The second replacement cycle nobody budgets for
The original owners of a Greenfield ranch replaced the roof once, maybe in the eighties, and the furnace once in the nineties. Everything is now due again simultaneously, plus items nobody thought about in 1962: a clay sewer lateral full of tree roots, aluminum branch wiring, an electrical panel that insurers no longer like.
You can spend thirty-five thousand dollars over eight months getting a Greenfield ranch retail-ready, then list it and hope the market holds. Or you can sell it now with all of that unaddressed and let us carry the risk.
For sellers on a fixed income moving into assisted living or a condo, that second option is usually not close.
