a house i am looking at has a bathroom for every bedroom. it makes no sense and i am contemplating removing 1.5 of them for more storage if i buy the house (it's not looking likely).
It adds significant value to the home, every room is basically a potential high-value rental unit, especially if they're full baths.
Oftentimes homes with many small rooms each having private bathrooms were actually designed specifically for the purpose of room rentals, think elderly shared housing type places.
No offense, but you have no clue what you’re talking about. It’s new construction and going for $1m. I need storage, not a bathroom for a nonexistent elderly rentals.
I never asserted the home you were buying was an example of such a home, no need for the personal attack.
Such homes are actually fairly common in California, I've rented such a room on two occasions.
My understanding is there are quotas requiring housing be built for low income tenants in a regulated proportion to other residential developments. The way classy SF bay area neighborhoods prefer to fulfill this requirement is to build shared housing units for the elderly, for obvious reasons.
The two I personally experienced were indistinguishable from regular residential homes from the outside, but once inside there were some telltales like exceptionally robust fire suppression/alarm systems, and a high density of small bedrooms each having a full bath.
It was actually illegal to rent the rooms to people like me, but enforcement is lax and with CA rents so high, apparently worth the risk for the owner.
