Rental Property Investor · Atlanta, GA · Member since 2019 · 78 posts · 33 votes
I am looking to make an offer on a 3/1 house with a 1/1 guest suite directly below the house and is a block away from the beach with a beach view. It also has a large yard with potential to put a pool in the future. My only concern is that the main house only has 1 bathroom and the only additional is in the below guest suite. I could see this causing some negative reviews if I didn’t list this clearly or is the guest didn’t read properly. I’m trying to think of a solution to make this more feasible. Is it realistic to look into putting a spiral staircase in to connect the two units? Has anyone else run into a similar situation? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as I’m looking to decide asap.
I agree with @John Underwood, I would just clearly describe that it was 1 bathroom in the listing, I think having a second bathroom advertised that is hard to access would be more likely to garner bad reviews than just having one bathroom. Also, I would be very surprised if your best strategy for generating revenue isn’t to rent the two units separately. You can have a local short term rental property manager run a projection for you both ways to make sure.