I’m not the sort of person who thinks they know everything.
Far from that sort of personality actually.
However, I do have a sense of what seems logical and what doesn’t. And I often apply that to situations where I just don’t have enough expertise to understand the actual logic involved. I found this out once again when it came to the question of an HVAC upgrade for our home. My wife and I are selling our home and moving to a place we had built. It’s much smaller and far more sustainable to take care of for the two of us. So as we were selling the house we expected some upgrades. However, I was not expecting the heating and cooling system to be one of those changes. On her first visit, the realtor we chose pointed out that the HVAC would need to be replaced. I pushed back on that a bit since it wasn’t even 15 years old. First, I didn’t feel great about wasting good HVAC equipment. Second, I had invested money in plenty in air conditioning maintenance so it would last a long time. The realtor broke out the data and helped me to understand that in our area, new HVAC was critical to getting the right price. She also assured me that the HVAC unit could be either recycled or provided to a low income family by the HVAC professionals. That softened the blow a bit. And checking that data, she was spot on. So we spent on a very nice, new HVAC system and got more than the price we had hoped for. My advice to home sellers is listen to the realtor and look at the data when it comes to HVAC upgrades.