Multiple bathrooms, how to show as a number?

[JTip]

I asked this years ago and cannot find the old answer.

The house has 3 bathrooms and 2 half baths. How would you show this as a number (ie 2 full, one half = 2.5 baths).

Expanding on that, how would you show a 3 full, one half and one 3/4 bath?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Michigan CG]

2 full, one half = 2.0.1
3 full, one 3/4, one 1/2 = 3.1.1

Then explain later in the report.

 

[JTip]

Thanks Mr. Evans. Could you be a bit more quick with your response next time? 120 seconds is a bit too long.:laugh:

Thanks again.

 

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[Michigan CG]

Thanks Mr. Evans. Could you be a bit more quick with your response next time? 120 seconds is a bit too long.:laugh:

Thanks again.

I am on my "lunch break" and I surf the forum while eating my lunch (taco salad today).

 

[Webbed Feet]

I asked this years ago and cannot find the old answer.

The house has 3 bathrooms and 2 half baths. How would you show this as a number (ie 2 full, one half = 2.5 baths).

Expanding on that, how would you show a 3 full, one half and one 3/4 bath?

Thanks for your help.

I'm not so fast. For cause.....

"Show" on what?

Regardless, whatever method is used, as long as it is explained what the heck difference does it make? Just as long as anyone reading a report understands when "0.5" means one single half bath..... and not five separate half baths............. I would agree our entire trade should settle on a standard for this however. Instead of the way it is now. But we are still a herd of cats and in our infancy as a trade...

 

[JTip]

This may change my future thinking on the subject.

I typically do 3.5 baths (3 full, on half) or 3.75 (3 full, one sink-toilet-shower bath).

Is that the norm using .5 as a half or is it easier for the reader to see 3.1 and explain later?

 

[Riick]

Fannie just changed it's reporting for its REO reports.
2 full one powder room -- not 2.5 -- now 2.1
So (guessing) 2 full + two powder rooms = 2.2
Fannie apparently never heard of a 3/4 bath

 

[Webbed Feet]

JTip,

You can't find a "Norm" on this. For example, a "Full" bath in CA must have four separate fixtures. Sink, toilet, shower, tub. In Oregon a "Full" bath has a sink, toilet, and either a shower or a tub with a shower head, or just the tub and no shower head. So here, a "Full" bath is either a total of three or four fixtures.

But even here, is brand new construction for a master bathroom suite expected to have only a sink, toilet, and a shower? Not really, unless we are down to bargain basement contruction quality. Yet that could be just dandy for a hallway bathroom.

So the answer is .... "It depends" ............... Is your "reader" a pro at reading appraisal reports or the executor of an estate? .... It's a matter of explaining what you are doing...

 

[JTip]

I'm not so fast. For cause.....

"Show" on what?

Regardless, whatever method is used, as long as it is explained what the heck difference does it make? Just as long as anyone reading a report understands when "0.5" means one single half bath..... and not five separate half baths............. I would agree our entire trade should settle on a standard for this however. Instead of the way it is now. But we are still a herd of cats and in our infancy as a trade...

'Show' on the form. The bath section will only recognize numbers (ie 3.5 or 3.1 but not 3.1.1). I know there is no standard, multiple half baths in a SFR are not common in my market, I just wanted to see how other 'human' appraisers approach these amenities and fit in a form section that could be understood with the proper explanation or not.

It's lunch time Ducky and bbq duck sound real tasty about now. We used to do a pulled bbq duck on cornmeal mini pancakes back at an old restaurant I worked at down south years ago.