Can you call that a bedroom?
I can sleep almost anywhere. I think I would do just fine in a condominium without bedrooms, but I couldn’t live without a refrigerator. But I’m getting off topic
On the MLS a room listed as a bedroom must have an egress window and a closet but sometimes a built-in wardrobe counts as a closet. I am not sure why it has to have a closet but those are the rules and I don’t make them.
We do see Boston condos for sale that are listed as two-bedroom homes that do not have two bedrooms.
It is possible to have a room that is being used as a bedroom that does not have a closet or an egress window but that just makes it a room used as a bedroom, not a bedroom.
Then we have the term “legal bedroom” which doesn’t mean all that much. A legal bedroom in Boston has an egress window that is a window large enough for a firefighter to go through in full gear and a closet. A bedroom needs walls and if a person needs to walk through the space to get to another room it doesn’t qualify as a bedroom.
There isn’t such a thing as an illegal bedroom and it is legal to sleep in any place in your home that you want to. There is such a thing as a non-conforming bedroom which is a room that can be used as a bedroom but is missing the closet or the egress window or both. These rooms are often listed in the MLS as a den or sometimes they are listed as a bedroom but there is a note indicating that it is a non-conforming bedroom.
Many of the lofts downtown do not have conforming bedrooms but are rarely listed as “0” bedrooms because if they were no one would find them when searching the internet for a home to buy.
