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"Found a garage with a detached house" lol. I'm looking for my first house right now, and this resonated with me greatly
Same, except I’m just tryna get a 2 car garage with single big garage door and no sloped drive way… way harder than I thought😅 😂
As I wrote in my other post: remember that (depending on the lot and permitting) it's usually pretty cheap and easy to build a garage...and car ports even easier.
(Car ports are good for the car and more people should use them instead of wasting money on garages, at least multi-car-garages)
(My other post might not be visible as this site tends to shadowban me whenever I've written anything anti-China recently)
My buddy bought his garage with attached house after searching for a long time. His advice: you very likely cannot afford to build the garage after buying the house. After looking at some quotes for buildings, he's probably right.
@@gooutsideeveryday2017 How does that logic work? You buy a house without a garage for less than a house with a garage, then you just build the garage (and if you're smart you forget the multi-car garage and instead build one proper 'workshop' garage and a big car port to store cars.
You have many times (100x?) more choice if you can drop the criteria of a massive garage.
How much do you think it costs to build a garage? You think that the prices of houses are all within ~40K of each other?
I to am looking for a garage with a detached house lol
I hate how few realtors actually put pictures of the garage in their listings.
We Realtors are getting better about that. Honestly the MLS website allows a limited # of photos and you have to show bathrooms kitchens and bedrooms first.
@@jamestuckerrealtor9253 That's crazy that they would limit the number of pictures
I had a dream garage once: double long attached garage and a detached two car garage that was heated. I didn’t know how good I had it…
When I was 18, still living with my parents, I had an attached garage of my own for my E30... Too bad I flew out of the nest after only < 1 year of that and never really appreciated it.
I went through this 30 years ago. After trying to work in a 1 1/2 bay garage, I bought an old house on a big lot. On that big lot, I built an 8 car garage and installed a lift in one of the bays to do work on my cars. Now that I'm looking at retirement, I'm thinking of moving to the vacation home. The next garage I build will have 12' side walls, with attic storage, a lift with more space around it, and a bay with a taller door to allow the boat inside.
So how’d that idea go?
"We found a garage, with a detached house!" LOL
“Yes! We found a garage with a detached house!” haaaa! typical dude thought process! love it
I went through that. I had lived in apartments and a townhouse without a garage, and watched my first sports car deteriorate outside for 12 years before finally selling when the list of repairs ran higher than it’s value. When I picked up a 72 Stingray, I knew it just using a car cover wasn’t cutting it. I hunted around and found a house with a big enough yard to build a garage. I was hoping for 3 car, but easements made it just slightly too narrow, so I build a very oversized 2 car with 10 foot ceilings and a room above. Cut to 4 years later, I have 3 cars, all worthy of being inside, so a lift is being installed next week.
I really dig Doug's down to earth approach to life. I think he may well be your 'dream' story teller. LoL
Even building your dream garage is difficult in many places. What a great story again by Doug. It would be cool to see how our presenters are being intentional about passing auto enthusiasm to the next generation.
I determined that we were NOT going to build. Can't deal with permits, prices, and contractors - it would take too much time off my life and hair off my head.
@@switchcars That is sensible: to recognise when you simply aren't up for the work load and stress of building for yourself.
However I do have to say that most people make building their homes many times more difficult, expensive and risky than they need to. I can't fathom why people who are even building with a relatively low budget still somehow feel like they are such high class Rockefellers that they can't possibly build a non-custom home. I'll never understand it.
Why do people who buy everything in their lives as mass-produced to make them even afford it suddenly think their most expensive purchase, which most can't really afford to begin with, has to be custom made to their wishes? What makes duplicating something that works so bad, especially since most people won't ever even know that the same house design was build once or twice before somewhere else?
As an executive of a high-tech construction company who just got out of the business, my experience is that if people would just understand to duplicate something someone has just recently built...using the same contractor so all their previous problem-solving and experience can be put to use...that would reduce the risk, cost, all problems so much!
