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Colorado Springs Real Estate - Protecting your Improvement & Upgrade Investments

12:11, 2007-Nov-29 .. Link

Colorado Springs Real Estate - Protecting your Upgrade Investments

When we deal with real estate, the common goal is to acquire the property, create improvements and then sell for some smart revenue. However, there are two basic rules in the real estate industry. First, buy in the right location and second, the best home on the block is a bad buy! If you move to a Colorado Springs property that calls for some upgrading; you can do so and you will eventually gain profit through added equity when you sell your home in the future. That is a sure fact! But there is one limitation – that is when people improve their homes so much, they price themselves off of their market.

Let’s have an example. Let us presume that you find a good Colorado Springs Real Estate property in a neighbourhood where most homes sell for about $400,000. You purchase this nice home for $350,000. The goal is to buy the home complete repairs and upgrades in order to gain $50,000 by the time you sell it. Sounds great? It sure is a good financial strategy move.

Now, let us suppose that you live in that nice Colorado Springs home for seven years. After your purchase you immediately improved the bathrooms, the kitchen and then completed a few more room. Let us say that in all seven years, you spent $84,000 for enhancement alone. The question now is how are you going to recover your costs when you are selling your house in a market that will only support $50,000 improvement?

The key to it all is not to over improve your home! It is crucial that you create a financial plan and stick to it. And if you have any future plans of selling your home, it will never hurt to ask your Colorado Springs realtor what improvement you should make and how much you should spend.

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