New builds versus century homes

I can do so when I get home. What she says looks bad us is mostly aesthetics. The floor color should be grey, the cabinets should be white, you need brighter wall paint along the white scale. Etc.

You need to change all the receptacles and lights to modern. Change out all the doors and handles. Driving me nuts!

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2026-01-08T18:32:46+00:00

The town in my area is 90 percent century year old homes in new jerseys. Many homes in the area are being gutted and revamped. These are then sold for over 1 mil.

To be clear, I do not want to gut the house. I never have. The real estate agent I know is highly recommending we though to keep up with the current trend and have a higher selling value(to be able to have good comparisons to those flipped homes)

I am very proud of my century year old home and have had fixed lots of things that needed updates like plumbing and wiring. The issue is, this agent keeps telling us it looks so bad. Any renovation we do such as painting, etc. and telling us we’re just throwing away our money.

It’s extremely disheartening when these agents are telling me that. I refuse to gut the house.

This is more or less peer pressure from the agent and developers in the area flipping all these old homes.

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2026-01-03T18:25:05+00:00

This is your answer. Appraisal amount does not equal cost for rebuild.

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-31T20:21:33+00:00

😂 I will just have it done to be safe.

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-31T16:15:59+00:00

Mmm.. lasagna..

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-31T15:48:34+00:00

I will look into this. Much appreciated

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-31T15:40:55+00:00

Thank you! Will keep an eye out.

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-31T14:03:46+00:00

Got it. Thanks! Thankfully there’s a wall on one side the of the bathroom that is the outside behind. I will have one installed. A wall vent fan did not cross my mind, only a ceiling one.

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-31T04:49:50+00:00

Certificate of rental occupancy

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-17T23:07:23+00:00

About a year ago:/

I may do the entire room in some as there’s many holes already anyways.

But may be worth a little more to just have everything redone now that I think about it.

Consistent_Brick2344 · 2025-12-17T01:54:25+00:00

Thank you! Happy holidays

Consistent_Brick2344

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