Main thing is buying a good lot: that alone can take most of the extra cost and risks from the project. And that's often the hardest thing to find.
I'd say that even for someone not wanting to build, it absolutely is possible if they buy the right plot, build a non-custom home, use a known builder who is familiar with the house they're building and all purchasing for it. Basically saying to a contractor:
"We saw you've built that home there. The client was happy with your work. I bought a nearly identical plot and I want you to repeat that house for me (just with a different surface finish, and different garage which makes the appearance very different). How much for keys-in-hand delivery? I paid an experienced real estate agent a few thousand to look it over to see that it's a fitting house to build for strong future values. My experienced lawyer and experienced contractor I've hired to oversee the project will look over the contract and details. I pay maybe $10K extra for the experts, but they'll save me at minimum $5K during the build and over time probably many times that in problems I avoid."
Unfortunately usually the people with the skill and experience to build in a smart, stress-free way already live in their forever-home or are too traumatized from all the mistakes they made when they hadn't yet learned what to do...
(Wow, it seems I miss the business a bit based on how much I wrote just now...)
My dad just looked into building a 20'x25' detached garage. Turns out code required utilities ran for a full house for a permanent structure of that size. After utilities, permits, tree removal, and construction it was going to be almost $60k for a garage.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 = Lighter car port structure, and then garage space for only one car.
I actually just bought my first garage with a detached house I can fit about 6 cars in there love it.
1:00 "Where you can afford a garage"....-
"Afford" is the optimum key word that buys dream cars and dream garages.
And that's great if you can afford to dream.
The closest I ever came to a dream car was looking at it through a show room window.
Preach it Doug! Every house I've seen for sale had the same problem: they always screwed up the garage. So I designed my own from scratch, packaging everything in a 40x60 post frame building. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bath, a 1600 sq.ft attached garage with a lift and a 60" wide doorway for french doors to go from house to garage. Why torture yourself moving a couch through a regular door? And best of all, a dedicated office area with extra monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers so I can access my computer from the garage too. Perfect for diagnostics, parts hunting, etc, all on the same system.
Sounds like you're living the dream. The housing market is crazy so I'm considering saving up and buying some land to build a house. I just want a modest house with at least a two car garage.
@@bwofficial1776 Correct, which is why I'm going the same route. Get land, build what you need. Remove everything else from the equation.
Ok. We need an mtv cribs style episode of Doug’s garage and detached house!!!!
A garage with a detached house is EXACTLY what my wife calls ours! Lol! We had it built new back in '98 on a 1/4 acre "baseball field" lot. I can squeeze 5 cars in the 31x31 garage plus a 10x24 workshop next to it.
Doug, yours looks great and it has a very nice car guy garage. Hope you guys have a great life there!
Been there done that! But you get a sense very quickly when you know you have found the right place. Like our house here in France. Whilst my wife was looking around upstairs in the living part of the house, I discovered the sub-basement, which was the same size as the house, enough space for three cars in half of it and room for utilities and work areas etc etc in the other half. Once we moved in we put up a lot of storage which removed the need for storing things in the loft space. Much easier to access and keep under control. And you can still park the cars and still open the doors both sides etc. Well done Doug and family for finding your dream house. Enjoy
I feel this story to my bones! My wife and I looked for nearly two years for the same reasons and ultimately were lucky enough to find a house and property that were everything we needed/wanted with the ability to build a nice detached garage. Within 6 months of moving in we had contracted the construction of a 2 story 24x36 detached and 7.5 years later we're still loving it! Congrats on finding your dream home/garage/property Doug... I hope it treats you and your family well.
"We found the garage with a detached house." - says it all and congratulations on an amazing find.
BRILLIANT! We’ve just gone through this and the conversations, arguments and feelings were exactly the same! A bit smaller than yours but we got the Garage with space to make it bigger and a decent detached house with it. Great to hear that I’m not the only one. A few times I thought like I might be holding out for something that was impossible….. it’s not! Patience.
Great story. I really appreciate how you and Ed share how important your faith is along with praying / seeking advice before making major decisions.
