Thanks for the comments, guys, in Marin county california, high up a big hill, the construction costs seem to multiply out of all proportion to what you get. This was a more complex project than just throughing something up on a concrete slab cause of the hillside location. I have a ground floor that provides a beefy foundation and storage area and then the concrete slab was poured on the framed top floor abd then covered with the garage and a sloping driveway to the hillside. Nice picture windows with san francisco bay views and all sorts of provisions for water drainage and earthquake safety. In a big one i guess i'll be living in my garage!

 

Gotta love where I live! I had a 24x24 garage built on a block foundation, custom trusses, insulation, electric, phone, full drywall, cedar siding...$16k. And I thought I paid too much!

I may hate the cold and the snow, but I'll take it over hurricanes and earthquakes anyday!!

My first house had a 24x30 garage and the whole house was less than $70k!

 

Well, i'm all for inexpensive real estate but there's no getting arround that my home that cost me $280k in 1988 is now worth 1.5 mil and that the 70k garage added a big profit margin to the increased value. You can't have it both ways, so actually the more $$ i can afford to put into the home the more payback i will eventually get if i want to sell and retire anywheres else. but yeah i think 70k is such a rip for a garage and i remember when that would buy 7 homes with a 2 car garage each where i grew up in n.y.

 

Ok, we still need pics.

 

Fo sho...

 

Yeah - all you had to say was Marin county, and now I'm wondering how the heck it's only $70K.