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HRoi

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Bane of my house hunting existence. Not that I hunt for houses all that often.

If I don’t see well lit pics of a well-sorted garage in the listing, I just assume that it will need a few K in repairs plus the fee of one of those companies that clean up after murder scenes
 

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I know I've complained about this before...but wtf is up with real estate listings that refuse to show the garage?
After spending QUITE a bit of time hunting last year, it was my experience that the overwhelming majority of garages are pretty old and messy.
I just looked at one where the description even talks about the garage and its newly installed storage system as a selling point...and then they don't even have a single photo of the inside.
That one's a head scratcher.
Unless...
Sellers sometimes stuff the garage in prep for moving?
Yep! That's also what I saw out there. Many of them were packed pretty full.
 

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My guess too. The #1 rule of making a home look nicer is to remove about 80% of the crap from it. So they stuff those in the garage.
That is exactly what we did when we sold our house, and why the agent didn't include any pictures of it in the listing, despite it being new and rather decent.
 

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Bane of my house hunting existence. Not that I hunt for houses all that often.

If I don’t see well lit pics of a well-sorted garage in the listing, I just assume that it will need a few K in repairs plus the fee of one of those companies that clean up after murder scenes charming patina

I realtor'd this for you
 

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You're probably right that that's where all the crap is hidden.

Although how hard would it be to take a photo or two before you move all the crap? Stick it at the end of the listing...is anyone really going to hold it against you that you have a bunch of stuff in the garage? They'll see it if they view the house...

My house didn't have garage photos either, although it at least had a floor plan so you could see how big it was and the general layout.
 

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You're probably right that that's where all the crap is hidden.

Although how hard would it be to take a photo or two before you move all the crap? Stick it at the end of the listing...is anyone really going to hold it against you that you have a bunch of stuff in the garage? They'll see it if they view the house...

My house didn't have garage photos either, although it at least had a floor plan so you could see how big it was and the general layout.
Because photographers come once.
 

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I was going to say just have the realtor or customer snap some photos (since again...garage...you're trying to get a sense of utility not beauty).

But I know how absolutely terrible some people are at taking photos...so maybe it is for the best to just ignore it.
 

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Our garage could use some work as the prior owners must have hit the wall a couple times with their car. Also, there are 2 boxes with a ton of unused wires...one for phone lines and one with coax for cable.
 

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Still a work in progress but this is what the garage looked like after taking possession (and pressure washing the floor).
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And this was after pulling everything off the walls, patching all the holes, repairing bad drywall spots, finishing the taping/mud, and painting:
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Storage has since gone in for some stuff (lawn tools and skis) but I'm still trying to sort out
- bike storage (can't settle on the ideal spot...but I have piece of Unistrut and a bunch of sliding hooks ready to go for what I think will be a pretty slick system)
- summer/winter wheel storage (maybe some high up wheel racks? PITA to use, but I only swap wheels on the cars twice a year)
- workbench/workspace
- shelving location/arrangement

End result should keep everything on the perimeter of the room leaving the space between the cars fully open. Its a pretty wide area so I should be able to even do stuff like set up sawhorses and work on longer/larger things without having to move a car outside.

Dream world I'd do something about the slab--it puddles nasty snow-melt water where the car wheels sit (and has remnants of a failed epoxy floor). Raising the height with a sloped pour might work...removing and fully replacing the slab sounds expensive.
 

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And to the point about them being full of all the junk you removed from the house for the photos...here's what it looked like pre-sale:

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Our garage could use some work as the prior owners must have hit the wall a couple times with their car. Also, there are 2 boxes with a ton of unused wires...one for phone lines and one with coax for cable.
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