Supersize It – Would You Like a 4-Car Garage With That?
We all know that Americans like it big: Big screen TVs; big SUV’s; Big Gulps; and big garages.
It used to be that everyone wanted a three-car garage; how did we ever survive growing up with only a two-car garage? Where the heck did our parents put all our stuff back in the day?
You can certainly tell the age of a house by how many garages it has. Today, barely a house is built with fewer than three and clients will outright specify to me that they must have a three-car garage in their new home.
Well, three is starting to be too small, too. Heck, by the time you put two cars in the garage with one of them being a super-sized Yukon, and the third bay is filled with bikes, scooters, lawn tractor, skidoos and motorcycles, where do you put the third car?
People are now starting to ask for four-car garages…not every day, but they are asking. Right now, you’re only likely to find four-car gargages on million dollar homes and up. There are fifty homes in North Fulton listed in the MLS as having 4+ car garages. Only nine are less than a million dollars.
What we are also finding, though, is that people are buying homes with two car garages and adding a detached two-car garage, often with an office or guest quarters over the garage and a breezeway to the house. Aesthetically, this looks very nice, you just have to make sure that the lot (and the HOA) allow this sort of addition.
