I love the fact that you really revealed how much the breakdown of the cost of this garage apartment conversion cost you. There are so many youtubers who are so shy about talking about finances and their expenses, budgets, etc... It seems o be such and no no to discuss your finances on youtube. So I love that you actually showed us the spreadsheet with all the costs in categories with the columns, etc... You rocked that part of the video! Thanks so much for being open and honest about the money aspect of this project.
I know like wtf, why don’t nobody want to tell others the truth, why is everybody so stingy with te info. I recently purchased a home , I looked everywhere for info , I watched numerous videos on TH-cam and nobody ever discussed prices so I decided to fuk it and go ask myself and so I did and bought my first home. And now I’m in the process of converting the garage but perhaps I should do the same thing and call a few places and get a few real quotes instead of watching videos on TH-cam
I really respect you for how transparent you are in this video. This video is the most helpful on TH-cam that I have seen. If anyone needs to get and idea of costs and concerns, they need to view this video for help. This video sheds light on a lot of questions. Thank you for being so forth-coming with your info and your personality definately SHINES through. This is coming from a 51 year old lady...YOU ROCK my friend...YOU ROCK!!!! Much success to you and your family. : )
Just wanted to stop by and say what y'all did is INSPIRING! My husband and I have come back to your videos so many times since back in May we decided to begin renovating our 2-car garage into an Airbnb. We're still in the thick of it at all (and it's NOT easy) but we can envision the finished product and we're SO excited. Thanks for sharing!
My now ex-husband and I are planning on doing this to our garage. We bought our home together but he pays most of the mortgage so he will have the main house and we're converting the garage into a studio or one bedroom for myself. Thank you for the inspiration!
This is great! It takes courage to pull the trigger on a deal like this, I know you guys will definitely see the fruit of your labor! I am currently working on my three car garage. It already came with electricity, concrete floors, and insulation. So really I’m just starting with plumbing etc. but I am excited after watching this video and encouraged!
This is amazing!!!! What a great transformation. We're looking at a house with a separate garage and I wanted to convert it into a rental suite and now after watching this video...I hope we get the house🤞🏽
Alex, Thank you, this is the Best conversion video I have seen, as Julie mentioned the breakdown was the one of the major components here; we are currently considering taking our detached 4 car garage and converting it into a daycare for my wife who is downsizing from a center; Thanks best wishes, stay safe.
I bought a 10 acre piece of land in Northwest Arizona earlier this year with a 24x20 2 car garage on it and i'm in the middle of building it into a tiny home for when I retire at the end of the year. My floor plan is flipped from yours and the reason for it simple, more floor space. I built a 2 foot bump out where the garage door was so I could put my Kitchen cabinets inside the bump out so I now have the full floor space of the house. which in turn gives me more space for my living space and a little bit bigger bedroom and coming from the midwest most older houses you enter into the kitchen anyway, it's the gathering place of the house and by entering into the kitchen it keeps people from trapesing through your house. I haven't built a loft yet and probally won't. I'm single and my kids are grown and married, when they visit they will just bring thier RV's.
thanks! I just bought some property with a garage on it and am bidding on the lot next to it- I plan to convert the garage to a apt style house and live in it, then eventually win the lot next door and then build another house and rent the garage apt out
This is so perfect, I would have added laundry to the linen closet and moved in there and then rented the full house out. Just do that until I had a kid or something.
Wow! We will be tackling a storage room over a double garage, 10x60’ into a tiny apartment to live in on our mountain property. We have to add insulation, walls, a bathroom and a kitchen, as well as changing the power and water supplies that were to the former home. It was beyond renovation.
Great job man! I have a duplex on a corner lot with a huge side yard so I'm planning to build a 2 car garage with loft apartment above. I also plan to put a wall down the middle of the garage and rent each garage space separately back to the tenants. Your video gave me some good ideas. Appreciate it. You got yourself a sub.
Before i bought my 10 acres with the 2 car garage already on it I was looking at duplex so I could redo it and live in one side and use the 2nd side for my kids when they came to visit, but I got a smoking deal on my land and couldn't pass it up and i'm just building my tiny house out of the garage.
This was a super solid video. Thank you for all of the information! I'm getting ready to embark on a similar adventure in Colorado. I'd love to hear a one year update on how the Airbnb experience is working out for you! Cheers!
