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- June 6, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

Increase your homes resale value

Adorn Home Improvements 1634 Charles Street Whitby, ON L1N 1B9 905-665-1506

Youve been living in your house for a few years now; over time, you have made a few changes, improvements to make your home feel just right for you and your family. Perhaps you have updated and modernized your kitchen or replaced the roof?

Maybe you have finally just about paid off your mortgage and are ready to make the next big move. No, not literally, but the time has come to expand your home.

One of the easier ways of accomplishing this can be to consider adding a sunroom. Sunrooms add livable space; consequently increasing square footage and therefore resale value.

Time to connect with Adorn Home Improvements, experts in exterior home renovations within Durham Region. One call and before you know it, Isabel Mendicino of Adorn Home Improvements, will have an experienced and professional representative sitting down with you to review and firm up your dreams for that home addition.

Four-season sunrooms are so named because they are sunrooms that can be used year-round. They have thicker, better insulated glass, and can also be heated and cooled by your home's furnace and air conditioner. Yes, there are less expensive options, such as a three-season sunroom. However with this, you almost immediately restrict the use of this space. In our colder climate, the four-season structure likely makes more sense short and long term.

Any addition will probably add value to your home but a well-designed four seasons sunroom built with top-quality workmanship and materials by a company with a well-deserved reputation may add additional cache.

The experts at Adorn Home Improvements will conduct a thorough needs analysis for you and present options for your consideration. And, if you are working to a specific budget, Adorn can even assist you with competitive financing rates.

Located 1634 Charles Street in Whitby, consider Adorn Home Improvements as a trusted solution provider for all your home renovations and additions. Call 1 (800) 660-9565 and let us help you make the right decisions for your homes improvements.

Home Improvements That Really Pay Off

- June 6, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

Despite what you see on TV and what the conventional wisdom says, most of the home improvement projects with the greatest return on investment are unglamorous. According to Remodeling Magazines 2014 Cost vs. Value report, youll recoup the greatest percentage of your investment on projects such as replacing the front door with a steel one, adding a wood deck, replacing old siding, replacing the garage door and replacing old windows. Also contrary to conventional wisdom, most home improvement projects do not return more than your investment when you sell. In fact, the average remodeling project only recoups 66 cents for every $1 you spend on it. To get the highest percentage of your remodeling dollars back when you sell, heres what to improve, what not to improve and why.

Best Options: Practical, Midrange Projects

Do you want to get back 96.6% of what you spend on a home upgrade? Then replace your old front door with a new, mid-range steel door with a clear dual-pane half-glass panel and a new lockset. Youll spend an average of $1,162 for this project, but youll get back $1,122 when you sell, Remodeling Magazine reports. Another project in the same price range is replacing your garage door for $1,534; youll recoup $1,283, or 83.7%. You wont need a home-equity loan to tackle these projects, and their low cost and high impact on curb appeal make them smart choices.

If you can afford to spend more, consider projects such as adding a 16 x 20 wood deck, which costs $9,539 on average but recoups 87.4% of its cost; replacing 10 old 3 x 5 windows with new, double-hung, wood or vinyl ones, which costs close to $11,000 for wood and nearly $10,000 for vinyl but recoups about 79%; or replacing vinyl siding, which costs $11,475 for 1,250 square feet but should bring back $8,975 when you sell.

Windows, garage doors and decks aren't necessarily big-ticket items in terms of price or luxury, George says, but updating these items gives the home an instant facelift and contributes to a modern aesthetic, which is exactly what potential homebuyers want to see when they drive up to look at a new home.

Pricier Projects

Two of the priciest but still relatively worthwhile improvements include attic bedrooms and basement remodels. These projects will set you back tens of thousands of dollars, but are a relatively inexpensive way to increase your homes useable square footage compared with an addition. Minor and major kitchen remodels also make the cut, as do bathroom remodels. However, while it may be true that kitchens and bathrooms sell houses, forget about doubling your money. Youre likely to recoup just 82.7% of your $18,856 cost on a minor remodel of a functional but dated 200-square-foot kitchen; 74.2% on a $54,909 major kitchen remodel and 72.5% on a $16,128 remodel of a 5 x 7 bathroom. These are the types of expensive projects you might be tempted to finance with a home-equity loan, but you should think twice before borrowing money and paying 6% interest or more to finance a project with a negative return.

