DogTrot Home

[Mp2816]

Ive received a set of plans for new construction that is a dogtrot style home. It has three separate units sharing the same roof and same foundation. One unit is a living and kitchen then you go outside through a open breezeway (dogtrot) to another unit that is two bedrooms and a bath and the third unit which you also have to go outside on the open breezeway to access master bedroom and bath. But my question is how do you figure living footage when measure standards are you cannot exit main living area and it count as heated footage? Please help!

 

[Mr Rex]

Find some dog trots as comps.

 

[TxArmadillo]

Find some dog trots as comps.

OP asked about how to determine the GLA as none of the major elements are connected with finished areas.

I did have to look up a dog trot style home. The only building like that I ever recall seeing was actually serving as a small County Museum in Arkansas.

No idea how ANSI would address measuring a property of that type. How is this style of home treated in your market area?

Here's a sample of a dog trot style, for those who haven't seen one before:

 

[Mike Kennedy]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Some owners adapted dogtrots to increasing wealth by applying clapboards to the walls, enclosing the passageways (view 2), and generally remodeling in the Greek Revival style[/FONT]

http://www.crt.state.la.us/hp/LAHERITAGE/EducatorArea/PioneerSettlement/EZ/Dogtrot.html

 

[JTip]

Looks like my chicken coop with the garage doors open.

 

[CANative]

I'd just combine all areas into "living area" and explain.

Tough assignment at first glance. Use oddball properties as comps if any are available. This might demonstrate marketability for non-traditional designs.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The only building like that I ever recall seeing was actually serving as a small County Museum in Arkansas

The old time cabins were almost all either dogtrot or simple box structures and some had no kitchen attached. Rooms were called "pens". They had a fireplace in one side as a living room or they slept there if really cold. The other side was bedrooms. The "bathroom" was a path to a little house. The kitchen was a separate building with large fireplace type stove and sometimes almost out of doors...or the kitchen was attached but you had to go outside to get to it and then stuffed the food in thru a window or door to a pen. In college, our janitor lived in one built in the 1880s...I loved the place. He invited us to his home and let us walk down to the river and fish and even camp overnight. We would sit on the porch with Floyd and visit for hours. Sadly, after Floyd died, his grandson accidentally set the place on fire and it burned to the ground...it was built like the one on the right only a mirror image.

 

[Mp2816]

Thanks everyone! I still don't know which way to go on this one!

 

[Vermonter]

Thanks everyone! I still don't know which way to go on this one!

Other than withdrawing from the assignment, what other choice do you have but count all separated spaces as GLA and explain?