With our current IP renovation close to finished, we had another tenant leave a week ago where we have decided to improve the house before putting in a new tenant.
This is a 1960 brick house with good enough head height underneath for comfortable use as a rumpus room, but it is not "legal" height. The "bedroom" downstairs must be called a "store room" but has been used as a bedroom by various tenants.
We are pricing up cutting through the handyman laid concrete floor to enlarge the toilet and make it a small bathroom. That will give the house a second bathroom.
Whilst we can never call the downstairs bedroom a "bedroom" I'm thinking there are different rules regarding head height for bathrooms, and we could legally call it a "bathroom" for rent adverts and for sale adverts.
I don't want to spend $10K doing this and feel this cost is wasted if we can never legally call it a "bathroom".
This is a 1960 brick house with good enough head height underneath for comfortable use as a rumpus room, but it is not "legal" height. The "bedroom" downstairs must be called a "store room" but has been used as a bedroom by various tenants.
We are pricing up cutting through the handyman laid concrete floor to enlarge the toilet and make it a small bathroom. That will give the house a second bathroom.
Whilst we can never call the downstairs bedroom a "bedroom" I'm thinking there are different rules regarding head height for bathrooms, and we could legally call it a "bathroom" for rent adverts and for sale adverts.
I don't want to spend $10K doing this and feel this cost is wasted if we can never legally call it a "bathroom".