Toilet in closet.

[Tom D]

some of you privileged bathrooms people need to get you biased privilege suburban living out of your appraisal. so it would be better to not have the extra toilet in the house, and looking for toilet comps, i give you credit but how much could that adjustment be to warrant your valuable time. if you are elderly then maybe that toilet is useful. or larger family with only 1 bath room. i have seen in y little row homes maybe a toilet in the unfinished basement just sitting there. so how much is that worth, only as much as if you need to use it when that other bath is being used and you really gotta go. ever heard of towelettes. long ago in this very old city there was an outhouse in the back yard of your row home. and if you wanted to to get really clean, you went to a bath house.
be thankful for your bathrooms privilege. and by the way a bath room without a sink is called a full bath by HUD in your report.

 

[ucbruin]

some of you privileged bathrooms people need to get you biased privilege suburban living out of your appraisal. so it would be better to not have the extra toilet in the house, and looking for toilet comps, i give you credit but how much could that adjustment be to warrant your valuable time. if you are elderly then maybe that toilet is useful. or larger family with only 1 bath room. i have seen in y little row homes maybe a toilet in the unfinished basement just sitting there. so how much is that worth, only as much as if you need to use it when that other bath is being used and you really gotta go. ever heard of towelettes. long ago in this very old city there was an outhouse in the back yard of your row home. and if you wanted to to get really clean, you went to a bath house.
be thankful for your bathrooms privilege. and by the way a bath room without a sink is called a full bath by HUD in your report.

"use noise toilet regression. but that chart would be good for your work file, great to prove you be right."

I'm just messing with you....

 

[Raven59]

In or out? I pick in the closet.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

In or out? I pick in the closet.

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I thought maybe I could hide the AC unit inside one away from the house, no visible lines to the house, vent the bathroom into the attic and into a "fireplace flue". Use a composting toilet that does the same, bury the electric lines out of sight and make the house look like a dry cabin and fool the assessor.

 

[Mark K]

But in your kitchen...gross. I've never seen a bathroom adjacent to a kitchen in a new home during my 30 years.

One of my rental properties, 900 sf, 2/1, had the bathroom door between the fridge and the stove. Rented easy, no problem. Sold it and no complaints. It was near the bottom of the local price range and beggars can't be choosers. I have seen a couple others that way in small homes but not many. Just make sure it has a good vent fan!! LOL.

Solved, available at your local Home Depot.

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I first saw these in Japan about 40 years ago. Sink water fills the tank; not a bad idea.

 

[Vermonter]

This is common in old village homes in my market. Plumbing added after original construction so they put everything close together for less plumbing runs. Which is why the main bathroom is either directly above or shares a wall with the kitchen.

In or out? I pick in the closet.

Those same village homes usually have attached barns where they kept the outhouse. Can't find the picture, but went into one huge victorian that had a quad pooper outhouse with 4 holes

 

[jtinmichigan]

I think its called a Bitchen. Bath in the kitchen.

 

[Raven59]

Alternative


For closets

 

[alavalue]

I had an identical situation last fall. One bathroom in a 1900's house is common. Remember, when the house was built, there were no bathrooms; they had outhouses back then. Your data confirms this.

Now, is the toilet in a kitchen a half bath? No. Let's be real, like the full bath, it was added later, as an afterthought. They didn't think that people cooking dinner probably wouldn't want someone "doing their business" a couple feet away. Nor would if a guest needed the "powder room" would want to use the kitchen sink to wash their hands.

I actually did, by a stroke of luck, find an old sale, of a dissimilar house, that had just a toilet room with no vanity. I was unable to extract any positive or negative affect on the sales price so I explained that it had no market value.

Tom, just a note concerning your statement that the improvement had no "market" value. The term "contributory" value refers to the amount by which a single component of an asset influences its total value as a whole. If the whole house has "market" value, then a single component also has market value. The question of whether it "contributes" or is an item of "depreciation" needs to be addressed, along with other aspects including whether it was permitted, and/or if was installed in accordance with local codes, etc. This pertains to addressing the existence of physical and functional obsolescence. Whether there are similar comparables is a secondary consideration to addressing the issues of whether it is safe, sound and sanitary. This is a requirement of FHA/HUD, VA, Rural Development appraisals.

 

[Tom4value]

Really? Got any numbers on that? I mean if you have a big house, 2 story and small lot maybe a different story. But when the house isn't all that big to start with??? You add on. There is no closet, especially big enough for a full bathroom. In rural America there were often houses without either septic or sewer. There was a bath to the back of the lot. Half the homes built here before 1920 did not even have closets. They used a "wardrobe" - aka armoire, a free standing cabinet "closet."

Where are you going with this? You are picking a fight with no purpose.