You've bought your vacation home and you want to make improvements to resell in a few years. What are the right renovations to get the most bang for your buck in this fickle market? There are several things that you can do to accomplish this. Let's look at a few of them now.

Make improvements that count.

Experts agree that the right renovations, especially bathrooms and kitchens affect the marketability and the rentabilty of your Vacation Home.

For most markets the Spring and Summer are the hottest home shopping times, but that's not exactly true in the mountains. We may get many lookers in the spring and fall because of the many art festivals going on in the Blue Ridge Mountains. but many times those lookers may not contract till the next season. In fact smart buyers buy in the winter when the summer foliage is not an issue and you don't end up surprised by that junk yard past the kudzu.

According to many experts in the housing industry, there may be a long road to recovery as far as the housing market goes. Defaults on mortgages and the number of homes repossessed because of foreclosures are expected to increase 42 percent this year. We are not even halfway through the Hundreds of Billions of dollars worth of risky mortgages that are set to go through adjustments that will impact the borrowers.