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[eslteacherlooking]

Do you live in one? What's been the good and bad things about it? How did you get furniture up those skinny staircases?

[Italy37612]

I have a friend who is currently living in one. It is great for the summer months. He put a small wading pool and a BBQ on the roof outside his window.
He had to hire a company with a elevator truck and all of the large furniture had to be brought in through the outside window. Was rather pricey but it was physically impossible to get any large appliances /or furniture up the narrow a$$ staircase.

[prideofidaho]

We live in one. The pros are having a roof, the cons depend on the quality of the apartment itself. The moving man literally carried most things up for us, and for anything that required a second person, well that's why the ladies keep the mens around.

You might get other tenants of the building coming up to put up washing. My landlady has a veritable junk closet cause she's a closet hoarder and she likes to come upstairs and poke around in it at 8am some Saturdays. My boyfriend growls ather, but being a super ajumma she is unafraid.

If you like to garden that could be a bonus.

If you like to have friends over you can do that, but a con would be always having to clean up.

[eslteacherlooking]

Sounds pretty good. So no shivering winters? How much did the elevator moving guy cost? Do still have his contact info?

Thankfully access to the roof is locked and only I would have the key, presumably.

[Ukon]

I've been told they're quite cheap

[prideofidaho]

Well, the winter issue is where the quality of the structure becomes important. Our particular house has no regular windows, just sliding doors. The ones we have are old and wooden and quite drafty in the winter. The upside is that you get a lot of light, and with our place we have windows on two sides so we get a lovey crossbreeze. The other downside to these kinds of doors is that you can't leave a window open to air the place out. Leaving a sliding door open basically defeats the purpose of a lock.

I'm not sure how a key to the apartment will keep people from walking upstairs to the roof, I mean there's no way I can keep people in the building from coming onto my roof other than making it fairly obvious we don't like it.

The price is indeed right. We pay just under 500 a month, and key money was 2m. It's not the most glamorous place and it has it's idiosyncrasies, but I love it anyway and will be sad to leave it in a few months.

[Yaya]

It's called "oktap" in Korean and well, I hear living in one in the summer without proper A/C makes it seem like living in an oven.