Gorgeous conversion. Just reverse your refrigerator and freezer doors to open into the room rather than into the wall. Almost all refrigerator doors are easy to switch.
Lmao you sound like my hubby everytime ppl come over he’s like “oh open the freezer help yourself we have enough breastmilk to feed an army” 🤣 idk why I’m just now watching this but y’all did great!! Looks amazing! Also nice job it got a ton of views! 🙌 keep bringing the good content!
I do not live in an area that has a lot of demand for AirBnB. My garage is super close to what your before looked like, except that it does have a concrete floor. My house is already split into an upstairs unit (4 bedrooms) and basement unit (3 bedrooms). My plan was kind of the reverse of yours. I was going to convert my garage, live in it when I retired and rent out the two units of the main house, so that I had additional money coming in.
To come up with making your garage an Airbnb is such an Excellent idea! 👍 You guys did such an Awesome job! 👍Thank you guys for sharing your 🥰Beautiful Garage!
thanks for sharing !! great job!!! I am about to renovate a detached garage into studio apt/office but I didn't think about using it as an Air BnB possibly in the future. Could be a wonderful way for additional retirement income!
Hi Alex! This reno is amazing. Very inspiring from the economics to the design, plus the hustle is impressive. Well done. Is there any chance you could share the build plans with me? I have a similar garage, and I would like to essentially do the same reno, with minor variances. Cheers
I got scared when you said 60k... then I realized we can eliminate all labor costs... and most of the lumber we will need will be free Great job btw it looks stunning
We're thinking of turning our 24×36ft shop into an appartment for us to live in and rent our house to save more to buy our farm. Thanks for breaking it down for us.
Your video is awesome….I can’t believe that I am just waking up to the idea of building an adu, 10 years ago I came up with the idea of turning detached garages into one or two bedroom units….in fact my friend did that but when I told him that we can turn the 3 bedroom house into two units of 1 and 2 bedrooms each…he was not sure because everything had to be done without permits…even the unit that was done in the in the back of the house was done without permits…what I didn’t realize was that the governor in California made it legal to turn garages into an adu 6 years ago….as far as your adu using it as an Airbnb I don’t think that is allowed in California, it has to be a long term rental….not only that but property in California is very expensive now…I am glad you are doing so well with your adu and thank you for sharing your experiences with it….I have a question how do you deal with the idea of having so many different people in your adu as opposed to having the same tenants all the time…I am sure there is a big difference in the money you make…
What is the structure of the ceiling? My garage looks almost identical and I hadn’t thought of doing a loft but love your plan. Do you have a place I could access your plans?
Great video sharing the costs behind that! Did I see two mini splits in that setup? About to do a garage conversion now with a single mini split at $6K looked like you had yours down to about $4K was that for one or two units? We are in the greater Nashville area too! Thanks for sharing!
Due to the economy, and if it doesn't work out a money generating idea, since it's your property, you can basically do almost anything to it. With that said, you can buy a shipping container, clean it up nicely, painted inside out and store all of your belongings. You can live in the garage and rent the main house just until either you have acquired enough assets to either move back into the house or buy another property where you can do the same. Just a thought.
Love the conversion and I'm thinking of converting our garage as well. I like the floor plan layout, would you care to share a diagram of the floor plan conversion?
Wow it is really amazing I love it how many square feet is the master bedroom if I may ask I'm thinking about doing something similar to my garage thank you for the inspiration
I loved the final results. Are you in California? Which companie would you recommend us to use to do the plans, get permits, framing, electrical, etc? Please send me their info. Thank you
Amazing! I’m thinking about doing something like this but not in a garage, but build a small guest house in my front yard.What is the size of this guest house? Did you hire a project manager or do it yourself? Can you buy all the stuff at Home Depot or Lowe’s? Thanks!
Hi Alex, how did you plumb the kitchen and bathroom? Connect to home existing plumbing system or you had to build a septic tank for them? $5000 for plumbing projects of this kind sounds unrealistic where I live. Even the kitchen cabinet alone would cost somewhere around 5k.
