"George" wrote

That always cracks me up on the various "house hunter" shows. It always
goes something like "well the price is really good but that purple paint
in the bedroom just isn't going to work so we don't want this house..."

Buy the place for $25k less and hire someone for $1k to paint the room and
be $24k ahead. Amazing how most people never use such simple financial
reasoning.

Two things amaze me. One is how someone won't even consider blowing out a
wall, or removing some popcorn, or, as you say, repainting a couple of
rooms, and adding a little cheap fluff.

The other thing is when they skim through the costs quickly, how they
underestimate the actual costs of doing the upgrades/changes/replacements..
Unless, of course, they are slavedrivers who use very cheap labor, and even
doing that, they have to settle for some highly unqualified sloppy
workmanship. Or they do the work themselves, and don't add at least $15 per
hour for their own labor. I charge $25 to $100 an hour.

Steve