HOA Homefront: What, where is an “exclusive use common area?”

This is part one in a series on exclusive use common areas.
The typical condominium project consists of three categories of property – the “separate interest” (normally called the “unit”), the common area and a subset of a common area called “exclusive use common area.”
Misunderstandings regarding exclusive use area lead to many disputes. Simply put, exclusive use areas are not “your” property, but a part of the commonly owned property set as