The Original Garage Organizing Book Marks First Decade and the Launch of the Garage Remodeling Industry

The garage remodeling and organizing category grew to be a $3 billion industry in 2006. The desire by homeowners to get more use from their homes, create meaningful storage, and get better organized serve as motivation to make garage organizing a high priority on the home improvement list. The ability to reclaim the garage for the family car is inspiration enough for many homeowners. Industry expert Bill West believes this category has yet to hit its stride, but a shakeout is likely with a slowdown in the economy.
Most garages become Dumpsters filled to the brim with unused and forgotten items that homeowners want to forget about
Your Garagenous Zone: The Complete Garage Organizer Guide

Companies that are marginal operations who are short on working capital, lack in outstanding customer service, or basically have no business model can likely end up on the scrap heap
While the entrepreneurial spirit thrives in this new category, hope alone is no substitute for an effective business model
All in all seeing this category respond to the needs of homeowners over the last 10 years is very gratifying. After all, few people want to tolerate a dark, dirty, toxic garage
Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage
PRWEB – For many American homeowners, their garages reflect landfills attached to the house replete with clutter that over time forces the family’s cars to remain outside on the driveway.

But Colorado REALTOR® Bill West took exception to his garage becoming a self-storage unit for unwanted junk. “Most garages become Dumpsters filled to the brim with unused and forgotten items that homeowners want to forget about,” West said. He should know. His real estate career now spans 32 years enabling him to have seen thousands of garages during his real estate sales career. West wrote the first book about garage remodeling and organizing in 1999 after he tricked out his garage in 1998 to become a multipurpose room. “Your Garagenous Zone: The Complete Garage Organizer Guide” became what West calls his ‘test-market edition’ to determine consumer interest. The book resonated favorably among homeowners.

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