Take upstairs or downstairs of a duplex?

[MrSquished]

even if it is a duplex and you ues less heat in the winter cause you have two heating/cooling zones - you are probably just getting one utility bill and be splitting it with your roommate. so that shouldn't make a difference i would think.

 

[destrekor]

even if it is a duplex and you ues less heat in the winter cause you have two heating/cooling zones - you are probably just getting one utility bill and be splitting it with your roommate. so that shouldn't make a difference i would think.

That's rarely how duplexes are billed. The floors (or side-by-sides) are almost always separately leased.

 

[Rinaun]

I think the answer here is clear:

Buy one, then kill the upstairs or downstairs owners, take bodies and use one floor to hide the bodies.

Now you get both! I solve practical problems!

 

[destrekor]

duplexes can also be in condo/apartment buildings not just multi-family homes

Any other form of duplex is technically not a duplex by definition. Realtors of urban environments - NYC and the like - have butchered that concept.

You may be thinking of terms like "duplex apartment", which is actually a maisonette. It is not a duplex by the strict definition of the term.

 

[MrSquished]

Any other form of duplex is technically not a duplex by definition. Realtors of urban environments - NYC and the like - have butchered that concept.

You may be thinking of terms like "duplex apartment", which is actually a maisonette. It is not a duplex by the strict definition of the term.

i[m pretty sure the urban people got it right. i think you rural folk need to catch up to the present. rednecks are known to be behind the actual reality of things.

 

[nageov3t]

Any other form of duplex is technically not a duplex by definition. Realtors of urban environments - NYC and the like - have butchered that concept.

You may be thinking of terms like "duplex apartment", which is actually a maisonette. It is not a duplex by the strict definition of the term.

really, a duplex should be mirrored, side-by-side units wherein the upstairs/downstairs factor shouldn't matter as both units should have multiple stories (although, there's this one weird house down the block from me... it's only one story, mirrored front-to-back such that the person living in the back unit has to walk all the way around the house to get to their door. I could see considering that a duplex as well)

in the OP's situation, I assumed he was referring to a 2-family house as a duplex (with one unit on the first floor and one on the second)

 

[destrekor]

i[m pretty sure the urban people got it right. i think you rural folk need to catch up to the present. rednecks are known to be behind the actual reality of things.

Entire cities define duplex to be said over-and-under two-unit buildings. If you can't be bothered to follow urban planning and proper realty definitions, that's not my problem.

I live in a city proper, have my whole life. Not in sub-divisions either, but standard neighborhoods with grid-style streets.
Your urban elitism I suspect (hope) is trolling.

 

[destrekor]

really, a duplex should be mirrored, side-by-side units wherein the upstairs/downstairs factor shouldn't matter as both units should have multiple stories (although, there's this one weird house down the block from me... it's only one story, mirrored front-to-back such that the person living in the back unit has to walk all the way around the house to get to their door. I could see considering that a duplex as well)

in the OP's situation, I assumed he was referring to a 2-family house as a duplex (with one unit on the first floor and one on the second)

Those are the generally accepted alternate approaches to duplex. Some cities don't even allow those to be called a duplex if it's not over and under and limited to two floors/units, but many cities allow two, three, or four units to be separate floors or to even share floors and have single-floor units (so, four units in a two-story building, two on each floor), so long as each have separate entrances.
Some cities have no restriction of the term, and you get some weird situations where apartment and duplex/quadplex/etc start overlapping.

As you said though, side-by-side is basically the main alternative approach.

It would definitely be my preference to have a side-by-side unit if I'm looking for a duplex.

 

[mrjminer]

Those are the generally accepted alternate approaches to duplex. Some cities don't even allow those to be called a duplex if it's not over and under and limited to two floors/units, but many cities allow two, three, or four units to be separate floors or to even share floors and have single-floor units (so, four units in a two-story building, two on each floor), so long as each have separate entrances.
Some cities have no restriction of the term, and you get some weird situations where apartment and duplex/quadplex/etc start overlapping.

As you said though, side-by-side is basically the main alternative approach.

It would definitely be my preference to have a side-by-side unit if I'm looking for a duplex.

I think a lot of side-by-sides are sold as condos instead of rented as duplexes, too. That might be another reason why

 

[zinfamous]

Always upstairs. always.

Why is this thread longer than 2 posts?

 

[TwiceOver]

Yeah, upstairs.

Heat dissipates. Hearing people walk and fuck all day never goes away.