The preliminary photos are done. Phew!! Nothing like scrubbing every inch, shining the floors and backing ourselves down the stairs.
I threatened the guys with death if they came back upstairs with their dirty shoes for an hour.
Tomorrow we have to focus on wasting time trying to clean up the garage and basement because the other car lover is viewing property at 4pm. All this cleaning is driving us all crazy and keeping us from moving forward with other things
We have heard back from the first buyers that came through on Monday. They are flying down again on Sunday for 2nd showing of our property and one that is for sale at 1070 Novarra. Better location, lower price, smaller and it has 4 car garage. But needs a lot of work. We’ll see.
Well, I guess on Novara if all you care about is an out-to-sea-only view and garage space and nothing about the house itself…clearly being marketed for total renovation. Also looks like about 3 feet between houses on that block! Someone bought in in early 2015 and slapped on a new garage door and…nothing else?
Just out of curiosity, how much would it cost someone to build another garage on the alley in the back yard of your house?
There are two issues with building a garage in back. One is that there is a required 5ft setback from property line. So if you were looking at house standing in back alley, you probably cannot build a decent garage to right side of driveway. You could build a carport but it would be tight turn to the spaces.
To the left of driveway is another issue. Back yard is raised about 3 to 4 ft above alley. You would have to pull permit and dig back into yard about 20 ft. Then a retaining wall would have to be built and then garage. Probably about 40 thousand.
cb, if that’s what it costs, then that’s what it costs. If one of these early-bird clients buys the house, you’ll save on staging, at least. Anything else??
What is driving the high cost? Is it the size of the panels? The amount of the panels?
If it’s the size, perhaps consider adding more posts and going with smaller panels.
If it’s the quantity of glass, maybe it’s time to look at alternate railing systems such as cables, that would still be virtually invisible yet be much cheaper. Why does it have to be glass?
The glass railings are standard and expected on the updated high-end houses with sweeping ocean views in Southern California. I’d just bite the bullet and order the glass. It is a major feature, and one of the most important.
Cable railings will not go with the style of the house. Its a contemporary style. Glass railings are the norm around here so I guess I’m just going to have to suck it up. Now I just have to find $10,000 somewhere because my driveway is going to cost 7,000. The bleeding never stops
I hope someone buys it this weekend so there is light at the end if the tunnel.
P.S. my agent pays for the staging. I don’t know what her budget is going to be
The glass railings around here have wooden posts with slots into which the glass slides in, with no aluminum frame or anything. Frameless glass, without anything blocking the views. At least that’s how my old ones were. I will check my new ones when i get home.
The glass on the large deck off the living room has to be mounted and match the style of the original deck. So it will have a wood strip at the bottom which the glass sits in and a wood top rail.
We have stucco posts on the top floor deck and balcony to match the style of the house. I had originally thought that I need to have dark brown bottom rail and top rail between the posts because of the style of the house. The invisible glass with no top or bottom rail is more of a ‘contemporary’ style. But hey… we may be moving to that since I’m already paying for the thicker 3/8" glass. I will talk to the glass company. It may be that you have to go up to 1/2" glass in order to avoid the railings. That is a huge cost to go up to 1/2" glass
