BE$T bang for your buck home improvement for home sale

YY1 said

Not sure how much painting you've done, but me and the wife just painted two houses complete exterior for $325 each (not counting a $125 sprayer we already had).

We've painted complete interiors several times for about $250.

So give or take less than 1K to paint entirely to your liking.

WTF don't people get that, and make it a "I can't live there" issue?

I guess it's good for those of us that do get it.

Buy cheap if it needs paint, paint cheap and sell high!

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You and I get it.

Most people see "contractor."

Others see the labor involved involved and chicken out.

The decks could have been easily scraped and painted a good exterior white for little to nothing.

I tore em down, instead.

One of the reasons I bought the place was because I wanted to build it as my own. Two walls were ripped out almost immediately. One divided the kitchen and dining room with just a little pass through hole in it. Instead, a breakfast bar is going in.

I could have cared less about color. I can change colors, easily enoug. And do the renovations myself.

The only thing I didn't do was install carpet in Cyrus's room.

With a torn meniscus at the time and a bad hip, it would have taken me all day. The guys who did it, had it in place in ten minutes, and I had the base board trim in fifteen minutes later.