How important is garage space? UPDATE with PICS

[PocketThunder]

You gonna paint the place green, or just put green letters on your mailbox that says Green Pigs?

I like that idea, so now I need to find a cartoon pic of a pig to trace so I can paint it on my garage wall.

Congrats Green! Show us your mansion when you get a chance!

I wish, its a smaller house but plenty big enough for just me.

Big enough untill your chicky moves in.. then all you get is the garage, and maybe half the basement...

[PocketThunder]

You got pictures of the new garage yet?  I feel like i'm waiting for my date on prom night and its already 10:30

[Silver R/T]

I dont have garage at all

[greenpigs]

You got pictures of the new garage yet?  I feel like i'm waiting for my date on prom night and its already 10:30

GRRR!!!

  The underwriter wasn't able to process it in time so now the closing will not happen the 20th. Not a real big deal as it will just get pushed back to tues or wed but I am still HOT!

   No basement, it sits on a slab of concrete and that is what I wanted, after one leaky basement and another that was an underground swimming pool. I lose that storage space but got a shed so I also have a little less grass to cut.

[greenpigs]

This time I have some pics, but just what matters, the garage and the side where I could store a car possible two. Also I snagged a pic of my truck, if I remember Andy wanted to see it.

[PocketThunder]

Nice!

[ChargerBill]

It kills me that I don't even own a house!! But if I did, and when I go to purchase a garage or ability to build a big one will be at the top of my list. In California, especially in places like where i live, a 1,300 sq ft house with a one car garage is going for $400,000 and the house I'm renting now at 1,700 sq ft and 2 car garage is upwards of $550,000...it's crazy around here. I know the same houses in Alabama or Tennessee would be about 50% to 60% the cost...maybe I need to move...

[greenpigs]

Bummer Bill,

You should think about moving...my place is close to 1300 sq ft but with a 2 car garage and I payed a little over 100K.

[Steve P.]

Hey Bill, you can do your job from just about anywhere, right? Why not go where you can afford nice weather and a nice place?

[HAZZARDJOHN]

Not to wreck anyones day but I just bought a lot with acreage and a house to be built on it for less than 200,000  It is in the middle of no where but it is also only 25 miles from downtown minneapolis. It will be done in July but for now I will only have two car 24x26 garage so the Charger will stay at my folks until I finish my pole barn! My house I have now only has a 24x24 garage so I barely had enough room for the cadillac and no room to work on a car.

~HJ

[Charger_Fan]

Looks like a nice place Piggy, congrats!!

[Arthu®]

Yeah that does look like a very nice place, especially for the price. You just don't have those prices overhere anymore. Congrats.

Arthur

[greenpigs]

Thanks guys,

My Charger fills the garage a little to well anyways I couldn't afford another project.

[HeavyFuel]

It kills me that I don't even own a house!! But if I did, and when I go to purchase a garage or ability to build a big one will be at the top of my list. In California, especially in places like where i live, a 1,300 sq ft house with a one car garage is going for $400,000 and the house I'm renting now at 1,700 sq ft and 2 car garage is upwards of $550,000...it's crazy around here. I know the same houses in Alabama or Tennessee would be about 50% to 60% the cost...maybe I need to move...

How much do pay for rent?

The place you're in right now would get about 100K in my area, depending on it's age and condition.  But you'd have to live in ND.  Who would want to put up with all of our drawbacks?   

550K here would get you a mansion right on the river, on a nice lot with a private dock, and a bunch more. 

We can always use another Mopar nut.  All others can stay away, we like the quiet.

[twilt]

It kills me that I don't even own a house!! But if I did, and when I go to purchase a garage or ability to build a big one will be at the top of my list. In California, especially in places like where i live, a 1,300 sq ft house with a one car garage is going for $400,000 and the house I'm renting now at 1,700 sq ft and 2 car garage is upwards of $550,000...it's crazy around here. I know the same houses in Alabama or Tennessee would be about 50% to 60% the cost...maybe I need to move...

Bill,  i bought a 1400 sq ft  house on a half acre lot  in the Atlanta suburbs 1 year ago for 97.5k. Job market here is decent , traffic sux. Ford and GM are closing plants, KIA is building a new one.  I dont know how or why people afford to live in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia.

[Steve P.]

From what they have been showing on Fox, I would say it will soon be called (Mexifornia). 

[greenpigs]

Or Mojofornia.

[greenpigs]

 

[472 R/T SE]

Nice digs and you have a yard.  What side of the house is facing the west?  Hopefully not the back, looks like a nice deck for a sauna or some kind of extracurricular activities.  I wish we would have paid more attention to the position of the sun during the day, about 2pm in the summer it's bearing down on our living room until it sets. 
A person's throwing their money away renting.  Our place has more than doubled in less than 10 years.

Congrats piggy.  Another plus is it's a brick home so the big bad wolf won't stand a chance.

[65FuryIII]

My current house didn't have a garage, my wife loved it but I wouldn't even look at it for the longest time, for just that reason. She finally got me to look at it, and talking to the real estate agent, we discover that the lack of a garage is what is keeping it from selling. It was in the price range of a 1300 sg ft house with a garage, only it was close to 2,000 sg ft without the garage. I knew that if I bought it with the "I'll build a garage some day" plan it would nver get done. So I got an estimate from a contractor to add an over size garage, and applied for my loan on both the house and garage.  The estimate was way high but I used it anyway. So we got the house and imediately built the garage I wanted, with enough left over to pave the driveway.  Moral of the story, if a garage is part of your criteria for a house, don't rule out looking at houses with no garage, a lot of times that holds the price down, and you can build exactly what you want instead of what someone else wanted.

i'll shut up now.

[greenpigs]