Reading the actual guideline text below — never a general AI guess

Here's what the passages shown tell us about garage doors and auto-reverse safety:

The FHA handbook addresses garage door security during property inspections—specifically, lenders must make sure garage doors actually work and either lock properly or get disconnected entirely if they have automatic openers, with any remote controls left secured inside the property. The Fannie Mae appraisal form asks us to count parking spaces, making a distinction between different door configurations (a double door versus two single doors both still count as 2 spaces if they hold 2 vehicles). However, the passages shown here do not cover the technical safety requirements for garage door auto-reverse mechanisms themselves—those details from the federal safety standards (16 CFR Part 1211 / UL 325) are not included in the excerpts available.

Straight from HUD/FHA Single Family Handbook 4000.1 and UAD 3.6 / URAR — nothing added.

UAD 3.6 adoption and FHA guidance on garage conversions

FHA HB 4000.1 (pages 499–500) provides current guidance on treatment of garage conversions in appraisals, with criteria for counting converted space as GLA that do not explicitly require permits—relevant to understanding when to include or exclude unpermitted conversions.

Permitted vs. Unpermitted Garage Conversions: ROI Data for 2026

This source discusses that permitted garage conversions typically increase home value by 10-30% with ROI of 60-80%, while unpermitted conversions can decrease value by triggering lender refusals and appraisal exclusions.