As you might know, I am currently house-hunting. I have been looking at two or three houses each week and have had the same thing said to me several times. While I am walking through the house, the agent (and it’s mostly the seller’s agent) says, you should do this and that to the house to increase the re-sale value. 
Considering I hadn’t even decided whether or not to buy the house, I thought it was a bit premature to talk to me about re-selling it. If I am going to live in a house, it’s going to be the way I want to live in it, and not the way the people who live in it after I am gone live in it. I don’t want to put granite kitchen counters in the house for the people who move in after me. I hate granite counters and think that they’ll be the avocado and harvest gold kitchen of this generation.
In this day and age, when the housing market has changed so dramatically from a few years ago, and people are not buying houses to flip, why wouldn’t you live in a house that’s exactly the way you want it? P.S. I was remembering that when I was doing architectural salvage, we deconstructed a few houses where the owners had spend thousands to put a new kitchen in before they sold, and the new owners came in and tore the house down. So much for improving for re-sale!
These are three of the houses where my family has lived. Nothing was done to any of them for re-sale value.
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