Have you ever seen a modern home with no bathrooms?

I know of a commercial building for sale nearby without any plumbing, $45K. Hard to sell, you bet.

I’m glad you mentioned commercial buildings. I wonder if zoning would allow a Port-A-Potty long term? For example, someone rents the building to install car radios and needs a bathroom for the employees. Might be cheaper to do that then spend a fortune getting plumbing into the building.

But, I’m not sure if the zoning guys would go for it.

I’m still stunned that you can rent a whole house for $650 per month. You can’t even rent a bachelor suite here for that little.

My car mechanic was in a building waaaaay out in the country with no toilet in the building and had a Portapotty out back for about a year. No zoning in the area. I was glad when he saved enough money to move baqck into a more civilized shop with indoor plumbing!

An aunt in Mississippi had no in-house bathroom until the 70’s, though there was an outhouse. Water was available in the kitchen years before there was a toilet.

Here’s a listing data sheet for the building. (Note that this link may not work after 30 days from post date.)

The building is in downtown Sturgeon Bay, the biggest city in the county, and the county seat.

Isn’t ‘indoor plumbing’ part of the definition of a modern house?

I guess whoever moves in is just SOL.

The house I grew up in had no indoor plumbing until 1980. It was a 1 room schoolhouse back in the 30s-50s, then a storage building until my parents bought the land and renovated it into a house. Luckily, I was born after the plumbing was added in. My older brother still remembers running to the outhouse! :smiley:

The neighbours gather 'round on Sunday afternoon after Church to sit and watch it.

Yeah, but the trade-off is you have to live in Jacksonville, NC.

The rent for the house my son is living in in Iowa is just $450 a month. Dumpy little place, but it’s two bedrooms, a bath and a huge garage and fenced yard.

After lunch at Timmy’s, of course!

There are some older apartments in Tokyo without baths/showers. They have toilets, but you have to go to the local pubic bath. My friend lived in one, and rigged up a shower on the veranda.

I agree that it is probably a data entry error and the house does have bathrooms. The only houses I have ever encountered purposely built without indoor toilets have been Roma or Traveler. In which, case the toilets have been fully modern facilities in a outbuilding connected, but not physically part of the main house which doesn’t appear to be the case here.

I once worked with someone who had an architecture background, and a fellow engineer asked him to design a house. The one stipulation is the bathroooms could have only urinals, no toilets. The reason: the engineer hated the thought of cleaning toilets (like you don’t ever clean urinals either).

The architect asked the engineer several questions, like “What if you need to take a BM?” and got the answer “I’ll just go in to work and use their bathrooms” (three miles away). “What happens if you get sick?” “Oh, I never get sick.” Finally, “What happens if you get married?” The engineer never considered that.

Finally they squeezed in a bathroom and he talked the engineer into it by citing code requirements. The house was never built.

To answer the OP: No, but I’ve seen TONS of modern houses with bathrooms but no hand towels. Or one little decorative handkerchief, at most. I assume those people never wash their hands.

While I was checking out storefronts for the campaign office back in the 2008 election, at least one guy tried to rent me a storefront with no washroom in it. For a campaign office. Staffed largely by volunteers.

I passed on that.

(Don’t ask me what the clerks did when it contained a store.)

Hee hee hee hee.

Awww, Kushiel beat me to it. :frowning: