Got my first green armor / weapon upgrades for followers yesterday from the salvage yard. "Your follower must be max level to use this item". What the hell, I think I made all wrong choices for my garrison, ah well.
Trying to crawl up to 2000 GR for level 3. That will get me a trade post and...Bunker maybe? Seems fairly worthless now as I am GR constrained. If I can just get up to level 3 and get the trade post I think I can start correcting the course. I don't think I want to trash my Inn as I really wanted to recruit followers to help the correcting out. Suck dick for GR was right.