Increasing the value of your home can be a pretty easy and relatively inexpensive investment that yields you, the home owner major results.

Not only are you making your home nicer, more enjoyable, and better looking, but you are rapidly increasing its value, that otherwise would appreciate only with the current market. By changing just a few choice items on your home, your investment that you made when you bought the house can increase an additional 5, 10 and even 20%!

Some things that you can do to your home will fall under these categories: rebuild, remodel, add on, renovate, and build. Rebuilding is when you take a structure in the home and tear it down to its structure, then rebuild it with usually the foundation or some structure still in place.

Remodeling is when you take an existing feature of the home, and change the surface of it, leaving the main pieces in tact. Adding on is when you actually add a section or structure to the house, or outside of the house. Renovating is similar to remodeling, in that you take a piece of the house and make it more up to date.

Building requires an entire new plan, like an add on, but may actually include a second story, extra guest house, or other large construction project that is simply more than