homeowners, garage parking?

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by Trip

I have lived in everything from a government housing to trailers to neighborhoods with fancy gates.

I've never lived in a fancy neighborhood with gates....However, I started in Gov housing and moved UP to trailer parks.

Grew up with just a mother who worked for the county without 2 penny's to rub together.

We lived in a very poor trailer park, but amazingly, while poor, my mother had CLASS. She may have been living in a trailer park…she was NEVER trailer park material.

When you entered our trailer, it was if you walked into a house somewhere in middle suburbia. She had nice decorations and kept it spotless. With the drapes pulled you didn't know that you were in a trailer. She also raised me to NOT be like the trailer trash that surrounded us, often stopping at the dumpster where OTHERS had just chucked their trash out and missed the doors and staying there for an hour cleaning it up. All because she didn't like the image that all that trash gave us.

With her class and determination, my mother instilled in me a sense of pride and accomplishment that inspired me to do more than what most thought was possible from some kid from a trailer park. And despite the years of ridicule and teasing….I made my way thru college on my own blood sweat and tears…sometimes working 3 jobs while taking 18 hours of classes.

So I've lived everywhere along the bottom of the spectrum and caught a glimpse of how the upper part lives...I'm happy somewhere in the middle.

[racedoll]

I'm working on selling 1 bike and having a garage sale soon. I just need to get through my final paper for school, then I can focus on other things. Once I do this, my new car will be in the garage so my husband says.

[Cutty72]

America, the only place where we store all our worthless junk locked up inside, while $30,000 vehicles sit unprotected in the driveway

All mine are parked in the garage, unless I'm working on something in the garage and need the space.
I bought my property for the garages, and the house came with
2 1/2 stall detached beside the house holds my pickup, comonboys car, both bikes and the lawn mower in the summer. My bike and the snowblower in the winter. Single stall in the back yard holds what isn't being used (snowblower/mower) and comonboy's bike in the winter, and my Cutlass all the time.
Tools and such are in the main garage as well.

I hope to add on a 3rd stall when I get back from Kosovo. Hopefully about 16' by 35'. My pickup barely fits in the doors of the garage now, so if I get something new I'll need a bigger door to get it in.

Also would like to get rid of the single stall in the back yard, and replace it with a 35' by 30 shop.

[Rangerscott]

Bike goes in the garage with other crap. Its sad how small they build garages these days. You can barely fit one vehicle all the way. Where are you suppose to put your tools, lawnmower, etc? Guess its gonna become mandatory to pay someone to do everything around the house.

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Bike goes in the garage with other crap. Its sad how small they build garages these days. You can barely fit one vehicle all the way. Where are you suppose to put your tools, lawnmower, etc? Guess its gonna become mandatory to pay someone to do everything around the house.

When I was house shopping that was the first thing I did. Show up at the property, open the garage, drive in pickup. If the pickup didn't fit easily with room around it to walk, open doors, etc, it was out of the question.

[Sixxxxer]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

When I was house shopping that was the first thing I did. Show up at the property, open the garage, drive in pickup. If the pickup didn't fit easily with room around it to walk, open doors, etc, it was out of the question.

I kinda did the same thing...I Wouldn't look at a house without a garage...But I also dont have a pickup so for me it was will the car fit and still leave me room to walk around it/work on it.

[unknownroad]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Bike goes in the garage with other crap. Its sad how small they build garages these days. You can barely fit one vehicle all the way.

We had a pair of Cadillacs that measured out at 20' 6". They would not fit into our old garage if you wanted to close the door. I've got a picture somewhere of the garage door sitting on the hood of one of them, with the tail fins actually dug slightly into the drywall at the back the garage.

[z06boy]

Didn't vote since none of the choices apply to me.

We have an oversized two car garage...wish it was a three or more car though.

My Vette and the SRT-4 plus the two bikes are in the garage with some room to spare.

The Jeep Cherokee sits out on the concrete pad.

Our garage is in the rear of the house and is part of the walkout basement.

[wildchild]

i have a 3 1/2 car garage but it is full with old cars, bike, atv, and boat. my driver cars sit outside.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by wildchild

i have a 3 1/2 car garage but it is full with old cars, bike, atv, and boat. my driver cars sit outside.

how do you have a 1/2 a car garage?