Tom: first of all you are far from CHEAP with steam shower unit in your garage, vinyl coated trim on your baseboards and toolbox and so on and on and on.
saving a buck here and there is how you can afford the things you like for now and you'll upgrade those CHEAP THINGS later if you want to and are able to.
nice TP holder BTW
sorry i don't recall the Chevy guy's garage condo, but i tried to stay clear of looking at all the cool garages the first couple years after i first joined and stuck to old tools so i wouldn't have to be so envious of all your garages when i didn't own one. i'm pretty happy in my current situation, but still wishing I had a dream garage and now enjoy looking at other member's.
I would think with your knowledge and friends that you could maybe find a piece of property in a location you like to build or remodel a home like Manhatter's. he's got all his garages in his basement and an oversized 2 car garage above for his daily drivers if i recall correctly. one nice thing about Manhatter's house is the joists are big steel I beams so he can have nice open spaces so instead of that condo maybe start looking for a piece of dirt. another option if you have to buy a commercial zoned property to get near a part of town where all the shows and shopping and activities are maybe make a mini version of the VAULTS?
good luck with the projector project and i'm just like you thinking of all the things i need and that can go wrong or hopefully correctly with good planning.
cheers
drivesitfar I so want to bump into that thread to show you (the member that owns a 20,000-30,000 sqft multi bay, and kept a 2,500sqft for his hobby bay)
Today the builder had to roll phase 1 units to a condo corporation (i.e. HOA corporation with third party management company) It was quite good, since most the unit owners I met are in their 50-60's, nobody wanted to be on the board (we all know it'll be a paid-less and thank less job), where as some of the small 900 sqft apartment rentals my family has, you get 20-30 year old crowd or ya know "the boss of everybody" who loves to be president of the HOA. Quite the scene watching us all put our heads down when management asked 3 (out of 4 who attended lololololol) for board volunteering, I followed the first retired executive guy saying "Not I"... basically forcing the last guy to volunteer lol. (builder personell can act a role which they did, and another non attended unit expressed interest); so there are our leaders for the time being.
Went up to my unit prior to HOA meeting (AGM Annual General Meet), for a cheap $120 (6 @ $20 each) project, built a make shift vehicle mover for my parts car for my daily beater; with 6 pallets of mover's dollies.
(the jack stands is just to show I own jack stands, and I'm not a dummy working under the car with mover's dolly)
Just going to strip what I can on the Maroon car, and use it on my daily Black car in the background. Once the Maroon car is stripped, I'm kind of tempted to see if I could slam a Coyote in it, or just a 3.5 Ecoboost
These old Lincoln's are so fun.
During the time I was prepping the parts car, a unit neighbour came knocking. Asked to borrow my A-frame crane, which is kinda cool, would be the first time being used under my ownership. He bought a BendPak 4 post, double lift.
The delivery guys was only curb side drop off. The developer owner was nice, when he saw this, he bobcat the entire package into this unit owner's bay at least.
Once we committed me wheeling my A-frame crane in the neighbour's unit (he was alone, in his 50-60's but turns out way better shape than me), nonetheless still helped him at his request unload each ramp into rough placement. But I'm pretty sure the hoist company guys will have proper tools/forklift to do this.
I have the unit owner's permission to post this pic of his bay/hoist.
