I'm sorry, I had to come back to this after my last statement as this simply doesn't make sense. I get the premise, but if I'm hearing it correctly from chferg, his experience is that the apartment building owns the apartment overall and will lease out individual rooms. If that is true, who in their right mind will sign a contractual lease whereby they 'own' a bedroom, but have to share a living room, dining area, and kitchen, as well as any limited parking spots, with any random person off the street that signs a lease for the other room? Why would anyone by tied to a bedroom when they have absolutely no say in who they share the rest of the apartment with?
With dorms, you fill out a questionnaire and they assign you a roommate based on your interests and theirs. With athletic dorms, you are assigned a roommate, but you know it is someone on your team. With an apartment, it's a business, and I can't see the complex doing single room leases like this. They want quiet, peaceful tenants they can count on. A proposition like chferg invites the opportunity for tenants who don't get along, and can destroy the building with fights in an effort to get at one another.
This simply doesn't make sense.
Chferg, can you advise as to what apartment complex would have actually employed this single room lease plan?