I'm at the tail end of doing a bathroom renovation, and I have done several other lil projects and have more to do. If I'm raising the value of my house, is that contributing to pricing people out of homes?
The only way to avoid contributing to gentrification is to live in a hole, with all the other wretched crawling things.
Basically this. It's just another function of capitalism. Only way to stop it is to destroy capitalism.
Well, I currently live in it, of course. I'm not like buying up property and flipping it. Although, I probably will eventually sell this place. Thanks for the answer, comrade.
no. if you were doing this to your rental properties, maybe
EDIT: rental or investment properties
Yeah, definitely. Another user mentioned tagging my door and walls. Interesting ideas, I'm gonna look into it.
Not an expert... but looking around trying to figure out how much the janky farm house I live in is worth, the condition of the house didn't really matter. It was square footage, number of bedrooms, number and type of bathrooms, extra buildings on the property all seemed to be the major factors in price. Looked at some house listings where the place was practically gutted, but listed as having x bedrooms and y bathrooms and was on the market for $100k or more.
I don't think your going to affect things in any real way by keeping your house livable.
Okay, thanks for this. You're probably correct, I just started to have this mini crisis that a coffee shop would come in the moment I redid my bathroom.
As long as you don't tell anyone and keep the exterior looking like shit, I think you're good
