot of tourists/visitors and lax laws regarding AirBnBs They’re apartment buildings that are entirely operated as vacation rentals through sites like that. The developers manage to operate a hotel without offering the full range of services you’d usually expect (like daily cleaning) and in many cities they avoid hotel taxes as well because they claim to be apartments that could be rented long term like normal housing (although their rates are really only attractive on a short-term basis). And because the units are all apartment-style, if they need to they could at any time switch quite easily to just renting it out as a normal apartment building. In which case I’m sure that concierge services in the lobby would largely disappear-at most, there would be a line rental agent/building superintendent stationed down there.
@brettrabideau46324 жыл бұрын
It sounded like a long term hotel rental (rent by the week) to me.
@laurenbrunault69024 жыл бұрын
@@brettrabideau4632 --- agree, didn't sound like a Bed & breakfast at all to me.
@KLVanderWall4 жыл бұрын
So I feel like the word "roommate" is an extension of being in a dorm in college, where you do actually share a room with someone. Townhomes and condos are usually for sale, where apartments are rented.
@twylanaythias Жыл бұрын
There are multiple 'grades' of apartment buildings in the US. ~ At the high end are condominiums (aka condos) and luxury apartments - same general amenities, though the former units are owned individually (usually by the tenants) while the latter are owned collectively by a real estate company. These are the ones with doormen, concierges, valets, and the like. ~ In the middle are the standard-grade apartments - fairly nice amenities, basic washer & dryer, decent sized, but that's about it. An on-call maintenance crew and an on-site office that keeps banker's hours (like 10 AM to 3 PM), but no other staff. ~ Low end apartments are pretty bare-bones - 1 or 2 bedrooms, small bathroom, and you're lucky if you find one that has a full-sized stove. No in-unit laundry facilities, and maybe half even have a laundromat on the premises. ~ And then there are the PJs (aka Project Housing) - sizes and plans vary, but bare-bones throughout. In the US "roommate" basically just means someone that you share a residence with but that's the only relation between you - husband, girlfriend, children, etc aren't "roommates". Same as a "flatmate", the main criterion is that you both/all have a key to the front door. "Maisonete" sounds very much like the "Town House" in the US - kitchen, living room, laundry, and a half-bath (aka water closet) on the ground floor; two or three bedrooms and at least one full bathroom upstairs. There are also some three-story Town House designs which include a garage and laundry on the ground floor; kitchen, living room, and half-bath on the second floor; two or three bedrooms and at least one full bathroom on the third floor. A newer design in some areas adds an additional floor below the top level which is one huge master suite (huge bedroom with private bath, walk-in closets, a semi-private area for a nursery or home office, etc). There are a wide range of "plexes" in the US - the duplex is the most common; basically one 'house' but has two separate units which share one common wall. Less common are the triplex (three in a row; a duplex with one additional unit in-between) and quadraplex (same, but with two middle units). Think "single-story Maisonetes". Plexes are somewhat unique to the US owing to how residential zoning works. There's a lot to be said for single-family detached homes, but situations arise where more housing is needed - duplexes, in particular, increase the number of residents in a given neighborhood while still presenting the general appearance of single-family homes. While some neighborhoods (via HOAs - Home Owners' Associations) can be excessively anal, there's a general propensity for all homes in a given neighborhood to share a general aesthetic. Standing directly in front of a plex it's obvious that there are multiple units but, simply glancing down the street, you generally can't discern a plex from a single-family home. Think about it like this - A single building with multiple rental units has: ~ one level of single-story units; it's a duplex/triplex/quadriplex. ~ one level of multi-story units which lack basements; it's a town house. ~ one level of multi-story units which have basements; it's a row house (aka "brownstone"). ~ multiple levels of (usually single-story) units; it's an apartment.
