[gwbas1c]

> Not only is it expensive to buy a home, you can't even buy one cheap that somebody else got for cheap because they've (likely) made it more valuable by making it more liveable for themselves!

The first thing I did when I bought my home was fix the "problem" that made it sit on the market so long and sell for a discount.

(Fortunately, it was a landscaping problem that was easy for me to fix, but harder for other buyers to fix.)

Now I expect to, at a minimum, make my investment back if I sell the home.