We currently live abroad and have to rent out our house in the UK and the time has come to do some work on it - it's been a while!
We always seem to attract students (it's London so not a solely student area but there are a couple of universities locally - lots of families around too) and, unfortunately they seem to cause a lot of damage every time and they move on every year. (of course not all students cause damage but we have been unlucky!)
We'd really love a family who are more likely to hang around for a while so we were thinking about making the smallest bathroom (at the top of a four storey house) and making the current (really tiny) bathroom into an ensuite for the master bedroom.... so my question is, if you were renting as a family, would that make the house more attractive to you or should I stick with the four bedrooms? or does the fact that it's a tall narrow house mean that no family will want it? (I know kids cause damage too but it can't be worse than the students that we've had).
all opinions welcome!