One-Car Tuckunder Garage? No Problem!

Normally, you’d expect a home with only a one-car, tuck-under garage to be steeply discounted.

Except in this case, the homes that come with the less-than-ideal garages** are the “Painted Ladies” in San Francisco, a series of Victorian Homes in Alamo Square with spectacular views of the downtown skyline (pictured above).

Most recent selling price:  $3.1 million, in 2014.

**Best guess is that the garages are actually tandem — that is, two-car, with one stall immediately in front of the other.

See also, “Discounting For a One-Car Garage“; “The Trouble With Tuck-Under’s”; and “Not ‘Fessing to a Tandem Garage.“



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