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Upgrading the house for your own use or upgrading a house to sell are two different things. For the latter you should talk to your TRUSTED real estate agent and I also recommend a consultation with a staging professional.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing those great pictures. I can appreciate the sanctuary from the surroundings. All of those changes make me wonder, in a clinical sort of way, whether you had any thought that you could over-build for the neighborhood. After all, anyone looking at the home would have to view the entire neighborhood before entering your lot. Was that at all on your mind? It is with me: I can't make such an outrageous improvement to this place that would set it too far apart from the surrounding neighborhood such that it sticks out.
Aloha pumehana,
Brian and Mary
Lynnwood, WA\Discovery Harbour
Aloha pumehana,
Brian and Mary
Lynnwood, WA\Discovery Harbour
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What to say to the appraiser:
I have 2 Benjamin Franklin's that need a home for a high appraisal [
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Appraisers are also looking for updates. If you live in a 20 year old home and have not done a thing to update it the age will show as styles and finishes change. My homes have always appraised high and sold higher and quicker than any homes in the neighborhoods we lived in... maybe it's a gay thing ;-). Everything Rabi has said also applies.
-Blake
http://www.theboysgreatescape.blogspot.com/