I love how we are all in the same age range making mature decisions after decades of 'F it why not' and the bachelor way of life. Proud of ya dude!
My first house had a big detached garage, the previous owner left a 20ft long Indy 500 Budweiser poster along the side wall.
3 car basement garage was one of the huge draws to the place I'm in now. If only the car market would self-correct so I can fill that vacant spot.
TL/DR: I did almost the same thing as Doug, except I bought the new place before I sold my old place and made a lot of money.
In the summer of 2019 my wife and I decided we wanted to move in the summer of 2020. On January 24, 2020 a house, in the neighborhood we wanted to be in, came on the market. My wife sent me the listing minutes after it came on the market, though it was only a description and a couple exterior pictures it read like my dream house. 1st floor master suite, 1st floor laundry, 2 car attached garage and a heated and insulated 2+ car detached garage/workshop with a 2nd floor. I immediately called my agent and she said "oh, the listing agent works in the same office as me, let me go talk to her." She got us into see it that night and we knew we had to make an offer right then or we'd probably lose our shot. Our offer was accepted at 10:30pm, the house was on the market for less than 12 hours. The market here was so hot the owners had 5 back up offers, 3 were sight unseen. Our old house was paid off, so we decided to sit on it and watch the market. We sold it in August 2021 for almost double what paid for it. As an aside, January 24, 2020 would have been my mom's 77th birthday. I'm not religious or spiritual, but I do think my mom was there that day.
Doug is my favorite story teller outside of Ed. Great stories, relatable, and detailed in his descriptions. Thank you for these!
I agree with this.
Ed you're the man!!!
I feel like this video deserves so many more views than it has
Sincerity, honesty, and a real grab at how the car obsession and passion does in fact way in but isn’t the smartest weigh in the debate
My post-Army house goals are 4-car attached insulated garage with 220V drops for welding and industrial air compressor.
We plan on building from the ground up.
Wife found our dream house 8 years ago, 3 car garage on .56 acre. Took me 7 years to add a 1800 square foot hot rod shop and pool, but we're never leaving!
Just bought my 2nd house in AZ. I can relate to the bidding wars that were going on then. Even now it’s not as bad but still stressful.
I wrench mainly on motorcycles so it was a little easier to find a garage that fitted my needs. Overall I related to this video so much. I’m happy you guys were about to find your forever home!
I'm a single guy with no kids and all I wanted was a 1 bed 1 bath and 1 car garage. In my city that is super rare. Average rent was 1300ish in my area and I found the unicorn 1/1/1 for 800. It was janky but I remodeled the garage and had my motorcycle and corvette in there. It even had a washer and dryer. I built up my tools, hung a tv, lights and i was happy. 3 years later investors buy it and evict everyone. 6 months after eviction they still haven't finished remodeling so I dont even know what they're going to rent for.
I'm going through this right now in the east valley area of Phoenix. I'm in it about a year, very frustrating process. But I completely agree about only pulling the trigger when everything feels right, so far not even close.
West Valley has the sick RV garages, but they shot up in value and out of my price range within months. I wish buying houses was more like buying cars in some ways.
The selling point of the house I bought was the double lot with 2 story heated and cooled detached 2 car garage with billiard room and porch on the side. Now to fill one bay with the “best Corvette”…lol
Congrats! Man I am in this place right now! I cant buy anymore cars bc I don't have anywhere to park them. I only need a small house but a HUGE garage. A tough thing to find in the city.
Love this video cause my wife and I just went through the same thing. After a failed house project during the time of COVID and months looking at dozens of houses that didn't work for one reason or another, we just decided to build a new one. After a 2+ year saga, it's due to be finished in about three months and we couldn't be happier, and did I mention it has a six car garage?
I find myself scrolling carproperty all the time for awesome garage ideas. Some really amazing homes on there.
What a great story! Thank you for giving us hope that it’s possible to find a garage with a detached house that our wifes will approve. Love it!
Ugh! I’m so happy for you, Doug! That’s so exciting!