@teknekon4 жыл бұрын
This is great guys! Perhaps one of the most FAQs I have from students (and friends). There is a lot of confusion about this topic. You did a fine job clearing this up. Really appreciate it. Thanks! L&C 👍 ♥️😘 🇬🇧
@LoudLeo34 жыл бұрын
Hey guys 👋🏽 I’ve been binging your videos the last couple weeks and just wanted to say I so appreciate your journey and how tenacious you’ve been and so happy I stumbled upon you guys because your so “my vibe” or “up my street” lmao 👍🏼💕 from South West Michigan much love
@LoudLeo34 жыл бұрын
The closest thing we have is flat with stairs would be maybe a duplex which is what I live in. A duplex is the term for a semi detached that you rent rather then own. And yeah roommate = flat mate. I would see it as more person we share rooms with (?) it that makes sense
@lorielizabethwade75054 жыл бұрын
My parents lived in a "patio home" with other patio homes. I think a patio home is meant for homes that are large, in that they are built upward with 2-3 floors on a very small piece of land, usually in a neighborhood of other patio homes. The other homes and land lots can be somewhat similar or unique in design, depending on the neighborhood. The term is meant for a taller home on a very small parcel of land which is usually designed for little yard upkeep. Of course, the homes are very close together, but still maintain land between each patio home. The term is usually meant for, as the British would say, "up market" homes.
@sandrasandymanning43544 жыл бұрын
A block of flats/row houses in America is like a housing complex that is horizontal, with backyards: An apartment building is like a housing complex that is vertical, with a concierge/security guard. Now, you know.🙂
@kimberlyk22954 жыл бұрын
Love the topic of this video, fun fun!! You guys had me cracking up!!😂😂 Love you guys!💗🌷
@Jack_Stafford4 жыл бұрын
Brownstones are very much in style and configuration as Regency housing in London. Just not quite as elaborate and of course with the different kind of stone. But it is the same concept of a house arranged vertically and attached to a whole row of other houses with stairs going into the front door and often these are broken into smaller apartments in large cities.
@TheTravelingCamper3 жыл бұрын
A condo is like an apartment with the difference being a condo is owned by the individual where as the apartment is rented by the individual
@cjsvlog264 жыл бұрын
Full detailed explanation of all the words: Apartment buildings/complex don’t usually have a concierge unless they are high end/expensive or celebrities. Condos/flats are usually very expensive and modern with or without a concierge depending on price. Yes you buy a condo and rent out an apartment but condo and apartment don’t necessarily mean one is bought and one is rented. Roommates are usually people who share the payment on an apartment or condo, they don’t share an actually a room. Hotel is like an apartment complex for when your traveling or not at your own home. It’s just a place to stay for a little while usually a couple of days or weeks. You usually pay per night and room service cleans the room whenever you’re gone. A masionette/flat with stairs in America would be a townhouse complex because they are 2 floors but are connected to other units as well like apartments. A duplex is basically the same as a townhouse but only 2 of them are connected unlike townhouse complexes that have 5 or 6 in a row connected. Terraced houses aren’t seen a lot or at all in America just something we see on tv mostly. Brownstones are houses mainly in very urban cities like New York and are a New York City staple home. They are brick houses but the brick is brown hence the name brownstones. Very popular in New York during the 60’s-00 in African American families and areas. Studio flats are the same in America, very small no designated rooms but sizes can vary but still smaller than apartments or condos. A subdivision is just another name for neighborhood, usually to describe a certain section in a very large neighborhood or a specific neighborhood where different ones overlap or are very close together. Most subdivisions don’t have a concierge or gate only very expensive ones and those where celebrities live. Club houses are a staple in American neighborhoods mostly found in more suburb neighborhoods and apartment complexes where the pool, gym, patio for community events, etc is located. A ranch house as 2 meanings the first one is a single level home with no stairs and the second one is a house that is located on farm land so where the farmer would live and is usually also a single level with no stairs. Ranch farm homes are found all over America and aren’t necessarily on farm land but on a big plot of land in rural areas in pretty much every state. Bungalow also refers to a single level home but is know for its broad front porch and stairs, a more suburbs home. I’m only 15 but I love houses and real estate. Info is based off Northeastern and Southeastern America definitions. Some things are different in other regions but a basic gist of info.
