They're free.

I estimate from the monthly payments that I probably at least was paid back the amount I gave him, but really no gain for me in that sense, almost like an interest free loan for 5 years. 

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It varies by situation, but a couple decent benchmarks are if it improves your rate by 1% or more, or you recover the refi costs in two years or less.

In a bigger city housing costs are generally higher so you'll get a larger pool of (younger) people looking for more affordable options like rent by room.

Even then the rent only goes up a certain percentage of the renovation costs.

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In the event of some disaster, will they do a replacement cost for a 4/2 or 2/2?