This was a win win for myself and a local investor looking to upgrade after this house had a small kitchen fire.

Plus you may have to upgrade your electric panel for a heat pump .  

The best investments I've made in my life, and the most money I've made on them, has been buying single-family homes to live in and slowly working on them and upgrading them while I was able to enjoy the amenities and then selling when the home had hit peak marketability.

I just had granite countertops installed as part of upgrading my kitchen in my primary residence.

My agent informs me they're inspecting the house one more time, the night before closing, but I honestly felt good about everything since I had put into over 8 hours building these things on my own and fixed everything else with receipts, had the place professionally cleaned, and upgraded a fixture in the bathroom.So, I get a call first thing in the morning (closing was in the afternoon) and my agent is saying they're refusing to close given the condition of the window screens.

Upgraded it.

And ultimately you can force equity as well as benefit from appreciation over time before “housing up” into a better primary and keeping your first property as a rentalMy wife and I used a similar method: -bought a primary and did a lot of upgrades over the course of 3 years (though, we intermittently house hacked with roommates here and there to fund some of them).

Value-Add Upgrades At this juncture in the pandemic timeline, many investors believe that it really doesn’t make sense to upgrade in order to raise rents.

It's a great way to keep upgrading properties without having to pay any capital gains taxes after each sale in order to do so

I lived in it for a while, then kept it when I upgraded to a house.