Me and the GF are agonizing over the decision to get rid of the 2nd floor bathroom and make it into a walk-in closet. But we're unsure as to whether or not this would kill come resale value. Thoughts?
Posted Aug 4, 2016, 3:15 AM UTC
Real estate agent here. Yes, this will drop the resale value of your house. No question at all. How much it drops is a function of where you are, overall size and layout of the house, etc. It's possible that you don't care because you would rather have a walk-in closet. Your house, your castle. Do as you wish. But if you're worried about future resale, leave the bathroom.
Perhaps a compromise and do a 1/2 bath with a toilet and sink. That way you won't have to go downstairs if you need to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
The negative however is that showering from the second bath will require you to go downstairs to the main living area to shower. If you forget a robe, you have to wrap a towel around you or make a mad dash upstairs.
Yeah, the half bath idea was something we were playing around with. That might be something to consider as well.
It would probably be better to sacrifice a little bit of the bedroom to make the closet bigger, rather than sacrifice the bathroom. I would think that making your home into a single bath limits the number of interested buyers by a HUGE amount.
I just moved out of a 2bed 1bath house and it was terrible. Not even talking if friends were over, I couldn't tell you the number of times I had to fight with my wife because we both had to use the bathroom at the same time haha. It is not very practical
Lack of a second bath will be a deal-breaker for a lot of potential buyers. Much more than the lack of a w.i.c.
How many bedrooms in your home?
marketability of your home would take a hit for sure....do you have a basement where you could add a closet?
Personally, I think it would hurt the value and resale of your house. The second bathroom is located with the bedrooms, it might be a turn off if people have to go downstairs to use the bathroom all the time. Maybe instead of removing the bathroom, you look into better storage systems for the existing closets or build additional closets (example Ike's pax wardrobe?).