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4 Popular Home Renovations Projects That Cost More Than Double What They Return in Home Value

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These projects boost your curbside appeal and give your home that wow factor that makes buyers bid higher than your asking price. Major kitchen renovation Cost: $154,483 Resale value: $48,913 Percentage recouped: 31.7% Upscale bathroom remodeling Cost: $76,827 Resale value: $28,203 Percentage recouped: 36.7% in costs recouped).

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Buying Second-Hand Goods? 5 Scams to Look Out For

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Here, we'll focus primarily on online resale sites like eBay, Poshmark, ThreadUp, Tradesy, Mercari, and OfferUp. The scammer may also ask you to text with them or otherwise communicate away from the resale site. With this scam, a person posts a photo of a box that you assume holds the item you're bidding on or buying.

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DXC Technology (DXC) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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year to year organically as services revenue was down 8% in line with prior quarter, and resale declined 19%. largely due to disciplined resource management, ongoing actions to optimize our data centers and networks, and the lower mix of resale revenue. The resale element is a relatively small component of the improvement.

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DXC Technology (DXC) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Cloud infrastructure and IT outsourcing organic revenue declined 7%, an improvement from double-digit declines we saw in the prior three quarters due to a significant resale transaction delivered in the quarter. Modern Workplace organic revenue declined year to year in the mid-teens impacted by resale revenue, which was down 30%.

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DXC Technology (DXC) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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While resale revenues performed as expected, down 28% year over year, services revenue declined 8% helped by higher-than-anticipated in-quarter volumes. The lower mix of resale revenue also contributed to the year-to-year margin improvement. Moving to GIS. Profit margin expanded over two points to 7.3%. The book-to-bill ratio was 0.67

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Meritage Homes (MTH) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Overall, we do expect markets to return to a more balanced new home versus resale equilibrium in the future, with some of our submarkets already experiencing increased competition from existing home inventory. That's also going to increase the availability of resale inventory, which will impact a bit, ability to push pricing.

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How to Build a Kitchen (and Why)

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People want homes with beautiful, highly functional amenities like kitchens and bathrooms, which means those houses get bid up to higher prices by those willing to wildly overpay, which leaves the more investment-minded among us swearing at the irrational market conditions, or buying ugly fixer-uppers as a compromise.

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