I noticed the original garage has no toilet or sewer line drain. How did you handle that issue? Did the construction company dig an 8ft deep trench and TAP into the sewer line or did you put in a septic tank? How long was that trench as well. How much did that part cost as well.
Strange the floor was dirt.. Say a normal double garage already with cement floor,using repurposed timber & repurposed furnishings plus doing alot of labour youself & afew builder mates around for help & a bbq ...you could do this type of conversion for about $5000 aust $$$ I notice your labour costs was way more than anything else put together...looks good, cheers
Thank you for sharing! Great job done! May I ask how many square metres of your Garage? Do u need the council to approve to convert your Garage to living space pls?
I love the fact that you really revealed how much the breakdown of the cost of this garage apartment conversion cost you. There are so many youtubers who are so shy about talking about finances and their expenses, budgets, etc... It seems o be such and no no to discuss your finances on youtube. So I love that you actually showed us the spreadsheet with all the costs in categories with the columns, etc... You rocked that part of the video! Thanks so much for being open and honest about the money aspect of this project.
Julie N thanks for watching!
@@alexesteban did you get a separate meter out on the garage for utilities purpose?
@@andrewmurdock9959 no, it’s all on one meter. Not a big deal for me and my plans.
I know like wtf, why don’t nobody want to tell others the truth, why is everybody so stingy with te info.
I recently purchased a home , I looked everywhere for info , I watched numerous videos on TH-cam and nobody ever discussed prices so I decided to fuk it and go ask myself and so I did and bought my first home. And now I’m in the process of converting the garage but perhaps I should do the same thing and call a few places and get a few real quotes instead of watching videos on TH-cam
@@alexesteban looks great. We are doing the same thing. Glad to find a video from the same cityn
Great job . I can’t believe you have a master and a loft bedroom from this old garage
Thanks!
I think its pretty amazing how you guys made the most of that space. It looks a lot bigger than what it was
Best garage home I have ever seen. I would rent it
Thanks!
Me too
For that price they better rent it out.
I really respect you for how transparent you are in this video. This video is the most helpful on TH-cam that I have seen. If anyone needs to get and idea of costs and concerns, they need to view this video for help. This video sheds light on a lot of questions. Thank you for being so forth-coming with your info and your personality definately SHINES through. This is coming from a 51 year old lady...YOU ROCK my friend...YOU ROCK!!!! Much success to you and your family. : )
Such a kind comment! Thank you 🙏🏽
Just wanted to stop by and say what y'all did is INSPIRING! My husband and I have come back to your videos so many times since back in May we decided to begin renovating our 2-car garage into an Airbnb. We're still in the thick of it at all (and it's NOT easy) but we can envision the finished product and we're SO excited. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing! You guys got this! 💪🏽
My now ex-husband and I are planning on doing this to our garage. We bought our home together but he pays most of the mortgage so he will have the main house and we're converting the garage into a studio or one bedroom for myself. Thank you for the inspiration!
This could work...but if he takes your name off the main house...he could sell it without your permission.
@@ronnieking3848 Yeah that sounds like an absolute nightmare of a situation lmao
@@ronnieking3848I don’t see where she said he’s taking her name off the home though?
@@mdub6293 He's making her live in the garage.
@@ronnieking3848 she could live in another state, it doesn’t say her name is coming off of the house… your making assumptions, that’s all
This is great! It takes courage to pull the trigger on a deal like this, I know you guys will definitely see the fruit of your labor! I am currently working on my three car garage. It already came with electricity, concrete floors, and insulation. So really I’m just starting with plumbing etc. but I am excited after watching this video and encouraged!
This is amazing!!!! What a great transformation. We're looking at a house with a separate garage and I wanted to convert it into a rental suite and now after watching this video...I hope we get the house🤞🏽
Good Luck!
I hope you get it too!!!
Omg this is so dope! You guys did a phenomenal job! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!
I am so blessed to have a blue collar family. Labor cost 0.
I’m blessed to be Mexican have it done in a day lol
I know...we do it ourselves...
That will save so much money!!!! Labor alone is so expensive!!!!
Pay with food and drinks 😅
yeah 50+ grand is absolutely absurd these people HAVE to come from money
Appreciate the transparency on the costs. You did a great job on your renovation. Thanks for sharing
WOW!! This is brilliant. Such a great video. Thank you and congratulations!!!
