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@Bruce Woodruff Agreed! Most additions of that size never get built. They get dreamt about, planned, priced, then never built. It's $300/SF and up in my area. This OP should be looking for a house that meets his needs, not a house that will need a 1200 SF addition built on it.
I agree. A smaller remodel might make sense, but when you're looking at virtually the entire house (which means moving out while work is going on) it usually makes more sense to just buy what you want. Or do the whole house. Or buy new...
generally 100% agree. with both of you; especially for project that are going to land in our investment bucket I honestly have a hard time seeing common instances where this much work will make any sense whatsoever.
For the primary, a big part of it will be for family bliss. In the event there are additions, I'm already assuming that the rest of the house will be remodeled at the very least so that there is congruency.
I'm still weighing options but ultimately I wanted to pick the brains of you wiser sages as you know the area better than I. I really appreciate you folks taking the time to provide insight because I have been getting wildly different bits of info and figured talking to operators would make the most sense.
Ok, so to wrap my head around this.
So you thought coming on here, to BP, was the path to certainty in answers vs looking up the building codes where your looking to do things? Vs looking up and calling contractors in that location and talking with them.....
Aaaaaahhhhhh..... Please, make this make sense.
Look, generally speaking, in any market worth being in today, with cost's what they are, your NOT going to profit by doing big scale reno's, especially not "pop-the-top's" or big similar additions, not how your looking to do the work or how I suspect how you'd be buying, which looks to be all retail.
Buying via retail, big scale reno via retail, your gonna be deep in the red. You'd be far better off to just build new. It will be faster, cheaper, simpler.
So I suppose some clarifications are in order.
A) Regardless of comments here, I will be verifying and running due diligence on my own. I'm merely trying to establish a baseline. Building codes can be looked up--assessing the rate in which certain municipalities will add layers of difficulty to get things permitted are another.
B) I was curious to see how people felt about big renos--but for me, the big reno would be for a personal family home and so as much as it hurts my wallet, in the more immediate future it's for family bliss. I agree that large scale renos/expansions seldom pencil out (at least from what I have seen).
maybe I should have added a trigger warning with the OP
The triggering thing here is it makes no sense what so ever.
Asking opinions, on an item where opinions mean literally NOTHING. Building Code is not an arena of opinions, other than the inspectors as it comes to interpretation.
And with code so EASY to look up. I don't know anywhere one can't readily look it all up online. Permitting generally has informational fact sheet's along with it as to the process for it all.
So again, I just don't get it, and the replies make even less sense. Instead of looking at the information, asked for opinions on the information, to then go and look at the info..... thaaan what was point of the opinions?
Look, to your exact posted questions;
How hard is it to expand a house in Georgia? Ask GC's in Georgia, there the only one's who know what's going on and difficulty level with the 3 factors of code, labor, materials.
How hard is it to build out from 1700sqft too 3k? We would need a LOT more details to give any answer, there is literally 0 info here. What kind of home starting with, age, if platform framed or balloon, rambler, split level or 1 1/2 story...... There is only about 50 baseline factors to give even a basic answer on this.
What I am picking up here is your word vomiting a thought, and looking for accurate answers, there is no answers because you didn't give anything that can be answered.
The only thing of any fashion of answer that can be lent is, in general, a "Reno" on scale of what mentioned here is NOT a "reno", it's a RE-development. Your taking a property and turning it into something significantly different.
In general, those ONLY return not-0 and profitably IF there is significant market potential at significant UP classing a property. For example, taking a old 2br nothing too a luxury 4/5br something in an area that has gone through massive UP-classing change.
Other than that, it's often much cheaper to just tear it down and build from 0. Retrofitting and additions are NOT as simple as just clicking more lego's onto the existing lego's.
