To rehab or not to rehab... Selling my house in Round Rock TX

[Karene Burnett]

My Husband and I have decided to sell our current home. Round Rock is a HOT real estate market and the homes in our neighborhood have been selling right away with multiple offers well above asking price. We have gone back and forth with our realtors about how much money we should put into the home before listing. Our house was built in 1997, we have done several nice upgrades, Large concrete patio, new high quality windows, roof still has 20 years, replaced flooring with pergo and carpet 4 years ago, paint etc... We are doing some basic repairs to things we know buyers will want, refreshing paint, light fixtures, and staging. The question is do we replace our counters in the kitchen & bathrooms with quartz, also updating the master bath cabinets (we already did the guest bath). Currently houses in my neighborhood and in Round Rock general are typically going for $10k - 30k over asking price. There are not very many homes for sale in our city and it is in very high demand. Is it worth putting in the extra $10,000?? I know that we will get offers either way just cant determine if we will really get more by doing the counters, there is a chance we will get that regardless based on what we are seeing. We have owned the home for 10 years so we expect to get at least $100,000 profit after fees. We plan to invest that money back into real estate. Please any advice from local realtors/investors is appreciated. Thank you!