Does A Bedroom Need Full Access To A Full Bath?

[Dublin ohio]

To Bedroom or not to bedroom...is in the eye of the beholder. But we opine market value, not individual beholder value. How would the market view that room? Would they value it more as an office or as a bedroom without access to a full bathroom?

And I agree with what others have said, if we are talking going from 4 to 5 bedrooms, pretty limited market segment there. With the work from home craze showing little signs of stopping, I'd rather market it as an office, which by the way, it is.

Agent calls it a bedroom. Buyer says "I could use it as an office". Agent calls it an office. Buyer says "I could use it as a bedroom". Meh.

 

[Mark K]

I've appraised some older homes that had no bathroom on the upper level but there were rooms with doors, windows, closets, and beds. I called them bedrooms.

 

[Mike Ault]

I've appraised some older homes that had no bathroom on the upper level but there were rooms with doors, windows, closets, and beds. I called them bedrooms.

And the floor plan was "dysfunctional" to contemporary standards. And should be disclosed as such.

 

[Mark K]

And the floor plan was "dysfunctional" to contemporary standards, and should be disclosed as such.

Old house, old comps. No adjustments necessary.

Hell, most of the house was dysfunctional (same for the comps) compared to today's standards.

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

I have a client insisting that an office on the main level should be considered as a bedroom. But there is no full bath on the floor, but only a half bath.
Can it be considered to be a bedroom?

Is there any Code for bedroom requirement associated with bathroom?

Why would there have to be a bath? There could be functional obsolescence without a bath on the same floor, but probably not much with at least a half bath.

 

[Mike Ault]

Old house, old comps. No adjustments necessary.

Hell, most of the house was dysfunctional (same for the comps) compared to today's standards.

Adjustments aren't required, however, full disclosure of functional deficiencies are.

 

[Mark K]

Adjustments aren't required, however, full disclosure of functional deficiencies are.

Functionally deficient compared to what? Its peers? No. Atypical (according to contemporary standards) floor plans in old homes don't necessarily result in functional depreciation/deficiencies.

Functionally deficient compared to a new(er) home? OK.

 

[Mike Ault]

Functionally deficient compared to what? Its peers? No. Atypical (according to contemporary standards) floor plans in old homes don't necessarily result in functional depreciation/deficiencies.

Functionally deficient compared to a new(er) home? OK.

We are not appraising the home for a 1920s population. We are appraising such homes for a 2020s population, and nobody in their right mind has designed a home without a bathroom on the same floor as the sleeping quarters in 100 years. If you appraised a home with no indoor plumbing, and just so happened to find comparables with no indoor plumbing as well, would you bother to disclose? And perhaps even judge it to be (gasp) "functionally deficient"?

 

[glenn walker]

And we know why they want "waivers " I almost cant take it anymore

 

[Fernando]

Be an appraiser! You get to call it and it's a Bedroom.