Posts Tagged ‘Improvements’

With respect to home improvement contracts what would define breach? And would breach negate arbitration?

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
hopetohelp asked:


Home improvement contract had list of desired improvements. One was never completed and now we have problems with a window they put in less than one year ago due in part to faulta installation. Window manuf. is bankrupt and contractor will not replace. So one of the items they were supposed to do they did not. So does that constitute breach of contract and if so will that breach allow me to ignore the arbitration agreement on that contract and use small claims instead?

Do trivial improvements to a home increase its cost basis?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Houyhnhnm asked:


Unfortunately this is an academic exercise because I’ll never make $250,000 profit on a home, but I’d like to know if a minor improvement, like adding a $30 fan in the bathroom ceiling, raises the cost basis of a primary residence.

Thank you,
Houyhnhnm

Is there a web site that can help me estimate home improvement projects cost and time?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
BlueFish asked:


We have several dozen improvements we want to make to our home before putting it up for sale. I am trying to prioritize and budget our time and money to get them done.
We are not handy people and have no idea what we are doing but we don’t have much money either so we are doing as much as we can ourselves.

Do you teach your daughters as well as sons home maintenance and improvements?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Pascha asked:


These days more and more women need to be able to handle the care of a home on their own, because it is so expensive to hire someone for every little thing and because there is often no one else to do it. If there is a man around, he may not know how to do these things or even be interested in learning.
So, do fathers who know how to do these things now teach their daughters?