Please Help? Is my finished basement with an enclosed room with closet can be considered a bedroom?
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I live in a bi-level (split-entry) house and my two bedrooms on the lower level are both considered bedrooms. The entire lower level is finished, has 8-foot ceilings, and all of the windows are above grade and large enough to be egress windows. Only the bottom 3 feet of the lower level is below grade. The county also considers the lower level to be living area and counts it in the total square footage.
However, the appraiser for a lender might still say nothing more than "finished basement" even as counting it as living space.
Regardless of what the building code says, and unless it's disruptive to your work, I would stage the room as a bedroom when you do showings. All you need is an inflatable mattress, bed linens, a side table and a lamp. I doubt you're breaking the law by staging it this way. Don't advertise it as another bedroom, but let the agent highlight the space during any walk-throughs and let the buyers come to their own conclusions.
So many buyers simply can't envision how they will use the rooms in a home, so you have to help them. Of course, if it's more beneficial in your area to show the space as a home office, then leave it as it is.
Yeah...If I was a buyer and saw someone trying to pull that trick, I'd laugh and say "nice try" and move on to the next property.
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