ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Basement apartment

Okay kiddo, so you know how we live in a house, right? Well sometimes, some houses have a special area called a basement. This is like a big room underneath the house that you can go down to using stairs.

Now, some people like to turn their basement into a special room that they can live in like a regular bedroom. This is called a basement apartment. It's like a little house inside the bigger house.

It can have all the things a regular house has like a bathroom, a kitchen, a living room and a bedroom. And the special thing is that it's downstairs, which means there might be windows that are closer to the ground outside.

When someone lives in the basement apartment, it's like having their own private space, but still being close to the rest of the house.

But remember, not all houses have basement apartments because it depends on how the house was built. So it's something special that some people get to have.
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