I completely agree with you on renovating places we live in ourselves. I tend to do a lot of work around the house myself. In our current home, which was built new for us in November 2018, I installed all new electrical outlets to upgrade from builder grade, light switches, changed out every single light. Build a 10 by 10 foot patio, installed garage flooring that I bought at Costco, Installed garage shelving and cabinets, mounted TVs in garage, living room and one of the bedrooms on the wall, textured and painted our garage and so on.
However when it came time to sell the house that just went on the market last night I chose a different path. Yes, I still worked on it for two months to prepare it for the sale and was dog tired working 10 hour days taking off work. But I chose from the very beginning to involve multiple professional crews. I had more than 10 professionals working on the place every single day for the last two months, I paid out over $100k for their services. They did roof replacement, new gutters, new paint inside the home and outside the home, junk removal services, septic tank pumping, furnace inspection, whole house inspection, electrical panel replacement, correction of roof based electrical service connection to the public utilities, and hundreds of other items.
Why did I do this? Three reasons:
- To not miss the Spring selling season
- It would take me years to do these things instead of two months and I would be paying $4k+ per month in mortgage and utilities for an empty house
- Not all the things I can do myself or would be acceptable legally after the inspection report (like pumping septic and electrical work on the roof or the main electrical panel replacement)
So yeah, sometimes it just makes sense to pay the professionals. I still did plenty of electrical and other work on the house in those two months saving thousands of $...