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I agree. Common sense. Problem is that there is no instruction to handle that way. Some seem to think that a 1/2 story is a 5' high level.
No, a cape COD does not have a full second story and is not considered to be a two story home.....although the Cape has 2 levels (or 2 levels plus a basement), the second story of a typical Cape is somewhere from 50 - 75% of the size of the first story and the UAD contemplates that it should be reported that way (otherwise the UAD would not have been set up to allow decimal places for the # number of stories).
If the GSE's had to write a specific instruction regarding using common sense for every UAD data field, the UAD specification would be about 800 pages long and totally unusable.
Sorry, but the UAD specification specifically delineates a difference between "levels" and "stories" and your common dictionary definition certainly does not work in the appraisal world (think about 3 or 4 level split levels - these are certainly not 3 or 4 story homes)
