Home selling notes
Experts recommend budgeting 1 to 3% of your home’s value for maintenance and repairs each year.
If I assume that my home's value is $300,000 (which is probably high right now), that's $3000-$9000 per year in maintenance.
And actually, I think in 2005 I spent $4700 in materials for maintenance and repair. Considering that's just materials, I'm in the ballpark.