9 Tips for Making Major Changes to your Current Home
Inside the 80027 with Terri Ellerington Real Estate Professional
English - September 24, 2020 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBInvesting Business Entrepreneurship real estate property management louisville superior community invest boulder lafayette mortgage rental Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Like many of you, our family has revisited the ideas on how is our house working for us, especially NOW that we are working from home (more), home schooling and overall not leaving the comforts of HOME. Today I wanted to share with you my thoughts around this idea, as we have decided to make some large improvements/additions to our current home. I will be very honest with you, I have been in the real estate world for 20 years of my adult career, I have bought, sold, managed, invested, remodeled, updated, finished a basement, but what I have NEVER done before is actually ADD more structure/sq ft on to the house. I promise you might get at least 1 little nugget of helpful information.
The first question you should ask? 1.) Do we really NOW want to stay in our current home for years to come? What is it that we need from our home. Another bedroom? An office working space? Outdoor living? Gym? So if you answer to your questions, does this house work for our family and the “NEW” needs that we require? If so, great, if not, is it “worth” us to change our current house or should we move? If the answer is MOVE then go ahead and turn this off and call me 303-929-8116. Just kidding well kind of… Still finish the podcast, I think you will enjoy it and possibly learn something..
If you are considering making changed to the house? Where do you start?
Here are 9 tips:
1.) Start with going to your local planning department.
2.) Start looking online, pinterest, Facebook, google, etc. get some ideas of what it is what you are looking for in the space and how you want it to look as a final finished product.
3.) Site Plan: Many projects will require that you have a Site plan done on the property. This is different from an ILC.
4.) Contacting and working with an architect.
5.) Consulting with the architect as to what exactly your project includes so that you fully understand the scope of the project and how they can help you communicate this with the contractor.
6.) Research contractors,and locating the RIGHT ONE! Style, cost, communication, experience, etc.
7.) What sort of things YOU can do with the project that could say “money” or “time”.
8.) Be prepared for the project to cost MORE and take LONGER.
9.) Know what is going on!