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This checklist should help prioritize improvements. Start at the top and work your way down. If you have a structural problem, don't do cosmetic improvements and hope that will hide the structural problems. They won't. Structural problems require experts who can give you repair quotes. Hire only licensed experts and make sure you get a permit. Otherwise, you'll be pound-foolish when you go to sell. A municipality can force you to pay steep fines or remove/correct the improvement upon resale.
Don't put in an in-ground pool if you have a small backyard. Buy a membership to a swim club instead. Pools are such a subjective purchase. Think carefully about this improvement. If you add a pool, do it correctly by hiring a landscape designer and position the pool as an aspect of the landscaping instead of the focal point, unless it's an infinity pool. Buyers want child- and animal-proof automatic pool covers.See the full content of this document
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The 10 Commandments
Thinking of a home improvement for 2008? Let resale value be your guide. Think like a homebuyer when making your home improvements. According to U.S. Census data, the average homeowner will stay in his or her house for seven y...
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