what's your thoughts on driveways with an incline? (car, parking)
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It just amazes me how we're all so different about this. I truly could not care less. I have almost always had a driveway with slope, but I do live in Chapel HILL.
I, too, have three boys who like to play basketball - and I'm thrilled about the hundreds of hours they spend outside on our hoop. flat driveway is close to a requirement for us....
When searching for my current house, a reasonably flat lot was high on my list along with a sidewalk in front.
We passed on a number of nice houses that either had backyards not conducive to outside play or driveways that were steep. I remember being disappointed at a number of houses when we drove up -- The house looked great in the photo, but the steep driveway had been cropped out.
Current driveway has a very slight slope before flattening out in front of the garage. I would consider a mostly-flat driveway a requirement for me.
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Originally Posted by poppydog
Aren't there lots of hills in So Vill, michgc? Certainly hilly streets but I've never paid that much attention to the lots or drives.
Lots and lots of hills. And I have the leg muscles to prove it. Some houses are on huge hills with essentially 2 flights of stairs leading up to the front door. It's crazy. Since many of the driveways are in the back, you can have a house on a hill with a flat driveway. But there are many sloped driveways, too. Our house is on a flat lot with a fairly flat driveway, though we are on the top of a hilly street. I curse the hill every day that I walk back from school. What's the saying? "It's a hill until you walk it, then it's a mountain."
1. Asthetics
2. If you live in a place where it snows and have kids - they will have fun, my son and his friends had a blast with the sloping driveway in NJ
3. Easy to blow leaves down in fall
The cons of a sloping driveway:
1. Kids cannot play basketball on the driveway
2. No biking or rollerblading
3. In winter it is a pain to walk up
4. Driving the car up during snow, freezing rain is problematic unless you have a 4X4
1. Asthetics
2. If you live in a place where it snows and have kids - they will have fun, my son and his friends had a blast with the sloping driveway in NJ
3. Easy to blow leaves down in fall
The cons of a sloping driveway:
1. Kids cannot play basketball on the driveway
2. No biking or rollerblading
3. In winter it is a pain to walk up
4. Driving the car up during snow, freezing rain is problematic unless you have a 4X4
Ok, having lived in houses with sloping driveways almost all my life (grew up with one, too), I'll grant you number 1 and 2 on the cons (although once the kids get good enough at biking a driveway is a pretty short ride), but number 3? Unless you've got serious mobility issues, in which case steps and stairs would also be an issue, that just sounds kinda pitiful for an otherwise able-bodied human being. And number 4, where did you move from again? We don't drive if it snows or there's freezing rain. Total non-issue.
Ok, having lived in houses with sloping driveways almost all my life (grew up with one, too), I'll grant you number 1 and 2 on the cons (although once the kids get good enough at biking a driveway is a pretty short ride), but number 3? Unless you've got serious mobility issues, in which case steps and stairs would also be an issue, that just sounds kinda pitiful for an otherwise able-bodied human being. And number 4, where did you move from again? We don't drive if it snows or there's freezing rain. Total non-issue.
Until you spend 15 years, showing buyers homes, you have NO IDEA the stuff that some people consider to be a negative!!!
When my parents bought a house, it was THEIR place to update it like they wanted it.
Today, buyers want the house updated and to include hardwood floors, stainless appliances and granite (thank you HGTV).
And yes, I have had buyers walk into a house and say..."why did they choose THAT GRANITE?!!"
I had a buyer who wanted to know how he could check the magnetic field in the neighborhood even though the house he was looking at was on the other side of the neighborhood (I had the seller).
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Some houses are on huge hills with essentially 2 flights of stairs leading up to the front door. It's crazy. Since many of the driveways are in the back, you can have a house on a hill with a flat driveway. But there are many sloped driveways, too. Our house is on a flat lot with a fairly flat driveway, though we are on the top of a hilly street. I curse the hill every day that I walk back from school. What's the saying? "It's a hill until you walk it, then it's a mountain." 
