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I eat and sleep garages! As a car collector I know that one of the top places to find garage nirvana (and to advertise, sell or buy) a garage that happens to have a house is a website called CarProperty.com http://www.CarProperty.com
If you love garages, check it out!
Thats' CarProperty.com ... sorry I didn't get the link in last time ... this is the first time on this discussion feature for me 
What's up with advertising garages on all these revived threads? Did you a do a search for "garage" and post on every thread like this?
All you 4-car-garage people are going to have a hard time selling in about 20 years when the automobile, and the gas costs that come with it, is no longer economically viable.
What you want to do is take Bethrarig's advice and make sure that the garage can be readily converted to office or apartment space. That's going to look great around 2030 when you've got people looking to house elderly baby-boomer relatives with them and possibly telecommute from home. Your property taxes might be higher depending on how that space is classified, but the sooner yuo wean yourself off automobile-centered life, the better.
My parents have a house out in the country. It is underground with a 4 car underground garage. If they didn't have a car, they'd have to walk or ride a bike 45 miles to work and 45 miles home everyday. That is a little farfetched. :) If everyone out in the country moved into the town or citites they worked in, it'd be impossibly crowded and overpopulated.
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I'm thinking ahead here. I wonder if when I sell - will what I write below be a good thing or a bad thing?
House: 4 bedroom, 2 story cape cod on ONE ACRE of land *[sub par plot, see below]*
Location: Upper, Midwest
Area Stats: 1/2 Farm, 1/2 Houses - some condos coming to the area. *Most houses are on 3 to 5 acres.* Most houses have barns, pull barns or large garages used for mechanics or woodworking, etc. Many homes that aren't farms even have garages bigger than their houses. Even though it is a rural area, I can see it becoming less rural in about 10 years. The outskirts seem to be filling up with condos and a main street that runs near the edge of town is growing very rapidly with businesses.
Besides a 2 car garage attached to the house, it has a big detached 2 story, 2 car garage up our hill [mechanics garage].
ISSUE: My husband wants to build a one story, four car garage IN PLACE of the big garage. I'm afraid that with us having only a ONE acre lot - will someone want to buy a 'GARAGE' with a house, lol? Get it? As opposed to a house with a garage? Think we will be waiting for "the right person" in even a great future market? Everybody tells me I'm crazy for worrying about this - that it will add to the house and is the thing for the area. That there are "all these guys" who are like your husband and work on things in big garages. And people have so many toys now - they all need an extra garage or two. People spend money on storage because they don't have a big garage/barn. So?
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