06/18/2026
Not every project is a good investment. Certain renovations can actually lower your home value or make it harder to sell. To protect your equity, avoid unpermitted DIY work, converting garages into living spaces, ripping out bathtubs, and over-personalizing rooms like home theaters or highly specific wine cellars
Projects That Can Kill Your ROI:
1. Garage conversions: In Utah, losing secure winter parking and summer toy storage turns many buyers away.
2. Removing the only bathtub: Families and pet owners heavily rely on tubs; removing them limits your buyer pool.
3. Eliminating bedrooms: Turning a bedroom into a massive walk-in closet or office decreases your home’s recorded bedroom count, lowering its comps.
4. Unpermitted work: DIY electrical or structural work scares off buyers and often results in immediate price reductions.
5.Over-customizing: Highly niche features (like custom built-ins or avant-garde wallpaper) appeal to very few people and force the next buyer to pay for demolition.
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