Home elevators are becoming more common
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It might seem pretty rare to find a house with an elevator, but chances are higher you might find one in Calgary these days.

From CTV News (Bell Media):

“It might seem pretty rare to find a house with an elevator, but chances are higher you might find one in Calgary these days.”

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    2·
    2 months ago

    My googling tells me:

    The typical cost to install a home elevator in a two-story house ranges from $30,000 to $60,000 on average

    Minimum cost: Around $20,000

    Maximum cost: Up to $100,000 or more

    National average: Approximately $48,000

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      My parents put in a stair lift. I’d expect more are doing something like that where they are a few thousand bucks. But you still need to be able to transfer to/from the seat. It doesn’t accommodate a wheelchair.

      It’s not such an extravagant purchase when it’s the only way my father could make it up and down from his bedroom.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Honestly I was thinking of how things are for my family in LA, where house prices are so bonkers that its legitimately cheaper to renovate (although part of that probably also stems from the local tax law limiting property tax increases for existing homeowners) but that’s really my only secondhand experience with a truly unaffordable housing market so I don’t know how transferrable that is

      • kandoh@reddthat.com
        1·
        2 months ago

        Much doubt in that statement. Define ‘sellable’, is taking the price from 900,000 to 1.1 million making a house sellable? I guess you don’t want to leave 270,000 dollars on the table but if they’re at the point where they can’t walk up stairs ik going to hazard a guess that those amounts will result in the same quality of life for them

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          1·
          2 months ago

          Sellable as in the cost/price increase negate each other but you’re actually going to find a buyer within a reasonable timeframe

            • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
              1·
              2 months ago

              Some things to consider

              Asbestos/mold will get you passed on unless you’re selling to a flipper

              You as a buyer are going to want a home that doesn’t have the above so you’re going to want the money that a home without it provides

              Boomers are so financially illiterate that their retirement plans were that their house would pay for the last 20 years of their lives