Category: Staging/Improvements

SERIES: Home Care ~ Rough Estimating Remodel

July 6, 2019

For home improvement, care, and maintenance tips, follow this series. We’ve ‘been there, done that’.

SERIES: Your net worth strategy includes caring for your home. This pays dividends when you sell, not just now. The ‘Portfolio Approach’ has never made more sense than now.

This link https://www.remodelingcalculator.org/  has 2 perks:

  1. ‘Estimate Cost’ – my favorite click on
  2. ‘Get Local Prices’ –  to input zip code and then get a proposals
  • As you can see, you can input from the options and get rough estimates. I’d try this even if I was (and am) a DIYer, so as to not go into a project to naive!

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SERIES: Home Care ~ Really Cold Outside? Turn Heat UP, not Down!

January 21, 2019

For home improvement, care, and maintenance tips, follow this series. We’ve ‘been there, done that’.

SERIES: Your net worth strategy includes caring for your home. This pays dividends when you sell, not just now. The ‘Portfolio Approach’ has never made more sense than now.

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If you have neighbors in older homes they tend to have hot water heat – so exterior pipes! Remind them and anyone else that may have hot water heat that its best in extreme cold to turn heat UP, not down.

The furnace cycles on/off and when off, water stops moving. The temp at the outside wall will be some average of outside air and the setting on the thermostat. e.g.: Set on 65, outside is -5 then that temp could be under freezing! This is especially true near doors, on the windy side of the house, and where pipes pass thru walls/ floors.

  1. Open closet doors. Anibal Group LLC Realty Net Worth - Home Improvement care and maintenance series
  2. Allow inside air access to pipes as much as possible.
  3. Move obstruction from near pipes.
  4. Know where the water shut off and/ or well shut off is (and a wet vac should things turn ugly).

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Lead water in the pipes – since 1986

January 13, 2017

So much talk of lead in the drinking water in Flint MI these days. Well, I’ve owned 2 homes Great-plumbing-ideas-lead-in-water-flint-miin Flint. I have the same wisdom for those folks as anyone who buys a home built pre-1986.

I recall when I built a home, coincidentally in 1986, that I had to switch from a lead solder to a tin solder. It doesn’t flow the same. But, the point is, per “The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986”, homes built before `86 tend to have lead joints so it makes sense to drink & cook with filtered or bottled water. I do.

The law prohibited use of lead solders, pipes, and flux in drinking water systems. Plumbing solder lead content was set at 0.20% maximum. ( previously 50/50 mix w/ tin). It also included wording to require states to enforce the provision.

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Like Chip & Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper, remember to seek wise counsel.

February 19, 2016

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Like Chip & Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper, I recommend you seek wise counsel ‘and all these things shall be added unto you’ says Biblical scripture.

When there is more that 1 person as part of the buyer / seller / ownership  package, I take just as seriously the ‘non-financial aspects’ of the transaction. A move is a top stress item per every counseling material you read and study. Since its part of my business, I’ve studied family counseling materials for decades, taken counseling workshops (outside of my profession) and consumed countless hours of programming relating to, well, relating.

I think these kids have it right in the interview link. When the purpose is shared jointly and above either of you, the ‘team’ approach brings you together, not in competition with each other.

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DIY’s for profit ( but not necessarily fun )

October 22, 2012

Four piles ! – that’s the bottom line.

  • Toss it.
  • Donate it.
  • Sell it.
  • Keep, organize and store it.

  1. Wash or paint the walls and trim. Wash light switches. Please make windows spotless. No dust anywhere. Any closet, wall space, furniture inclusions in a given room & the garage or basement areas should be no more than 60% occupied – otherwise they look like the home lacks sufficient space for ‘stuff’.
  2. Those new fixtures you’ll install need bright bulbs! Windows/ shades open all the way.
  3. If you have hanging wires, your post-accepted offer inspector can cost you dearly. Don’t let those unstapled wires in the basement or garage beg for concessions – or worse – make the buyer walk.
  4. Trim back the bushes and make the house look bigger! Bright colored flowers on the porch. Water, fertilize and trim the lawn impeccably.
  5. Spend on bright, clean, new items including house plants to add $’s to the sale, get quicker responses, and bonus, you get to those bold wall hangings & new area rugs with you!
    • >> Please! Look at the decor in ‘on-markets’ and recently sold comps. If you are all ‘brass’ trimmed & they are brushed nickel, eBay or Home Depot are your best friend to swap knobs/ handles/ & lighting fixtures – inside and out. You’ll have only yourself to blame if you leave thousands behind because you didn’t spent hundreds to increase appeal.

If a seller wants to get the same price the neighbors got for their property, then I have expectations for them too !

Read the entire list with a caveat, e.g., I’d put kitchen bath rehab higher on the list, but if yours in no more than 5 years old and you clean clean clean, then its off the list. You get the idea.

 

Above is the jest of today’s suggested reading.

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