Would you live a single story slab house with no garage? (price, bedrooms)
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Yes. In some area's houses aren't built with basements or garages. I live in a subdivision where most people don't have a garage at all unless it was built after the house. VERY few houses in this area have basements. I chose my house based on the location, schools, and floor plan. I considered a garage a "be nice if" on the list of importance.
Only if I had a 20x20 room that I could use for nothing but storage and was located at a far corner of the home as to not impede on the flow of the other rooms.
It would not be my preference. A garage was a must when we were looking for a house. We have a one car garage and a crawl space. I would have liked a basement, too, but there wasn't a lot of inventory in our price range. If I still lived in Tornado Alley, a basement would have been a requirement. Where I live now, while possible, tornadoes are not very common.
When you live near the coast, you cannot have a basement.
As far as garages go, many here are converted into bedrooms. Your taxes don't go up if you don't change the footprint of the home.
It drives me crazy when people convert garages to bedrooms. Why??? We get crazy weather where I live. My point of view is that if I'm taking on that much debt, I want to be able to park my car in a garage.
I just bought a house with a two car garage after not having one for 8 years prior. The garage is our most favorite place in the new house and I will never attempt to live without one again.
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