Adding Garage: what size considering resale value/ROI?

[NUTTSGT]

appraisers do not add value to your house, for a detached garage when its time to sell, or refi, unlike a bathroom. It will make it easier to sell to a male buyer though, like all of us in here.

While financially some may not agree, the ease of selling may be better if you are need to get it sold to purchase the next home. That bigger garage for the "same money" as what the area comps are showing may be what sells the home.

The question was about adding value and the responses were that it wasn’t worth it.

If your question was should I build the garage because I want it the responses would be a hell yes.

Truth is that garage will add no real value to your house for the most part and will be a bad ROI

Truth be told, the answer wouldn't be, "hell yes" it will be more like, "it's not big enough."

Thank you sir. Well put. I looked back and only could find one post that possibly be construed as "don't build".

I'd agree with this post.


Bottom line is how long are you living in this home ? a few years ? Don't build now, enjoy what you have and put the cash away for the next bigger purchase. . . . your forever home.

Are you going to be here awhile ? Build what you want but do it in scale to the house and do it right. No eyesores or complete monstrosity that'll make it hard to sell.

 

[ford33]

Build what you need not what the next buyer needs.

 

[FordTruckWench]

Heres a really bad MS paint "rendering" of adding to the existing gable roofline, and one with a "cross gable" type addition.

These images don't load for me in this thread, but I was able to view them by going direct to imgur. Your house has that '60's long low streamlined look. I think the first image (no cross gable) looks better. It would look better if you have two single car doors and a blank wall, i.e. no door for the rightmost bay. Three doors, or a mix of 1 and 2 car doors overwhelms the rest of the house.

Is that a hip roof on the left, or is it an optical illusion?

Though the simple gable roof line continued across is the simplest option, adding a cross-gable addition I think would enhance the appearance of the house by adding a feature to an otherwise very plain roof...so that might be a good excuse to go with the cross-gable, which is one of the costs associated with going for a garage deeper than the existing house

Is your house 24 feet front to back? If so, you'll want to keep any depth expanded area at 24 feet or less width. Otherwise, the cross gable roof would end up taller than the main roof, or you'd have to build it with a lower pitch.

And oh, it looks like you likely can't extend very much out the front - the house is already close to the sidewalk.