Should I build a wall in my game room to make another bedroom? Planning to rent it out for $750/mo. The cost to build and install the wall and a door is about $3k.

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You get your investment back in 4 months, then it’s just pure profit from there, sound like a no brainer from a $$ perspective. The only thing to consider is how do you feel about strangers in your house.

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The people renting are people I know! I already have one room being rented out for $750/mo to a friend and planning on building the wall and renting to a family relative or a friend!

Have you looked into having a temporary wall installed?

I have looked into a partition but there’s very little privacy :(

Is this in a basement? If you are going to put a bedroom in a basement you might want to get permits for it, it will be illegal in most places otherwise.

Not a basement, it’s a game room. My home doesn’t have a basement 😅

Absolutely! Seems like a no brainer to me

If you permit it you will add a bedroom to the official count for your house and be able to sell it with one more bedroom. I added a bedroom by doing a garage conversion 15 years ago and didn’t permit it. At the time I could have gotten a permit for $500. Now i would basically have to tear open walls and it would cost many thousands to do. The added square footage and a bedroom would probably add $100k to my home value. Wish I had done it right.

Get a building permit from your local city or county building department.

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