Going to need those plans! Doing the same to our two car garage.
Seriously I would love them as well.
I’ll post a link for the plans in the description.
@@alexesteban After watching your video I decided to do my own ADU 😊 need those plans bro 🙏
@@alexesteban thanks so much!!!!
Alex, Thank you, this is the Best conversion video I have seen, as Julie mentioned the breakdown was the one of the major components here; we are currently considering taking our detached 4 car garage and converting it into a daycare for my wife who is downsizing from a center; Thanks best wishes, stay safe.
Good luck Ismael! 🙏🏽
This is so awesome ! Just got a house and I want to turn this 3 car garage into an apartment for my mom !
WOW!! JUST WOW!!! What an amazing conversion! I am so blown away!! You had an excellent vision, an dd's executed it to perfection!! Way to go!!!
This is the most beautiful build I have ever seen! Wonderful!
I bought a 10 acre piece of land in Northwest Arizona earlier this year with a 24x20 2 car garage on it and i'm in the middle of building it into a tiny home for when I retire at the end of the year. My floor plan is flipped from yours and the reason for it simple, more floor space. I built a 2 foot bump out where the garage door was so I could put my Kitchen cabinets inside the bump out so I now have the full floor space of the house. which in turn gives me more space for my living space and a little bit bigger bedroom and coming from the midwest most older houses you enter into the kitchen anyway, it's the gathering place of the house and by entering into the kitchen it keeps people from trapesing through your house. I haven't built a loft yet and probally won't. I'm single and my kids are grown and married, when they visit they will just bring thier RV's.
Awesome, it’s absolutely stunning! Congrats on the outcome of the project!
Christa thanks!
thanks! I just bought some property with a garage on it and am bidding on the lot next to it- I plan to convert the garage to a apt style house and live in it, then eventually win the lot next door and then build another house and rent the garage apt out
Wow!!
Well done.
I have a one car garage.
How hard was it to dig the plumbing??
This is so perfect, I would have added laundry to the linen closet and moved in there and then rented the full house out. Just do that until I had a kid or something.
Christian S that was the original plan... then the baby came! Haha.
Hey! I am watching this about to convert my garage into living space. Hope it turns out as well as your beautiful garage!!
I was eating and almost spit out my food when you opened that freezer 😂😂😂😂
Wow! We will be tackling a storage room over a double garage, 10x60’ into a tiny apartment to live in on our mountain property. We have to add insulation, walls, a bathroom and a kitchen, as well as changing the power and water supplies that were to the former home. It was beyond renovation.
Great job man! I have a duplex on a corner lot with a huge side yard so I'm planning to build a 2 car garage with loft apartment above. I also plan to put a wall down the middle of the garage and rent each garage space separately back to the tenants. Your video gave me some good ideas. Appreciate it. You got yourself a sub.
Dan Illes love it man! Good luck! Thanks.
Before i bought my 10 acres with the 2 car garage already on it I was looking at duplex so I could redo it and live in one side and use the 2nd side for my kids when they came to visit, but I got a smoking deal on my land and couldn't pass it up and i'm just building my tiny house out of the garage.
This was a super solid video. Thank you for all of the information! I'm getting ready to embark on a similar adventure in Colorado. I'd love to hear a one year update on how the Airbnb experience is working out for you! Cheers!
Good luck! I did a year update you can see in my other videos 👌🏽
Thanks for being so transparent! I am so motivated by your video, thanks!
Who is here from MrBeast?
Gorgeous conversion. Just reverse your refrigerator and freezer doors to open into the room rather than into the wall. Almost all refrigerator doors are easy to switch.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Very informative and your airbnb looks great!
Thank you so much for all the cost breakdown! So very helpful.
This is amazing. Great idea and money maker. Sky windows in the bedroom would be great.
Way to go!! Thanks for sharing and including the costs and how you financed it!!
You can change the doors on the fridge to open the other direction to make use of it a lot easier.
Lmao you sound like my hubby everytime ppl come over he’s like “oh open the freezer help yourself we have enough breastmilk to feed an army” 🤣 idk why I’m just now watching this but y’all did great!! Looks amazing! Also nice job it got a ton of views! 🙌 keep bringing the good content!
