Listing My Two Bedroom Or Individual Private Rooms

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Advice please. I have a one bedroom apartment which I can turn into a two bedroom apartment. Would I be better off renting the apartment as a two bedroom or rent each room privately.

Thank you

Jason

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Depends on your target market. Who are you looking to rent to.

When you say turn it into a two bed, how are you doing this? Would you lose communal living space?

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The answer is a resounding YES. We can’t tell a darn thing without a whole lot more details about you, the market/city/region where you live. details of the square footage of the bedrooms, layout of the apartment, etc. etc.

Try to ask more targeted, specific questions, please.

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target market is people that are vacationers looking to visit NYC . Two private individual bedrooms could be made it would lose some communal space.

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Where would you rather stay? In a home where you and your family/friends are the only guests or a space where there are strangers in the next room?

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I think you’re better off renting the apartment as a two bedroom. As you are offsite, if you rent to two separate groups of guests you will constantly be put in the middle of their conflicts. A few that come to mind are: bathroom schedule, kitchen schedule, bathroom and kitchen clean up, one group thinking the other group is too loud, guests accusing members of the other group of stealing their belongings.

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that’s really great advice.

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I have a 2-bedroom apartment that I rent as 2 separate private rooms. I chose to list this way because the laundry machines for the building are in the rental unit and I need to be able to wash clothes while I have guests (I live downstairs). I also have a listing for both rooms together (for larger groups) and I haven’t been able to get bookings at the same rate. In other words, I make more renting as 2 separate private rooms. I think results could be different if you were renting a 2-bedroom place as an entire place (rather than 2 private rooms).

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@homeshareable, what city are you in? If NYC I’m wondering if NYC is a special case where 2 shared makes more.