Renting rooms in a house during rehab work
2 Replies
Jeff Cliff
from Northern California
posted about 1 year ago
Hello,
I am currently rehabbing a house in California (central coast). Majority of the house needs a lot of work and I foresee it may take 6-8 months or longer to complete the entire rehab work.
However, one part of the house on North side has 2 BRs & 1BA which could be fixed up relatively quickly. I am tempted to fix those two rooms & the bathroom in a month November/December and rent those two rooms out to university students before their spring semester starts. However, the house won’t have any functional kitchen for a while.
Is there any legal requirement to have a functional kitchen before the rooms can be rented out? If there is no such requirement, is there any downside to this plan?
Thanks in advance for your response
Will Barnard
(Moderator) -
Developer from Santa Clarita, CA
replied about 1 year ago
I don't know of any legal requirement to have to supply a kitchen on a room rental but downsides are: lower rents, tenants may likely complain about all the construction noise and dust, potential law suits, much lower rents to have to deal with the construction, a lot of disclosures needed, etc.
William DeRosa
Developer from Williamsburg, VA
replied about 1 year ago
Another option could possibly be doing short term or vacation rentals such as AirBnB. If I'm staying in a place like that I do not necessarily expect to have kitchen access during my stay. And if it's in a university area then there is likely a good throughput of people needing hotel rooms