What part of a home do you like most?

September 5th, 2008 by roostblog in Real Estate

So I’ve probably looked at hundreds, if not thousands, of homes during my lifetime. What I find interesting is the fact that I’m always drawn to the same part of a home whether I’m over at a friend’s house for dinner or walking through an open house….the garage.

Maybe that’s because in my current home, the garage is where I have my workshop/computer/multimedia room. We are tight on space and I have a lot of stuff so my wife told me to have fun with “my” space. Now it is a little uncomfortable in the summer and it gets a little loud when the dryer is going but I love it because I can decompress after a long day or tinker at my leisure.

Now my wife’s central focus in any house that we enter is definitely the bathroom. She is a diehard bath connoisseur and almost gets giddy when she finds a home with a deep old fashioned claw foot tub. I swear if I didn’t know she had two legs and lungs, I would bet money that she was at least half mermaid.

So what part of a home do you like best?

Derek Overbey
Sr. Director of Partnership Strategy
Roost.com
Twitter – @doverbey
derek.overbey@roost.com

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  • This post cracks me up. It's a running joke for me. Over the years it's become an obvious pattern. If I show the wife first - we'll never look at the garage. What the hell for? It's a garage for God's sake! What's in there?

    Then we come back with the husband. The first stop? The damn garage. I don't get it but I admit it - I'm a girl -whaddya expect?!
  • Jim
    Kitchen!
  • As a seller, I learneed the hard way that the garage is completely essential to most buyers. I had been sequestering the pets in there during showings, but realized that the husbands seeing the home were just not connecting to the house. Once I figured that out and made the garage an integral part of the tour, things turned around. I now tell all my clients not to overlook the garage when getting the house ready to sell.

    For me? Kitchen and master bath, in no particular order. A serious kitchen and a great big tub in the master are all I require to be happy.
  • I don't know Derek, the garage just doesn't do it for me. Then again, it's because I spend less and less of my time there. I spend the majority of my free time in the living room (that's where I decompress and find solace after the day-to-day).
  • [ ... Now Derek Overby is a cool guy; he's the Sr. Director of Parntership Strategy at Roost.com. And I'm introducing him to you because he asked an interesting question the other day: "What part of a home do you like most?" ... ]
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