2500HD AT4X parking in NV: Deep garage or park in driveway?

[skw774]

i bolted a 2" x 2" square tube down in my garage to keep the wife off the wall with her surban xl

 

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[-b-rian]

OMG Brian you rock. I've been in touch with Cjay and she will be my realtor; I had some properties in mind, almost on her doorstep and discovered she has great connections. Godsend! Thanks very much.

Happy to help and glad it worked out! Like I said, she's good people and she legit cares. Now find yourself something sweet and start packing! Lol

 

[pinebaron]

Happy to help and glad it worked out! Like I said, she's good people and she legit cares. Now find yourself something sweet and start packing! Lol

Sadly we need to wait until spring to put our home on the market and the moment it sells or near closing, we intend to move everything we need to storage in LV, we will rent a 1 or 2 bed appt for a month or two while we decide which property to purchase. With forum members blessings, it may happen soon thereafter.

 

[pinebaron]

In the meantime, I've started selling a lot of stuff at killer prices, high end audio visual equipment, other stuff like gym equipment etc. etc. all at killer prices and making a lot of buyers very happy. Hopefully it gives me enough Karma to overcome my sins and assist towards our relocation to Las Vegas.

 

[11Bravo]

I lived in Las Vegas for 25 years. I had many custom built cars and trucks while there, and nearly always kept them in the garage. On two occasions when my GMC Jimmy was parked on the street, it was stolen by breaking the drivers window out and being hot wired. Metro police found the truck in the bario (28th street gang territory) sitting on the frame as the thieves stole my Budnik billet wheels and stereo.

My wife's custom car was always garage kept until one day I was sick and left it beside the garage. Thieves pulled out the passenger window, crawled in, and stole $12k worth of audio/video equipment without the alarm going off. Those thieves were eventually caught.

pinebaron - To your question, if you park outside it is best to tint your windows. I even tinted the full windshield on my custom vehicles. It's illegal, so if you ever get caught, you have to remove the tint. For security, park behind a side gate in your yard so the bad guys don't have easy access and your truck will be screened from view.

LegalBrief - I don't agree car theft is rare in Las Vegas. It happened to us these two times and a home burglary once. And we have CCW's and my father was a retired LA cop (and a victim of crime).

 

[pinebaron]

I lived in Las Vegas for 25 years. I had many custom built cars and trucks while there, and nearly always kept them in the garage. On two occasions when my GMC Jimmy was parked on the street, it was stolen by breaking the drivers window out and being hot wired. Metro police found the truck in the bario (28th street gang territory) sitting on the frame as the thieves stole my Budnik billet wheels and stereo.

My wife's custom car was always garage kept until one day I was sick and left it beside the garage. Thieves pulled out the passenger window, crawled in, and stole $12k worth of audio/video equipment without the alarm going off. Those thieves were eventually caught.

pinebaron - To your question, if you park outside it is best to tint your windows. I even tinted the full windshield on my custom vehicles. It's illegal, so if you ever get caught, you have to remove the tint. For security, park behind a side gate in your yard so the bad guys don't have easy access and your truck will be screened from view.

LegalBrief - I don't agree car theft is rare in Las Vegas. It happened to us these two times and a home burglary once. And we have CCW's and my father was a retired LA cop (and a victim of crime).

Thats a cert. It has to be a home with at least a three car RV garage no matter what the wife thinks. I need an RV garage to help use its high walls for shelving and hanging my huge RC planes. Coming from a home with 4500sf of garage/shop (3300sf) and 1200sf of an empty unfinished media room, I think I deserve at least a large RV garage or a three car tandem garage at a bare minimum. Where we currently live with our six acres in a highly secure development with the entry gate 3/4 mile away and nothing gets past without me finding out (I built the security systems for our development and manage gate access etc.), its extemely safe however due to the size of our home and close proximity to the Canadian border, I don't take any chances and park our cars in our garages. I know its going to be a culture and home size shock, when scaling down to 1/4 acre and 3-4000sf home and neighbors/homes closeby. We are doing it for warmer drier weather and proximity to our son (future grand children). It could still take a year to sell our home; hopefully by this time next year we could be in Vegas if I don't 'pop my clogs' before that. You guys will be the first to find out!

