Posted 12 August 2010 - 21:56. Mine sat in customs then appeared at the door without an update to the tracking information. In fact, my local post office *almost* sent the package back because it required a signature and I was not at home the first time they tried to deliver.
Someone who owns a business or a property is a proprietor. A bookstore proprietor might wish she became a librarian instead so the books would come back. The first part of proprietor sounds a lot like property, and a proprietor is someone with ownership of property. Sometimes a proprietor oversees the business, such as a restaurant proprietor who is also a chef or hostess, and other times a proprietor owns many businesses and has different people running them.
In terms of NPI assignment, a sole proprietor is an Entity type 1 (Individual) and is eligible for only one NPI (the sole proprietorship business is not eligible for its own NPI). As an individual, a sole proprietorship cannot be a subpart and cannot have subparts.