Repairs also tie up estate funds and time the beneficiaries would otherwise be waiting to receive, with no guarantee the money spent returns at closing. A $400 to $600 home inspection tells you what genuinely needs disclosing, which is a far cheaper way to find out what matters than guessing and fixing everything.
The one category worth addressing before listing is anything that could stop a buyer's financing outright, an unresolved safety issue or a system that has fully failed, since a lender can decline to fund a purchase over a defect like that regardless of the asking price.
Beyond that, the number that actually moves is what a previous owner did to the house that never reached the City of Saskatoon's permit file. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation documents that work rather than recommending the estate spend on repairs the market will not pay back.
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