 

[-b-rian]

I still like the Pahrump option. Houses are definitely cheaper out there, with plenty of new builds going on. I don't know what your budget is, but here's an example for you;

1760 Omaha Ave. Pahrump, NV

New build, plenty of property, and an RV garage. Yes, Pahrump is about a 45-minute drive from Vegas, but registration & insurance will be cheaper, there's less crime, less traffic, and you're out of the big city chaos. State Route 160 in/out of Pahrump does occasionally get closed during the winter for snow, but it's a 1-2x per year thing...not often.

Regardless, good luck with the sale and eventually when you get here..."WELCOME!"

 

[pinebaron]

Thank You Brian and hope to meet you and other enthusiasts in Vegas.

We looked at Pahrump for sure, if only to get it out of our system and decided not to pursue properites there; we had a feeling it was in the middle of nowhere. It is too far from Mountains Edge where my son lives, from the big RC field in Vegas (William Bennett) and stuff we like such as shopping, bowling, restaurants etc. to be close to. The purpose of our visit to Vegas last week was precisely to establish areas we would want to live in. We finally limited our search to extend only far as Henderson, not even Lake Las Vegas or Boulder City, we may end up a lot closer to Mountain Edge even while paying more. We loved an RV home in Archer Park, for 874k, just ten minutes walk from our son; its by Richmond Homes. If it were up to my wife, she'd love to be under 500k and that would perhaps really do for us if we downsize to around 2000sf, however my budget is quite open, I like to have space and would prefer at least 3000-4000sf, to me that would still be a squeeze with my impractical brain; would hate to exceed $1.3m but would love to be just under a million, if only to keep my wife happy. I know any prebuilt home, no matter how good, is never going to be perfect for me but I'll have to compromise somewhat. Ideally, if I had the time and was a little younger, I'd architect and build yet another perfect home there, from scratch but don't want to go through yet another build again; knowing so much about construction, I'm too darn fussy, I drive myself crazy.

At this time, I have no idea what life has in store for us except that I'd love to move there like yesterday; my magic wand has lost its power.

 

[xOperator]

however my budget is quite open, I like to have space and would prefer at least 3000-4000sf, to me that would still be a squeeze with my impractical brain; would hate to exceed $1.3m ....

My house has a 4 car garage, RV parking, 6 bedrooms, 2 offices, 5,000sq ft, 1/2 acre lot, i just checked Zillow and its telling me its estimated at $800k.
You can get a lot of house if you try to hit your budget.

I used to park my 2004 Yukon Denali XL sort of at an angle (it can park straight, but put cabinets and tool carts), but now I park my 2025 Yukon Denali (non XL) inside the garage.

Since 2013, I parked my Avalanche outdoors with no window tint until this year, However, the side of my driveway has trees for shade.
However, there is a gap between my house and the trees, sunlight can hit the driveway between noon-2pm

About 2019, my driver side mirror on the Avalanche started to burn from the sun (i park backwards).
I suspected that it was from the sunlight around noon-2pm when the sun would hit the mirror (driveway faces north/south and i park facing north). I've since replaced that mirror with an OEM, and started to fold the mirrors but this year it started to burn again.

My 2004 Yukon, parks in the driveway facing the house (south), its been parked outdoors since February this year, no ceramic windshield tint.
About September, the passenger side door handle leather started to shrink, which i suspect is from the sunlight around noon-2pm also.

That was the only sun damage that I had on the Avalanche.
Now I park my 2500 in that lane of the driveway, and I added window tint (see signature for the type)
I also bought a dash cover to help protect the leather from shrinking from sunlight.

