I'm thinking it's a hearth room, put a fireplace in, open the wall over the sink if it faces that exterior wall, you don't have to take the wall out, just an opening, that together with the wide traffic area to that room from the kitchen will tie the two together, carry the same flooring throughout as Heather suggested.

Rents are 2br $867 month to month, 3br $850 leased, $650 month to month.Taxes are $3100/yr.Other info from listing on site: New Roof, Updated 3 Family,Long Term Tenants, 21K Profit Annually, Fireplaces.

Odd floorplans, tiny "bedrooms" with no closets, stairways to nowhere, unuseable fireplaces, all affect the marketability of your rentals, and the type of tenant you will get.

The house has a wood burning fireplace and the chimney is leaking at the top near the cap.

Theirs was a bank owned that the previous owner had spent a good deal of money improving with brick & concrete work outside, out door living space, tile flooring throughout, and nice brick fireplace etc.

We planned on replacing some tile with hardwood flooring, redoing the fireplace, and putting tile on the balcony outside.

Maybe I'll leave out the rock fireplace instead (this is central Texas...)

Is the fireplace/chimney in good repair and clean?

Use gas wall heaters or fireplaces.

You want to go out of your way to start getting 5 star reviews.Provide some floats and chairs at your dock if you don't already have these.Also if you have a fireplace and/or fire pit and even a hot tub it may increase your off season rentals.We had every weekend in February reserved.