When you actually work for UPS,
and have one of your dream cars 😂
What can brown do for you? :)
Wat car u got?
Good for you Doug. Your patience made it happen👍👍👍
He found his “garage with a detached house!”
im planning to have a live-in warehouse style garage with an upstairs living space. definitely an expensive job with all the power/tools that need accommodating.
We went through the same thing. Our market was worse in the PNW price wise thanks to Amazon. Without being out in the sticks, or having a 2mill budget a nice garage w/house is difficult to come by. We had one fall through, then my GF found the house we ended up in. 5 min from my work, two large two car garages with storage, and an in ground lift plus a big yard for or two high energy dogs. I feel like the car guy who used to own it was looking down and helped make it happen. He and I would have been friends, guaranteed.
My house is only 6 years old and has a decent sized garage. So with it being newer I just assumed it would fit a full sized truck, we’re not talking a massive truck, a 1500 with a crew cab and shortbed but nope. So always measure, folks.
Had a single car shop 50 ft long attached to a 2 1/2 car garage. Oh yeah it was connected to the house but thats not the point. It was awesome to grow up there but I never really used it for much besides working on bicycles. Now I have less than a 1/2 a car garage for my shop and I need the space because of course I know more than I did growing up and have way more projects lined up. I'll get back there one day!
What would your dream garage look like?
Like yours, Doug's, or Tyler's hanger!
Anywhere with Freedom and Palm trees would be perfect. Thank You
A garage the size of the Car Wizard's shop...brim-full of cars worthy of a one-man Concours d'Elegance parked therein.
A modest 4 bay with shelter for a 39’ Yellowfin on trailer and a 69 L88 Vette in a dedicated bay leaving 3 empty to build and house an experimental airplane. Guess I need to go buy a few lottery tickets now…lol
2 lifts with loft storage and seperate room for grinding /welding to keep the rest of the shop clean. Hvac of course for year round wrenching and a room with a window for the family to enjoy while not having to listen to all the noise while checking in
Looked for 15 years for the dream house/garage. Finally found an awesome small scale custom builder. Dream house and 16 car attached garage on the way 🎉 8 bays double high. Was able to design every single minute detail of it. Circuits. Elevated industrial compressor hidden out of the way. If you are OCD about garages then finding the RIGHT builder and working with them to do it right is the only way to go. Mrs is handling the attached house. Even angled the bays and driveway to get the most minimum amount of sun as possible. So detailing and cleaning is in 90% shade. Last hour of each day is sunset facing the doors. It takes time but it’s worth it in the end !
Rent a hangar. More than enough space, and you could put an apartment in there to actually make it home. Wifey may not like it too much, but personal experience says it works lol
I feel fortunate when my wife and I were looking for our home. We live in California and the housing market is crazy. We were able to find a 1 acre property with a 2000 square foot house, 2 car detached garage, and 1000 square foot shop. We are also zoned for hoofed animal's and chickens.
it is possible to build your own, one off grid, two were timber frame, i have built 3, hands on, drill and blast the rock to roof,hired a good guy for the finishing, then you can have exactly what you need/want, but make sure to not go to crazy with colors or details for the sake of resale, people don't usually like weird stuff,
"how we're going to serve the ppl in our circle" I like that. I really do! good man that.
SO happy for you guys!
Good advice. I have personally seen people that claim to be "gearheads " and talk about buying the ideal situation between having the perfect garage and keeping the family/ wife happy. Only to trip up and buy something that keeps the pocket book happy because of the financial obligations and leaves the family content and No room / garage for the dream garage and toy that was wanted.
11:30 to the end really stuck with me. Thanks for sharing.
The problem with realtors is that they never put pictures of the garage. Makes searching difficult. Some sites used to narrow it down to 2+ or 3+ or 4+ garage spaces. No more.
We moved from KS where even cheap new houses have 3 car garages. In NC you're lucky to find a tiny 18x20 garage on any house. Most ones built in the 60's or earlier don't even have garages.
