Four Easy Home Improvements

If your house needs a makeover, but remodeling is beyond your reach, try these four simple fixes:

Touch-up exteriors. Repainting the trim and front door of your house can significantly boost its curb appeal. This kind of retouching work is easy on the budget and can be done in just a couple of hours.

Replace your floors. The widespread availability of affordable "floating floors" (flooring options that can be installed on top of existing boards or linoleum) makes updating the floors in your rec room or pantry a cinch.  You'll probably save a minimum $500 to $600 dollars by doing it yourself.

Update your hardware. Switching out old light fixtures and faucets is a simple, affordable way to modernize your home. While you're at it, equip your house with fixtures that support halogen light bulbs to save money on your electricity bill.

Transform your yard. Landscaping doesn't have to break the bank.  Replacing overgrown shrubs and bushes and adding some flowers for color is an economical way to add value to your home.

Many home repairs can be easily mastered by determined do-it-yourselfers, but there are still some things best left to the experts. If you need to re-floor your entire house, contact a flooring service, and call in the electricians whenever you're dealing with circuit boards or wiring in the walls.

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Interest Rates Level Off

For nearly 10 months interest rates moved up a little, then down a little, but the average cost for most types of mortgages remained below 6.5%.  Then rates unexpectedly took off in late May, making home loans more expensive than they’ve been since, well, this time last year.

A recent survey of major lenders taken July 3 found the average:

30-year fixed-rate loan — the most popular way to pay for a house — costs 6.78%.

15-year fixed-rate loan costs 6.46%.

That means payments would be $650 a month for every $100,000 borrowed with the average 30-year, fixed-rate loan. That’s just $6 a month less than you’d have paid in July 2006 but $38 a month more than in mid-March when interest rates were below 6.2%.

Interest rates have stabilized over the past couple of weeks and, if borrowers are fortunate, they’ve peaked and may drift lower over the next couple of months. That’s what happened last summer after 30-year fixed-rate loans topped out at 6.93% the last week in June.

For more on what mortgage rates are running here locally in the Greater Atlanta Metro area, give us a call or leave us a comment and we'll get back to you.

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Still Better to Buy a Home  

In areas where the monthly cost of owning is a big premium over the cost of renting, the long-term approach still shows that owning produces a higher lifetime standard of living than renting.

Let's say you bought a house for $150,000 with a 20% down payment and a 30-year mortgage at 6%, it would cost $8,634 a year for the mortgage and about $7,500 a year for taxes, insurance and upkeep (based on 5% of market value).  The total out-of-pocket cost would be $16,134 a year.

Long term, this would put you way ahead of a renter, even though the same house could probably be rented for about $15,000 a year, or $1,250 a month.

The benefit comes from the decline in the real cost of the mortgage.  Even modest inflation will cut the effective cost of the mortgage dramatically over 30 years.  And then the cost disappears.  The renter, meanwhile, faces a lifetime of rising rent bills.

Of course, in real life the actual numbers will differ. But as long as inflation whittles away the purchasing power of the mortgage payment, the odds will favor the homeowner over the renter.

We'd be happy to run the ACTUAL numbers for you to see for sure, but in most cases, inflation will protect us from all but the worst housing markets, if we give it enough time.

Leave us your comment on this story.  We'd love to hear from you.

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