Exclusive use areas are often misunderstood as the unit owner’s property, but such areas are still part of the common area and therefore jointly owned with all other owners and subject to associati…
The typical condominium project consists of three categories of property: the “separate interest” , the “common area,” and a subset of the common area called “exclusive use common area.”
While some developers have become more creative, the typical condominium unit configuration is a box of airspace surrounded by the unfinished surfaces of walls, ceilings and floors. Everything else is “common area.” Fixtures serving a single unit but existing outside of the unit boundaries may include water heaters or air conditioning equipment, for example.
The inquiry usually starts by reviewing the governing documents regarding the area in question to determine if it is exclusive use common area, followed by analyzing who maintains it and who repairs it — and the two responsibilities might not be placed on the same party.
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