General contractor serving Troy

Renovate instead of relocate

Selling a house in a top-rated Troy school boundary and buying back in means competing for the same small pool of homes, at a premium, with no guarantee of landing in the same attendance zone. A lot of our Troy clients have done that math and landed on renovating the house they already have. That usually means bigger scope than a typical remodel: a primary suite addition instead of a bathroom refresh, a full kitchen expansion instead of a cabinet swap, because the goal is making the current house work for another fifteen years, not a light refresh before listing it.

A mixed housing stock

Troy doesn't have one dominant building era the way Sterling Heights does. You'll find mid-century ranches from the city's earlier growth alongside colonials and larger builds from the 1980s through the 2000s, sometimes on the same block. That mix means every estimate starts with an honest look at what decade the house was actually built in, not an assumption based on the neighborhood. A 1962 ranch and a 1998 colonial two streets apart can need completely different scopes of work for what looks like the same kitchen remodel.

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What the cost conversation looks like at this price point

Troy is also where the gap between a rough estimate and an accurate one matters most in dollar terms. A kitchen remodel here can run from the mid-$30,000s into six figures depending on scope and finish level, and the biggest driver of a budget blowing past that range isn't the cabinets, it's structural or mechanical work nobody accounted for until the walls were already open. Because Mike inspects the house before he prices it, that kind of surprise gets built into the number up front instead of showing up as a change order in week three.

Matching finish level to the neighborhood

Troy homeowners are usually thinking about resale even when they're not planning to sell anytime soon, because property values here are high enough that finish level actually moves appraised value in a way it doesn't in every city we work in. We talk through where the money matters, quartz versus laminate, a tiled shower versus a fiberglass insert, custom cabinetry versus semi-custom, against what similar Troy homes are actually selling for. Overbuilding for the block wastes money just as easily as underbuilding does, and we'd rather tell you that honestly before you spend it than after.

Larger Troy projects also mean a longer runway through the city's plan review, especially for additions that add square footage or change the roofline. We build that review time into the schedule we give you at the start, instead of treating a plan review delay as a reason to move the completion date back mid-project. Homeowners renovating instead of moving are usually planning around a school year or a specific date, and we try to build the timeline around that instead of around our own convenience.