Question about ANSI and odd lower level

[VicMN]

I am completing an appraisal where the lower level is unfinished, however, there is a non-heated, non-finished area (was previously a built-in garage), and a finished room is off of that garage. It is not accessible via a finished hallway or stairs. Per ANSI, that room should not be considered finished square footage. So I sketched the lower level with the unfinished basement, classified the old garage as a non-calculated area, and did the same for the finished room off the garage. So my question is: on the first page of the appraisal where it shows the basement area, should I also include those areas as the total basement square footage, the report pre-filled it with just the unfinished square footage, and did not include the non-calculated areas. I am doing extensive commentary explaining this, but just don't know what to do on the first page of the report. Thanks for your guidance!

 

[J Grant]

It's a bit fuzzy without seeing the property, but imo only the basement below grade belongs in the basement sf, and that unfinished garage and its attached finished room goes into commentary and can be a line item on the grid that gets adjusted for utility ( I don't claim any special ansi expertise, just my opinion )

 

[sputnam]

If you are reporting on the URAR, you are reporting GLA. The basic definition of GLA hasn't changed in at least 40 years... Finished, heated, above the ground. The adoption of ANSI did not change that, it established a standard for measuring and calculating GLA.

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

separate line item.

 

[VicMN]

If you are reporting on the URAR, you are reporting GLA. The basic definition of GLA hasn't changed in at least 40 years... Finished, heated, above the ground. The adoption of ANSI did not change that, it established a standard for measuring and calculating GLA.

This is a question about the below ground sf, not GLA - I appreciate your reply though!

 

[Tom D]

If the 'lower level' is being considered ansi below grade, then that whole area is a basement with a built in garage, and that finished room is a storage room. Unless you call it some finished room with functional utility issue. So you have some storage fin basement, but how much you credit it depends on your neighborhood. What do everybody else have, or don't have. But i wouldn't go crazy figuring it out, so maybe a minimal adjustment.

 

[Dublin ohio]

I am completing an appraisal where the lower level is unfinished, however, there is a non-heated, non-finished area (was previously a built-in garage), and a finished room is off of that garage. It is not accessible via a finished hallway or stairs. Per ANSI, that room should not be considered finished square footage. So I sketched the lower level with the unfinished basement, classified the old garage as a non-calculated area, and did the same for the finished room off the garage. So my question is: on the first page of the appraisal where it shows the basement area, should I also include those areas as the total basement square footage, the report pre-filled it with just the unfinished square footage, and did not include the non-calculated areas. I am doing extensive commentary explaining this, but just don't know what to do on the first page of the report. Thanks for your guidance!

So what did they do to the garage to make it not a garage. Is the finished room heated and how is it "off of the garage". Was it an addition added to the garage side of the property. Your description is not clear

 

[brunge]

Not an ANSI expert, but sounds like standard finished and unfinished basement (below grade) areas you are describing, in the sketch software you will isolate finished and unfinished. Hope that helps?

 

[sputnam]

This is a question about the below ground sf, not GLA - I appreciate your reply though!

It's either GLA or it's basement. Basement can be finished or unfinished. It can used many ways. Sorry, but I'm not getting that this is any sort of problem. It's basement. You can then comment that it is heated, but unfinished.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Garage is other area and basement is basement. Neither are GLA ever.