The neighborhood was a C when I bought, lots of elderly Polish ladies. 

The biggest plus in port richmond is that if you have to go there you can get polish sausages and perogies and they are very good.   

New Braunfels has a much more polished city plan and code department.

The polish will help convince them that they want to do so.

Now, if you really want to polish that, read up on NLP :)

It's a fad short term because it's not fully polished but it will be the future when it is polished.

What value buyers put on the improvements really depends on what people are looking for.For owner-occupants, you can't expect a full return because buyers don't give the same value to a bathroom or kitchen that's been used, even if only for a few months.However, what owner-occupants often really need is "polish" and proper staging.

I'm thinking about polished concrete counters for durability's sake.

While it could use a little more polish (small things, like maybe interior paint), it has some major features that those don't have - brick and stone exterior, great fireplaces, etc.The question is, how variable are appraisals?

When I brought the sample into the store the designer said that I shouldn't be using it for flooring because it was polished.