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While property renovation projects should enrich your life and that of your family while you live in your home, it’s important to cast an eye toward the future and which features buyers will most covet when you do decide to sell. Whether you’re making a living flipping homes or are just researching which are the wisest home improvement projects in a world acquainted with COVID-19, it’s useful to first understand the demographic of the most active buyers on the market.

To fix up your house before listing it or sell it as is. It’s an age old debate for a reason—the answer is complicated and case-specific. It depends on multiple factors, including your personal reasons for listing and the features of the real estate market you’ll be entering. For clarity’s sake, selling your home “as is” means that you have decided not to make any further repairs once it's on the market. This kind of listing means that, regardless of a home inspection’s results, your prospective homebuyer would be buying the home in its current condition.

Meet our friends, Art and Judy. We met these two lovebirds in September of 2018. They had lived in their beautiful Lyndhurst home for 50 years together, raising children and filling the home with love and laughter. Judy still clearly remembers the day she found the lot, called the builder, and designed the home that they would live in. But after all that time, with their children grown and scattered across the country, Art and Judy had decided that it was time to move on. When they contacted VNTG Home, they were planning on downsizing to a small apartment, but needed some help with the logistics of cleaning out their old home and getting it sold.

Finding your dream home is almost impossible. More than likely, you found a home with some character and some heart and decided that you could see yourself living there, despite some obvious flaws. But now you’re in a position to make a few changes to that home you like in order to turn it into a home that you’re head over heels in love with. Well, you might want to do some research first because someday you might want to sell and not everything that you see as an improvement really looks that way in the eyes of a buyer. Here are a few suggestions for the home improvements that you could make that will bring the most value to your home.