The costs Remodeling Magazine provides are averages. If you can get a project completed well for less, you might be more satisfied with the percentage of its costs you get back when you sell your home. Costs vary by geographic region, project size and scope, and the quality of finishes you choose.

Bathroom upgrades can be done for a minimal cost using materials that look expensive, but are quite affordable, says Jeff Dumas, owner and broker at Home Ventures Realty in Tempe, Ariz., where hes rehabbed and sold residential properties for more than 10 years. Most of the time, I can take an average starter home, put in a new tub with a porcelain tile backsplash, new toilet and vanity, tile the floor, and use some decorative hardware for about $1,500 to $2,000. The results are amazing and help the wow factor when potential buyers are viewing the property, he says.

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Liccardo, Cortese Headed For Runoff In San Jose Mayors Race

- June 4, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

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SAN JOSE (CBS SF) In a low-turnout primary election in Santa Clara County Tuesday, the races for mayor of San Jose and three of five San Jose city councilmembers are headed for runoff elections this fall, Sheriff Laurie Smith was re-elected, and all eight ballot measures passed, according to unofficial results.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo, neither of whom received a majority of votes for mayor, will face each other in a runoff election on Nov. 4. Six candidates who finished first and second in the balloting for the open seats in City Council Districts 1, 3, and 7 will also face off that day.

Meanwhile, in the hotly contested race for council District 5, which includes East San Jose, Magdalena Carrasco received more than 53 percent of the votes, a majority and enough to unseat San Jose City Councilman Xavier Campos, who received a little more than 33 percent.

Cortese garnered more than 33 percent of city voters for mayor to Liccardos 25 percent. After them, the other top vote-getters for mayor were San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen with 21 percent, San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio at almost 10 percent and Councilwoman Rose Herrera with a bit above 6 percent.

Cortese, a former San Jose councilman and vice mayor who has two years remaining in his second term as supervisor, has pitched a three point plan to beef-up the citys police patrols, suppress street gangs and bring residents, businesses and schools together to resolve problems. He also advocates city-run homework centers and reading programs.

Liccardo, a one-time county deputy district attorney who relinquished his District 3 seat to run for mayor, said he wants to cut wasteful spending, reform city employee pensions, hire 200 more police officers, improve response times to medical emergencies, repair roads, reduce homelessness and have longer school days in San Jose.

Vice Mayor Nguyen gave up her District 7 seat to be a mayoral candidate.

Oliverio, who represents District 6, and Herrera, of District 8, are not up for re-election and will remain on the council. In city council District 1, which attracted seven hopefuls, Paul Fong, topped the list with nearly 29 percent of the vote and will face Charles Chappie Jones, who received more than 23 percent, in November.

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Cortese, Liccardo in runoff for San Jose mayor

- June 4, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

SAN JOSE, Calif.

In a low-turnout primary election in Santa Clara County Tuesday, the races for mayor of San Jose and three of five San Jose city councilmembers are headed for runoff elections this fall.

Meanwhile, Sheriff Laurie Smith was re-elected, and all eight ballot measures passed, according to unofficial results.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo, neither of whom received a majority of votes for mayor, will face each other in a runoff election on Nov. 4.

Six candidates who finished first and second in the balloting for the open seats in City Council Districts 1, 3, and 7 will also face off that day.

Cortese garnered more than 33 percent of city voters for mayor to Liccardo's 25 percent. After them, the other top vote-getters for mayor were San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen with 21 percent, San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio at almost 10 percent and Councilwoman Rose Herrera with a bit above 6 percent.

Cortese, a former San Jose councilman and vice mayor who has two years remaining in his second term as supervisor, has pitched a "three point plan" to beef-up the city's police patrols, suppress street gangs and bring residents, businesses and schools together to resolve problems. He also advocates city-run homework centers and reading programs.

Vice Mayor Nguyen gave up her District 7 seat to be a mayoral candidate.