Who requires a garage?

[Anonymous]

Simple vote ... who views lack of a garage as an intractable deal breaker? Assume everything else is ideal ... location, house, price, plenty of parking in driveway and on street. Many other houses in neighborhood also without garages.

What if there is a garage but it's so small (ie, 1940s home, pre-SUVs) that fitting the family car in would be a daily nuisance?

[Anonymous]

We have owned three h

[Anonymous]

Not a dealbreaker inside the Beltway. Definitely a dealbreaker outside the Beltway.

[Anonymous]

Whoops, three homes and none has had a garage. My husband grew up with one (outer suburbs) and I grew up in a 1920s house where the garage was tiny and even though we had a VW bug which would fit in it, it was never used for cars. Have never felt the need for one. We do have a big driveway though.

[Anonymous]

If this were CA, no garage is fine. DMV area, need garage. Too hot in summer, rain/snow. Need a garage.

[Anonymous]

I've owned my own home since 1991, and never had a garage until 2004. I'm never going back. Absolute deal breaker. It can be a one car garage, but there must be a garage.

[Anonymous]

By the way, the height of rain/pollen season is the wrong time to ask this.

So is the snow, ice, salted-roads season.

And the leaves and crap falling from the sky season.

You see why you need a garage?

[Anonymous]

ooh leaves might fall on my car-- now I see why I need a garage.

I need off street parking. I could care less about a garage, except maybe to store the lawnmower and crap like that.

[Anonymous]

It was a deal breaker for us last year when we were buying our first home. We are still paying the loan for our car so having it covered during snow/rain days was important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a dealbreaker inside the Beltway. Definitely a dealbreaker outside the Beltway.

This is probably about right. I've only owned homes inside the beltway and never had a garage, and most of my neighbors also did not. It sucked in the beginning coming from an apartment building with garage parking but I've gotten used to it and it's no big deal. Of course I'd love to have one but I manage just fine without it.

[Anonymous]

I have a garage. never going back. Live in McLean.

[Anonymous]

I have an old sports car that requires a garage. The Model A sized Arlington 1930s or 1950s type works fine.

No garage = deal breaker for that and other reasons. I'd rather have a 2-car or even 3, but 1 is an absolute minimum requirement.

[Anonymous]

We've got one of those 1950s garages that's great for bikes and garden supplies. $1.3 million house inside the beltway. We moved from a house with no garage so were excited to have it. So probably a deal breaker at this point but I don't need to be able to put a car in it.

[Anonymous]

Past my starter house, would not have remotely considered anything without an attached 2. Would have preferred 3, didn't get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a garage. never going back. Live in McLean.

To add, now that I have a 2 car garage I really want a 3 car garage! If I ever move the next house will have a 3 car garage, 2 for the cars 1 for kids crap, bikes, work shop etc...