Ever since picking up my near mint 02, I can't justify leaving it outside under a cover so I started looking for a garage to store it in/work on it. I thought of renting a storage unit but most of them in my area don't allow you to work on your car while it's in it and don't have 24/7 access etc.
So I decided to keep my eye out for a residential detached 1 or two car garage.
My ideal criteria was that I wanted:
Open access to the driveway to pull it in and out whenever I needed.
For it to be in a safe and quiet neighborhood off of any main streets.
Somewhat far from the owner's house.
For the owner to have a laid back personality.
For it to be cool with the owner that I have a couple friends over to work on the car provided that we are understandably quiet.
And to pay 100-150 a month to be able to have this luxury.
So the other day while driving to work I found exactly that ^.
it's a two car garage to the side of the property with open access to it and the garage doors don't face any street which gives me a piece of mind when I have the doors open exposing all my tools etc.
I basically knocked on the door and asked if they aren't using their garage, if they ever considered renting it out. The lady (old lady living alone) understood right off the bat and said sure. She then walked me over to the garage to show me around. It has some junk in it but I offered to organize everything and consolidate it which will probably only take up about a quarter of the two car garage which leaves me with plenty of space for what I need it for.
We verbally on a price, payment date, and when I'll be taking my car there. And that was that, I got her phone number and left.
Has anyone ever done this? Is there anything you think I should be worried about? is there anything you would be worried about? Can you suggest doing something in addition to cover my own ass if anything goes wrong?
I can use some of your opinions.
I've thought about getting one of those lease agreement forms from staples or something but I'm afraid that would scare her off.
So I decided to keep my eye out for a residential detached 1 or two car garage.
My ideal criteria was that I wanted:
Open access to the driveway to pull it in and out whenever I needed.
For it to be in a safe and quiet neighborhood off of any main streets.
Somewhat far from the owner's house.
For the owner to have a laid back personality.
For it to be cool with the owner that I have a couple friends over to work on the car provided that we are understandably quiet.
And to pay 100-150 a month to be able to have this luxury.
So the other day while driving to work I found exactly that ^.
it's a two car garage to the side of the property with open access to it and the garage doors don't face any street which gives me a piece of mind when I have the doors open exposing all my tools etc.
I basically knocked on the door and asked if they aren't using their garage, if they ever considered renting it out. The lady (old lady living alone) understood right off the bat and said sure. She then walked me over to the garage to show me around. It has some junk in it but I offered to organize everything and consolidate it which will probably only take up about a quarter of the two car garage which leaves me with plenty of space for what I need it for.
We verbally on a price, payment date, and when I'll be taking my car there. And that was that, I got her phone number and left.
Has anyone ever done this? Is there anything you think I should be worried about? is there anything you would be worried about? Can you suggest doing something in addition to cover my own ass if anything goes wrong?
I can use some of your opinions.
I've thought about getting one of those lease agreement forms from staples or something but I'm afraid that would scare her off.
i have no idea what i am doing with my life
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