@rjdavid34 жыл бұрын
We do sometimes say "Bungalow" but it typically means a small house.
@kathy2trips4 жыл бұрын
Bungalow is an actual, distinct architectural style. Simply being small does not make a house a bungalow. A ranch house can be small, but it is never going to be a bungalow. There are also sub-sets of bungalows, i.e. California Bungalow for example.
@pjschmid22514 жыл бұрын
Yes we definitely have bungalows. I grew up in a brick bungalow in Chicago, a distinct style of bungalow that was popular in Chicago in the 1920s
@basicdebbie21144 жыл бұрын
Architecturally a bungalow has a large swooping/sloping roof down over a front porch with chunky colums. A ranch style is a single level house with smaller pitched roof around a 5 or so.
@bkm27974 жыл бұрын
Doesn't a bungalow have a large porch entry, where you can have a swing and table with chairs. My friend in Utah has this and it's called a bungalow.
@TheBroomehilda4 жыл бұрын
Bungalow descriptions vary with regions. Beach bungalows, mountain cottages, similar but have differences depending on where it is. Here in North Carolina, a little vacation house in the mountains can be called a cabin, no matter what it’s made of. And some of these “cabins” get pretty big and fancy!
@dorothypaul46424 жыл бұрын
So interesting! Thanks J & L ❤
@pcno28324 жыл бұрын
8:00 "duplex" means semi-detached house in most parts of the USA, but in NYC, it can also mean an apartment with 2 stories and an internal staircase, though not necessarily a door to the outdoors (the main entrance might open up to a hallway). The Danny Thomas show, of the 1960s, was set in such an apartment.
@rachaelchappell3173 жыл бұрын
UK commenter here a studio flat and a bedsit are different. A studio flat will have kitchen, living & bedroom as one room, with a smaller room as the bathroom. A bedsit has bedroom/living room with either a kitchen or a bathroom. Whichever is not in the room is shared with the other bedsits in the block. So you could end up with either a shared bathroom or kitchen in a bedsit.
@pennylane364 жыл бұрын
We have a ranch house in a housing development lol A ranch house is a style and usually 1 story but the roof is just a normal roof like any other roof. They are not flat
@williamlucas46564 жыл бұрын
But I do have a lower pitch roof than the British are used to and one can see flat roofed single story homes out west, though I don’t think people would call them ranch style.
@debbiechia4 жыл бұрын
“flat with stairs” is a townhouse
@teamcougars4 жыл бұрын
Debbie C or sometimes a condominium depending on the city you live in or what coast you live on.
@xNYCMarc4 жыл бұрын
teamcougars “Condominium” doesn’t depend on which city you’re in. It’s an ownership structure. A condominium can be a townhouse or a single level unit. It depends on how the property is owned.
@xNYCMarc4 жыл бұрын
Debbie C A “flat with stairs” is only a townhouse if it doesn’t have other apartments above and or below it. Townhouses only have neighbors on the sides, not above and below them. We have maisonettes here in the US too. They just aren’t as widespread. Maisonettes have two or three levels, like townhouses, but there will be other apartments above and or below your unit.
@joaquinjr25704 жыл бұрын
No because a townhouse isn’t in a apartment a duplex is a better name because it’s a apartment that has two floor
@fionagregory93762 жыл бұрын
Terraced houses were built in Victorian times for workers in factories in the UK.
@MrSheckstr4 жыл бұрын
An apartment hotel is usually a older hotel that no longer in an area where many people are staying for a short time anymore. It’s higher priced for its square footage because a lot of times it continues to have the ground floor amenities of a hotel (cafe ,restaurant, barbershop or salon, in house laundry and shoe service.
@nogooddeed774 жыл бұрын
I just moved into a two-floor apartment and we call it a duplex. I'm in NJ.
@chantaln68434 жыл бұрын
Rob I : usually, side by side home.
