Converted garage

[Hugh Ayles]

This house has the garage converted to occupiable space.  Does that add value to the property?  

It is the only house on the street where this has been done.

If you can include the garage square feet in the calculations, this house is a good deal.  If you can"t include the square footage, the numbers don't work.

[Corby Goade]

It depends on how the work was done. In my town, lots of people do this. They do a terrible job and create useless, awkward space and destroy the curb appeal of the property. In most cases, it's done without a permit as well, so typically the county does not recognize it as living space in the property which will definitely damage the per square foot value when you go to sell. I've seen it done well a few times, but most of the time it's a hack job. The dead giveaway for a hack job (for me, at least) is having a driveway that bumps in to the house where the garage once was. Looks terrible.