Hi,
\nWe’re looking at buying a multi-family house — is there conventional wisdom on which makes better financial sense–creating 2 1BR apts for rent or 1 2BR?<\/p>
We’ve considered that 2 1brs lowers our risk – what are the chances that 2 people will stop paying rent at once? or that just having a tennant could make our lives easier – eg a 2BR, and would also lower our renovation costs as we’d need 1 kitchen and 1 1\/2 baths as opposed to 2 kitchens and 2 full baths.<\/p>\n
the house is currently configured with two 1BRs, so we’d be renovating on their footprints if we did that, but the units are currently crazy wonky and hard to imagine that they are up to code on any front . . . <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, We’re looking at buying a multi-family house — is there conventional wisdom on which makes better financial sense–creating 2 1BR apts for rent or 1 2BR? We’ve considered that 2 1brs lowers our risk – what are the chances that 2 people will stop paying rent at once? or that just having a tennant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-53906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renters"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/02\/rental-units-2\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"rental units – 2 1BR or 1 2BR?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/02\/rental-units-2\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/02\/rental-units-2\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renters","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"elm_bk"}],"creator":["elm_bk"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-02-27T22:48:39Z","datePublished":"2011-02-27T22:48:39Z","dateModified":"2011-02-28T09:18:59Z"},"rendered":"