Estate agent selling question

nickyg2000

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Unfortunately - tragically -for me, I'm not an estate agent, so I'd not be welcome offering you a point of view, and you'd be better off practising your grammar and manners, whilst you wait for there reply.

This quote by daftyduck telling me how awful my grammar is

Alter_ego

Play nicely children.

ed110220

nickyg2000 wrote: »

I own a 1 bedroom flat with a sitting room and dinning room. The dinning room is only separated from the sitting room by a set of wooden sliding doors.

My question is does the room have to separated with a wall to be marketed as a two bedroom property? If so I will have a stud wall put in place of the doors.

Thanks

I don't think you'll find a definite answer as whether it makes a satisfactory bedroom is in the mind of the buyer and will depend on the layout of the flat, the nature of the doors etc.

I could put a bed in my dining room and call it a 4-bedroom house rather an 3, but I suspect few would agree due to the layout. Another home type and it may be different.

Ed

jellie

nickyg2000 wrote: »

I just want to an answer my question. Not going to happen on this forum

My dad used to tell me that 'I want' doesn't always result in 'I get'.

Manners cost nothing, try getting some and see what happens.

googler

You might have got more focused replies on the House Buying, Renting and Selling sub-forum, rather than In My Home....

The people whose opinions matter on the subject are your buyer, their lender, and the surveyor who surveys your property on their behalf. You may get away with advertising it with an extra room behind the sliding partition, but if the buyer's surveyor don't like it and their lender won't lend, you won't sell.

Dan-Dan

Googler , i gave that answer eons ago and the op still wasnt happy!

securityman

God, what has this forum turned into.......

Fraise

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Googler , i gave that answer eons ago and the op still wasnt happy!

I offered the OP advice on a previous forum, and he reacted in exactly the same way. He asks for advice and then gets aggrieved when offered it! :rotfl:

He did it on other threads too....maybe it's a hobby of his?

But in answer to his question, even though I am not an estate agent and therefore he won't want to listen to me, I do know that for a bedroom to be classified as a bedroom it must have a door, I know that when I had a loft extension carried out in my last house, the surveyor told me. So, therefore I would assume a bedroom would require walls to......wooden shutters would not suffice. Besides, not many people would want a bedroom with wooden shutters leading off the lounge....


I'm assuming he wants to put a bed in his dining room, unless he made a dinning room to hide in from all the shocking noise he is subjected to from his neighbours above? So he said previously.....and he got most irate when I offered him advice on soundproofing. He told me he wanted advice from a professional instead.

mummyroysof3

I'm pretty sure you have to advertise it as a 1 bed if that's what it is. You could put a wall where doors are then people could use it as a bedroom but I don't think you get to advertise it as whatever you like. I would start by discussing it with whoever owns the building etc as I'm guessing you would need their permission to turn it into a 2 bed anyway

Fraise

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure you have to advertise it as a 1 bed if that's what it is. You could put a wall where doors are then people could use it as a bedroom but I don't think you get to advertise it as whatever you like. I would start by discussing it with whoever owns the building etc as I'm guessing you would need their permission to turn it into a 2 bed anyway

I think you're right. And no way can a folding door make an extra bedroom......the estate agent would not be able to market it as a two when it's just a one bed. I know one beds are harder to shift, but someone will come along and but it...just as the OP did.

I think the problem with one beds is that even though it may suit a singleton, even they like a guest room for overnight visitors.