Cost - 3 car detached garage
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czygvtwkr
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Probably around $60k, but depends how nice you make it.
Nothing fancy but definitely finished eg: electric, drywall...
And add another 40k to it.
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czygvtwkr
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Want to know something funny, I sold a 100 year old house, 4 bedrooms, 4 acres, definately needed work with a 3 car detached garage with a loft (for storing and drying lumber), three phase electrical service for machinery, and another single stall garage built on the back of the three stall later for a grand total of......$87k
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czygvtwkr
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Do you have any skills yourself, isn't too hard to do the floor, foundation, and framing yourself for a garage.
Goldenhawk
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I built a 1200 sq ft structure, half of it a 2-car and the other half an in-law suite, with a bonus room atop the garage. Did it in 2005 for about $40K. The living half was on a crawl space. It included a full kitchen and bath, and a 20' concrete driveway extension out to the new garage. I did about half the total labor, so a similar fully contracted structure would probably have been about $60k. Labor and material costs are rather higher now.
Time, labor and materials will bring it closer to 120,000 than 60. Some variables being how is the inlaw suite attached? Above, below or beside garage? How big do you consider 3 car size?
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Final price may vary depending on whether you already own the cars or not.
Final price will DEFINITELY vary if you are still single!
That's the first estimate I've seen in this thread that looks "close". I'm basing that on costs of the two-story garage and finished 2nd floor that I had built in '98, adjusted for the costs I'm seeing for the 2-story house I have under construction right now.
I estimated 100k.
GWguy
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And I don't now if they've changed much, but the wood they provide is crap. I got a 24 x 24' barn kit from them, sent 1/4 of the wood back to be replaced. full of termite holes, warped beyond use, etc.... This was in NY in the late '80s.
glhs837
Power with Control
Well, that's one store almost 30 years ago
Sometimes you get crap from the supplier and it's all you have. I knwo when I worked there at the one in Hughesville, we didnt cherry pick lumber, but obviously bad stuff we would toss aside. But if your order call for a few full pallets, thats what goes on the truck, we wouldnt break it open to see what the inside looks like.
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czygvtwkr
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My grandfathers house in WV
Thought it might of been local.
Land here ain't cheap.
4 acres here could run around 100k and up depending on location.
jimfuel100
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This is a timely thread. I'm beginning to look at doing this on my vacant lot in central md. I'm guessing I can do the structure for +/- 100k. Impact fee's, utilities, septic, ect, will be another 50K for me.