10 Remove your carpeting.
“Modern home buyers are turned off by carpeting,” says Earl White, founder of House Heroes Realty and House Heroes LLC. “Laying down a shiny new wood floor across easily pays for itself several times over.” Luckily, this doesn’t have to be an expensive proposition: “There are also good alternatives to traditional wood floors,” says White. “Home renovators can buy engineered or laminate wood for a fraction of the cost of an expensive floor.”
