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Just curious if this is some common thing I must have missed in my 41 years. I am looking for rentals in another city and came across a reasonably priced townhouse for rent. Three bedroom, 1 bath. I wrote to the guy to ask about it, certain that there must be a half bath downstairs at least. Nope. It's a row of six identical rentals too, not just one anomaly.
There is one bathroom in each unit, upstairs where the bedrooms are. So anytime you are downstairs cooking, hanging out in the living room, entertaining guests, etc., you have to run upstairs to use the bathroom. This just struck me as really weird. Not so much as a water closet downstairs (but there is a washer/dryer area).
So the rent is decent but not cheap really.. and the location is good but not great... honestly I would expect even lower rent for this weird one bathroom thing but maybe I am just coming across something that I, personally, am not used to but is maybe fairly common. So I was wondering if others have seen this setup often.
Agree with Hopes. I've seen many older homes in the east end with 3 bd/1bath. I've also seen it in some high rent/ mortgage areas like Seattle and SF Bay Area.
This is in San Marcos, Texas, in the Central/Hill Country area. It's a small college town of about 50k people and I don't know the exact age of the building but from the looks of it I would guess it was built in the 60's.
To me the shocker was not that it was just a 3/1 -- I have lived in plenty of older places with just one bathroom (currently doing so now, with four other people and it is a pain but do-able). The thing that surprised me here was that it's a 2 story unit and the only bathroom is upstairs where the bedrooms are.
I guess folks just get a good workout up and down those stairs every day or learn to hold it!
Personally I wouldn't want a house like that. I wouldn't want my house guest going upstairs to use the bathroom, and I wouldn't want to do it either.
Yeah, it has definitely moved toward the bottom of our list of potential rentals! It has some pluses but we'll keep looking for sure. I am surprised to learn it's more common than I thought!
To me the shocker was not that it was just a 3/1 -- I have lived in plenty of older places with just one bathroom (currently doing so now, with four other people and it is a pain but do-able). The thing that surprised me here was that it's a 2 story unit and the only bathroom is upstairs where the bedrooms are.
I guess folks just get a good workout up and down those stairs every day or learn to hold it!
All of the 2/1 and 3/1 old houses in my region are 2 story homes. The bathroom is either on the first floor or the second floor. In the houses that haven't been updated, the bathroom is in the basement. Now, that's two flights of stairs. LOL I've lived in two story houses with only one bathroom. It's not really a big deal to go up/down the stairs to use the bathroom.
Realtors call this "functional obsolescence". That is the proper word for what you describe. This is a very difficult property to sell and any smart Realtor would never accept this listing. Especially in today's depressed economy.
The other negative thing is townhouses are just rotting on the market too along with condos. They were a fairly tough sell even during good times when homes actually went up in value.
Keep on looking. Old homes perhaps 3 to 4 decades ago it was very normal to have just 1 bathroom no matter how many bedrooms. But 1 bath upstairs only? No way!!!!!!
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