That's not the whole story, though. Sometimes you need to remodel just so you can sell your home, i.e. make it competitive with the neighborhood. We're a couple

That's not the whole story, though. Sometimes you need to remodel just so you can sell your home, i.e. make it competitive with the neighborhood. We're a couple of months away from rehabbing our master bathroom because it's so bad that it would be hard to resell it in this market. So, I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. It's not a strictly calculable amount when you re-hab a home--part of the subjective monetary value is what a future owner doesn't have to do after making a purchase.