My man. This is INSANE AND AMAZING! Wow. I need your help. I want to do this. Wow man. So good
Wow...this is gorgeous. We're about to do the same - I appreciate your commentary and especially that you shared how much it cost. Thank you!
Absolutely love this what an amazing way to make your family more financial secure great job!
I do not live in an area that has a lot of demand for AirBnB. My garage is super close to what your before looked like, except that it does have a concrete floor.
My house is already split into an upstairs unit (4 bedrooms) and basement unit (3 bedrooms). My plan was kind of the reverse of yours. I was going to convert my garage, live in it when I retired and rent out the two units of the main house, so that I had additional money coming in.
Great job guys, looks great, thanks for the details
To come up with making your garage an Airbnb is such an Excellent idea! 👍
You guys did such an Awesome job! 👍Thank you guys for
sharing your 🥰Beautiful Garage!
Thank you!
thanks for sharing !! great job!!! I am about to renovate a detached garage into studio apt/office but I didn't think about using it as an Air BnB possibly in the future. Could be a wonderful way for additional retirement income!
I'm 14 and I might be getting a job that will pay me 50k a year and I'm thinking about doing what yall are doing but I'm going to make it bigger.
Hi Alex! This reno is amazing. Very inspiring from the economics to the design, plus the hustle is impressive. Well done. Is there any chance you could share the build plans with me? I have a similar garage, and I would like to essentially do the same reno, with minor variances. Cheers
Sure! Send me and email. alex@builderbustle.com
Hi Dave. Did you ever get those plans sent to you? Any chance you can share with me as well?
Hey Alex, I really loved what you did with the space. Would you be able to share the plans that you used? Thanks again
super impressive. all the hard work was worth it.
I got scared when you said 60k... then I realized we can eliminate all labor costs... and most of the lumber we will need will be free
Great job btw it looks stunning
Great video! Thanks for sharing and congrats! You did not have two items on the list - designs and permits? How did you do that part?
We're thinking of turning our 24×36ft shop into an appartment for us to live in and rent our house to save more to buy our farm. Thanks for breaking it down for us.
haha. or live in a tent and rent the shop aswell.
Super cool breakdown, man! My wife and I are hoping to have a rental property on our first home. This was so helpful
Hey Alex can you share your floor plan? This is a beautiful project!
Excellent vid bro bro!! If you haven't already done so, you can change the direction the fridge door opens. Super easy!
Larry Sheran yes! Been planning on doing that... just being lazy. Haha
Jeeze...you did an amazing job. I'm trippin.....wow. I think this is the best detached conversion I've ever seen.
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Amazing !!! How they turned a small garage into a studio apartment! 👍👍👍
Amazing! Great idea. Oh, and thank you for breaking down the cost and even how you paid for it! Great job!
Thanks for watching! 😊
this is my dream!!! came here from Mr beast video!! so great to see all of the success that you have made after the video!!!!
Your video is awesome….I can’t believe that I am just waking up to the idea of building an adu, 10 years ago I came up with the idea of turning detached garages into one or two bedroom units….in fact my friend did that but when I told him that we can turn the 3 bedroom house into two units of 1 and 2 bedrooms each…he was not sure because everything had to be done without permits…even the unit that was done in the in the back of the house was done without permits…what I didn’t realize was that the governor in California made it legal to turn garages into an adu 6 years ago….as far as your adu using it as an Airbnb I don’t think that is allowed in California, it has to be a long term rental….not only that but property in California is very expensive now…I am glad you are doing so well with your adu and thank you for sharing your experiences with it….I have a question how do you deal with the idea of having so many different people in your adu as opposed to having the same tenants all the time…I am sure there is a big difference in the money you make…
Great conversion job, Alex. Thanks for sharing it.
Free advice? Look up the words “camera pan” for your future recordings.
Very cool! Fun video! Thanks for sharing and being so transparent with the numbers, the place is beautiful!! -PJ
Thanks for watching!
This is so Amaizing! Well done!
What is the structure of the ceiling? My garage looks almost identical and I hadn’t thought of doing a loft but love your plan. Do you have a place I could access your plans?
