Rental home improvements that are actually worth making
Spending large sums on a home you might leave in a few years feels unwise and like renovating someone else's house. Worthwhile rental upgrades make the living space noticeably better without dumping a bunch of money into property you do not own.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Change the shower head and remove the flow restrictor!
- 2added contact paper to shelves, hung curtains and some art.
- 3shower head and hung a hand towel bar.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m renting right now and there are a few things around the place I’d love to improve, but I obviously don’t want to dump a bunch of money into a home I don’t own.”source ↗
“For people who’ve rented for a while, what improvements actually made your place noticeably better without feeling like you were renovating someone else’s house?”source ↗
“Dropping 11k on a house that we could very well leave in the next 4-5 years seems unwise.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 8How to stop renovating and just enjoy a new house
- 2Buying a new house before selling the current one
- 2Should I keep my inherited family home or downsize?
- 2Why do we wait years to fix things that still work?
- 9Should we renovate our aging home or buy a new construction house?
- 5Should I buy my retirement home now or wait 5 years?