6 foot 3 inch ceilings

[Tom D]

GLA is GLA, do you make a bigger GLA adjustment for big atrium spaces, i haven't seen that, especially with ansi. So, I think an adjustment would be put under that rarely used line on the grid 'functional utility'. A low ceiling is a functional utility issue not a depreciated issue, which becomes a living issue. But you have to show where that number came from, which might make some sense. Without that matched pair, hope for the best and that you ain't sent to the state.

So using func depreciation, i would take the height difference as a percentage to subtract from a GLA number used. I guess that's better, than no other evidence. 9 foot ceiling minus 7 foot = 2 foot macro 22% depreciation of a normal GLA adjustment on the functional utility grid line. Now that number may not be high enough, but at least i have something. Given i have no other proof of my brilliance, and an explanation that few will understand to disagree with, i'm in. If this makes sense, then i'm more brilliant than i always thought. But if it doesn't, but i got nothin better, still brilliant. Thank me poster.

 

[J Grant]

People were shorter ( and smaller in the old days - I toured a historic Revolutionary war house once and had to bend my knees to fit under the ceilings in a few rooms and I am not a tall person.

 

[Zoe]

People were shorter ( and smaller in the old days - I toured a historic Revolutionary war house once and had to bend my knees to fit under the ceilings in a few rooms and I am not a tall person.

You have all made good points. If you can't go back in time on subject prior sale compared to other sales with 7 ft of above ceiling heights, then the solution Terrel gave on cubic feet might be the best option using depreciated cost.

A 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 12 ft ceiling costs more to reproduce or replace.

The OP could prove that by a cost source. Then apply depreciated cost deduction on whatever they are applying to the GLA if the house has any GLA per ANSI standards.

If you could go back in time and compare another property and could verify it had below ANSI ceiling standards and compare it to houses that had ANSI standard ceiling height for market derived adjustment percentage, it would work.

 

[Zoe]

If that ceiling can be raised, the estimated cost to cure would work also on that square footage.

Your looking at curable obsolescence vs incurable obsolescence if it can be cured.