Remodeling For Resale

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After you purchase your home you may want to make some changes, perhaps even a full remodel. If you plan on doing a full remodel, you will probably be money ahead buying a fixer-upper. As you do repairs or remodel, do it with an eye toward pleasing a future buyer. If you know what will cause a buyer to pay top price for your home, you will get top price, and it will sell quickly when you want to sell. No worries about waiting for months to sell. Always keep in mind that what will please most buyers will usually please you, but what pleases you may not always please most buyers.

If you are remodeling a kitchen for instance, consider installing an island cooking center, if space permits. Think about converting an electric cook top range to energy saving gas. Before doing any remodeling of any kind, there is one thing that is an absolute must after you have read all the books, and talked to interior decorators and contractors. This is to see the latest trends and fashions first hand in new and remodeled homes that are currently on the market. It is interesting to note that the amenities in new homes are remarkably similar in all price ranges. Owners who refurbish older homes before putting them on the market, usually follow the same trends and fashions found in new homes. Real estate agents see new and remodeled homes all the time. Some are very expensive, like several million dollars. For builders to get the prices they are asking, you can be sure they have done their homework relative to the best design, lighting, colors and decorating. You can get some great ideas by touring model homes for sale. By remodeling to the latest trends and fashions, you can expect to get much more for your home than your neighbor down the street when you decide to sell. How do you see these homes first hand?

Contact the listing agent who will be marketing your home for a tour of new and expensive homes... you know, the ones that are not advertised in the paper. You will be surprised at how much you can learn in a couple hours on a Saturday afternoon. If you don't have a listing agent yet, start interviewing years ahead of time. You should have 3 good ones in mind at any given time because there is a turnover in this business. If you want a list of the meanest, most aggressive listing agents in your area, agents who will really go out of their way to represent you properly as a seller, contact me. I do not list and market homes, but I will tell you the tough agents who I have come up against in my Exclusive Buyer Brokerage business, people who treat the sale of their client's home as if it were their own.

Ron Porter, Exclusive Buyer Agent

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