Atrium, Living Square footage or not

[George Ellerman]

If the area is able to be heated and used year round,include it in your GLA.

 

[Fred]

There is no requirement to even calculate GLA. There is no requiremnt to measure anything.

Even if that was true, it's not relevant. It's not that he didn't measure or didn't calculate GLA. He did meausre and is calculating GLA. Getting this wrong is getting near or into the significant error region.

 

[Mr Rex]

If the area is able to be heated and used year round,include it in your GLA.

I disagree, perfect example from yesterday. I was looking for comps to bracket my subject GLA, pulled a comp, knew the neighborhood, and said to myself wow, that one sold low for the GLA. MLS sheet mentions 300sf sunroom. Tax Records show it about 300sf smaller than MLS. So I called the RE agent, she said oh yeah, it was heated and cooled so we included it as GLA. So I asked why do you think it sold so much lower than others of similar GLA, she said the sunroom is worth less obviously. I think she will separate it out next time.:new_smile-l:

 

[PropertyEconomics]

I disagree, perfect example from yesterday. I was looking for comps to bracket my subject GLA, pulled a comp, knew the neighborhood, and said to myself wow, that one sold low for the GLA. MLS sheet mentions 300sf sunroom. Tax Records show it about 300sf smaller than MLS. So I called the RE agent, she said oh yeah, it was heated and cooled so we included it as GLA. So I asked why do you think it sold so much lower than others of similar GLA, she said the sunroom is worth less obviously. I think she will separate it out next time.:new_smile-l:

And the OP .. had only a partial roof ... IT IS OPEN TO THE SKY ... why oh why Lord .... why me.
This is not living area by any stretch of the imagination .. unless of course you might be in Hawaii, no need for heat, no need for cool, and have a homeless roommate that wants to live in it .... SHEESH>

 

[Michigan CG]

And the OP .. had only a partial roof ... IT IS OPEN TO THE SKY ... why oh why Lord .... why me.
This is not living area by any stretch of the imagination .. unless of course you might be in Hawaii, no need for heat, no need for cool, and have a homeless roommate that wants to live in it .... SHEESH>

Would you please stop using common sense and reality. GLA is in the eye of the beholder (or in these cases the beerholder). Some folks say that unheated rooms, atriums, basements and garages are GLA. Quit arguing already....these folks are obviously smarter than published opinions on these very topics.

 

[James Andreas]

With the OP's vague description, and early departure from the post, I suspectthe original "data" query was, shall I say, weak.

What the heck is "partially open to sky"? A 12 SF opening where owner opened that impressive retractable skylight - which OP had never seen before or overlooked during a 3-minute interior inspection??

Better if OP had said " 400Sf room mostly open to sky".

The post was bad-data-in, and the actual condition remains unknown.

 

[PropertyEconomics]

With the OP's vague description, and early departure from the post, I suspectthe original "data" query was, shall I say, weak.

What the heck is "partially open to sky"? A 12 SF opening where owner opened that impressive retractable skylight - which OP had never seen before or overlooked during a 3-minute interior inspection??

Better if OP had said " 400Sf room mostly open to sky".

The post was bad-data-in, and the actual condition remains unknown.

THERE WAS NO CONVERSATION ABOUT A SKYLIGHT ... what is it with you guys? He said partial roof and atrium .. can you just not accept that ...

FREAKING APPRAISERS ... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No wonder the public hates us.

 

[James Andreas]

No!

Shucks PE - you savor challenges... challenge the original data and the observation. Why does the thread run on an "Extraordinary Assumption" the OP knew what he was looking at? I have a feeling OP figured something out (had one of those new-fangled sliding skylight thingy's) and did the side-door boogie.

The 8 pages of posts have been enlightening - although founded upon highly questionable data.

GLA is almost whatever the market says it is - a colony of teepees, permanently affixed to ground, legally SFRs, with a "hole in middle to the sky" would be GLA. As to original post, whether one sees it as GLA or Functional Utility, handle contribution as market dictates.

 

[George Ellerman]

I disagree, perfect example from yesterday. I was looking for comps to bracket my subject GLA, pulled a comp, knew the neighborhood, and said to myself wow, that one sold low for the GLA. MLS sheet mentions 300sf sunroom. Tax Records show it about 300sf smaller than MLS. So I called the RE agent, she said oh yeah, it was heated and cooled so we included it as GLA. So I asked why do you think it sold so much lower than others of similar GLA, she said the sunroom is worth less obviously. I think she will separate it out next time.:new_smile-l:

Don't rely on tax records or what a r.e. agent says. Get out the old tape and measure it. If it's year-around livable include it.

 

[Mr Rex]

Don't rely on tax records or what a r.e. agent says. Get out the old tape and measure it. If it's year-around livable include it.

The reason I would not include it is illustrated in my example. The market does not give it the same value consideration as "real" GLA. :new_all_coholic: