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In some neighborhoods where there are a lot of houses with one car attached garages, this is pretty common and doesn't seem to affect ability to sell the house. No idea about selling prices.
For me I would never consider buying a house without a garage unless there was an option to build a garage. Either running a driveway down the side of the house to a detached two car in the back (many lots aren't wide enough to do this) or an alley entry detached two car in the back.
Personally I prefer the detached garage. Most people keep gasoline, propane torches, solvents, paint, etc., etc. in the garage. If my garage catches fire and destroys two cars I can recover from that pretty easily. If it takes out my house too, that's a much bigger problem.
Had a friend in the M streets that was doing a small renovation. Electrical fire. He's a reloader and his stuff was in the garage. He raced home and told the firefighters to focus on the garage and skip the house.
Would I buy a house in Florida without a garage? Heck no! I want a place for my vehicle out of the sun which destroys the paint. No matter what you do, it will ALWAYS look like a conversion. The driveway will go right you to the house. The siding won't match. The footprint inside won't flow. It's just awkward.
Personally I prefer the detached garage. Most people keep gasoline, propane torches, solvents, paint, etc., etc. in the garage. If my garage catches fire and destroys two cars I can recover from that pretty easily. If it takes out my house too, that's a much bigger problem.
No way to disguise what has happened. The people that do this usually leave the driveway intact where it runs right to the mismatched siding. Also usually have five cars parked out front indicating a zoning violation.
Not a good visual for the neighborhood.
In my neighborhood here in Central Florida I’ve heard quite a few reports from folks that left their vehicles in the driveway that vermin chew through wires and hoses in the cars causing significant damage. There are very few people in this area that leave their cars in the driveway.
In this area the lack of a garage would be a major problem selling a house. Looking at sold properties I see that similar size houses with bigger garages sell for a premium.
We don’t have siding here... it’s all stucco over concrete block and we’d have the house repainted, so it would all match. Good point about the driveway running into the house, though. We’d need to cut the driveway and put in some grass and bushes/flowers, I guess.
I’ve lived here for 12 years and have never parked my car in the garage nor had anything chew through wires in the car. Almost everyone in our neighborhood has at least one car in the driveway, so that’s not an issue.
We don’t have siding here... it’s all stucco over concrete block and we’d have the house repainted, so it would all match. Good point about the driveway running into the house, though. We’d need to cut the driveway and put in some grass and bushes/flowers, I guess.
I’ve lived here for 12 years and have never parked my car in the garage nor had anything chew through wires in the car. Almost everyone in our neighborhood has at least one car in the driveway, so that’s not an issue.
Stucco IS siding. Patch jobs never match. Yeah you can paint it, but the texture isn't the same and it stands out. Everyone has their own style when it comes to applying stucco. Much like plasterers.
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