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Originally Posted by OldDutch
I wouldn't do windows in hopes you will get more on your selling price. I did mine 10 years ago and it cost me $25K and that was with a crazy deal through a person I knew. I can only imagine what they are now.
We bought the house 2 years earlier and didn't even check the windows. We just wanted the house. Then we move in and figure out the windows are 30 years old and failing. So we did the upgrade.
That said, my neighbor has the exact same house and is still rocking those 40+ year old windows.
I think windows are a net neutral thing at best. Better to do those things when they have to be done. Most people won't even look at it when buying.
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I agree with this. When we were negotiating the purchase of our current house in the summer the seller kept coming back and saying they put in new windows and weren't going to come to our offer. We said we didn't care and held firm to which they eventually met our price and we agreed to move up the possession a month as a concession. The house we got out of badly needed new windows and we ended up selling that house in less than 48 hours for more than our asking price and multiple bidders never even mentioned the windows. Inf fact I put a new deck in months before selling because the old one was in bad shape and that was probably a waste of money as I don't think we got that money back in the sale.