How to Increase the Value of Your Home Simple Budget Conscious Techniques and Ideas That Will Make Your Home Worth Up to 100 000 More
August 28, 2009 by sgtwak
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The guide to maximizing the value of your most valuable asset
Millions of Americans are investing in home improvements, hoping to increase the long-term value of their most valuable asset. But do you know which home improvements will make your home’s value jump, and those that won’t? This practical guide covers all of the topics every homeowner must consider before getting started–improvements that add the most value, which should be undertaken first, and how to do it right from the very start. From remodeling the kitchen to landscaping the front yard and everything in between, you’ll learn which improvements you should undertake, and which are a waste of your time and money.
How to Improve the Value of Your Home will help you get the most bang for your home-improvement buck–with handy tips on lowering the cost of home maintenance and home improvement projects. If you aren’t sure whether now is the right time to remodel, a simple quiz helps you to determine what you can afford to do and what to expect as a long-term payoff.
And there’s more:
*Calculate the cost versus the value of improvements
*What homework you need to do before tackling additions
*How to find the resources and information you need
*Where to find the right contractor to do the work
*How to set a home-improvement budget
*Ways to improve home energy efficiency
*Tips on saving on home insurance
*Simple ways to create curb appeal
Vicki Lankarge is a consumer writer and expert in protecting and improving the value of homes. Her works appears on aol.com, CBS Marketwatch, and MSN.com.
Daniel J. Nahorney is a home improvement weekend warrior, a journalist, business writer, and magazine editor.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Good
Will go into detail about all you need to know and some helpful hints it’s all in there.
2 Stars Should be titled how to cut your losses
The premise of the book seems to be that you won’t recover all of the money you spend on improvements let alone make any. The book references remodeling magazine as a source of obtaining a dollar cost and value added. Again, cost is always higher than value added.
Another fitting title might be “improve the value of your home by 100,000 dollars while spending 130,000 to do it!”
I strongly recommend that people read through the table of contents and possibily skim through it if you have the opportunity. Read one of the chapters and you’ll see what I mean, then decide if it’s right for you. Most of the chapters follow the same format with different projets. Unfortuately for me, I already bought it based on the amazing scores everyone else gave it.
5 Stars Exactly what I was looking for…
I’m preparing to sell my house and this book is exactly what I wanted to help me figure out what I needed to do, what I could do, and what I shouldn’t bother with. On top of it’s rather useful information, it’s highly readable. I was afraid it would be overly wordy or bogged down with real estate-y stuff, but it’s an easy read for your casual non-DIYer home seller. I wouldn’t recommend that you use this as your reference on your first flip or anything, but if you want to sell your house and prepare it as well as possible first, this book suits.
5 Stars increase your value
this book is a must have for anyone doing real estate of any kind. If you are trying to re-finance or to buy this ideas are wonderful and make completer sense.
1 Star Very little value.
Buy this only if you haven’t been following news and magazine articles that outline the same issues. There is no enlightening message or original statistical model here.
