Sorry for the drawn out post but this is a significant issue for me as of late. I've lived in my house since 2019, I bought it right out of college. The house is fine, was affordable and really the only well built option at the time. The neighborhood is quiet, clean, and the house is all we need, maybe not quite what we want.
As things should progress I've gotten married which has certainly helped financially as well as gotten some raises. This house would likely sell for about $40,000 more than I paid for it (maybe more but being realistic). The house isn't my ideal place to be but man is it cheap and allows me to spend more on fun things. Property is only 1/2 Acre. I certainly want more property and I need a garage. I am currently in the middle of a kitchen remodel and plan to add a second bath in the basement.
The issue I am having is that the existing garage is 28x24 and the floor is beyond shot. I could redo the floor but the larger issue is it seems the foundation was not put below frost line and is quite bad (not worried about falling - but certainly not ideal). I currently have (6) cars (looking to off (1), really should get rid of all and get down to two daily drivers but that's another story...).
With owning a fleet of vehicles also comes maintenance. Currently I have to work on stuff in my driveway or at my brother's house. While this is doable it is getting quite old.
I also have some constraints to deal with - for whatever dumb reason our township adopted a zoning policy (we are a city of 16k with a bunch of farm land). While I think it's ridiculous it is what I have to deal with. My existing garage is nearing the maximum detached square footage. The workaround is there is basically no limit to attached garages and covered walkways count as attached. I think a pergola may even work as well.
I wanted to attach a 28' x 60' to the house. The issue with this is that I have to reside and reroof my house to do that. If I'm doing that I may want to consider windows as well. Financially this is not feasible for me (sure I could get a loan but do I really want to buy $60-80,000 into this house).
Solution 2 is to build something as shown below - a 28' x 40' but this will put me rather close to my existing garage - I need to verify but I am anticipating 16-18' away. Fortunately the existing would be used as storage only - mower, fourwheeler, project car. This also gives me the option to tear down in the future and add on to the new garage. I could possibly go another 8' which would make storing (tightly in winter time) 4 cars way more feasible but then it will look quite goofy. I would do a room in attic which would help a lot with storage.
I don't think I will quite have the cash to do this and I am quite anti-loan as of late but I am really torn what to do here. Basically I am considering financing a chunk of the garage or selling and paying over double what this house cost at a worse interest rate for something that has a garage and more property.
As things should progress I've gotten married which has certainly helped financially as well as gotten some raises. This house would likely sell for about $40,000 more than I paid for it (maybe more but being realistic). The house isn't my ideal place to be but man is it cheap and allows me to spend more on fun things. Property is only 1/2 Acre. I certainly want more property and I need a garage. I am currently in the middle of a kitchen remodel and plan to add a second bath in the basement.
The issue I am having is that the existing garage is 28x24 and the floor is beyond shot. I could redo the floor but the larger issue is it seems the foundation was not put below frost line and is quite bad (not worried about falling - but certainly not ideal). I currently have (6) cars (looking to off (1), really should get rid of all and get down to two daily drivers but that's another story...).
With owning a fleet of vehicles also comes maintenance. Currently I have to work on stuff in my driveway or at my brother's house. While this is doable it is getting quite old.
I also have some constraints to deal with - for whatever dumb reason our township adopted a zoning policy (we are a city of 16k with a bunch of farm land). While I think it's ridiculous it is what I have to deal with. My existing garage is nearing the maximum detached square footage. The workaround is there is basically no limit to attached garages and covered walkways count as attached. I think a pergola may even work as well.
I wanted to attach a 28' x 60' to the house. The issue with this is that I have to reside and reroof my house to do that. If I'm doing that I may want to consider windows as well. Financially this is not feasible for me (sure I could get a loan but do I really want to buy $60-80,000 into this house).
Solution 2 is to build something as shown below - a 28' x 40' but this will put me rather close to my existing garage - I need to verify but I am anticipating 16-18' away. Fortunately the existing would be used as storage only - mower, fourwheeler, project car. This also gives me the option to tear down in the future and add on to the new garage. I could possibly go another 8' which would make storing (tightly in winter time) 4 cars way more feasible but then it will look quite goofy. I would do a room in attic which would help a lot with storage.
I don't think I will quite have the cash to do this and I am quite anti-loan as of late but I am really torn what to do here. Basically I am considering financing a chunk of the garage or selling and paying over double what this house cost at a worse interest rate for something that has a garage and more property.
