We built our new house a while ago and it was really important that we were going to be able to keep it up and maintain it as we liked because we did not want to have to worry about losing value. I also agree that if you keep up the maintenance on your house that you would be able to afford it more. I noticed that there were a few cracks in the paint on the walls and that made me really sad. The painter in bergen county nj was really easy to talk to, I heard from a lot of people that he was the one that I wanted to hire as he did a lot of good work and he was also reasonable with his prices. Finding someone that I could afford was really great and important to me because I did not have a lot of extra money at the time of the hiring. My husband and I agreed that it would be better to scrape up the money that we could to hire a person to do the painting now instead of waiting when a few years went by and we had a lot of work that we wanted to get done at once. I also was hoping that the painter was going to be able to do a lot of tape work as the seams that we had originally were starting to show and I knew that meant that they might separate. I was afraid that this would be a problem but I knew that it was going to be a great thing for us in the end. Many people are not as lucky as we are, but we feel like taking care of what you have is really important to show pride in your things.