You May Still Lose Money When You Sell

Even through additions have better cost-value ratios than other renovation projects, you still may not recover the full cost of the addition.

Addition Brings Increased Costs

More space means higher heating and cooling costs, more windows to wash and gutters to clean, increased property taxes, and more house to clean.

Additions Eat Up Your Yard

Unless you are adding a second story, you will lose yard space and this is space that can never be recovered.

The Pain and Suffering of Building

It's a thrill at first, those workers energetically digging and sawing to give you more house. Then one Saturday you wake at 6am to the roar of a gas generator five feet from your window and realize it's not so fun after all. Having work crews in your house six days a week grows old after awhile.