Bathroom Counts

[DKAYTES]

You have probably handled it better than I would have. I would have semi-politely told them "no".

Have to play nice these days !!

 

[TEL2002]

Grid it as a 1.1.1 (1 full, 1 3/4, & 1 1/2)

I always used A.B Where A is the number of full baths in the house and B is the number of half baths in the house. So a 2.2 is 2 full and 2 half baths.

 

[DKAYTES]

Grid it as a 1.1.1 (1 full, 1 3/4, & 1 1/2)

I kind of like the "1.1.1 " expression, but I do a lot of work for this client. I think If I do that they will come back and say the middle " 1" is not what they want. This is why I did it 1.75.5 with the explaination of as to the way it was grided not to be misleading and the number of fixtures. m2:

 

[Michigan CG]

Grid it as a 1.1.1 (1 full, 1 3/4, & 1 1/2)..........

I agree with this. The bathroom count thing is regional. Some posters on here forget that things are different in some parts of the country. Where I came from the correct way to do it was 1.1.1 (full, shower only and powder room).

In Michigan it is a full or a half, no exception. I remember looking at MLS listings when we moved here and seeing the term "door wall" in many listings. I was saying to myself WTF is a door wall? As an appraiser with pride to keep I avoided asking what a door wall was. Finally I asked, feeling dumb. Turns out in Michigan a door wall is a sliding patio door.

Many things are regional and posters on here need to remember that. It is sort of like beer. People in Colorado think Coors is really a good beer. The rest of the world would rather drink from mud puddles.

 

[Mary Tiernan]

Hmmmm so I wonder what a bathroom area with stand up shower and separate tub should be called, 1.25 bath?


LOL

 

[Ray Miller]

I use the hole and trough count, one holer, two holer, three hole, how many can stand at the trought one man up to ten men.

Do you have real TP or use the standar Sears/Robuck or Montgomery Wards catalog.:new_multi:

Is there a lime can present?

Have the spiders been clean out, all wasp nest gone.:new_smile-l:

Is the bench sanded and finished or are there splinters.

Is there a 20 gal tub hug on the side for a bath?

Lye soap or real store bought soft for sunday go to meeting bath.

Is there fule oil present to soak in to get rid of the seed ticks and chiggers?

 

[HF Mudd]

People in Colorado think Coors is really a good beer. The rest of the world would rather drink from mud puddles.

If my choices are Bud or Coors, I'll go for the Coors. However, mud puddles win out over both.

 

[CJ1234]

I would have called it a 3/4 bathroom, and explained how the market views the "shower-Only" configuration. In your case, the same as a full bathroom.

In MN, 3/4 bath in owner's suite is often a downgrade from a full 1.0 bathroom (With typically sepearte showers/tubs).

 

[Webbed Feet]

Hmmmm so I wonder what a bathroom area with stand up shower and separate tub should be called, 1.25 bath?


LOL

Yes, it could. Or a 1.33 bath depending on the market. What is going on is this client is attempting to dictate reporting style in a very silly attempt to force all appraisers to standardize this issue. Ain't gonna happen. Some markets it takes four fixtures in a bath for it to be considered a "Full" bath (sink, toilet, shower, bath tub), so 4 x .25 = 1.0 - for a "Full."
Some markets it only takes three fixtures (sink, toilet, either a shower or a bath tub), so 3 x .3333 = 1.0 - for it to be considered a "Full" bath.
Appraisers could adjust against "Full" or "Half" Baths, or adjust for the fixture count, both methods if consistent are acceptable practice. But this client's staff is trying to force only one way of doing it.

 

[DMZwerg]

Exactly right. There's no such thing as a 3/4 bath in my mind.

Only way I would EVER consider a "3/4 bath" is a half bath and a separate 1/4 bath (aka, a stand alone shower that one has to travel through a different use finished room to move between the half bath and the shower).

I have seen this setup exactly twice, once in a quad (which was partially gutted and the new owner was planning to gut further to remedy the disfunctional bathroom situation and other issues) and once in a basement (where they had a modern* self-contained stand-up shower in the laundry room).

* - I would not consider a shower head with just a curtain around it over a floor drain in the laundry area of the basement to be a quarter bath in any way, shape or form despite the fact that my father had set such up in the house I was raised in and used it for years. In the case above I mean a fully walled and contained (with plastic or fiberglass top as well as walls and door) shower.

So, I can see cases for a "quarter bath" existing and being mentioned, but not a "3/4th bath" nor a "bath and a half" like some RE Agents do when talking about master baths with dual "closet" toilets.