The math your realtor won't show you.
Two paths. Five years. Same family, same house. We ran the numbers both ways so you can see what’s actually on the table.
You're allowed to stay.
We built ExpandEase because we watched two families we know burn $80,000 each trading houses they didn’t even prefer. They sold because they were told they should. They paid $42,000 to two real estate agents and got a different floor plan they have to spend the next decade pretending to love. That’s the reason ExpandEase exists. Not to sell you a renovation — to give you the math that proves you’re allowed to stay.
What the analysis covers.
- A photorealistic render of your actual home with the renovation — not a stock photo.
- Cost down to the trade level: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, finish-out — line by line.
- Conservative ARV: the appraisal number a Phoenix bank will actually accept.
- Three financing paths, all of which keep your current low-rate first mortgage intact.
- Stay-and-renovate vs. sell-and-trade-up, to the dollar — the math your realtor will never run.
What we are not.
- Not a real estate agent. We make money when you stay. They make money when you move.
- Not a contractor. We orchestrate; they build. Different jobs, different incentives.
- Not a marketplace. We don’t sell your address to ten contractors who’ll then pester you.