LVDell

Thanks! Sorry, I haven't taken any more pics of the garage since I did the cabinet install. I'll try and snap some next weekend and post back.

It's going to be VERY HARD to let it go when we decide to get something else. It's just a great looking (and bulletproof) wagon and quite rare to boot.

Now get healthy so we can hear about your trip to Hawaii this time next year!

Garage is 13 foot high. We are in the heart of Cary (Preston area) and it's virtually impossible to find a 3 car garage in this area. You have to move to some of the less sought after areas to get 3 car garages. If you do find a 3 car garage near where we are, then you paying 7 figures and have more square feet than you could want. We have 3500 sq feet and I feel at times it is too much. Heck, there are NO 3 car garage homes in our neighborhood and some of the homes are pushing 6000 sq feet! Since we wanted this area over all else, we decided to give up the 3rd stall. Having a ceiling that would accommodate a lift helped make the decision easier. We can get to downtown Raleigh in 15 min, Durham in 20, and Chapel Hill in 30. Move any direction away from where we are and those times increase dramatically (as does the traffic).

With that said, we are always thinking about moving as we really want a 3 car garage. The problem is (a) they are hard to find in this area; (b) we don't want to move again; we really have just about everything we want in a house; and (c) the house is worth a lot less than we paid for it when we built 5 years ago and that is a hard pill to swallow.

aussie jimmy

cary 805 se ftw!

LVDell

Only an audiophile would get that one

Marine Blue

Thanks Dell, this is really helpful. We have found only a couple of homes in our price range in the Preston area, none have three car garages. 13 foot ceilings also seem to be rare so you are lucky!

I don't blame you for not wanting to move, that is something we struggled with also but we have decided to go for it and hopefully this will be the last time. We are going to take a hit financially as well but I guess we will gain it on the other side so it's almost a wash. If you were looking again, where would you look?

LVDell

If we were looking again we'd look right where we are and just go with the homes that we passed on in the first place. This time around the only requirement for the 3 car garage is that the lift can still be used!

It also depends on if both of y'all work and where. Commute is the key to lowering your level of stress. The commute for my wife to her practice during rush hour is 12 minutes door to door! When the wife is happy, the family is happy

There were some of the others docs in her practice that commuted from Chapel Hill because they loved the area and the land they could get with their home but their commute time was upwards of an hour. No thanks. If we wanted that sort of commute, we'd go back to DC.