We searched for 3 years and finally found something with a 27x54 basement garage on a couple of acres in our price range and jumped on it. It's so worth the wait.
good things come to those who wait.............really worked in this situation. Also, knowing what you want and letting it come to you...........always better to be blessed.
Doug just seems like a great, honest guy.
When I was moving I found myself assessing the size of the existing garage or space to build one before assessing the house.
You’ve really made so many points for bachelors to stay just that. The whims sheesh.
Watch the storms come in? That's the most chill shit I've ever heard
A guy near us could not find a big enough garage so he sold his house and bought in another town and built a house with a 23 car garage with various sized doors from RV/shop down to his normal car garages. It feels like it just goes on for forever.
Doug should name that concour Concours d'Switchcars.
Public service announcement: in many cases you can build/expand a garage for very little money. Depends on the lot, permitting, and state/county/city but can be as little as $30-40K depending on size, specs and equipment. Car ports even less.
Especially car ports are excellently cheap, and in most climates including really cold car ports can be _better_ for your car than garages (unless your garage has very expensive dehumidifiers). Just have the one garage spot for working in and the rest can be car ports.
Even building a house along with the garage can be pretty simple and risk-free (under the right conditions like buying lot that's easy to build on with the help pf an expert, non-custom house which is a copy of one built before by an established and known builder...). Often for the same price as buying a risky old, used, far-from-perfect house which you've had to search for ages to find you can instead build your own house, new, more risk-free, suits you for sure. Finding the lot is the challenge, and usually if you succeed great with the lot that's more than half the battle.
Disclaimer: this cost situation applies after higher maintenance, repairs of the old house; assuming you can slightly reduce the new home's size as you can select an optimal one for yourself; and above all: thanks to far better air tightness, modern insulation, better doors&windows, and heating & AC systems your monthly costs can be incredibly much lower with the new house.
It is good to see a bit behind the curtain. My esteem for Doug is through the roof.
Dude!! Lifetime Aurora resident and huge fan. Check out Papous for dinner!!! Can’t wait to see your cars touring through town…
Congratulations man🎉
We want a full home tour 😊
Glad you found home base, Doug!
For me the cars came first lol, I'm working on a barn/garage now. I have a hard time deciding which cars to store inside (FD3S, Cosworth 190E, 240z, etc) and ultimately some of them have to sit in the snow. Makes me feel bad but it is what it is I guess
I like my house & where it is, so I bought a warehouse 25mins away, I've spent a small fortune doing things to it to make it safe & secure for my cars, I've also got a huge shed on my country house, so I do feel your pain about finding the perfect place, Rj in Oz
I'll be waiting for the Obsesed Garage makeover soon
I have a two car garage with two lifts, so my wife has restricted me to only four cars. Needless to say, I’ve been on the look out for a dream garage.
i can relate to this, couldent find everything but got a nice house with a decent yard 1.5 acre and then i was able to build a 1500sqft building i did 12x 12 doors so i can fit tall stuff boats etc , 14ft lift so i can lift suvs to the max height next to the houses detached 2 car garage
With the end of the world looming, corporations owning entire neighborhoods, a crash coming, I just hope the end is quick.
Our house the the home base for how we serve others! LOVE IT!
I love Doug's stories. Been looking for a house myself and yes, mancave is an important part!
When I was in high school, my mom told my dad he would have to get rid of one of his cars if he wanted another (two cars were in the garage and three in the driveway). Six months later, there was a detached, two-story four car garage on the other side of the driveway. No cars were sold in the process.
as a classic car collector, I feel your pain. currently have 3 cars stuffed into a 2 car garage. One of the cars is a land yacht too.
If this was in the UK, 80% chance that after all that you would still not be able to buy the house due to chain issues
A good 1st World problem to have- my solution was to shop house plans with the younger one. Settled on a plan that, with a few modifications, will work perfectly. 2 attached 2-car garages (his/hers), 3 bed, 3.5 bath, not tiny but not stupid sized.
