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Real estate agent says extra 2 rooms can't be called bedrooms??
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I am looking to buy, and it might suit me.
Its early days yet. I'm just testing the market too a degree. Actually the only reason im looking at selling is that the median rental for a 6 bedroom is only around $120 pw more than a 3 bedroom for this location. In the longrun i think you can get a better return, rental wise from a 3 bedroom compared to a 6 bedroom in relative terms. There is a lesser rental market for greater number of bedrooms.At the moment there is a big downturn generally in people seeking rentals, this is what several letting agents have told me & from my own experience just recently i've found this to be true, i had 8 lots of prospective tenants through a letting agent on Saturday & not one seemed interested at $625pw .Previous tenant was paying $600pw for 16months.
Legally when renting the house you are allowed to call it 6 bedrooms, but when selling the house you cannot as the council does not class them as bedrooms. What you can potentially do is get the rooms classed as a bedroom which will also add value to the property (we recently did this on one of our properties)
you might be able to give the council a record of exempt work http://www.dbh.govt.nz/bc-no-consent this cost us $165 in Manakau, if one of those rooms was made simply by building a wall to make 2 smaller rooms and there was no structural work then it should be exempt. The other thing you can potentially do is get a certificate of approval. Either way talk to your council about it.
If the primary use of a room is as a bedroom rather than a rumpus or storage room as described on the LIM then that would be a more honest description.
I cant see how that would be labelled as false advertising.
If the primary use of a room is as a bedroom rather than a rumpus or storage room as described on the LIM then that would be a more honest description.
I cant see how that would be labelled as false advertising.
It has nothing to do with primary use of the room. The reason people call it a rumpus room is because they cannot legally call it a bedroom.
When you advertise it you can call it a rumpus and then when people come around you can tell them that people do use it as a bedroom and it rents as a bedroom.
Maybe your agent is really saying it's better for you to advertise as 4 bed + rumpus/study for the market you are selling to. E.g. the growing family market wants exactly that. If your house was a student renter in Dunedin you would be better to advertise it as a 6 bedroom as the market would be property investors.
Maybe your agent is really saying it's better for you to advertise as 4 bed + rumpus/study for the market you are selling to. E.g. the growing family market wants exactly that. If your house was a student renter in Dunedin you would be better to advertise it as a 6 bedroom as the market would be property investors.
Difficult to say , it is very dependent on how someone plonks their search criteria into trademe's search engine .As for illegalitys i call BS on that as the practice is widespread & if their is no misrepresentation calling it a rumpus room or bedroom then theres no harm done.I came across a new property today advertised as 3 bedrooms , one bedroom was so tiny it was not much bigger than a good sized toilet, no bigger than 5 square metres.I was so positive that surely they are not classifying that as a bedroom i searched in vain throughout the property looking for extra rooms with larger dimensions; .lol..
The agent confirmed it is listed on the LIM as a bedroom. Well then that's misrepresentation legally condoned by council.
Last edited by mrsaneperson; 17-08-2013, 08:37 PM.
Well don't want to be accused of overselling and under delivering. Nothing more frustrating than going to look at a property that has been advertised as 6 bedrooms and get there and it's 4 bedrooms, study and ?? whatever.
I have one that has 3 bedrooms and a sunroom off the lounge that could be a single bedroom if I were to put a free standing wardrobe in it. However I am trying to appeal to a family and would rather it used as an office than an extra bedroom to house the 5th child or something like that!
Depends in terms of rental and sales who you are trying to target.
"Six bedrooms" potentially will put the property into the white elephant class. Four bedrooms with office & sitting room etc sounds more appealing. A property needs to be marketed to a wide range of people, very few home buyers are looking for six bedrooms. In my humble opinion. So I think your REA has a good point, on that basis alone.
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