Renovating Your Home in San Antonio TX|Adding Value

Renovating Your Home in San Antonio TX|Adding Value

Renovating Your Home

Scenario: Sometime within the next year, you want to sell your home and are considering renovating our home. If the time to sell is now and you are trying to sell your home in San Antonio, TX, iCloseHomes Inc. can buy it from you. However, if you’re not ready to move just yet and you’re interested in renovating your home to add resale value, we’ve got you covered there as well. But an important question still needs to be answered. How will you choose what types of renovations to make, and where? Do you add an outdoor patio in the back, or update the landscaping in your front yard. Should you renovate your kitchen, or your bathroom, or both? In this week’s post, we will be outlining some common home renovations, specifically those that offer the largest return on your investment.

Take Care of Maintenance First

The first thing to keep in mind in maintaining your home is to consider fixing things you may have missed with regards to regular maintenance.  This can significantly impact what you can sell your home for, and how fast you are able to sell, often times more so than any minor renovations. Home buyers simply expect that the roof will not leak and that the air conditioning will work, and the daunting mental image a buyer creates of the trouble they would have to go through to fix those things will keep them from being even slightly impressed by a fresh coat of paint, or any updates to your fixtures.

Clean or replace the gutters, make sure the air conditioning and heating systems are ready for seasonal usage and replace your window screens. Make sure A/C  filters are clean. All of these small things make your home easier to sell, create an impression and will fetch you a larger return than most other maintenance or renovations if they aren’t already taken care of.

Kitchens and Bathrooms

Your home’s kitchens and bathrooms are another big area you’ll want to focus on, and it’s worth noting that minor changes will, on average, give you more bang for your buck than major ones. In a bathroom, focus on replacing tile, flooring, lighting fixtures, vanity areas, and adding a fresh coat of paint. If you’re feeling up to the task, you might consider replacing your current bathtub with a new one, or a walk-in shower. Replacing toilets, sinks or faucets can also add to the value of your home.

In the kitchen you’ll want to apply a similar focus. Refacing cabinets, updating tiling, and consider replacing your faucets if your kitchen could just use a little touching up. However if you want to sell your house in San Antonio, TX for over $200,000, your kitchen and bathrooms are a good place to reflect that value through your countertops, flooring and appliances. Start from the bottom and work your way up in these spaces. Worn flooring, or tile can seriously detract from the resale value of your home, and new paint and simple fixture updates can make a world of difference in a space.

Curb Appeal

Another thing to keep in mind is that your home is a book that will always, always, ALWAYS be judged by it’s cover, and if your home doesn’t grab any attention from the outside, you shouldn’t expect many people to want to take a look inside. Landscaping could be the topic of five other posts on its own, and if you’re preparing to improve your home in that area, we’ve collected a few tips in a previous post here. Other things to consider for generation curb appeal could involve things as simple as repainting a door, or even installing new side paneling, which also adds to your home’s resale value.

With tens of hundreds of square feet to make changes to, home renovation can seem like a daunting task with far too many choices, but adding value to your home can be a great mindset to start with. If you live in San Antonio, TX and want to sell your house quickly in San Antonio click here, and iCloseHomes Inc. can make you an offer, usually within a fairly short time frame.

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