[quote=sdrealtor]Cant beleive I missed this crazy thought. Who cares what kind of windows you put in and how much you paid. Have you forgotten your RE mantra….location, location, location. Thats what determines value. Put those windows and gold plate them on a house in Detroit and tell me you should get that money back.[/quote]
Have you actually read my posts???
[quote=]…Owners don’t expect to recoup all their home-improvement monies. They expect improvements to help them sell faster and expect to recoup a portion of “prudent” improvements (that is, improvements made that are appropriate for the area’s values)…[/quote]
[quote=]…One could posture from this opinion that ALL properties first sold PRIOR to the “FB era” and were not intentionally overmortgaged by their longtime owners should sell for enough to recover the money their owners put in them, given their improvements were “appropriate” for their areas…[/quote]
In the case of “Andersen wood windows,” the words “appropriate” and “prudent” means the property is located in MH …. or PL, for example. For the record, I have (top-quality) vinyl windows.
sdr, why don’t you do us all a favor and go and recycle all those empty “two-buck chuck” bottles lying around your office and switch to black coffee today, ‘kay? Just look outside your door … That “regular” dude with his shopping cart is standing outside waiting to collect …