As far as theft, you might want to research the areas you want to move to.
Some of the newer areas, such as Summerlin, have lots of crime.

I'm in an area that is highly residential, overlooking the valley in a gated community and crime is pretty low.
In fact, some of our neighbors even leave their garage doors open at night (crazy).

However, when we do have crime, police show up fast here

(sorry for hijack)
long story, i have 21 cameras, helicopter flew over us for 15mins, because of a drag race crash that ended near by and drivers ran away.
Police knocked, searched backyard with a K9, because they found stuff in backyard next to us.
They asked if they can review camera footage with me, so we did, while talking about Staccatos, since my buddy in SFPD Swat is trying to sell me one.
We see the suspect on camera jump the neighbors wall, so they had a direction he went. They walked away and searched there.
I come inside, grab my 7month old, and pistol, and sit at my desk watching the cameras, then boom, my backyard motion lights turn on, i see the guy. Call 911, then ran out with my pistol, since the guy was hiding behind my 2500hd, i open garage, he goes to side of house, i run down driveway, tell police he is here. The guy decides to make a run for it and runs down the street, they catch him, hehe (have video and a nice picture of the arrest)

 

[pinebaron]

My house has a 4 car garage, RV parking, 6 bedrooms, 2 offices, 5,000sq ft, 1/2 acre lot, i just checked Zillow and its telling me its estimated at $800k.
You can get a lot of house if you try to hit your budget.

I used to park my 2004 Yukon Denali XL sort of at an angle (it can park straight, but put cabinets and tool carts), but now I park my 2025 Yukon Denali (non XL) inside the garage.

Since 2013, I parked my Avalanche outdoors with no window tint until this year, However, the side of my driveway has trees for shade.
However, there is a gap between my house and the trees, sunlight can hit the driveway between noon-2pm

About 2019, my driver side mirror on the Avalanche started to burn from the sun (i park backwards).
I suspected that it was from the sunlight around noon-2pm when the sun would hit the mirror (driveway faces north/south and i park facing north). I've since replaced that mirror with an OEM, and started to fold the mirrors but this year it started to burn again.

My 2004 Yukon, parks in the driveway facing the house (south), its been parked outdoors since February this year, no ceramic windshield tint.
About September, the passenger side door handle leather started to shrink, which i suspect is from the sunlight around noon-2pm also.

That was the only sun damage that I had on the Avalanche.
Now I park my 2500 in that lane of the driveway, and I added window tint (see signature for the type)
I also bought a dash cover to help protect the leather from shrinking from sunlight.

As far as theft, you might want to research the areas you want to move to.
Some of the newer areas, such as Summerlin, have lots of crime.

I'm in an area that is highly residential, overlooking the valley in a gated community and crime is pretty low.
In fact, some of our neighbors even leave their garage doors open at night (crazy).

However, when we do have crime, police show up fast here

(sorry for hijack)
long story, i have 21 cameras, helicopter flew over us for 15mins, because of a drag race crash that ended near by and drivers ran away.
Police knocked, searched backyard with a K9, because they found stuff in backyard next to us.
They asked if they can review camera footage with me, so we did, while talking about Staccatos, since my buddy in SFPD Swat is trying to sell me one.
We see the suspect on camera jump the neighbors wall, so they had a direction he went. They walked away and searched there.
I come inside, grab my 7month old, and pistol, and sit at my desk watching the cameras, then boom, my backyard motion lights turn on, i see the guy. Call 911, then ran out with my pistol, since the guy was hiding behind my 2500hd, i open garage, he goes to side of house, i run down driveway, tell police he is here. The guy decides to make a run for it and runs down the street, they catch him, hehe (have video and a nice picture of the arrest
Our #1 area is around Mountain Edge , east of it between there and Henderson region. We’ve only focused on new construction, their prices will depend on market demand when we actually make the purchase. Our leverage would be cash purchase and very quick closing.