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aemeijers wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:
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Van Chocstraw wrote:

Is $6900.00 a good price for a 2 car garage with slab and 2 steel doors?

Around here, multiply by 10 and you'll have enough to get your plans
drawn up and get them through the review, permit, and approval
processes. As far as actual construction, figure 40,000 or so. So all
together, a shade over 100k is about right.

100k for a 2-car garage? Where the heck do you live? You can do a small
but adequate house with utilities and indoor plumbing for that around
here, if you don't mind entry-level materials.

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Santa Barbara. The last garage construction quote I heard was 50k for a
basic 2-car structure. That didn't include paperwork because it was
outside the city. And that was about six years ago, IIRC.

Was watching local gov't TV the other day. A fellow wanted to rebuild
his garage that had burned or rotted away or something like that. Same
size garage, same materials, same location. But the roof overhang was
going to extend an extra foot. The committee was discussing the proposal
at quite some length, wondering whether it ought to be approved. Seemed
like they weren't very happy with the plan.

I don't know where you could build a house for 100k these days. 100k
might be enough for the bureaucratic ante here. You know, first draft
from the architect, and preliminary paperwork, enough to get your foot
in the door of the architectural board of review. Plan on having your
architect do a half-dozen revisions along the approval route. I'd guess
200k and 3 yrs. at least, before you turn a shovelful of dirt or buy a
brick or a board.

Commercial projects, like a hotel, can take 15 or 20 years to make their
way through all the reviews and approvals.