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When I lived in a 1930s apartment building, there were door frames throughout the floor. I could have expanded my 2b2ba to the entire floor by putting doors on
by washadjeffmad 2y ago
When I lived in a 1930s apartment building, there were door frames throughout the floor. I could have expanded my 2b2ba to the entire floor by putting doors on either side of the central elevators.
If she lived in a similar building, all she'd have had to do was move her door to the end of the hall, and all of the apartments around her would have become additional rooms.
- account42 2y agoThis doesn't really address the question of why she used expensive residential locations for storage instead of cheaper alternatives.
- washadjeffmad 2y agoI think if she'd been motivated by short term price efficiency, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Given she chose to buy nine apartments, we can at least assume she found the arrangement convenient and affordable, and that she valued fixed expenses. Extending from that, so she could house the televisions, easily access and change the tapes, and not have to transport them to wherever might be cheaper but further for storage, she would have chosen apartments physically near her. My explanation was how someone could "buy apartments" to expand their floor plan, which is what I thought it likely she did, since people may not be familiar with how that might work.
- Projectiboga 2y agoPhiladelphia real estate was very affordable at the time. Storage wasn't commonplace like it is now and would have involved moving things to a warehouse district, while there are some near where she lived that might have been less easy than just acquiring cheep coop apartments.