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Just because someone uses the wrong word on the internet doesn't magically make it the right word.
I think instead of using "the" I'm going to use "forevermore" as forevermore word to describe forevermore singular state. Forevermore word I use instead of forevermore has more syllables and we all know forevermore more syllables in forevermore word, forevermore more impressive forevermore word sounds.
Just because someone uses the wrong word on the internet doesn't magically make it the right word.
I think instead of using "the" I'm going to use "forevermore" as forevermore word to describe forevermore singular state. Forevermore word I use instead of forevermore has more syllables and we all know forevermore more syllables in forevermore word, forevermore more impressive forevermore word sounds.
That wasn't just someone. It was Better Homes and Gardens. A quick internet search shows calling it stucco siding is very common and it's called this by large websites who specialize in homes. It's commonly called stucco siding thus it's a form of siding.
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That wasn't just someone. It was Better Homes and Gardens. A quick internet search shows calling it stucco siding is very common and it's called this by large websites who specialize in homes. It's commonly called stucco siding thus it's a form of siding.
Have fun with your forevermore party.
Most people who say "siding" mean the vinyl kind, which is obviously different than stucco, which is different than wood, and so on.
You're bringing ONE item to the table- I can assure you that was not the deciding factor.
I can assure you, that ONE item would be the deciding factor for me. I must have a garage. My point was that it is not the deciding factor for everyone. Do you understand?
We have a 1400 sf 3/2/2 in a growing city. We decided to convert the garage into a family room, but we did so in a way that could be easily converted back: We left the garage door intact, added a sheetrock and wood wall about four feet in, added air conditioning, and laid wood laminate flooring. There is a small storage area (about 4 feet deep and the length of the front of the garage) that we can access by raising the garage door.
We are considering redoing the conversion to make it into a smaller den and a fourth bedroom. To do this, we'd take out the garage door, block the front wall (it's a concrete block home in Florida) and add two windows. The footprint of the house has the front of the garage sitting back at the same level of the front bedroom, if that makes sense... it would not be immediately obvious that the house was converted.
My question is, how much do you think this would this lower our home's value? Enough to strongly reconsider doing this? Our tentative plan is to sell within 10 years, but who knows... maybe we'll end up staying here. I love having the family room and we host company fairly frequently, so I'd really like to have that fourth bedroom. We have no basement, so we would add a shed for the lawnmower and various items that are currently in that storage space.
What you did is dumb, and I would want consideration on the price to restore the garage to being a garage. What you are thinking about doing is dumber.
What you did is dumb, and I would want consideration on the price to restore the garage to being a garage. What you are thinking about doing is dumber.
It's not going to cost us anything to restore the garage to being a garage. My husband did all of the work himself and he will take it all down himself. The only thing that we need to do after removing the walls and the flooring is repaint the concrete block walls that make up the original garage (because part of it which is the laundry room is white and the actual "room" part is cream. Once we put the house on the market, assuming we don't do the larger conversion, there will be no work for the buyers to do to turn it back into a garage.
I would not purchase a garage conversion house so in answer it would lower the value to zero.
I would not purchase a house without a garage. The garage is critical to a home, for security, protection for cars, storage, work projects. It's as important as a 2nd bathroom to me. (I would consider a carport, if bricked, part of the original home under the main roof, and especially if didn't face the front.)
So it would lower the value of the home considerably. BUT, if there's a family that needs that extra living space (needs, as opposed to wants it), that would make the home salable, but would still cut something off the value compared with the neighbors' homes).
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