October 2, 2006

Los Angeles Times Real Estate Section Features John Trosko and OrganizingLA:

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Ciao! We’re back from l’Italia. Lots to upcoming organizing tidbits to share, including the exciting Martha Stewart 15th Anniversary ‘Good Things’ event we attended in New York City last Saturday.

What we did find when we returned on Sunday, was a front-page article in the Sunday Los Angeles Times Real Estate section that featured yours truly, John Trosko and OrganizingLA. There’s a new trend in-town: super-sized, 3-car garages. New homebuilders in Southern California are responding to consumer demands for additional storage space for all the toys.

With interviews from National Association of Home Builders, Toll Brothers, Pardee Homes, GarageTek, Gladiator GarageWorks, and Garage Envy, as well as one of our local Los Feliz clients, we’re in good company. Only 12% of homeowners actually park their car inside the garage:

"This is not news to Los Angeles-based John Trosko, self-styled organizing expert and founder of OrganizingLA.

Although garages might be evolving, Trosko said, homeowners are not.

"God forbid Southern Californians use the garage for its intended use: parking a car," he said. "They use them as a sort of waystation for life. They aggressively throw stuff in them in order to avoid decisions.""

For a limited time, you can read Michelle Hofmann’s article by clicking here (free subscription may be required.) Picture above from Ricardo DeAratanha/LAT.

So OrganizingLA Blog readers– you’ve got toys and local homebuilders respond with more storage space. Are you in heaven?

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8 responses to “Los Angeles Times Real Estate Section Features John Trosko and OrganizingLA:”

October 2, 2006

Denise aka The Blog Squad

Congratulations, John. Nice that they featured one of your clients as well. That certainly gives you some garage cred.

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October 2, 2006

Scott

Bonissimo John!

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October 3, 2006

Monica Ricci

Woohoo John! Good job!!

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October 3, 2006

Cyndi Seidler

My folks have an air conditioned 3-car garage for their cars. It’s like a room extension of their home, as many homeowners are doing these days. Read about this in my blog post “Garage Retreats – bigger, bolder, better” at http://www.organized-living.com/get_organized_weblog/2006/07/garage-retreats.html

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October 7, 2006

Ariane Benefit from Neat Living

Congratulations!! Wish we had room for 3 car garages here in Northern NJ… you’re very lucky if you have a garage at all in this part of the state… even 2 car garages a big luxury here!

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October 7, 2006

John Trosko

Ariane,
You’d think from that article, that SoCal is just flushed with space for three and four car garages…. the “average” (if there is an average person here.. ha ha!) usually is LIMITED in space to two-car garages. Or even one. I think a lot of the homes that were built in the 20’s and 30’s and 40’s had one garage because driving just wasn’t that important back then, or families could only afford one car. Boy, things have changed. I suspect it’s the same way in Northern New Jersey– the more congested the area is, the smaller the garages seem to be.

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March 18, 2013

Brian Ramsey

Its true that a lot of home buyers are wanting more garage space for their toys. That why it is very important to have a very organized garage.

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December 12, 2018

Homeia

wow! good job! keep working hard on that.

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