It seems to be what everyone's doing right now, so here's ours, under contract:
But, more importantly, it comes with this:
A 140 year old farmhouse and an old motorcycle shop. What could go wrong? 
The plan with the shop is to rent out the front part of it to help cover our mortgage, and keep the back section (accessed by door in last photo) to ourselves, giving us a garage space roughly 3x as large as our current two car garage.
Cute house and awesome shop!!!!
Nice I too am thinking of buying a house now.
In reply to z31maniac:
It's what all the cool kids are doing The market is crazy right now, we tried to look at places before this which had offers within hours of being listed. I guess everyone's trying to get on the low interest train before it leaves the station.
This is exactly as epic as I would expect from the two of you. When does the lift go in?
Holy crap that shop is awesome 
. Congrats and good luck!
In reply to mazdeuce:
As soon as we actually own the house and an appropriately priced one appears on craigslist. There's a $1000 7k lb 2-post that's tempting me right now, but I don't want to have to store it for two months.
Eleventy million? Is this in San Francesco?
Wow, jealous! What a beautiful house and awesome shop. Great job!
Where'd you end up location wise? Congrats!!
I hate you!
I hate you!
I hate you!
There. I feel better.
In reply to bluej:
Still Quakertown, we wouldn't be moving at all if our rental wasn't being sold so we figured why go somewhere else?
Im jealous of that garage, im learning that an old house is a E36 M3load of work.
Holy E36 M3, I am so jealous.
Wait til you see how many new friend you've got once the snow starts flying!
Nice, Congrats
Wow that looks amazing. Good luck!
you're doing it right apparently.
I love it! Both the house and the shop look awesome. I hope it works out well for you!!!
In reply to ¯_(ツ)_/¯:
Did you get enough yard for a test-course out back?
So, here I am opening this thread thinking, "hey another house, that's cool." But then, OMG!! A multi-bay, full business garage! You sir are WINNING.
Not to be a downer but does the property have an EPA clean bill of health? Any old underground tanks of fuel or oil? Scary stuff.
That's awesome congratulations. I was just talking to a realtor in my sales class and the realtor that sold me my house. They both said the market in the greater Lehigh Valley is absolutely nuts right now, neither of them needs to stage any of the houses because they sell within a couple of weeks of going on the market.
I love brick and stone houses out in the country. I wanted a field stone one so badly when I moved into the area but I couldn't find one that lined up with the rest of my requirements.
Is your roof slate? It also looks like they kept the majority of the surface area of the chimney inside of the house which is also awesome.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: In reply to z31maniac: It's what all the cool kids are doing
Well I just moved to my current city in January for a new job, now that it looks like I'll be here for awhile I'd rather have a garage again.
I like my swanky downtown apartment, but for the $1100/month I'd rather just go buy a house. I could potentially even take my 8 mile one-way commute and make it even shorter.
Pete Gossett wrote: In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: Did you get enough yard for a test-course out back?
No, but the neighbors across the street appear to already have a UTV track going- I'll have to be extra friendly when I meet them.
John Welsh said: Not to be a downer but does the property have an EPA clean bill of health? Any old underground tanks of fuel or oil? Scary stuff.
The only underground tank is for poo, and we're waiting on inspections to confirm but I don't think there's anything else nasty hiding.
The0retical said: Is your roof slate?
Yep, although the jury is still out on whether it's real or synthetic.
Theres a restoration thread on garage journal about an old repair shop. I expect your build thread to be more awsomer
Congratulations. I hope to be house shopping in a year.
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