9 easy steps to increase appeal and value of your home

February 17th, 2008

It’s more than simply a roof over your head, or a place you come when your work is over – your home is probably the most valuable thing you have. Therefore, it is perfectly sensible that you maintain, nurture and improve its looks, and make it into the perfect home. Below we present some basic hints and general guidelines that will allow you to enhance the appeal of your home quickly and easily.

There are 9 basic steps you should take when doing up your place:

  1. You can add appeal with improved storage space, it can be in the kitchen, bathroom or possibly the garage. A place for everything and everything in its place contributes to a tidier and better-looking home. Hanging wall storage systems is not going to make a significant impact on your budget.
  2. Change all those old, leaky faucets for some shiny new ones.
  3. Get rid of those old light fixtures, brighten up your place with new bulbs that can also reduce your power consumption.
  4. Spruce up your cabinets with a fresh layer of paint, or, if they’re dirty, use a brush and soap on them, remove those dirty fingerprints, and make them looking as good as new.
  5. Shake up and clean your carpet, they should look as good as new too.
  6. Check that all the latches and bolts work, that the hinges are well-oiled and creaky noises don’t come out of them.
  7. Replace the old blades in your fans, or simply clean them out.
  8. You can buy throws in colors that go well with the room to cover up worn sofa and chair upholstery.
  9. Call a plumber and electrician, they should check your wiring and pipes are in the right places and working just fine.

3 ways to benefit from a house

January 23rd, 2008

Stable Monthly Housing Costs

When you rent a place to live, you can obviously expect your rent to slowly increase each year – or possibly more often. If you get a fixed rate mortgage when you purchase a house, you have the same monthly payment amount for 30 years. Even if you get an adjustable rate mortgage, your payment will remain within a certain range for the entire period of the mortgage – and interest rates aren’t as volatile now as they were in the late 70s and early 80s.
Consider how much rent may be 10, 15, or even 30 years from now? Which seems more reasonable?

Forced Savings

Some people just don’t have the talent to saving money, and a house can be seen as an automatic savings account. Your savings increase in two ways. Each month, a part of your payment goes toward the principal. Sure, in the early years of the mortgage, this is not much. However, over time it speeds up.
Secondly, your house appreciates. Average appreciation on a home is about 5%, though it will differ from year to year, and in some cases it may even depreciate. Over time, history has shown that owning a home is one of the very best financial investments.

Freedom & Individualism

When you rent, you are usually limited on what you can do to improve your home. You have to ask for permission to make certain types of improvements. It also doesn’t make sense to spend thousands of dollars painting, putting in carpet, tile or window coverings when the main person who takes the benefits is the landlord and not you. Because your landlord wants to keep his expenses as low as possible, he or she will normally not be spending much to improve the place, either.

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December 29th, 2007

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