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In the US, "apartment" at least strongly implies rented. You'd normally say condo (or co-op) if you own. (ADDED: Or just "my place" or something like that gener
by ghaff 2y ago
In the US, "apartment" at least strongly implies rented. You'd normally say condo (or co-op) if you own. (ADDED: Or just "my place" or something like that generically.)
- skissane 2y agoBut would the landlord call it an "apartment"?
- ghaff 2y agoIf they owned one unit, they'd probably say they owned a condo and were renting out an apartment (or they're renting out their condo).
- skissane 2y ago> If they owned one unit, they'd probably say they owned a condo and were renting out an apartment That sounds really confusing – owning one thing, but are talking about it as if it were two separate things. Does anyone actually talk that way?
- airstrike 2y agoTo quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: "No."
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- alwa 2y agoThen again that sentence did say “to buy as many as nine additional apartments”.
- ghaff 2y agoThe terminology is a bit loose but it would probably be more customary to write "buy as many as nine additional units." If I invite you to "my apartment" the implication is that I'm renting although that's not an absolute.
- randomdata 2y ago> If I invite you to "my apartment" the implication is that I'm renting What am I, your invited guest, to do with this information? If someone else invites me to "their condo" should I behave differently?
- ghaff 2y agoNothing. It's just that, in the US, when you're renting a unit that isn't a whole house, you tend to call it an apartment as opposed to something else. It's just conventional word usage at least today.
- randomdata 2y agoDoes choosing a word that implies something not imply some kind of intent in wanting to have the receiver take something from what was implied? Perhaps there is some kind of social embarrassment in renting and thus apartment owners have come to try and differentiate themselves by using what originated as a legal term?
- chatmasta 2y agoI think “condo” usually implies owning a property within some shared structure where you need to pay additional fees (e.g. an HOA).
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- randomdata 2y agoThe year was 1979. "Condo" was only starting to see some use in the vernacular and took quite a lot longer to become the norm. Homeownership wasn't always the obsession we know it to be today.