Do You Park Your Vehicle in a Garage?

Interesting and ingenious way to store the car out of the weather, etc. However, the hassle of getting the car in/out of this "closet" would make any short trips hardly worth the effort.

We keep our vehicles garaged, and out of the weather. I have an old '97 Dakota that still looks almost like new. It only takes 4 or 5 years
of sitting outdoors in the Summer heat and Winter snow before the paint begins to fade or peel.
 
I'm not showing that to my husband because he might want to build one! I was excited when we moved from the city where you had to drive all over to find a parking space. Our house now has a driveway. Of course, he still had to buy a carport, so his car wouldn't get wet in the snow and rain.
 
More practical for me would be to use the "garage" as a storage area.Use the money spent for track & motorized ramp to seal the wall where the folding doors are, put in an access door in that wall. The work involved in parking way to much. In the space where the tracks extend out I'd park the car & use something like this.

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We have a two car garage but have only one car. The space on both sides makes it easy for my wife to back the car in. Backing in is so much easier than backing out. No traffic in the driveway backing in. But backing out the need to keep checking for moving traffic in the street, kids, people walking their dogs isn't easy.
 
I live in a condo complex and no garage. We do have private parking spaces. The maintenance men at the office stop anyone parking in my spaces. I let them know when I am expecting company so my spaces are always open for them. They have my permission to tow anybody's car that is in my spaces. We have a lot of "guest" spots for them to park.
 
I do. What I can't figure out is how my compact SUV (Subaru Crosstrek) fits in there perfectly, lenghwise, and how my landord's father had a huge old sedan that fit in there too, even though it was a lot bigger. BTW, the Crosstrek is not my idea of an SUV. I bought it because it is bright orange and easily seen in PA winters. Silver and white cars blend in with the road, the snow, and the sky, which makes them more vulnerable to wrecks IMO.
 
I pay an additional $32.00/month for an assigned space in a heated underground garage.

The garage is one of the main reasons I stay here.

Guests and many tenants park on the street with odd even parking. It would be difficult for me to have to shovel out the car in the winter and move it everyday. We also have a constant stream of door handle rattlers that ransack the unlocked cars parked on the street.
 
No. I live in an apartment with a line of covered carports. When I owned that house, I thought it was weird to put the car in the garage with a tank full of explosive gas. But I didn't want to park outside. I didn't want it obvious when I was and wasn't there.

Since I'm looking for a mobile in a park, it would be a carport and that would be fine with me.
 
My niece and her husband have something similar in there home in San Francisco. They have a single car garage so they have a lift that brings one car up so a second can be parked underneath. Pretty nifty.

We have always had garages in the homes we`ve lived in but have never used them for our cars. One of our homes had a 900 sq,ft. storage building and an oversized 2 car garage but we still never parked our cars in there. The new home we are in the process of purchasing in Idaho has a two car garage and I think we may use it because of the snow here-have never dealt much with that before. Thankfully,there are also 3 large storage buildings on the property as well-for all my junk lol.
 

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