MA requirements for bedroom requirements

[Stacey Marshall]

I am looking to sell my house & have been looking on-line for bedroom guidelines.  When I look it up on-line it states that rooms do not require a closet to be considered a bedroom.  It said the same when I looked up Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac requirements.  Yet I have friends that are real estate consultants & do construction that say that closets are required.  My home is over 100 years old and when we purchased it 23 years ago there were no closets in any of the 4 bedrooms.  If closets are required are there any grandfather clauses?  I don’t want to have to build closets in order for what have always been bedrooms can actually be considered bedrooms.  Can you let me know, because I am a little confused by this.  Thank you.