Future Issue

[Garage 22]

Just want some opinions. We just finished building our new home with a triple car garage but with all the other house details, forgot to make it wider and longer. All of our neighbours have triple car garages as well but are 2 to 4' larger in each depth and width than ours. We will just have to work around this and its not that big of a deal with us, only a little room to move in front of the vehicles, very tight storage capacity and you have to leave the large overhead garage door open if you need to get stuff out of the trunk. With the above info, my question is, how much harder will this make our house to sell in the future.

Thanks

 

[kb2tha]

Buy a "SMART" car and give it away with the sale. You may need to buy three of them

 

[Stuart in MN]

What are the dimensions?

 

[Garage 22]

The double is 22x22 and the single is 24 deep 10 wide

 

[timbitca]

I grew up with, and now am 'living' in, much the same situation.

Our attached garage used to be way tight with my grandfathers Grand Marquis parked in there along with the 4-5 cords of firewood for the furnace. You'd just be able to get out the passenger side, and if you did swing the door the whole way open it would hit the wall. Isn't so much a problem now without the wood furnace and with either of my Mom's Aztek or my Cobalt parked in there.

The detached garage's problem is more on the depth. With the tractor in there ('64 IH B-414) in the summer it's fine, plenty of space for the tractor with the loader arms (w/bucket) in to park my ATV behind in (though it just makes it with the garage door) but in the winter with the loader arms (no bucket, too much of pain to remove the arms) and the snowblower I have no place for the ATV and the tractor takes up the whole depth of the garage minus 2' or so.

At least I have enough experience with this I won't make the same mistake when it comes time for me to buy/build my own garage

 

[Stuart in MN]

The double is 22x22 and the single is 24 deep 10 wide

In that case it depends on how much stuff you have in the garage, and what size cars....to use an example, a new Ford Taurus is a little under 17 feet long and a little over six feet wide including the mirrors; cars that size would fit fine in there.

 

[KEH]

Don't mention the issue to prospective future purchasers. They probably won't notice the problem any more than you did.

KEH

 

[rsanter]

Borrow 3 smaller cars from friends and park them in there when people come to see the house

Bob

 

[NUTTSGT]

Don't mention the issue to prospective future purchasers. They probably won't notice the problem any more than you did.

KEH

I agree. People are buying the current trend on "small" car garages right now.




On a side note, if I built a house, it'd be the last place I built (unless it was destroyed for some reason). The next owners can worry about it after I die.

 

[ddawg16]

Why are you already worried about resale value? If you look at everything using that as the guide, how can you enjoy the home.

It's your house....do the things you want to make your life more enjoyable.

If at some future point you want to sell....just don't put any cars in the garage. An empty garage looks much bigger than a full one.

 

[Ocho]

It won't affect the resale value or desirability one bit. The garage is a secondary (or lower) concern for 99% of home buyers to begin with. You have a three car garage which is 1/3 more garage than most. You are good to go. Now get out and do something in that garage.

 

[Garage 22]

Thanks for all the great and helpful feedback. Just wondering if having to unload the car trunk with the large overhead door open in very cold winter conditions would deter people from purchasing our home?

 

[K13]

Not to be an *** but isn't it kind of late to worry about this? I see you have another thread going about adding another garage to compensate for this same issue. It seems like you are putting a lot of thought and worry into this. Are you planning on selling the house in the near future? If not why worry about what other people want in your home.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Thanks for all the great and helpful feedback. Just wondering if having to unload the car trunk with the large overhead door open in very cold winter conditions would deter people from purchasing our home?

So just how long is your car? If the garage is 22 feet deep that should leave plenty of room in front of and behind most cars on the market today.