Added bonus? Our acreage will easily accommodate a barn for the cargo (25' long) trailer, the motorhome, a shop,an "Efficiency" living space, the pick up, and the extra cars.
Eliminated the "Hunt" entirely. Tailor the house, land & out building to exactly what you want.
With my health problems and limited income I’ve rented pole barn storage in various places, the current one for 20 years. May through October I barter with the owner by mowing the huge lawn twice a month instead of the $300 a month rent. I have stuff in a 13x45 section of one barn, a 25x35 section of the other barn and I have the round grain bin which is 18’ across. I’ve dismantled several trucks, done lots of repairs to my vehicles and years back I was parting out 50+ riding mowers. But if I sell something it’s best to load it up and meet at home, Walmart or a gas station. I’m rather lucky as it’s hard to find private storage to rent.
That’s a nice pile of bricks. Congratulations.
LOL! Doug sounds like my stepdad. They bought a home that needed a full rehab. They turned it into a 6,000 sq ft 5 BR 5 Bth home with 2 double bay double deep garage. LOL, it can hold 8 cars, has a lift, bathroom, it's own HVAC system and more. All of us kids call it the Garagemahall.
Resonate with this so much, were on year 4 of looking for our unicorn
Now this is a good upload. Nice recovery Ed.
Relateable for all of us car guys knowing the garage is at least 50% of the factor when determining to buy a house. Now the question is; What do you put in those 4 spaces?
I waited until I was 64 years old to buy a house. It came with a 20’x30’ metal garage and a 20’x22’ wooden garage. My 24.5’ truck won’t fit but my pontoon will fit in the wooden garage. I do have concrete floors and a large concrete pad in front to work on. I’m planning on having a larger concrete slab poured for parking my 37’ fifth wheel on. No more laying in parking lots, gravel lots and dirt.
So good. Thaks for sharing.
i had a 2 car witha pocket room attached that could fit 6 bikes crammed in the pocket it was nice.
Ever notice that the shows on HGTV never even show the garage unless they're claiming it for a home expansion? My first house was 800 sqft with a 865 sqft triple garage. The realtors said that the garage was an "overimprovement." Needless to say, when I went to sell that house the first guy who looked at it bought it.
Wow!! So happy for you!!!
My first house was 975 sq ft. and the garage was 30x30 with 16 ft ceilings. I would kill to have that back right now.
excellent garage-to-house ratio
Trying to decide where to retire.
My dilemma. To put a decent down payment on a "Dream garage with house" means that I would have to sell all my runners, and all my in-storage projects for cash. Which would negate the need to buy the dream garage.
Saw my real dream place a few years back. 40x60 hangar, on a private airport, with the office area converted into a living space
Good on Mr. Tabbutt and his wife for finding their Dream home and garage!
Since most houses seem to have a 2-car garage, and the more upscale ones have a 3-car or larger garage, no one has a dream garage unless it is custom built. So that's my plan. A tandem 8 bay, 4 door garage just like in this video would be my dream garage. So I will build it. Myself. Before I die.
Wife and I bought a 5/3 fixer upper 2 1/2 yrs ago on an acre before the shit hit the fan for $199 and immediately built my 1200sqft shop out back. Unfortunately our taxes and home value have doubled, BUT, I've got my mancave/shop by golly ! lol
"We found a garage w/ a detached house."......Yep.
FINALLY someone posts about this! Once I had enough to buy the stuff I want, I have nowhere to park it all.
This is why I bought my current house. However it turned out to be more like the interim property you spoke of. So I think I’m building the next one.
"Sebastian Maniscalco - Man cave? You're bragging about a man cave? My father had a man cave, it was the house"
My parents have a car guys dream house, 5 acres, 6 bedrooms, home cinema, double garage in the house, 4 bay shed and car port
Never really heard of Mold being a big issue? But I live in AZ where its DRY and hot... so mold doesn't really take over... doing remodeling, you get some basic molds in places like behind drywall by the shower and such, but cut it out and new piece of green board up, and poof, gone in 60 seconds.