What to Do and NOT for home appraisal

[Steven Foster Wilson]

For many using the BRRRR strategy or just looking to get the best price for a selling home, the appraisal is critical. I am getting my duplex appraised in 3 months and I am preparing. I have spent hours on the phone with a local appraising office asking these questions and what I should do renovation wise. This is what I've come up with. This is a start to what brings in the $ and what does not:

DO:

• Kitchen Updates
• Bathroom Updates
• Adding Bedrooms
• Adding Bathrooms
• minor exterior touch ups
• deep clean

DO NOT

• Exterior landscape work (pools)
• Replacing a roof
• painting
• install new wood flooring
• update water heater and HVAC

Someone with experience please add, deny, or affirm any of these.