@tarynriver4 жыл бұрын
That’s more of a town house isn’t it
@nogooddeed774 жыл бұрын
@@tarynriver It is, but they consider it a two floor apartment because we don't own it. There is also no yard or anything
@WhatAWonderfulNameItIs4 жыл бұрын
In DE, a duplex is two houses that share a common wall. When looking at it, it almost looks like one house.
@JJ3674 жыл бұрын
I used to live in a ranch. It’s just a house where everything is on one floor. The roof isn’t flat and it does have a basement.
@42istheanswer234 жыл бұрын
A ranch can have a basement, but not a second floor.
@teamcougars4 жыл бұрын
JJ367 very few basements in California. Hard to find one. Especially in Northern California the water table is too high in a lot of Northern California so they flood too often.
@kanstrand4 жыл бұрын
I would say that some ranch houses have a basement and some do not, out West like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, the ground is so hard that it's too expensive and difficult to dig a basement so it's just not cost effective and so they are a lot less common in housing, but in the midwest where I live (near Chicago, Illinois) most houses have a basement also, housing near the ocean or even close to one of the great lakes will less likely have a basement because they are more likely to flood and fill with water
@ericvandet85174 жыл бұрын
@@kanstrand and need one in tornado season!
@sassygrammy12582 жыл бұрын
I have COVID and I am still feeling like 💩 but I am able to sit up for a short length of time. I am revisiting your videos. I especially enjoyed your videos that were taped in Nashville.
@jaeric4 жыл бұрын
I always think of a bungalow as a secluded vacation house on a tropical island.
@cthaxter19994 жыл бұрын
"Not necessarily in the US, but in Florida" - we in the rest of the US feel the same way, Joel. XD
@fredflintstone11094 жыл бұрын
Wrong, guys. A duplex is a two dwelling home, or two small houses slapped together.
@RoseofSharon0114 жыл бұрын
Official definition of duplex: “a house divided into two apartments, with a separate entrance for each.” In the illustration of this definition, they show a single story duplex and a two-story duplex which means the two-story duplex units also have stairways. But regardless of whether it has a stairway or not, I think the difference between a townhouse and a duplex is a duplex only has two units where a townhouse is several units connected together in row of houses.
@vespista19714 жыл бұрын
I’ve always heard this called a Two-Family
@xNYCMarc4 жыл бұрын
Fred Flintstone Yes, that is ONE definition of “duplex” in certain areas of the US : A “two-family” or a building that has two separate apartments. But in large / old cities like NYC and Chicago, a “duplex” is another name for “maisonette”: An apartment that has more than one floor and has other apartments above and or below it. Some will say “Oh, that’s a townhouse”, but the difference is that a townhouse doesn’t have apartments above and below it. Only neighbors on the sides.
@laarrsiavelli4 жыл бұрын
Condominiums are apartments/flats in a building owned by someone privately. Usually real estate firms do this in places like Florida (FL). Apartments are flats owned by a specific company, they get rented out monthly. We call them apartments because they're apart of the building and the insides are usually built alike.
@whodis26143 жыл бұрын
Ya'll would have been floored by the "lofts" that we have. They're usually a warehouse (usually abandoned) that has been decorated and turned ito a home. You literally live in a warehouse.
@Tlakemom14 жыл бұрын
I would call a “2 up 2 down” a townhouse. However so many terms are regional, like you only find brownstones in the east where brick is prevalent.
@LlyleHunter4 жыл бұрын
You’re correct. The stone came from the NJ Palisades and is no longer attainable.
@timothyfield28414 жыл бұрын
A toenhiuse is a row house in more suburban areas arranged in a "town" style instead of say a single row on a city block. A two level apartment in an apartment building is called a duplex apartment.
@RobertBelcher4 жыл бұрын
Actually Chicago has an area of old Brownstones where the wealthy live.
@aishaumar1104 жыл бұрын
...and the west coast is earthquake country.
