Looking to add a bathroom, have some questions
Looking to add a full bathroom to this home: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/219-Ingleside-Ter-Kalamazoo-MI-49006/84494403_zpid/?
Will be renting by the room to college students. It's currently 1.5 baths, with 5 rooms. First obvious question, is it worth adding the extra bathroom, my thought is it will make it more rentable + some increase in value.
Second, I know there isn't a floor plan, but how feasible is it to add a bathroom to that window door room by the living room? You can see it in the 3D walk through and in the photos.
Thank you!
#2 First Time Home Buyer Contributor
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- Saddle Brook, NJ
Very cute property.
Only thing I would say is, what is the expected rent without the new bathroom, what is the expected rent with the new bathroom, and are there other properties in the area doing this to base your predictions off?
Don't really have advice, but hopefully me commenting on this will help it get to the "Newest" section of the forum and another more qualified individual may be able to provide insight!
Quote from @Ryan Muska:
Very cute property.
Only thing I would say is, what is the expected rent without the new bathroom, what is the expected rent with the new bathroom, and are there other properties in the area doing this to base your predictions off?
Don't really have advice, but hopefully me commenting on this will help it get to the "Newest" section of the forum and another more qualified individual may be able to provide insight!
Thank you for the reply. I'd honestly have to do more research for expected value with another bathroom. However my main concern is since I'm planning on renting it to 5 students, ideally they'd want 2 full bathrooms, and easier to rent it out... Expected rent on my end is around 2500-2700 total assuming fully rented.
I can't estimate the rent without a bathroom, but I'd imagine it would be hard to rent out to 5 people.
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- Denver
You really need at least a 5ftx8ft space to make it a full bathroom. I can't really tell dimensions from the walk through. The easiest spot is going to be to make the half bath upstairs, a full bath, by knocking out the backside into that smaller bedroom. It'll be the easiest since your stack is there from the main bath on the 1st floor directly under it.
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#2 Rehabbing & House Flipping Contributor
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It says this home has a pending offer already. I'm assuming that is your offer?
Good that you're thinking about this during due diligence. In my opinion, you need to convert the half bath into a full bath AND add another full bath. Imagine 5 college students living here all trying to get ready for school/work at 7am every day.
It's definitely possible to add a bathroom, although it will be pretty invasive. But it's hard to give feedback without a floor plan. The matterport view does have an aerial "floor plan" option but it isn't showing the bathroom locations.
Makes sense Scott. I'll see if I can manage to get a floor plan. Planning on having an inspector + a plumber I know check out the house. Definitely more ideal with 3 full bathrooms, and would add more value. I just have to figure out how feasible it is converting that half bath to a full, it seems to be leaking downstairs as well (not sure if active or not we'll find out).