You are now settled into your new home, you have unpacked all your belongings, and the mover in Seattle is gone. After a few days of rest from the strenuous physical efforts involved in a move, it is time to start thinking about adding worth to your new home.
As it turns out, landscaping is an investment as well as a way to beautify your surroundings. Beautiful landscaping can add around five to fifteen percent in value to a home, and once the house is resold, the owners earn back 100 or even 200 of the investment.
If you remodel the kitchen, you will get around a 75 return, but landscaping, which can be done little by little, as your budget allows, is a simple way to add worth to your home. The expenses due to landscaping are considered capital improvement, and can be added to your house’s basis to decrease the taxable profit once you sell.
Then, how should you do it?
First, make a plan. Draw up your house and yard, including utility lines. Identify the areas with a lot of light and shade, and confirm that your yard is draining rainwater well. Mark the drainage and lighting patterns on your plan and define areas for sports, playing, recreation and parking. If possible, take the soil for testing.
Make a list of the plants you already have in the yard and the plants you would like to incorporate. Ask a landscaping professional if these plants will work well and what soil treatments you require. Check the prices on the plants you want and go home to evaluate what you can afford now and what will come later.
When purchasing the plants, check them well. Do not buy sick plants. Keep the roots damp and in the shade before planting them and keep the plants healthy. Follow the watering and fertilizing instructions, and prepare correctly the soil and beds, otherwise, you will lose your money.
You must buy a tree; consider it an investment. Trees start increasing in value as soon as they are planted. A young tree of around $50, will be worth between $1000 and $10,000 once it is mature. Besides this attractive characteristic, trees reduce the house’s temperature by as much as 9& #61616; F (40& #61616; F in attics), saving you more than $250 per year in air conditioning.
Landscaping has lots of benefits for the environment too. One tree can remove, annually, 216 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; this is equivalent to 11,000 miles of car emissions. One acre of trees removes, per year; 13 tons of damaging substances from the air, and one tree offers enough oxygen to supply one family of four per day. How about that?
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Author Resource:
Joe Tacoma has written numerous articles for Puget Sound Moving, expert movers in Seattle, Washington and surrounding areas. Their blog is full of great moving and packing tips; check it out at http://www.psmoving.com/blog
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