@barbiebarrios49084 жыл бұрын
I love the American Houses vs British Houses, thank you, Joel and Lia! ❤🏠
@karenmullen32103 жыл бұрын
Yes we have bungalows; that usually refers to a very small cozy cottage type place, a little hide away, a love nest for trysts, a romantic getaway, a lake cottage... Whereas ranch houses are Usually one level, but can be split level, meaning two or three steps down into the living area or dining area, or couple of steps up to the kitchen or down into the den, couple more to the garage which is usually attached, and they are sprawling long houses so that you can see all of your huge ranch or hacienda can be seen from the long wide windows
@jobaghadonitz37904 жыл бұрын
A "condotel" is a lodging that is a hybrid of a condominium and hotel, by being operated as a commercial hotel even though the units are individually owned. A condotel has rental and reservation desks, short-term occupancy, food and telephone services, and daily cleaning services.
@johnbutler56504 жыл бұрын
Frank Lloyd Wright was responsible for the “ Ranch House “ concept. It is a single level home ( sometimes it can be a split level home, if the rest of the house conforms to the basic concept ) with a shallow angled peaked roof ( think of a basic house shape that has been pushed down flattish and pulled out longish ). In the original concept, the long low roofline was considered to be visually non intrusive into the natural environment. It is called a ranch style house because it resembles the bunk houses from the southwest ranches. “ Apartment hotels “ are mostly referred to by the nomenclature “Extended stay hotels “. These would be hotels that one might stay in for months at a go, rather than a few days or weeks. Here’s a question: why are they called “ APARTments “ when they are all stuck together?
@MrXyzasdf4 жыл бұрын
Sorry this is incorrect. Although Wright did bring to promenice the open floor plan concept shared with typical ranch house designs. Credit should be awarded to Joseph Eichler for what is typically attribute to ranch house design. Wright designed for the wealthy and in California Joseph Eichler developed ranch tract houses enmasse.
@johnbutler56504 жыл бұрын
Joe Yoone Please note the Willey house by Wright. It is the first of Wrights simpler designs, and has the floor plan and primary aspects of a “ rambler “ ( the Midwest terminology of “ ranch-style “ ) . The Willey house is a transition piece between Wrights original design ethic and his later “ Usonian “ designs. Eichler was inspired by Wright in his open floor plan ranch style houses mass marketed to the buying public.Wrights “ Prairie style “ designs are the proto ranch homes ( although the luxurious prairie style designs would hardly seem to have much in common with the minimalistic ranch styles that would come ) the open floor plans, long,low roof profile and the unobtrusive overall profile hark to ranch homes to come.
@kanstrand4 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the town where Frank Lloyd Wright's career first began (Oak Park, Illinois) and loved his work, my sister's best friend's parents owned the Moore house, I think it was called... so cool inside...
@ITSBRYINDY744 жыл бұрын
We also call a Duplex a “Double”.
@robertaandtomcatron33764 жыл бұрын
ITSB INDY duplex is one building that is two apartments.
@karenmartin10644 жыл бұрын
The difference between flats and maisonettes is that flats have a communal front door into the building with individual doors inside for each flat. Maisonettes each have their own door which opens on to the outside world rather than a corridor and they aren't necessarily split level.
@davidsavitt49543 жыл бұрын
You were correct when you said that you rent an apartment but buy a condominium. The significant difference is how the property is managed. Condominiums have a corporation that operates the building and run by a board of directors elected by the condo owners. Additionally, ownership of the condo comes with a fractional ownership of common elements such as the hallways, lobby, pool area and party rooms.
@JEdwardBanasikJr4 жыл бұрын
"Ranch" style house - Marty McFly's home in Back to the Future is a typical American Ranch. Note the lower pitch of the roof. Many have the garage built on the front or a carport. Some had the garage detached in the back with a side driveway. These were also typically built in subdivisions that started popping up after WWII. Many have huge backyards for cookouts and family home life. Very common style home built during the 50's - 70's in the U.S.
@kelcal66974 жыл бұрын
“Maisonette” = “Townhouse”
@xNYCMarc4 жыл бұрын
Maisonette = Maisonette. Townhouse = Townhouse. A townhouse doesn’t have another apartment above or below the two floors of that unit. A maisonette has two or more floors AND other apartments above or below your floors.