The best returns for your renovation dollar where payoff increases over time. Money Magazine‘s Josh Garskof asks: If prospective buyers looked at your house today, what would they see outside? A giant evergreen that looks as if it might swallow the station wagon, perhaps, scraggly old foundation plants or maybe a kitchen-table view of the [...]

I wasn’t sure how to count it as a remodeling project, unless you consider it as the Big Guy remodeling a chunk of the Hollywood Hills and Los Feliz.  Nevertheless, I was up on the deck of my West Los Angeles house shooting photos of roofers putting on my new roof. (See – The answer [...]