Home Improvement
Home Improvement On A Budget Can Start With A Closet Organizer
Home improvements on a budget are on a rise. With the housing crisis and the downward pressure on home prices, more people may opt to stay put and renovate their homes. But these home renovations and repairs will be smaller and give home owners more bang for the buck. Closet organizers are one way to improve a home and make a home more livable. The home improvement doesn’t have to cost too much. The home repair needs to suit your needs and a closet organizer can unclutter a space you use daily and make your life easier. It doesn’t have to cost too much. It can be on a budget and you might be able to do it yourself. Best of all, if you are planning to sell your home in the near future, a small home improvement project and a well organized closet with a well installed closet organizer can help your home look better and sell faster in this real estate market.
Renovation Costs: How to Plan Home Improvement Projects So They Are Affordable
Renovation costs have soared out of control – even in the current recession. You’d think that renovation costs would be less because fewer home improvement contractors are employed. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Consumers, mindful of renovation costs are staging their home improvement projects. Doing home improvement projects in phases lowers renovation costs.
Renovate Or Start With New Construction?
How should you make the decision to renovate or gut rehab your existing home, or if you should tear down your home and start from scratch with new construction? Good builders can make a renovation just as good, if not better, than new construction. The price of completely renovating versus new construction will be about the same, as well. To make the decision to tear down or renovate, you need to think about what kind of benefits, like size or amenities, you will get from both options.
Inexpensive Improvements To Make Before Selling Home
Today’s home buyers are spending too much money to buy a home that they typically don’t have the cash left over for improvements such as painting and carpeting. By making these home improvements before selling, your home will sell faster and for a lot more money. Paint is a cheap and easy do-it-yourself home improvement.
What Needs To Be Included In A Contractor’s Bid?
Before starting any sort of major home renovation or remodeling project, you will want to get bids from contractors and compare price estimates. A bid from a contractor should not be a single number estimate. You will want to see a detailed, multi-page report with a line item for everything that will go into your home remodeling project. With a detailed line item report, you will be able to better estimate your costs and plan for changes later in the renovation project. Watch this Expert Real Estate Tips Video for more help with how to prepare for a home remodeling project.
Planning A Renovation For Your Lifestyle
Unless you’re only renovating your home with selling the house in mind, try to think of your lifestyle and how you will use the house as you plan the home renovation project. Think of how much storage you will need, what size bathrooms do you want, do you need more wiring for extra outlets or home automation? Think of your lifestyle and plan the home design accordingly so you will be happy with the home renovation or remodeling for years to come. Watch this Expert Real Estate Tips video for more advice on how to plan for a home renovation project.
Planning Renovation During A Tough Economy
You may look at your personal finances and the bad economy around you and think that now is not the time to be putting money into a home renovation. Advice from a professional builder says now may be the perfect time to get the most for your money. With the real estate industry and the construction industry down, everyone is looking for work. If you have the cash, or can get credit, you may be able to get a great price on a remodeling project and raise your property value. The subcontractors and builders might be more willing to strike a deal with you on your home renovation or remodeling project.
Home Renovation Video Series
Ilyce Glink from ThinkGlink.com and ExpertRealEstateTips.net shares advice, tips, and how to help in this video series dedicated to home renovation and remodeling. With help from contractors, construction professionals and experts, Ilyce brings you the best advice in the industry. If you’re thinking about new construction, or renovating your existing home, this 30-video series will cover every topic to get you prepped to break ground and start your construction project. Watch this home renovation series from Expert Real Estate Tips to get more advice, explanations and tips to keep your rehab or new construction on track.
Finishing The Project With The “Punch List”
When you’re stuck in the middle of a home renovation, gut rehab, or construction project, it may feel like the work will never end. But at a point called “substantial completion,” you will go through the home room by room with the contractor and put together a punch list. A punch list is a list of all the remaining work left to be done. Once the punch work list is complete, that’s “final completetion” of the the construction project, and it’s time to enjoy all your hard work. Watch this Expert Real Estate Tips video for more help with your home renovation projects.
Home Renovation: Demolition Phase
The demolition phase is usually the fastest (and the most fun) part of a construction project. With demolition, you may want to retain some aspects of the old home, but you are mostly concerned with tearing everything out. In a construction project, demolition goes by very quickly, then the real work of home renovation or rehab starts. Watch this Expert Real Estate Tips video and the others in our home renovation series for more construction advice.
