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How much money should you put into improving your home? As much as you can afford IF you are doing it for’ your own enjoyment and don't plan to move for a long time. However, if you plan to make major improvements in order to get a better price when you sell - it is economically unwise. Seldom do such improvements bring more than fifty cents on the dollar spent to make them. And all bets are off if you overvalue your house in relation to other houses in the neighborhood. An old real estate axiom says, in effect, that nobody will spend $40,000 for a house in a $30,000 neighborhood. That's virtually true regardless of how

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