# Property owners chime in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/property-owners-chime-in/242990 "2009-03-22T18:22:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 68
**Author:** ![JClark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jclark/32/6309_2.png) [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/property-owners-chime-in/242990/68 "2009-04-07T05:53:23Z")
> [@Vovchandr"](#): > > Two ways around that. > > 1. Make it a steel construction and disassemble upon future resale. > 2. Make it a two story, or at least habitable (space wise) quarters above the garage space for storage or else. > > Swimming pools devalue the property typically? Interesting. > > And it’s not exactly turning a 1 car into two, it’s turning a two into over-sized 4, tall enough for a lift and habitable quarters above. What do you plan to do with the steel structure, take it with you? The ground prep/slab/wiring/etc is the expensive part on a steel building which you cant get back. Is the town cool with you converting a 1fam home to a 2fam? What can you get in rent for whichever one you’re not going to live in? It’s 10 new hurdles you can solve by just buying a house with the garage you want already there. That way the previous owner has already taken the hit and you can buy it at a depreciated value. The goal of a starter home is to get equity and gtfo into something you actually want to live in. People often get stuck there by dumping money into making the place better but they’ll never get it back out again. Just my $.02, as always. > [@WTBorrow:Silenced Rifle](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtborrow-silenced-rifle/16770/3): > > lol its based on property value. The rate isn’t low, but it isnt high, and in addition, the assessor doesn’t know how to price hosues so you might luck out and he might put a really LOW value or you might luck out and put a HIGH value. Rotterdam prop taxes are a good chunk higher than average around here, how can you say otherwise? For what you pay in taxes for a shithole in R-dam, you can have an average $350k house in Clifton Park. With better schools and…not in Rotterdam. That’s why Schen Co. houses are so cheap - they have to be so people can afford the taxes. So you’re counting on the assessor putting a low value on the house…when all he does all day is assess homes to make money for the county and town… Sounds like a good bet. :poke --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/property-owners-chime-in/242990)._