Increasing the value of your property can be the easiest thing in the world or the most difficult. You can spend a couple hundred dollars and a few hours improving your home’s value by thousands of dollars, or you can spend weeks raising the price in the hundred dollar range. There are easy ways and hard ways to improve your home’s value, and there are some things that, while recommended, cost more than your final dollar amount. Next, we will review some ideas that offer the highest return for the lowest investment…
Make the kitchen pretty
You would be surprised. You can spend weeks plumbing, bringing everything up to date without being able to add another dollar to the price of the house, but then you spend twenty bucks and a single hour adding new cabinet knobs and you’re watching the price of a used car add to the price. dollar value of your home. Obviously, getting everything up to code is the top priority, but from there, making your home look nice offers a better return for the amount of work it takes than, say, remodeling your entire kitchen. right from the start. Now, adding a new stainless steel sink and a new refrigerator can go a long way, but in terms of the amount of work and money it takes versus the amount of money you’ll make, just making everything a little more nice is not a bad idea. .
Adding a skylight
Adding a skylight is such an incredibly simple remodel job that you could do it with a pocket knife and a piece of glass from the junkyard (not that we’d recommend it), but the added value can be quite immense. A skylight just adds a touch of elegance and class to a home. When you walk into a house and see a skylight, you think, “These people must be doing pretty well!” even if all it is is a window in the roof. There are plenty of guides online for installing a skylight, and if you’re handy with a toolbox, you could be looking at a few thousand added value to your home for an afternoon’s work.
Invest in the neighborhood
Here are the facts: Violent crime has seriously declined since the 1980s, but it still looms as a very real fear for many. It’s not that it’s something most of us ever have to deal with, it’s that when you have a family, you have a lot to lose from violent crime and you’d rather not risk it. If you start a neighborhood watch in your area or try to make your neighborhood look like a good place to raise a family, something as simple as starting a little league program with your neighbors could well double the value of your home. As they say: location, location, location. If possible, improving the neighborhood will do more for your home’s value than working on your home.