The price paid was easily worth the work of showing the house and negotiating with other agents.

You can easily over-renovate or under-renovate.

are there any other types of maintenance / things that break more easily due to snow?

If your current floor was peel & stick, you could easily use a hair dryer to soften the adhesive of the damaged tiles, lift them up and drop in new replacement tiles.

Throw in the fact its a county seat, has access to not only rail, but regional air, three US highways, two state routes and a state park, and I would wager there should be many more than 10,000 people there.

Realtor cash deal easily done.

The appraised value of the home when work is compleated would easily be above $650K.My husband is retired military and has his VA benefits.

The price paid was easily worth the work of showing the house and negotiating with other agents.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

@Susan Thelen it’s likely easiest you do this in excel so you can easily modify variables and test the NPV sensitivity.