Fixup Your Home?

Improvements to your home may bring greater enjoyment to you and your famoly.  Projects to increase the value of your home for a sale, however, reauire other considerations.  Will they make my home sell sooner?  Will I get my money back from the investment?  I will be happy to discuss the market factors of your plans before you start.  Just contact me.  These two sources may help you plan for your home improvements.

Maintneance items and simple repairs need to be cmpleted
before you list your home for sale while you have control over time and costs.  A pesky little item found during a home inspection may become a bigger issue if the buyer requires correction before closing.  This link to a national home inspection site provides rough cost estimates for common inspection items.  Be patient, the site is slow to load, but it is worth the wait.

 
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Larger projects may help your home sell quicker and increase its market value.  This link provides a useful annual report, the Costs vrs Value Report for 2007, that will give you a rough estimate of various improvement projects and their market impact in various parts of the country.


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