Just saw your basement response. We are in Austin. Our house is on a hill and the entrance to the "garage" is in the back and under the house. There is a garage door and a regular door. It's pretty impossible to get a car inside b/c you have to drive through the whole backyard. With the bathroom down there and the access to it from the house, I consider it a basement. I've never had a real basement though. But, I think this is about as close as you get to one in the south.