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#574694 - 12/11/20 04:29 PM
Re: Garage Cabinets
[Re: Justification]
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Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 9,088
Silverbullet
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Admiral
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 9,088
Boise, ID
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I use to work for a home builder and I couldn't understand why they made garage 20' long. It certainly doesn't give much room for anything else.
Money. The first buyer of the home likely bought the home just seeing the drawings, the actual house with the garage empty, or with the sales office in the garage and wasn't able to visualize the actual lack of size of the garage. After the first buyer the builder doesn't give a shi*. I think it's also that most people don't actually park a car in the garage, but use it as storage. Blasphemy in my mind. Couple that with the smaller size of most cars from the mid 80s that fit into those smaller garages, the inertia of building hasn't allowed the bigger garages to be built. Blasphemy again. When we built our house one of the reasons we built instead of buying is that the garage needed to be big enough to fit the boat and a full size truck and Tahoe sized SUV. While not nearly as big as On Holidays garage, the attached garage we built fit the original boat, a 68 Camaro, 92 BMW 325, 91 Extended cab pickup, a Harley, and 2002 Tahoe. Because we upsized the boat, and use a Crew Cab diesel as a tow truck, we can only fit 4 cars in it, plus a project pile of parts that hopefully will become an open wheel race car I picked up in Elkhart that is sitting where the Harley used to sit. 2 houses ago had a close fit for that. We were able to fit the car, the truck and the suburban with room to walk around. This house, not so much. A car in one 2 car and a car in the shop. Can't wait to build or expand the shop situation. And to get rid of some stuff!
James
2002 Cobalt 226 VP 8.1GIDP
2007 Chevy 2500HD Crew Cab Duramax
1988 Suburban 3/4 Ton
2000 Subaru Forester
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#574698 - 12/13/20 04:11 AM
Re: Garage Cabinets
[Re: MarkHB]
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,097
Jack T
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Admiral
Joined: Jan 2003
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Southern California
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All in one house-. When we bought it, we paid about $38K, including air conditioning and concrete driveway. No kids then, but one came along in October, 1972. Now worth well over $750K.
"Is that time frame a look ahead to retirement?"
More like looking ahead to permanent vacation at one of those fancy retirement communities.
About taxes, we are pretty much protected by proposition 13 which allows only small increments. It was approved by the voters and a state constitution amendment. However, the CA government is getting over zealous and is chipping away at the measure by going around it. Kind of like most of the major population areas run by people who want more and more or our money.
Retired? Yes, I was laid off in 2008 and have been retired since 2009. Fortunately, we have a healthy nest egg and we can do just about anything we want regarding-- travel, visiting family members from coast to coast, etc. But, we still scrimp as if were were just married and looking toward a good future. The two oldest grand kids are now 17, and three more spread about the grades.
Needless to say, Covid has put a wrench in the moving parts. I sure hope things get better early next year.
Have a great day of boating 2012 Monterey 224 FS, 300 HP Volvo Penta with catalytic converters 
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