Renovating a Home to Improve its Resale Value

by Clay Davis

Buying a fixer upper can be an exciting venture. Not only are you possibly starting a new business, but you stand to make a tidy profit if done right. Even simply adding a few cosmetic touches and some healthy cleaning can help you turn an outdated home into a real profit maker. Buying a fixer upper is an investment and the more work you put into it, the more money you can make when you go to resell the home.

A fixer upper home may not be great to look at when you first buy it, but by the time you finish you should definitely be able to see how the improvements will expand your profit. There is a great market for these homes because they are considerably less expensive than buying a home that is new or totally renovated. This usually means more money in your pocket and a happy buyer once the work is complete. There are some ways to maximize the resale value of the home that you are fixing up so you can gain the most from your investment.

Casually looking around and choosing the optimal location is usually the best place to start. Without the right location you will be hard pressed to find a buyer later, no matter how beautiful the house becomes. It is important to determine a location that appeals to many different buyer tastes and is safe and friendly. After preliminarily choosing - but prior to buying - a home, have a professional inspection done to make sure that you know exactly what you are getting into. It is hard to obtain the most for your resale value if you have to put a lot more money into it than expected. On that note, you also don't want to rush any of the improvements to get the house on the market quickly. Taking the time to do quality work will really make the house shine.

The extra time includes making sure you fix the house from the bottom to the top. Problems like ants or mice in the basement may seem insignificant compared to the work performed, but they are more than likely going to turn off potential buyers. (Put yourself in their shoes.) The same can be said about cosmetic deficiencies, such as loose wall paper in the bathroom. People do not want to buy a home that requires a great deal of work after moving in, so you should plan to make all necessary changes before you even think about selling it.

Finally, sell the home during the right time. If the housing market is slowly falling then you may want to hold onto it for a while and consider renting it out until the market changes in the sellers' favor. Fixing up a home for resale is an excellent way to make money if you remain focused on your original goals and take the steps necessary to ensure you are selling a great residence.

Scope of Cyber Cities and Cyber Parks in Haryana

by Vinay Choubey

In the present era of Science and Technology, the working techniques of all fields of the economy are changing very fastly. Advancement in computer technology, automation through remote control system, expansion in the science of communication and software development have brought revolution in modernizing every sphere of the economy.

In town planning profession, this revolution has given birth to colonies of Cyber Cities and Cyber Parks to accommodate the working spaces of highly specialized professionals who requires a special pollution free air-conditioned environment associated with high-level physical and communication infrastructure. The colonies of cyber cities, cyber parks and Information Technology Parks are developed to provide floor spaces to companies engaged in software development activities and Information Technology enabled services.

The software development and information technology enabled services are carried out in virus and dust free air conditioned environment through sophisticated computers of high precision wherein scientific data is processed and analyzed through high speed processors and servers having hyperlinks of signals communicated through global satellites and Radar Net work system. In order to create special environment for the sustaining of working atmosphere of highly specialized professionals, a high quality infrastructure associated with well-landscaped and attractive surroundings is developed around all buildings of cyber cities and cyber parks.

Data processing and analyzing through high speed computers attached with global satellites and Radar Net Work and settling the scientific issues through video conferencings and personal meetings among professionals is a continuous process of all units of cyber cities and cyber parks. The Haryana State has a special privilege of being located very close to the Indira Gandhi International Airport and Foreign Embassies located at New Delhi due to which the professionals of Cyber Cities and cyber Parks are being facilitated to have their frequent meetings with their counter parts with other countries of the world.

The pollution free environment conceived in Gurgaon Development Plan cupped with availability of high level infrastructure is the main reason for the polarization of international level Cyber Parks and Cyber cities at Gurgaon. Today, Gurgaon has become the main choice of all Multi National Companies for the aforesaid purposes. The other towns of Haryana state particularly the towns located within National Capital Region and District Headquarters Towns located on National Highways and Railway Tracks are equally potential for the development of Cyber Cities and Cyber Parks.

In order to have planned development of Cyber Cities and Cyber Parks, the Haryana Govt. has formulated town planning norms and has also laid down the procedures for obtaining licenses for such Cities and Parks under the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, the Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963 and Development Plans published under the said Act. For obtaining complete knowledge relating to all issues of selection of sites, documents required for licensing, planning parameters, licensing procedure, licensing fee and development charges etc. study of "Haryana Town Planning Guide" and "Development Plans of related towns" which are available at this site is recommended.

Green Washing And Your Real Estate Carbon Footprint

by David Syring

As an internet platform for green, energy efficient and sustainable homes, we have reviewed some interesting and creative verbiage used by some sellers in the real estate marketplace. In the environmental business we call this "green washing".

Green washing is when someone uses "green" terminology to help drive more interest to an otherwise typical (in this case) home for sale, in a currently flat and bloated real estate market.

This "green" terminology could be words such as:

* Solar
* Stewardship
* Eco-friendly
* Environmental
* Healthy environment

We've seen ads that would say "a solar home", when all they really had was a wall that faced south.

Or maybe the home just has CFL's (compact florescent lighting) and not much else in the home. Although minimal improvements help the environment in a small way, there are cool innovative green homes out there that are making heads really turn in a BIG way. includes ( loves to promote) innovative building technologies that we believe will make the quickest (and the biggest) change in the environment regarding the way we live, the homes we live in and the way we build them.

Listed Green

Things we take for granted every day, do have a direct impact on global warming. The toilets we flush, the indoor air we breathe, the utility bills we pay; all these everyday duties affect the environment and our health.

There currently are so many new technologies in sustainable home building, that we could make a huge impact right now, not years later. We can currently heat most of our water with thermal solar and not the black stuff you see on roofs, but innovative glass tubes that absorb UV rays year-round; recycle all our grey water (sinks and showers) and redirect that water to flush our toilets; building design and orientation to take advantage of the natural heating and cooling effects in a particular location; construct living environments utilizing innovative building materials that may come from recycled or renewable sources that also offer a tremendous R-factor.

A one-two punch in not only saving our limited building material resources, but also less requirement from fossil fuels and the like, to heat and cool our homes everyday.