Is Garage Door Repair Worth It?

[Robert Smith]

I have a property that has 2 garage doors that need to be repaired and can only be opened manually by hand at the moment. One of the garage doors is no longer usable and we just leave it closed and have a pad lock on the door so the tenant does not try to use it.

After getting several garage companies to come review the system and give quotes, many have suggested that due to a support beam that was installed after the home was installed, a typical garage door opener will not work, and due to the layout of the garage doors, a jack shaft system will also not work.

The only solution left that one company gave was to reduce the opening of the garage door to 6' 6". My concern is that, by reducing the garage opening, that will reduce the amount of car types that can fit into the garage. In your opinion, is it worth repairing the garage, and how much would it decrease how much we could probably charge for rent by not having automatic garage doors?

Thanks