Pole Building Half Storage Half Living Quarters

[roger hughes]

Austin, dave..etc.. This is great stuff. but i'm running out of print paper. best forum for info. roger tn

 

[Mike Boyd]

I did an appraisal for a construction loan where the lower level was garage space, tractor space, supplies storage, irrigation equipment, etc. The upper level was living area. This was about 4 years ago. If I recall, the land was comprised of about 60 acres, 5 of which was a recently planted vineyard and another 5 was a recently completed reservoir. Some of the undeveloped land was suitable for more vineyard but the remainder was billy goat country. Located in the upper Napa Valley....prime land, otherwise, for vineyrds, wineries, upscale homes. The lower level was pole construction upon which they built a platform and constructed the living area in typical 2 x 4 construction. My client was a portfolio lender which had already made the land development loan.

You find many different types of farm homes in most rural areas. This was just one of them.

 

[Ray Miller]

Austin,

I will repost the information I sent to you here for the others that may not know where to find the information you requested.

I would start with local horse publication that have real estate ads for the sale of horse property. Call the agent listed to see if they had something similar on the market or that had sold.

As for storage buildings, they have a trade association that also list realtors that deal in such properties. Do the same call the real estate agent.

Many of these can not be found on the MLS systems, so it a manual search. Most of the time it will yield results.