Could there be a common room in the fictional version? Doesn't have to be big, just like a foyer with some mailboxes and a few chairs. I'm thinking of the place that my dad went to when he ran a polling place in the last election. It's not too uncommon for apartment complices to have areas like that, not bigger than an apartment, that are public.
(And yest I know complices isn't a word, the real plural is complexen.)
(And yest I know complices isn't a word, the real plural is complexen.)
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto