There hasn’t been a better time to improve your home than now. “He’s Nuts!” you say? Try to follow my logic a bit and I promise that by the end, you’ll see some things perhaps you hadn’t before.
The best means for most of us to earn and save money beyond our salary is the equity in our home. Some investment vehicles like stocks have typicl returns of around 10%, but as we’ve all seen real estate investments can double in an incrediblyly short time. As some folks have painfully experienced, the losses can be as fast also.
These are the only two reasons you should consider remodelling your home:
- You want to better your living condition and the enjoyment of your home.
- You want to develop your home to its Highest and Best Use. By this I mean creating a home with the proper size and amenities for the area in which you live.
Reason # 1 is easy. You know what you want and why you want it. Youve had children and you need more bedrooms. You get a new position with a company in some other region and you cna telecommute but need an office. Whatever the reason, youve got a good idea of what you want.
Reason # 2 is not so simple. Many people dont even consider it when they remodel or before they sell their home. Taking advantage of conditions to maximize your home’s value is the big focus here.
Keeping it simple, its strategically adding on to or upgrading your home to maximize your ROI within the neighborhood you are in. Putting it in more basic terms, if we can get more during the sale of the home than it cost for the improvement, we do it. If not, forget it.
Let me give you some examples:
Adding a third bedroom to a two bedroom home will generally be at least a break-even situation. The same is true for going to a 4 bedromm from a 3 bedroom home. Add a sixth bedroom to a five bedroom home? Not likely. There isn’t much demand for 6 bedrooms so the price from 5 to 6 would be marginal at best.
Your hose is 2,000 sq ft in an average sized lot for your neighborhood. Several homes in your area are over 3,000 square feet. The market in your neighborhood will bear the price commanded by a 3,0000 sq ft home. You could easily add 1,000 more feet of area to the footprint and not worry about loosing your investment.
If homes typically sell for $180/sqft and it costs you $120/sqft, youve realized a $60/sqft profit, or in this case, $60,000. And remeber, modernizing will almost immediately demand a premium price than what is the norm for real estate sales in that area.
In both perspectives you create value in your home by building it to its Maximum Potential.
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