Limited common elements are parts of a condo that are assigned to individual units, but considered community property rather than belonging to a tenant. Examples of limited common elements include balconies, parking spaces, and storage units.
A common element is defined as all portions of the property except the units. Examples of common elements include fitness centers, elevators, lobbies, walkways, lighting in common hallways, garbage collection areas, swimming pools, landscaping, club houses, and more. What is a Limited Common Element?
Conventional examples include a unit's driveway, garage, mailbox, or attic. A few communities have elevators, parking areas, or amenities which are allocated for particular buildings or clusters of units.
Common elements are owned in undivided shares by all inium unit owners as tenants in common and include portions of the inium shared or used in common by the inium's residents. Examples of common elements are: Building structural components and systems.
Common Elements are defined in the Project Documents, and may include but are not limited to parking, walkways, lighting, elevators, boilers, hallways, foyers, and legal ingress and egress to individual units. The term includes common areas and Limited Common Elements.
As explained by Florida Second District Court of Appeal in Randolph Farms v Otto, 365 So. 3d 1259 (Fla. 2d DCA 2023), a common element are those inium elements that are no peculiar to a particular inium unit, while limited common elements are peculiar to a particular unit.
This means common elements could include, but are not limited to, all the following: land, foundations, hallways, stairways, entrances and exits, common parking areas, storage areas, basement, roof, incinerator, pipes, ducts, electrical wiring and conduits, central heating and air, public utility lines, floors, ...
Common Elements of the inium Corporation are the land and structures in the inium Corporation other than the units themselves, such as the exterior landscaped areas, recreational facilities, parking garage, hallways, elevators, corridors, public washrooms, lobby areas, driveways, garbage rooms, electrical ...
A Common Element inium is comprised solely of common elements such as a private road, parking spaces, mailbox pad, play area and any other common elements and do not include dwelling units/lots.