I respectfully disagree with that final statement. At least, my opinion on it differs from yours. Which is fine.
We’re in our first starter home right now, and we definitely have plans to make changes that will potentially drop its resell value. Why? Because we live here now, and probably for the next decade, and we want to fix things that annoy us.
Namely we plan to knock out a wall to make the kitchen/dining more open, and it’ll flow better into the living room too. But then it goes from a 3 bedroom house, to 2 🤷♂️
My in-laws just built a house, and I kind of hate it. They even dislike a lot of things about it, but everything they did to build that house, every decision, was 100% about resale. I don’t even mean big stuff, I mean every little detail. Like they’re living in a showroom. That’s just not for me.
I can understand your point. We did some minor changes for my wife’s peace of mind, but we bought the home with the idea that it wasn’t our forever home. The one we’re in now we are keeping though. We’ve remodeled the previous owners remodeled kitchen… Added things to the house that do nothing for value, but the pressure of knowing we’re going to have to resell it is completely gone.
We had a 15 year mortgage on the old house and the whole point was to pay it off and get rid of it while we looked for something better. We never even painted the walls, it was still contractor beige when we left. Our house was livable though and already open concept, so we didn’t really have to make any major changes to it. We just turbo cash dumped into the principal at every chance.
That being said, if my wife would have had any major issues, we would have changed things. It was just “acceptable” enough for us to treat it like a long ass lease and leave it almost like we found it.
I respectfully disagree with that final statement. At least, my opinion on it differs from yours. Which is fine.
We’re in our first starter home right now, and we definitely have plans to make changes that will potentially drop its resell value. Why? Because we live here now, and probably for the next decade, and we want to fix things that annoy us.
Namely we plan to knock out a wall to make the kitchen/dining more open, and it’ll flow better into the living room too. But then it goes from a 3 bedroom house, to 2 🤷♂️
My in-laws just built a house, and I kind of hate it. They even dislike a lot of things about it, but everything they did to build that house, every decision, was 100% about resale. I don’t even mean big stuff, I mean every little detail. Like they’re living in a showroom. That’s just not for me.
I can understand your point. We did some minor changes for my wife’s peace of mind, but we bought the home with the idea that it wasn’t our forever home. The one we’re in now we are keeping though. We’ve remodeled the previous owners remodeled kitchen… Added things to the house that do nothing for value, but the pressure of knowing we’re going to have to resell it is completely gone.
We had a 15 year mortgage on the old house and the whole point was to pay it off and get rid of it while we looked for something better. We never even painted the walls, it was still contractor beige when we left. Our house was livable though and already open concept, so we didn’t really have to make any major changes to it. We just turbo cash dumped into the principal at every chance.
That being said, if my wife would have had any major issues, we would have changed things. It was just “acceptable” enough for us to treat it like a long ass lease and leave it almost like we found it.