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Ask whether resident parking is included, assigned or unassigned, whether reserved spaces cost extra, how the garage is controlled, how quickly the gate operates, how reliable the garage elevators are, and—especially—how guest parking works. Grant considers inadequate guest parking a real quality-of-life problem for recent graduates who want friends to visit. EV owners should also ask about simultaneous charging capacity and cost. A garage should be evaluated as a daily system, not merely checked off because the apartment website says “covered parking.”
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