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This is the best advice I’ve heard in awhile:
“Update your home every 5 years.”
I hear ya’–
“It’s expensive.”But if your refrigerator is 15 years old, now might be a good time. Or in my case, a hot water heater that rusted out while we were at my in-laws Labor Day weekend… Thank god for insurance, but we still had the deductible to worry about.
“It’s annoying.” Yes, moving furniture, toys, lamps and clothes out of a bedroom is a process I’ll never look forward to either. We’ve redone all 3 bedrooms in my home the past 1+ years. But it’s now over.
“It’s time consuming.” If installing laminate floors only took as long as a 30 minute television show on HGTV… I have to thank my parents for their help the 2 different times I’ve done it… But they were all-day projects, and the first was an entire weekend.
But here’s the good thing: Everything we’ve done would have needed to be done when we sell our home in the next 2 years. Purple paint. Stained off-white carpet. A green refrigerator. None of it could have stayed. Or, shouldn’t have stayed.
Everything that buyers in today’s market are not interested in.
By slowly, meticulously updating my home I’m saving myself from having to make NUMEROUS EXPENSIVE repairs in the near future.
Plus, by making these upgrades I’m also increasing my home’s value at the same time. And because they’ve been done early, I get to reap the benefits of adding a patio door and deck off my dining room when I’m grilling (OK, when my wife is grilling) in the summer.
And hopefully eliminating some stress when it comes time for the for sale sign to go in the ground too.
In the end by being proactive while I’m living here it will make it easier when the pull of a new home becomes too much.
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My name is Adam Holberg and I’m a Realtor with First Weber of Wisconsin Rapids. This website is designed to inform and help bring conversation to a topic I love, real estate.