Multiple bathrooms, how to show as a number?

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

My mission is to get appraisers to think like appraisers and not FannieFormat form-fillers. It's a long-term project.

Edit: Old dude?!! I'm in the prime of my income earning years. If I had any income to speak of I'd rub $100 bills in your face!

I have the opposite mission. We are doing summary appraisal reports on forms and that is what we are getting paid for. We are not doing quasi-narrative reports or being paid for narrative reports. If you can't comprehend or utilize the form for reporting purposes, you need to do only narrative reports and forget the forms. But wait, the lenders want forms, so learn to use them!!!

Any residential appraiser doing lending work that does not think they are a form filler, is just lying to themselves. It is time to recognize what you are. And the 4-5 pages of BS CYA doesn't apply to your property addenda is just a waste of paper and ink.

 

[Michigan CG]

That is because a 3/4 bath is a ridiculous concept. I haven't had a bath in over 35 years........

Sometimes bathtubs are used for more than taking a bath.......

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Sometimes bathtubs are used for more than taking a bath.......

If you are referring to what I think you are referring, I don't consider that a real bath...or maybe you are talking about meth labs.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Please show me a true matched pair of sales with the powder room (or even a couple of baths) which you have isolated that one feature and where the difference is about $5000 for the bath and $2500 for the half bath.

I have run a many a regression and have yet to succeed. I quit adjusting for fireplaces for the same reason...and I won't adjust for granite countertops...ditto.