an srefpl. you investment. if you want to do something personalized, be ready to do something when you sell. steve: let s look at renovations that could devalue your house. we re talking about the ultimate curb appeal. if you have a gigantic excessive landscaping going on, that might turn somebody off? because? it s maintenance. you may have a green thumb, spend your weekends doing the gardener. this gen x buyer may not want to do landscaping so they ll go to the next home where there is less landscaping. steve: some people convert a garage into a family room. people want to have a place to park your car. you may think because you don t have a nice car you can park it outside or you don t have a car.
clean. 30% of the buyers don t want to buy a home with a pool. steve: if you come to a house that has personalized colors and i was telling brendan about a kitchen my wife and i looked at was green and it drove us nuts. we might like it but the next buyer might say you ve got to be kidding me. i had a couple that made the kitchen into a moroccan palace, the next couple might not like it. go to zillow and see what s selling in your neighborhood. try to find neutral colors. otherwise a buyer will see your home as a fixer-upper. steve: what would be the number-one thing you could do to improve the value? kitchens and bathrooms. kitchen countertops, caesar
it is the chocolate cake. if you have late coffee, it can keep you awake. gretchen: what about if you booze it up? that is a problem. booze will help you fall asleep but as it wears off in the middle of the night your brain wakes up and you wake up. people say i zonked out but here i am pacing at 2 in the morning. gretchen: do you recommend people take another shot? no. have a glass of water. i m not recommending that on tv. a glass of water. steve: here s what a lot of people do. during the week i work long hours. i can catch up on the weekends. that, as it turns out, you say is true. i m calling that true but i want people to know the problem with that. you can never totally account for your sleep debt. if you miss two hours a night, like you have five hours a sleep when you should be having seven, that is called a sleep debt. you cannot totally make up for that on the weekends.
mr. holder, did you monitor us? did you look into our phone detail? if he stalls, you ve got to figure he s got something to hide. gretchen: if it s off the record, they can t report it any way. steve: it will be good to know whether or not they ve got phone details for the last two years worth of phone calls. brian: the attorney general has been given the task of investigating his justice department. should they be investigating reporters through the justice department. so the attorney general has got a lot on his place. he s got to investigate himself and also tell people behind closed doors what he did wrong and not tell anybody when the doors open. are they pocket doors or are they the normal doors that open and close? gretchen: the tea party is going to sue now the obama administration. remember we talked about that? all these costs they were going to have from being audited on unwarranted audits in most cases. now we re learning that the people behind this i.r.s. scandal, inc
station in philly struck a deal that allows them to do that. steve: lets them group their furlough days together. gretchen: here s the controversy. the controversy is employees were supposed to go on furlough to save money for the government. should they then be allowed to get more government money by collecting unemployment? that s the story. brian: i m going to start with this story. viruses being called a threat to the entire world. the world health organization says the corona virus, 30 have ended in death and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure. the virus was first detected last month in saudi arabia. steve: outrage after florida students are subjected to aoeurs scans, scans of their eyes without parents permission. officials say the school district made a mistake not getting notification forms out on time.