Recent content by brownsgolf

Actually you're numbers are off a small bit. The rule of 72 in finance states that if you dived 72 by the interest rate that will give you the years for the price to double. So if the interest rate is 10% then the value will double in 7.2 years, if the rate is 5% then it will double in 14.4...

A house I'm looking at has a walkout basement, and when the house was built the garage was made 2 stories. The lower level is wide open to the basement, which gives tons of storage and working space, even if the house does need some work I'm foolish enough to look at the shop space and see the...

I would suggest going deeper than 24' on the 3 bay garage, if you get a full size truck or SUV in there that's not going to leave much room, and even with a midsize car it doesn't leave a whole lot of room to work in the front of the car.

I'm guessing around the New Castle area? That's about 60 miles north and where I plan to buy or build in the near future. I like the sounds of the place you're going to do, but can't comment on the price at this time. Have any drawings showing what you plan to do?

In that level of Concours d'Elegance car shows the tool set is essential to judging. They will pay big money to have a complete set of tools. The cars for those tools can be in the $5+ million range, so the tools are a cheap investment really.

Reading this reminds of why I plan to commute for work and live in the sticks. Ideally in a place where the neighbors can't be seen and can't see me.

Nice!! Are you willing to give an estimate of the cost of the build to get it under roof??

built something like this,Garage plans? I'm looking at it thinking that if I could come up with a way to get a bank to write a loan on it that would be a great place to build and live for a few years anyway. I'm in my mid-20's, no significant other and no short term plans for marriage, however...