I totally understand why.. I would of been shaking my head and wondering WTF while looking at that house. I've seen some really bad houses, with bad ideas while trying to finding ours,but never a toilet in the linen closet.
If I hadn’t been able to beat the hell out of the seller and get the place for 20% below market value, I would have walked away over this one issue. But since I saved more than enough in the purchase price to justify the remodel, I’m ok with it.
I will just be glad when it’s done. I have had to live with it for 2 years now because the wife wanted the deck put on the house first.