Garage add on in havasu

[Singleton]

I've been watching the Havasu market VERY close the past couple years. You forgot one serious consideration on the listing you posted. It's on a main thoroughfare. I've noticed houses on the main roads are at minimum 100k cheaper than ones on side streets or culdasacs. Because of the FUCKED up way Havasu was designed, there's a crap load of main thoroughfares and not many smaller streets. To get a house with either a pool or an RV garage on a side street is going to be 450-500 to start. With both 500-600 to start. Yes, there is the weird old houses that pop up from time to time that need full remodels with both but those are few and far between. And from what I'm told from realtors in Havasu (Stacy included) houses with RV garages and pools are snatched up in a day(s) or even hours from listing and usually over asking.

I'd like to buy a house in Havasu but FUCK the market is stupid out there right now. Houses seemed to have doubled in price over past 3 years.

bingo.
if the street has a painted line I am out.
i had the option to purchase @Hatenwinter Havasu pad In 2016. Kicking myself for not doing it. But we were looking at an additional 200k to add RV garage and pool plus update the house. Layout of house, master across from kids bedroom did not work for us, so we passed. Purchased a ToyHauler and doing the Islander. Want a small 2 bedroom RV garage condo in Havasu

 

[FishSniper]

We just closed at $443K for a house that sold for $300K 3 years ago. Watching what the prices did even in the last year was crazy. We wanted an RV garage and a pool for under $460K and could not find anything under the mid $500k range. We did find them with pools and and no RV garage and vise versa so I flipped coin and decided to build a pool rather than a garage. I know that won't be cheap either but I had toys that needed to get into that garage.

We were having the same debate and chose the same route last December. I’m glad we went the route we did buying it with the garage. We were able to do the pool how we wanted and adding the pool is more cost effective then adding the garage. Our pool is currently under construction and should be done in the next 6-8 weeks.

 

[badgas]

I think it was a better call to have RV garage than pool. Can't you get a pool for 50-75k? RV garages are looking (according to this thread) to be 100+ easy.

I suppose if things don't cool down out there we'll do the same. RV garage and location over pool and location.
Other option would be pool / good location that has some room I could put one of those steel structures up for now. Not as cool, but it gets the job done until RV garage can be built down the road.

Yes a nice pool can be had for 75K and will be up to date with jacuzzi. Even the pool homes we found a lot of them had 30 old pools that needed love and odd placement/design. This way we will get the pool and yard we want.

 

[J&k beer can]

we bought in april 17(just over 200k) in a cul de sac. only 8 houses and one lot so theres no traffic.
we are smaller 3 bdrm normal size rooms and has 2 butt kitchen with big lot that was updated and turn key ..
when we started looking the woman wanted the rv garage and i wanted the pool to enjoy now.. we got the pool house..
glad i won cause now we get the rv garage how we want with our options .. we looked into selling our house and buying a house with rv garage in late 19 to not deal with having one built and prices were already going up for houses we liked..
so that made the decision to have one built.. then the bug hit the world and we held off till sept of this year..
adding the rv garage to our house will up the value way more then were spending to have it done.. and no more paying for storage unit to keep it all..
we are not going to retire in havasu.. will sell in 3/4 years and move to a lake house back east..

its whats in your budget and what you like.. if you wish to buy do it now cause it wont drop out like it did before in(08)

 

[SummitKarl]

I've been watching the Havasu market VERY close the past couple years. You forgot one serious consideration on the listing you posted. It's on a main thoroughfare. I've noticed houses on the main roads are at minimum 100k cheaper than ones on side streets or culdasacs. Because of the FUCKED up way Havasu was designed, there's a crap load of main thoroughfares and not many smaller streets. To get a house with either a pool or an RV garage on a side street is going to be 450-500 to start. With both 500-600 to start. Yes, there is the weird old houses that pop up from time to time that need full remodels with both but those are few and far between. And from what I'm told from realtors in Havasu (Stacy included) houses with RV garages and pools are snatched up in a day(s) or even hours from listing and usually over asking.

I'd like to buy a house in Havasu but FUCK the market is stupid out there right now. Houses seemed to have doubled in price over past 3 years.

Havasu is a odd duck, I have never seen a place where realtors drive allot of what raises prices but that is exactly what happens here, if they see room between the appraisal and sale price up goes the next listing price, till just the last few weeks where things are not appraising for what the realtors suggested listing price is. so it's going to flatten out for a bit then continue on is upward course as comps and appraisals catch up unless interest rates go up then it's got to correct but it doesn't look like the FED is going to change those anytime soon. Yes material and labor cost are biting heavily into building costs, we had a 40% overnight jump in lumber and other things, the doors, windows and appliances are in short supply and need to be ordered months in advance all of which doesn't actually hurt on a spec build, but on contracted build on your lot it absolutely kills the contractor and they have to take it in the shorts to complete the build, it's a risky biz and not for the faint of wallet. It all has added up and really bit into the benefit of instant equity of building a new home one normally gets. I do think as the COVID thing winds down and the mills and factories start producing at pre COVID rates that supply and demand will do it's thing and bring building costs back down some so that the instant equity of building new increases back to more favorable levels.

 

[BHC Vic]

It’s cheaper buying a house with the garage already there than building it yourself, especially at today’s rates.

Kind of the same deal I have in bhc. It’s cheaper to sell that house and buy a bigger one with a bigger garage. Even with me doing most the work myself which I really don’t want to do anyways

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

Kind of the same deal I have in bhc. It’s cheaper to sell that house and buy a bigger one with a bigger garage. Even with me doing most the work myself which I really don’t want to do anyways

I would imagine it is the same deal in the entire area. If I need a bigger garage in AZ I'm just going to rent my house out and buy another one