Owning your own home

hive mind - views on this:

selling this place.

it's a "larger than average" 5 bed victorian semi off Hoe St. 5 bed, 3 stories, that's without a loft conversion. we put in a side extension about 12 years ago, so it has a nice big kitchen. it has a 60ft south facing garden.

we've done a lot of the difficult jobs. we had it re-wired 20 years ago, and had the plumbing sorted out. moved the upstairs bathroom, took out a chimney breast to create a hall upstairs, had most of the rooms back to brick and re-plastered. had a few ceilings down. put in a new front door and door frame as there was a good inch gap in the old one (London Door Co £££). Put in a downstairs loo. Last year had a complete new roof front and back (back to timber, timber repaired where necessary, redundant chimney stack at the back taken down), including insulation in hard to get to places and also had most of the brickwork re-pointed.

However a lot of what we did is 15 - 20 years old now. We had a bit of movement in the dry summer during lockdown (2019?), so there is quite a bit of superficial cracking around the place. Some (most) carpets are shabby. Our bedroom has never been touched. The outside needs painting.

Partner is kind of obsessed about the cracks and thinks we should get everything made good. That would necessitate having the whole inside redecorated which is not a small job.

my view is whoever buys this place will budget to make it how they want it and a few cracks in the plaster will be here nor there. so the money we would spend on making good and decorating would be sunk cost which we wouldn't get any return on. I say just de-clutter, clean and go.

We don't have agreement on this point and i'm not spending every evening / weekend for the next 6 months polyfilling and painting.

tl/dr - is it worth paying someone to make good and redecorate the whole place just to make it look good in EA photos and potentially avoid some whining about cracks?