Aug. 17, 2014 - Square feet

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Jack Thorn • 08/17/2014

I can relate to this, without a doubt. Heh.

Karmakat • 08/17/2014

can't i understand what he means. it's one of those. no hopes up before seeing it.

Meiyo • 08/17/2014

Bought a home on craigslist in florida, turned out to be infested with black mold. Now looks in local paper, instead of on internet.

soriac • 08/17/2014

Probably everyone who ever looked for a room to rent, wherever, whenever, whyever :), can relate to this, to put every description of the new apartment under the language microscope. Those people who put in ads are amazingly creative with euphemisms :-)

LionkingCMSL • 08/17/2014

Actually, if he divides by 6, which would not be too accurate, it comes out to 266.666 sq ft of floor area, or about 16'- 4" per side of a square room; doable in a small apartment.

As I mentioned this would not be correct as I doubt the walls are 16' tall. So the size of the apartment may not be that bad.

Jan • 08/17/2014

@LionkingCMSL Unless there are multiple rooms. Then there are more walls to factor into the equation :)

Jan • 08/17/2014

@soriac One annoying practice in this city is that listings also include the "useable area" of windowsills and other nonsense. Some even include the common areas (like the garbage room, the ground-floor lobby)... I'm not even kidding.

Sonic Wolfe • 08/17/2014

Well my summer housing in my school have walls like jail cells..... at least 40 years old building

NarricTechna • 08/17/2014

I'm glad here in England we only go by number of bedrooms and what other rooms are included. Things like garden are left to the simple "Small/Medium/Large" descriptors :P At least in general that is the case XD

Lord_Chaos • 08/18/2014

At least it wasn't cubic feet.

UglyOldFart • 08/18/2014

No it's not square footage/6. Otherwise the walls are the same height as the square root of each floor. Try 8(4*sqrt of N)+2N=1600 where N=actual floor square footage, and assuming an 8' wall height.

Or try asking Wolf......

odhrain • 08/21/2014

@UglyOldFart: Only if it is a single room loft and a quadratic floor plan. If the apartment has multiple rooms of unequal size (kitchen, bath, hallway, bedroom, livingroom), /6 could be a good approximation. As close as any without further information.

Lombax369 • 08/27/2014

$600 a month!? I can't find anything for less than $400 a WEEK! I want to move to wherever they are...

Or is he looking at a place to own rather than rent?

Sereverus • 10/01/2014

i love my rent adjusted apt., it's state owned, but it's the size of a large studio, but has separate rooms, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen/living, and has plenty of space for my various musical instruments.

MOhighschooler • 12/04/2014

how about cubic Meters or Centimeters?

Matt • 07/13/2015

Does surface area include internal surface are such as duct space or surface area of every bump and creavases on stucco walls does it include wall-plates fixtures such as smoke alarms and sprinklers ... in response to MOhighschooler try cubic millimeters and nanometers

Zanar Naryon • 11/14/2016

Initial thought: 1600 square meters? That's huge, even divided by 6 Read again: Oooooooh, 1600 square feet

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