Great video sharing the costs behind that! Did I see two mini splits in that setup? About to do a garage conversion now with a single mini split at $6K looked like you had yours down to about $4K was that for one or two units? We are in the greater Nashville area too! Thanks for sharing!
that was for 2! But also was two years ago. Prices have likely increased :(
Thanks for the info boss man,great ideas! Onto the next one
Amazing renovation! Wishing you success on your venture!
Due to the economy, and if it doesn't work out a money generating idea, since it's your property, you can basically do almost anything to it. With that said, you can buy a shipping container, clean it up nicely, painted inside out and store all of your belongings. You can live in the garage and rent the main house just until either you have acquired enough assets to either move back into the house or buy another property where you can do the same. Just a thought.
The transformation is awsom , simple and nice
OMG! Love this! I would move into this and rent out the main house.
Just the inspiration that I was looking for. Great job! Great attitude! Love seeing young couples working together. Wishing you much luck!
Wow, your video is great! Can you do a video explaining permitting process and fees?
Looks amazing i don’t know much about codes but are you supposed to have some sort of opening like a window where you sleep just in case of a fire?
Love the conversion and I'm thinking of converting our garage as well. I like the floor plan layout, would you care to share a diagram of the floor plan conversion?
Please
Wow it is really amazing I love it how many square feet is the master bedroom if I may ask I'm thinking about doing something similar to my garage thank you for the inspiration
Was it difficult to get the permits from the city? And how much was that? Great job!! 👍🏻
As long as you are zoned to be able to build something like this on your property getting permits is pretty straight forward and under $250.
It REALLY IS BEAUTIFUL!! GOOD job!!
I loved the final results. Are you in California? Which companie would you recommend us to use to do the plans, get permits, framing, electrical, etc? Please send me their info. Thank you
Thank you! I am in Nashville so I dont really have any good recommendations for California.
Congratulation awesome job I’m trying to convert my garage also would you be able to share a picture of the blueprint layout
Didn't see the whole video. Could you legally rent this out without problems?
Love it! Looking to do ours… But question… why are there bubbles in the siding? 🤔
This came out great! What are the dimensions of the garage?
Amazing! I’m thinking about doing something like this but not in a garage, but build a small guest house in my front yard.What is the size of this guest house? Did you hire a project manager or do it yourself? Can you buy all the stuff at Home Depot or Lowe’s? Thanks!
Did most of it myself and hired out what I wasn’t comfortable doing. Most material came from HD! Good luck.
@@alexesteban Thanks!
Well done, I have been looking for a great idea like yours and a contractor for my two cars garage.
A+ on that conversion I love it!
Dope, this turned out really fly 💯💯💯
Hi Alex, how did you plumb the kitchen and bathroom? Connect to home existing plumbing system or you had to build a septic tank for them? $5000 for plumbing projects of this kind sounds unrealistic where I live. Even the kitchen cabinet alone would cost somewhere around 5k.
This is awesome! How did permitting for the electrical and plumbing work?
It looks like so much space! Very nice. What’s the dimension of the bedroom?
Absolutely beautiful job, guys!
Truly amazing... I want to convert mines so bad!
Wait doesn’t this require u to go to the state and get approval first and change your taxes because it’s a extra living space.
This is so awesome. What is the total height from the floor of the loft to the ceiling?
Did he post the blueprints and building spreadsheet somewhere? I have a similar size garage I would like to do something similar with.
Did you Get a permits for all the work
I noticed the original garage has no toilet or sewer line drain. How did you handle that issue? Did the construction company dig an 8ft deep trench and TAP into the sewer line or did you put in a septic tank? How long was that trench as well. How much did that part cost as well.
About $100 per square foot. Very expensive. For comparison what is the median sales price of a house in your neighborhood of Nashville?
Congrats!!! Incredible results. LOL Brest Milk, too funny.
😂😂😂
Strange the floor was dirt..
Say a normal double garage already with cement floor,using repurposed timber & repurposed furnishings plus doing alot of labour youself & afew builder mates around for help & a bbq ...you could do this type of conversion for about $5000 aust $$$
I notice your labour costs was way more than anything else put together...looks good, cheers
This is so amazing! Great job 🙌🙌
Thank you for sharing! Great job done! May I ask how many square metres of your Garage? Do u need the council to approve to convert your Garage to living space pls?
Thanks for your openness on budget!