Your Home
July 31st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in UncategorizedThis may seem absolute ludacris but it is the best time you’re going to see in quite some time to remodel your home. If you stick with me for a bit on this, I will show you the other side of the picture - the side that makes the money.
A home has historically been the best place for the average person to acquire wealth. While stock and retirement accounts return modest interest usually below 10% annually, the equity in your home can sometimes double in a very short period of time. What goes up must come down and they can come down fast as well. We’ve all seen that in just the past few years or so.
Consider remodelling your home for only 2 reasons:
- 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. You want to add a game room, or modernize your kitchen and master bath. You have started a new home based business and need a new office. Whatever the reason, youve got a good idea of what you want.
Reason # 2 is not so obvious. Many people dont even consider it when they remodel or before they sell their home. The goal here is to create value in your home by developing it to its Highest and Best Use.
Keeping it simple, its strategically adding on to or upgrading your home to maximize your ROI within the neighborhood you are in. Stating it even more simply, if an improvement that costs a dollar means you can sell your home for two dollars more, you do it. If not, you dont.
Look at these situations:
Adding a third bedroom to a two bedroom home will most times be at least a break-even situation. The same usually for going to a 4 bedromm from a 3 bedroom home. Add a sixth bedroom to a five bedroom home? Nope, don’t do it unless *you* need the 6th bedroom. You won’t see the price difference due to supply and demand.
Say your house is roughly 2,000 square feet in an average neighborhood of your town. There are homes in your neighborhood over 3,000 sq ft. The market in your neighborhood will bear the price commanded by a 3,0000 sq ft home, so you could add 1,000 sq ft to your home and command the same price or more.
If the average cost per square foot in your area is $180 and you pay $120/ft for the additional 1,000 sq ft, you’ve realized a profit of $60,000. Not bad! And remeber, modernizing will enable you to command a higher per sq ft price than what is customary for real estate sales in that area.
In either case you create value in your home by developing it to its Maximum Potential.
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