
legal
You're apartment hunting in Miami and something is legally questionable about this 2-bedroom. What is it?
Florida building codes require a habitable room to have window area equal to at least 10 percent of the floor area for ventilation and natural light. A completely interior room with no exterior wall access technically fails this standard and cannot legally be rented as a bedroom. Miami condo conversion market frequently creates these windowless interior rooms by subdividing large floor plates into smaller units, relabeling storage or den spaces as bedrooms to justify higher rents.